How To Be All Coolio, Just Like Dr. Ding
So there I was, toodling along the highways and byways of East Jesus Junction, TX (due south of Bumblefuck RFD), thinking to myself: Self, how can you, Dr. Ding, be cool? Not just cool, but supercool. Like, a Coolio level of cool. Should you get a gigantic, Wicca-bitch back piece that says “Blessed Be, Motherfuckers” in Olde English script? Or perhaps robin’s-egg blue Bettie Page bangs and an eyebrow piercing? The intolerably sensible-then-but-apparently-cool-nowadays stewardess haircut you briefly sported in 1985?
And then the holy Crackberry of Antioch did tremble to alert me of the following: @Diva_Ali had posted on her blog, the aptly-named Tiara Clink. “It’s about fricken time. Calloo! Callay!” I expostulated, with only slightly more drama than was neccessary, swerving comically to avoid hitting several crows feasting on an opossum carcass, and sloshing Coke Zero wantonly ‘pon my frock-coat.
Read the post and check out The Diva’s take on the Rock of Skank Tour. You will laugh. And even better: you will realize that you, Dr. Ding, and all the rest of us are waaaaay cooler than we thought, just the way we are.
Way.
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Too hot to be cool.
(Pardons…I think I woke up the wrong dwarf again or something)
Hah!
Pear Lady — you da bomb diggity.
Ha! This is awesome! Thanks for linking my lil ol’ blog. Girl, next time Bret is in town you need to come with. HILARIOUS. Journey and Heart and Cheap Trick will be here this summer, but I’ll be in Cabo. Too bad. That would be phenom blog fodder.
Also, do you know who played at the Meridian last Friday?
Gunther and the Sunshine Girls!
Ohhh you touched my tra la la! My ding ding dong…
Holla @ Ali! It was awesome to see her get a mention.
I WILL be at the Journey, et al show in August here in NY. I don’t know exactly what will crawl out of the woodwork for it, but I’ll report back.
I hate Ali for getting that song in my head now. Especially right before bed!
Your blogs are fabulous!! I’m now subscribed and I’ll read regularly.
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I was never 80′s rocker chick…I was more morrissey/clash/squeeze/new order emo wierdo.
But we totally are cool.
and for what it’s worth I think blessed be motherfuckers would be holy hilarious.
I gotta say, it was a strange feeling to read Ali’s blog and see pictures of friends among all of the mocking commentary. I was hanging out with Rob (lead singer for Midnight Circus) just last night. He pretty much saves all of the lost-in-the-80s shtick for shows – last night he was wearing jeans, black t-shirt and no make-up. Really nice guy. Hmm, I guess I have a few really close lost-in-the-80s type friends. Never really thought about it like that before.
Although I don’t think I qualify as LIT8s myself, I do find myself at events such as the one Ali attended on a pretty regular basis. Those shows are always fun to go to and people watch though fo sho. Very interesting indeed. I still love me some 80s hair band rock every now and then. I was never into Poison, but there are definitely some shows coming this summer (Journey) that I want to check out!
Jamie:
No way! You are mos def NOT LIT80s!
Now, I have to confess 2 things:
1) I love, LOVE Journey. Love them. Not so much Steve Perry’s mooseknuckle, but everything else, yes.
2) Yesterday I let my hair stay all curly and decided to wear it up in a “Pebbles” sorta hairdo, all poufy on top, just for the sheer retro thrill of it all. I looked a lot like an early-twentysomething Ding. I then pranced around a little while to “Ace of Spades” by ACDC.
mmmmm . . . mooseknuckle. I don’t know exactly *when* it happened, but apparently after numerous years of involuntarily abstaining from sex this has become a turn on rather than a turn off. Go figure.
Yeah, I love Journey too – that was my very first real concert. I’ve also been listening to them surprisingly often lately. Gewd stuff.
Fun hairdo! It’s just a matter of weeks before that look is all the rave again – what I’m saying is, keep the banana clip handy.
Isn’t Ace of Spades by Motörhead? Were you jammin the Motörhead?!
w00t!
Jamie:
I am giggling re your mooseknuckle prediliction!
I banished all banana clips from my sight back in the mid-1990s following a particularly tragic incident involving a bad perm and falling asleep with bubble gum in my mouth. Not pretty. I’m not sure I can deal with their resurgence in popularity, should it arrive soon.
And you’re quite right….Ace of Spades wasn’t ACDC but Motorhead. I can’t do ze Umlauts all fancy like you do.