The Ricin letter-writing suspect was an Elvis impersonator:
Through decades of dead-end day jobs, Curtis’s mainstay has been night and weekend gigs as a celebrity impersonator. He has dressed up and performed at weddings and at parties as Prince, Buddy Holly and Kid Rock, but most often as none other than Elvis Presley — not just anywhere in Mississippi, but in The King’s native Tupelo.
Curtis and his family and friends have, over many years, amassed a library of videos and photos, many posted online, that show him singing and dancing with a distinctive curled upper lip and thick sideburns.
In one online profile bearing more than 800 photos of himself, Curtis typed this in his biography: “Father/Activist/Singer/Songwriter/Business Owner/Rebel.”
/Inmate
Forget about the ricin, a middle-aged white man impersonating Prince is the real crime here.
Poopyman
Oh God. Here come all the lines from all of the Elvis songs/movies.
First one to use Jailhouse Rock gets pied.
comrade scott's agenda of rage
Just goes to show you that what Mojo Nixon said all those years ago is correct:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaD5mAC3P2s
Mojo was quiet about Prince tho.
Harold Samson
Heck with Curtis’ skin color… how tall was he?
Punchy
That arrest leaves me All Shook Up.
Cassidy
@comrade scott’s agenda of rage:
We said “If you don’t got Mojo Nixon
Then your store could use some fixin'”
Cacti
@Poopyman:
The FBI brought the suspect’s letter with them. It was stamped “Return to Sender”.
Cassidy
How long before some pundit tries to blame it on blah people “In the Ghetto”.
Poopyman
@Harold Samson: Here’s one of his videos.
Cacti
When he knew the jig was up, Curtis dropped to his knees and begged “Don’t be Cruel”.
mistermix
Makes me feel like a worn out shoe. Whoops, wrong Elvis.
Poopyman
He’s actually quite a bad Elvis.
Violet
Middle aged white guy mad at politicians for not being conservative enough–that’s the real shocker. No one could have predicted.
Cacti
Sometime this evening, his new cellmate will be singing “Are You Lonesome Tonight”.
4tehlulz
>Prince, Buddy Holly and Kid Rock
walk into a bar….
Mark S.
How could you leave out the funniest line of the article?
Linda Featheringill
@Poopyman:
Jailhouse Rock, Jailhouse Rock, Jailhouse Rock. :-)
But yeah, a middle aged white dude doing a Prince imitation is kinda weird.
Chyron HR
Elvis impersonation is straight out of
Al QwadaAl Qaidathe Islamofacist handbook.Soonergrunt
And Paul Kevin Curtis is a total right-winger.
Quell surprise.
Omnes Omnibus
The same person cannot be both a Prince and a Kid Rock impersonator. Which, of course, also brings to mind this terrifying thought: there is a market for Kid Rock impersonators.
Face
@Mark S.: This is pretty damn funny, too:
What exactly did he do to those stiffs in the morgue?
dmsilev
@Mark S.: Skewed polls!
Older_Wiser
This guy has some serious mental issues.
https://sites.google.com/site/paulkevincurtis/ And yes, it appears he may be this “Elvis impersonator”, also: https://www.facebook.com/1stelvisguy If he’s a Mensa member (who can’t spell), I’m Joan of Arc. This is a Youtube video of him from 2001, and you can tell he has real mental issues: http://www.youtube.com
Don’t forget, this is the guy daddy could just pass a gun to, also, in that POS “gun reform” bill that was just defeated. Let’s get a better one–and kick the NRA’s ass along with their sycophants in Congress.
Feudalism Now!
Elvis impersonator activist rebel inmate lover of small woodland creatures.
Did he ever cover ‘Poison Ivy League’ or ‘Love Letters’?
Linda Featheringill
Mr. Curtis doing Prince:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SRZuxWrVTc
sb
@Poopyman: Once he goes to prison, he’ll experience a whole new version of “Jailhouse Rock”. Or “Love Me Tender” as the case may be, amirite?
/ducks
MikeJ
@Omnes Omnibus:
It’s almost certainly better than having the real one there.
Cacti
@sb:
He may soon become someone’s “Little Sister”.
SuzyQ
What about his Blue Suede Shoes?
