The distressing Mr. Flynt

[hankhank at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu]

On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Adam J. Thornton wrote:
> On the other hand, since I just ordered the ABBA _Thank You For The Music_
> boxed set--four whole CDs of everyone's favorite Scandinavian
> supergroup--you'd all probably be wise to utterly ignore anything I have to
> say about absolutely anything whatever.

Last year in Louisville, after one gala dinner at the Brown Hotel
downtown, I felt like dancing. 

Which I like EVEN BETTER than DOING LIT CRIT! 

I had been told the night before that the best place for dancing downtown
was the Connection - 50% gays, 50% straights, which made me hesitate some.

However, I decided to go there. The music consisted of Bee Gees, ABBA,
The Village People, Gloria Gaynor, etc. Although I really go for funk,
it felt great to dance to the rhythms of these singers and bands whom 
I hated so deeply as a young punk.  

Yet what interested me most, perhaps, were those redneck gays in western
boots, ill-fit jeans, all-American checked shirts, and cowboy hats,
dancing clumsily to that 70s stuff while kissing and groping each other. 

But finally it was time for the jet-lagged Scandinavian to walk back 
to the Seelbach Hotel (where Tom and Daisy stayed, too, in The Great
Gatsby) through the downtown Louisville, which is so deserted and
monumental -- not unlike those Krazy Kat landscapes.

Heikki