Our Man in Europe/now Belize/Dave Delacroix: TIME-TRAVEL No. 6: "The DIED with their MULLETS-on!"
(dedicato: Ann-Marie & Aaron Yaccobucci. Mostly Ann-Marie!))
(...Continuing my MISFIT TIME-TRAVEL theme Posts:)
"They DIED with their MULLETS on."
...GEORGE-ARMSTRONG CUSTER, famed USA-WILD WEST GENERAL who distinguished himself in the American - Union side - American Civil War; probably considered an "up-start" by the Institutionalize-Political-Military "JOINT-CHIEFS"/they, to this day have adjoint Suites in the Pentagon, sub-let-secret little spaces as in Stanley Kubrick's movie scene-the WAR ROOM/adjacent cubbyholes for the "HIGH COMMAND's/Chief of Staff's "pieces of fluff " TO THIS DAY' "MERRY XMAS & HOW I LEARNT TO LOVE that bomb-thingy?
-And getting your 3-STAR (General/Rank as opposed to MOTEL-6)) TAX PAYER-SUBSIDIZED dick sucked, privately is a Medal of Honor of sorts/outta uniform of course whether in the KREMLIN, the PENTAGON, No.10 Downing St., The Elysée Palace-France, the VATICAN or the IMPERIAL PALACE in Beijing; they're ALL going AT IT!
...As in, like ANOTHER Military UPSTART, Colonel DOOLITTLE/WW2, "Go Bomb the Emperor Of JAPAN/Don't come back!" they parked him (CUSTER) out to Manhattan-Kansas State, these days a college town, a.k.a. "AGGIE-V ILLE!"
These days, a big University hub. Students in Aggieville incidentally R big on "College Basketball" especially when KANSAS STATE meet KANSAS-whoever else. I forget. I played a couple of bar-concerts there. (Manhattan-Kansas.) COOL FOLKS!!! Yet, Kansas State, a State like Arkansas where it's ILLEGAL to Hitch-hike?... Hiking OUT was a close-run thing. (SINGING: "Bury my heart-in Canoga Park!" (L.A.)
Anyhow, back to the MULLET-thingy, George Armstrong CUSTER "sans Chapeaux" (WITHOUT cavalryman fedora/Stetson hat-whoosits) had possibly the earliest known photo-gig, "FIRSTIE/SELFIE" for having his mugshot/Foto/almost an "Antique Roadshow T.V. gig, silver-gilded B/W Rembrandt in sterile mood" who paraded his (unique hair style), THE MULLET/cut short to-sides/thin on top/long over-neck out back/let your hair-rug - if ya got it! - CAVALIER!...
...A Macho "plume de tete" which a century later became fashionable within the ranks of Construction workers (to distinguish/"a 'Un petite le Tour-Eiffel above the Paris skyline) but was NEVER adopted/caught-ON or became "SWINGING" a 'la "HEY DUDE!!!" with Bankers, Accountants, LAWYERS - YET SOME DID gravitate to ponytails - mini tail braids, RASTA DREADS or an AC/DC "Man-bun"; one or 2 in NANTES, pronounced "Nancy" but only, I guess, the Legal Shysters, the ones who had nothing to lose, A.K.A. Money lenders. Your best friends? No worries. Sometimes SHAME, though awkward gets a bad name.
And as for POLITICIANS who of course - with beady eyes - a-feared of being perceived as TOO Bohemian/Avante-Garde by their "Clochemerle" provincial constituents or feeling a tight squeeze on their Political-foreskins/if they had survived politically correct circumcision...So, the Mullet- is off limits. ALAS! And pity the poor Mullet: MULLET PEOPLES LIVES MATTER!
When the great North American Native Indian Nations/Lakota's over-ran Custer's 7th. Cavalry at the "Battle of the Little Bighorn" (such names they have), when it came to "scalping" the vanquished (a custom introduced by European invaders) they probably felt short-changed that the enemy was a little light on the "Poodle-head", at that time, the current fashion in gay Paree! As for T-T (My Time Travel situ.) I waved my International PRESS CARD at Indian Chief Sitting Bull before he could strike me down. (Every T-T traveler carries one).
He couldn't make "head nor tails" over my NIKON camera but regarded me as some kind of Holyman/a publicist to plead his nation's enforced plight & righteous defense & indignation. (Phew!) So along with a few wounded I got to walk away unscathed. There followed a week's rickety-fragile wagon train back to Manhattan-Kansas. At some lull on this sad retreat, I got to thinking maybe the Aggieville kids R putting on a B-B game, & then immediately felt ashamed.
I never got back to Manhattan-K. The T-T (Time Travel) powers that be extracted me & posted me to...
c.2026. Dave Delacroix.
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