Higgs Boson's Mate
This just shows how dangerous AQ has become; they can now train their agents to pass as White, middle-aged Elvis impersonators. It’s obvious that we need to spend additional billions to counter this new threat.
sb
@Cacti: Whence he will doubtless be “All Shook Up”!
/just trying to volley; I like your line better
Amir Khalid
@Linda Featheringill:
What has been seen, et cetera …
JGabriel
mistermix @ top:
Seconded. That was my first thought as well.
Omnes Omnibus
@Linda Featheringill: No way in hell I click on that.
@MikeJ:
Is it really? A world with Kid Rock in it could be the result of a chance. A world with a market for Kid Rock impersonators? That takes malign influence.
Pongo
TBogg gets all this week’s rightwing crazy summarized in one (very long) brilliant sentence:
http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2013/04/18/one-thing-leads-to-another-i-know/
El Caganer
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: Maybe an electrified fence around Graceland?
SteveM
He was also crazy — obsessed with an allegedly widespread plot to traffic body parts that probably existed only in his own head. I’m not used to giving credit to Glenn Beck’s Blaze, but this collection of links and quotes persuades me that he’s a clinical paranoid.
I once had a co-worker like him who thought evil, violent things were taking place where we worked — things that were utterly impossible. She was ultimately institutionalized, and later wrote letters in her ex-co-workers’ names alleging beheadings and orgies at our office. It was sad, really.
amk
@Pongo: awesome.
chopper
@Cassidy:
“hi, i’m mojo nixon and this song’s about fuckin’ the hell out of debbie gibson”
Ben Franklin
Is the comedy relief monologue over?
The guy had some grievances, and some strange stories; even stranger than fiction.
http://www.ripoffreport.com/political-cover-ups/north-mississippi-me/north-mississippi-medical-cent-z8efd.htm
Cermet
Wow, a major bio-terrorism attack in the US and on both a senator and, oh, just the President and the media has a collective sound of – near silence.
Oh, just the standard white, middle age amerikan loon – move along, nothing to see here.
Worse, the white senator got the most news coverage. That’s right, the other person who was targeted was just some black guy. Can you imagine the rightwing freak out if bush (while in office; not now since the right would only say – bush who?) had been one of the targets?
Redshirt
Now I know what it feels like when doves cry.
maurinsky
My ex-husband has a similar mental health problem, except instead of politicians not being conservative enough, his paranoia leans more towards “we need anarchy”. He’s also unable to hold a job. He is very intelligent, though. He’s somewhere on the schizo-affective disorder spectrum. It’s sad, because he’s too paranoid to ever get help.
Valdivia
totally OT but this is Awesome. Mocking that idiot Gohmert about the Terrorists pretending to be Latino.
http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Entertainment/latino-handy-guide-terrorists-training/story?id=18979458#.UXADQKKsiSq
kd bart
You have Fat Elvis and Skinny Elvis. Do we now have to add Terrorist Elvis?
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
Quick Boston Question: Was the library attacked or not? I never heard a definitive answer on that.
Pongo
This is awesome–dude so angry at government he (allegedly) sends poisoned letters lives in ‘government housing.’
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUSPICIOUS_LETTERS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-04-18-10-23-06
Rightwing nutjobs. The gift that keeps giving…
Cermet
@maurinsky: Very sorry for your pain and husband’s illness – no one with those illnesses are at fault.
PaulW
I just wanna state officially for the record that a vast majority of us Elvis Impersonators are not conspiracy nuts mailing ricin everywhere.
Most of us Elvis Impersonators are decent, hard-working impersonators doing our best to express the fact that Elvis is inside each and every one of us. Except for the Anti-Elvis… beat… Dick Cheney has no Elvis in him. But I digress.
So, please do not assume that Paul Kevin Curtis speaks for all Elvises (Elvii?) everywhere. Being Elvis is a wonderful, special thing to be, but sometimes… well… we do get the crazy ones once in awhile.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
— this message has been brought to you by a guy whose haircutter once noted he can part his hair just like Elvis. Thank you, thank you very much.
Cermet
@Belafon (formerly anonevent): NO
Omnes Omnibus
@Ben Franklin: Does that story ring true to you?
