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May be running in 2012? Has someone called Tina Fey yet?

Alaska Governor and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is resigning at the end of this month. She said she is doing so because she doesn’t want to be a lame duck. Well…she’s already done lame so well, I guess she just doesn’t feel she’d do justice to the duck part.

Why is she not yet a non-issue? She can’t possibly be serious about running in 2012, is she? You know what, I’m not even going to bother with coming up with any more jokes than the lame one I’ve already dropped. That last question is a big enough joke by itself.

ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS ADDED JULY 4

Okay, so I posted the first part of this entry rather quickly last night before going out for the evening. But then I started to think about it. Why did she make this announcement on a Friday afternoon right before a holiday weekend? That’s what you do with news that you want to sweep under the rug, not celebrate. And it’s one thing to announce that you won’t be running for re-election. She’s forfeiting the game with time still left on the clock.

Seriously, all that insane babbling about having fun as a lame duck…that’s not even relevant at this point because she was still in the midst of her first term. It really makes no sense. Of course, nominating her as the VP pick for the GOP didn’t make much sense either. Maybe that’s just her modus operandi: Confuse them into voting for you.

So, is she just “Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs” crazy? Or is she leaving for reasons as yet undisclosed? Are there skeletons trying to break out of her igloo? Late night trysts with all those Russians she can see from her house? Or does she really think she has a shot at the 2012 GOP presidential nomination?

I’d say stay tuned, but frankly, I just want her to go away. Not only does she make women look ridiculously stupid, but she’s making the GOP look inept and flaky. Even though I’m not much on Republican love, I also don’t believe in kicking a dog when it’s down.

Excuse me, miss...oh. Never mind.

Look at Steven Tyler. Go on! Look at him! Dude does look a bit like a lady, don’t he? Actually, though, the legend is that this particular song was written about Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil. Same difference if you ask me.

Whatever the reasons for writing “Dude (Looks Like a Lady),” this song is super special to me. It’s the first Aerosmith song I ever heard. It’s the first Aerosmith video I ever saw. I believe it was either late 1987 or early 1988 and we were visiting my aunt and uncle, probably for a holiday get-together. I’d ambled downstairs by myself to the rec room and the fire…and the television with the cable connection and no one around to control what was on.

I started flipping around and landed on this video and I couldn’t stop watching. It was like a cross between a train wreck and the most wonderful raunchiness I’d ever witnessed (cut me some slack here…I was 11).

That kimono robe. Those red suspenders and cummerbund. Those purple tights with the see-through lattice-work up the sides and the ginormous power bulge that the camera man kept zooming in on. The thrusting and gyrating and slinking. Oh my. Everything about the video dripped one thing (and if you can’t figure out what that one thing is after watching the video, then I really don’t know if I can help you).

And that music. Oh but I loved the music. How do you not love it? Fun and bouncy and rockin’…like hard rock filled with helium. Steven Tyler is deliciously dirty, in his lyrics, in his antics, in his everything. And Joe Fuckin’ Perry. The man’s about as bright as an inkwell in a blackout, but he is a guitar god. Just listen to his solo starting around 2:23 in the video (right after Tyler’s rather Shakespearean lyrics: “Do me, do me, do me, do me”). Or his more impressive solo during “Love In An Elevator.” Actually, any of his solos are worth the price of admission. I’ve seen Aerosmith in concert three times, and I’d go again in a heartbeat (if it was early stuff…none of that Just Push Play piffle, please).

This song also marked the beginning of my strange misinterpretation of rock music lyrics. Through the whole song, I thought Tyler was singing “Do the Slinky Lady.” I thought that was the name of the strange dance that he was doing through the video. Imagine my surprise when I realized he was singing “Dude looks like a lady.” Of course, I’m also the one who thought that Trent Reznor was singing that his whole existence was “flan” in “Closer.” Yeah. Who’s not so bright again?

The party who placed the video for “Dude (Looks Like a Lady)” on YouTube is also a party pooper and won’t allow video embedding. So if you’d like to see the song and the video that launched Loba’s lifelong Aerosmith love, just follow this little linky-winky.