FOR THE LOVE OF RICIN BEANS PETE!
One of the keywords DD uses in news aggregation is 'ricin'. For obvious reasons.
This yields sometimes unusual news stories. Like this one about girls' roller-derby at the Jersey shore.
Battling it out at the Asbury Park Convention Center on Saturday will be the Murder Beach Militia and Anchor Assassins.
And on the Murder Beach Militia is a player named Valerie "Ricin Beans" Frankwick.
Now that is a great name and DD thanks his news aggregator for pointing it out.
In fact, it is hard to resist admiration for the brassy stage monikers of the Jersey Shore Roller Girls league.
There is Push Popp Red, #40, on the league's All-Star Travel Team, Pump Action Shotgun of the Right Coast Rollers and Toast Face Killah, again of the Murder Beach Militia. Big Rac Attack, although perhaps a fan favorite, may be a tad too obvious.
DD was going to include a screen snap. But that would spoil the surprise. Readers need to see it themselves.
So go here right after reading this. I mean it. You won't be disappointed. You may waste the entire afternoon trying to fit one of the roller derby girls' team insignias to your screen background!
When your host was very young, I used to spend Saturday mornings with my brother watching roller-derby matches on the local cable network in Schuylkill County, PA. It shared time with pro-wrestling, which in the Sixties and early Seventies, was more about garish and grotesquely amusing big flabby men than steroid-addicted vaseline-coated goons in big arenas.
Girls roller-derby eventually vanished from cable.
Author Paul Fussell explains it this way in his book, Class -- A Guide Through the American Status System:
"Which brings up the matter of the class meaning of sports fanship and spectatorhood. Short of watching such Anglophile exercises as cricket and polo, hard to do in this country, the most class probably attaches to watching tennis, even at the newly proletarianized -- that is, modernized -- Forest Hills," he explains.
Naturally, this was written well before the advent of the Williams sisters.
"On television, [class-wise] below golf comes baseball, and below that, football. Then ice hockey. Then boxing, stock-car racing [NASCAR], bowling, and at the bottom, Roller Derby, once popular with advertisers until they discovered that the people watching it were so low-prole or even destitute that they constituted an entirely wasted audience for the commercials; they couldn't buy anything at all, not even detergents, antacids and beer. 'Low Reach Undesirables,' the Roller Derby audience became known in the trade, and the event that had attracted them was soon removed from television."
That was a sad day.
[Incidentally, DD once made an argument that the original audience for Iggy and the Stooges was Low Reach Undesirable. Until hipsters charged in and changed affairs about a decade ago. See here.]
One of the keywords DD uses in news aggregation is 'ricin'. For obvious reasons.
This yields sometimes unusual news stories. Like this one about girls' roller-derby at the Jersey shore.
Battling it out at the Asbury Park Convention Center on Saturday will be the Murder Beach Militia and Anchor Assassins.
And on the Murder Beach Militia is a player named Valerie "Ricin Beans" Frankwick.
Now that is a great name and DD thanks his news aggregator for pointing it out.
In fact, it is hard to resist admiration for the brassy stage monikers of the Jersey Shore Roller Girls league.
There is Push Popp Red, #40, on the league's All-Star Travel Team, Pump Action Shotgun of the Right Coast Rollers and Toast Face Killah, again of the Murder Beach Militia. Big Rac Attack, although perhaps a fan favorite, may be a tad too obvious.
DD was going to include a screen snap. But that would spoil the surprise. Readers need to see it themselves.
So go here right after reading this. I mean it. You won't be disappointed. You may waste the entire afternoon trying to fit one of the roller derby girls' team insignias to your screen background!
When your host was very young, I used to spend Saturday mornings with my brother watching roller-derby matches on the local cable network in Schuylkill County, PA. It shared time with pro-wrestling, which in the Sixties and early Seventies, was more about garish and grotesquely amusing big flabby men than steroid-addicted vaseline-coated goons in big arenas.
Girls roller-derby eventually vanished from cable.
Author Paul Fussell explains it this way in his book, Class -- A Guide Through the American Status System:
"Which brings up the matter of the class meaning of sports fanship and spectatorhood. Short of watching such Anglophile exercises as cricket and polo, hard to do in this country, the most class probably attaches to watching tennis, even at the newly proletarianized -- that is, modernized -- Forest Hills," he explains.
Naturally, this was written well before the advent of the Williams sisters.
"On television, [class-wise] below golf comes baseball, and below that, football. Then ice hockey. Then boxing, stock-car racing [NASCAR], bowling, and at the bottom, Roller Derby, once popular with advertisers until they discovered that the people watching it were so low-prole or even destitute that they constituted an entirely wasted audience for the commercials; they couldn't buy anything at all, not even detergents, antacids and beer. 'Low Reach Undesirables,' the Roller Derby audience became known in the trade, and the event that had attracted them was soon removed from television."
That was a sad day.
[Incidentally, DD once made an argument that the original audience for Iggy and the Stooges was Low Reach Undesirable. Until hipsters charged in and changed affairs about a decade ago. See here.]
2 Comments:
Wow - I think I just found my cast for "Prison Girls Riot 3: This Time It's Personal."
Nuff said
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