PaulW
@Belafon (formerly anonevent): Library was an electrical fire last I heard. No fatalities, minor damage to building, hopefully no books destroyed.
hilts
OT
Glenn Instapundit outdouches himself by telling Gabby Giffords to show some respect and stop bullying the other side in the gun control debate.
http://wonkette.com/512496/instapundit-tells-whats-her-name-that-lady-who-got-shot-in-the-face-to-stop-bullying-people
Ben Franklin
@Omnes Omnibus:
Sounds like a movie, but remember Chris Dorner’s allegations have never been followed upon.
NonyNony
@SteveM:
Shockingly, a guy who would cook up ricin in his own house to send to his Senator and the President might be a nutjob. Hoocoodaknowed right?
But clearly this must be the work of al Qaeda. Because the group has a history of sending random unsigned letters to government officials and not, you know, actively picking their targets based on their symbolic and/or actual connection to US economic and military power.
(ETA: That last paragraph comes out weird out of context – I just couldn’t believe there were people on the news suggesting a link between AQ and the ricin mailings other than maybe with AQ as the inspiration for someone who was mentally ill like this guy seems to have been inspired by conspiracy theories.)
JGabriel
@Linda Featheringill:
AUUGGHH! MY EYES! MY EARS! SO MUCH BLOOD! I WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO UNSEE OR UNHEAR THAT! AIEEEE!
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Cermet:
@PaulW:
Thanks.
GregB
He apparently had enough of people knocking him down, stepping on his face and slandering his name all over the place.
And he’s not gonna take it anymore.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
It’s worse than WaPo is letting on. I’m also seeing Roy Orbison and Elton John in his promotional collage.
Mike E
How about Filipino Elvis? True story: the parking attendant at the hospital where Miss E was born could really do a mean King, and IIRC his red sequined jumpsuit made all the ladies holler. His nom de Presley was “Renelvis”.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ben Franklin: All things are not equal. Dorner’s accusations, at least, had some plausibility, his subsequent actions notwithstanding.
Suffern ACE
@Mike E: Washington DC used to have the Black Elvis or “Blelvis”, a street performer who claimed to know all 600+ songs that Elvis ever recorded and he would perform any one at your request. He was actually quite charming, although I would guess that someone who actually knew every song recorded might be able to stump him.
Ben Franklin
@Omnes Omnibus:
Trafficking in organs is unusual, but not unpossible. Mississippi is perhaps the most likely place for corruption of this level.
But we will never know, especially now, because someone possibly driven crazy by the crazy has diverted the direction of this story.
Villago Delenda Est
@Omnes Omnibus:
It’s bad enough there’s a market for Kid Rock, but impersonators?
Gag me with a spoon!
Villago Delenda Est
@JGabriel:
I am grateful for the warning. I will not click on Linda’s link. I will not click on Linda’s link. I will not click on Linda’s link.
priscianus jr
Forget about the ricin, a middle-aged white man impersonating Prince is the real crime here.
Yes, but there was something fishy even in this middle-aged white man impersonating Elvis.
True, Elvis himself wound up as a middle-aged white man impersonating Elvis. But I don’t recall Elvis ever attempting to poison leaders in Washington.
Villago Delenda Est
@NonyNony:
Al Qaeda is the boogey man of the lazy, stupid shitstains who infest the MSM.
Villago Delenda Est
@priscianus jr:
Much to his discredit, he got close enough to Nixon do do something about him, and did nothing (except to volunteer to be a Federal operative in the war on some drugs.)
Bobby Thomson
OK, stop rubberneckin’, y’all. Tomorrow will be too late.
JPL
@Pongo: Isn’t there an award for the best run on sentence?
rda909
I, for one, will miss Ted & Helen’s contributions here now that he’ll be locked up. Lettuce pray.
Zagloba
That brought this video to mind.
maya
I understand that the Keebler company employs lots of Elvises.
Redshirt
@Villago Delenda Est: The Nixon – Elvis picture is one of the best of all times.
Cassidy
@Ben Franklin:
Based on…what? Personal bias? I don’t know the stats for Tupelo, MS, but I would imagine that higher volume trauma centers in areas with large undocumented immigrant populations would probably be more likely places to hide an organ trafficking ring.
