“Nobody captured my audience’s imagination or their hearts like Clarence. Clarence was a figure out of a rock-n-roll storybook, and together we told a story that was bigger than any of the ones I had written in my songs. It was a story where not only did Scooter and the Big Man bust this city in half, but we remade the city, shaping it into the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldn’t have been such an exceptional thing.
The first night I saw Clarence, he came walking out of the shadows toward the bandstand, nodded to me, got up, stood to my right for the very first time. He picked up his saxophone, and when he played…when he played, he whispered that story in my ear, and then we whispered it into your ear. And we carried it together for a long time. A long, good time.
The Big Man was big. Everything about him. His personality, his size, his laugh, the sound of his saxophone. When I first heard it, I thought it was the biggest sound I’d ever heard…and it was. His heart, his problems…they were big. But he was elemental in my life. And losing him was like losing the rain.
If I were a mystic, I guess Clarence and mine’s friendship would lead me to believe that we stood in other older times, you know, in other lives. Along other rivers, in other ancient cities, in other fields, working side-by-side, with the sun setting, doing our modest version of God’s work.
I’ll see you in the next life, Big Man.”
Today would be Clarence Clemons’ 84th birthday.
Happy birthday, Big Man. We love you and miss you so fucking much.
So I follow N. D. Stevenson (comics writer and animator, most famous for Nimona and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) and his husband Lee Ostertag (also a comics writer and animator) on Instagram. When I started following them, they were both publicly presenting as women, and then a few years ago N. D. came out as transmasc nonbinary, and then earlier this year Lee also came out as transmasc. Anyway this is all setup to say that Lee had the chance to make the funniest post of all time and he took it:
I want to throw in that part of the context behind this meme was N.D. talking about how he sometimes gets hatemail for marrying a man as a former lesbian, and how many people seem to think he divorced his wife.
I have not managed to find anyone who thinks that in the wild, but it is so damn funny.
everyone’s afraid this is teaching the dog to bite but he is actually so old he doesn’t have enough teeth left
1) that wasn’t a shitpost response (why would it be?) he literally appears to lack his front teeth, probably still has back teeth or he wouldn’t be getting crunchy treats
2) this is a normal training method to teach a dog to wait; you give the treat when they’re finally patient. He’s just failing really bad, possibly because he’s old, for the same reason you’d find it total bull if you were allowed to wolf down any food you wanted until you were suddenly told out of the blue that this is not how good boys or girls eat their treats, but you are being told this for the first time at like, 75 years old
The modern equivalent is telling the sixty year old le epic bacon dyed in the wool conservative who calls salads “rabbit food” and demands his steak so rare it’s still mooing, that he needs to cut back his cholesterol or he’s going to have a heart attack.
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