LittlePig
@comrade scott’s agenda of rage: I knew it would be in the top 10, but coming in second fills me with immense joy. Spasebo, tovarishch.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ben Franklin: He was talking about a fridge full of arms and heads. Livers, kidneys, and hearts? Sure, there may be a black market and MS is as good a place as any for it. But I doubt there is a much of a market for used heads and extra arms. Okay, there are Moties. There is Zaphod Beelblebrox. And there is Victor Frankenstein. I just don’t see that being enough to support an industry. Occam says symptom of illness not conspiracy.
Gex
Perhaps this has been cited on the blogs already. If not:
How the NRA has already impeded the Boston investigations
Villago Delenda Est
@Omnes Omnibus:
FrankenSTEEN.
Ben Franklin
@Cassidy:
After about a year and a half of employment, I questioned management about unfair employment practices & work ethics involving Hispanics, who did not speak English working excessive hours & off the clock each day, while non-hispanic’s were being sent home and/or written up for not having his/her “nametag”
Uh, the history of Mississippi is a matter of record and it has a convenient port.
Joey Maloney
Prince was born in 1958. He is a middle-aged man.
Ben Franklin
Corruption in Miss.
http://www.stateintegrity.org/mississippi
Pooh
Friends report in recent weeks he seemed to have a little Less Time For Conversation.
JPL
The mayor of Boston is in a wheel chair because of a severely broken leg and when it was his turn to reflect, he pulled himself up to the lectern. You could see the grimace on his face.
scav
@Omnes Omnibus: “market for used heads? ! With so many wandering about unused as it is?
catclub
I was thinking about Nixon’s “If the president does it it’s not a crime.” I wonder if there is a corollary for Elvis.
mai naem
Enough already. This thread is going into running for the Best Thread of the Year.
Kind of OT, after yesterday’s debacle at CNN I think today would be a good day for Jake Tapper to question Obama about his smoking habits. Has he started smoking again this week? Because, shit, if hasn’t started smoking by today, he’s fer sure given it up permanently. Obama is going to look ancient by the time 2016 rolls around.
Mark S.
@Linda Featheringill:
Wow, that impersonation was dead-on! It took me a while to figure out that wasn’t really Prince.
Ben Franklin
@Omnes Omnibus:
Conspiracies, by their very nature are unpossible. They only exist in the vacuum of a fevered existence, and often sound crazy, because they are.
Shorter Omnes.
SatanicPanic
The right really needs to stop encouraging all these suspicious minds
gogol's wife
@mai naem:
He picked the wrong week to stop . . . . (Lloyd Bridges).
Cassidy
@Ben Franklin: Quoting a delusional paranoid who has decided to send biological weapons to people he doesn’t like doesn’t help your argumetn or prove anything.
Other states have higher populations of undocumented immigrants and histories of corruption.
JPL
Rev. Taylor just said another hate will not make us haters.. Bless me father for I have sinned, because I’m becoming less tolerant of the whackos in the world.
Just One More Canuck
@Omnes Omnibus: Exactly. Who the hell would want to imitate Kid Rock. Mind you, the irony of someone imitating a ripoff ‘artist’ like Kid Rock is good
Cassidy
@Just One More Canuck: I’ll just point out that Kid Rock is himself doing an excellnt imitation of a southern, white male.
ranchandsyrup
This dude also fancied himself as a whistleblower on rural health care in MS and reached out to glibertarians for help. https://twitter.com/kevincurtislive/status/149117121903853568
Villago Delenda Est
@scav:
For an example, see Gohmert, Louis, 1 each, shit green in color.
Ben Franklin
@Cassidy:
Quoting a delusional paranoid who has decided to send biological weapons to people he doesn’t like doesn’t help your argumetn or prove anything.
I was under the impression nothing has been proven yet, except he’s an Elvis impersonator.
I guess that makes him guilty of something, somewhere.
White Trash Liberal
Wise men say only fools mail ricin
/hides
Villago Delenda Est
@mai naem:
Somewhere there must be a 16 ton weight suspended in mid-air that can be accidentally dropped on Jake Tapper. It’s just a matter of contriving the circumstances to get the two of them together.
Cassidy
@Ben Franklin: Aren’t you one of those people that laments that Cheney and company have never been tried for war crimes and how Obama is the devil because of it?
Irony.
ETA: I know better than to engage people who believe in conspiracy theories.
Villago Delenda Est
OK, on the BJ main page, on of the ads is for gambling in Mississippi.
Gotta love those Google ads.
ricky
@Cassidy:
Them politicians in Tupelo was covering up the fact that them parts in that there hospital fridge was Elvis.
Davis X. Machina
@mai naem: You’re confusing an Obama smoking relapse with steam coming out of the man’s ears.
From a distance they look the same.
JPL
Since he wants Ted Nugent to be President, I’m surprised he hasn’t impersonated his idol.
Ben Franklin
@Cassidy:
: Aren’t you one of those people that laments that Cheny and company have never been tried for war crimes and how Obama is the devil because of it?
Huh?
Gex
@Cassidy: So he hates their fiscal and social policies. Why is he a Republican? Because he’s the exact kind of dude they win over with their stupid tribalism and their determination to make liberal a dirty word.
I mean, who does he think helps all these policies he dislikes get implemented? Blaming the politicians but not the voters who select them?
Kid, if you don’t like what they do, don’t vote for them. I’ll still let you CALL yourself a Republican if it makes you feel better about your white maleness.
MikeJ
Just a hunka hunka castor beans.
Certified Mutant Enemy
@Villago Delenda Est:
Posts about Newt Gingrich seem to cause ads for marriage counseling to appear…
max
@mai naem: Kind of OT, after yesterday’s debacle at CNN I think today would be a good day for Jake Tapper to question Obama about his smoking habits. Has he started smoking again this week? Because, shit, if hasn’t started smoking by today, he’s fer sure given it up permanently. Obama is going to look ancient by the time 2016 rolls around.
Lord knows I’m not quitting.
To match your OT, from the Dallas Observer:
jeffreyw
@Villago Delenda Est: For this to happen we must go deeper into debt tomorrow.
scav
@Villago Delenda Est: The one I got for Tourism in OK City on a Boston Marathon bombing thread was another.
Ben Franklin
@Cassidy:
I know better than to engage people who believe in conspiracy theories.
What?
Just Some Fuckhead
I hope this doesn’t unfairly tarnish all Elvis impersonators.
Just One More Canuck
@Cassidy: However, not a very good imitation of a person with any talent
Cassidy
@Just One More Canuck: C’mon now.
That’s fuckin’ poetry.
MikeJ
@Just Some Fuckhead: The kid who sat in front of me in freshman year home room went on to become an Elvis impersonator. He seemed nice enough. He was always an ironic impersonator instead of a serious one.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ben Franklin: Playing the odds. A black market ring of head and arm dealers in MS that is uncovered by an Elvis/Prince/Kid Rock impersonator who mailed ricin to public officials is not one with which I will spend a lot of time.
ricky
@mai naem: Hey, the boys and girls at CNN got in trouble because they trusted bad sources.
When Jake Tapper gets an exclusive like Obama smoking again, he relies on his own nostrils. That dog pictured in this morning’s open thread has footage of Jake hard at work.
chopper
@Suffern ACE:
I remember blelvis. never could stump the guy.
Just One More Canuck
@Cassidy: He’s a regular Ira Gershwin
Villago Delenda Est
“Save up to $30 on the Graceland “Love Me Tender” package”
Current Google ad on this page for me…
JPL
@ricky: Well whose ass is he sniffing?
rachel
@Omnes Omnibus: Well Kid Rock had a popular song once. I don’t remember what it was, but as I recall, somebody liked it enough to give him money.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Cassidy:
If I remember correctly, that line is derived from an older rap song. As for that song, I think it’s pretty good. It was never meant to blow you away with it’s thoughtfulness, it was just meant to be fun.
Ben Franklin
@Omnes Omnibus:
not one with which I will spend a lot of time.….unless a front-pager posts on the subject with snark.
Punchy
I’m guessing churches and their chiors are the most likely black-market buyers.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ben Franklin: A fair point. How about “not one on which I will expend serious thought?”
Also, if you don’t find the idea of a Kid Rock impersonator both funny and terrifying at the same time, I worry about you.
Ben Franklin
@Omnes Omnibus:
I don’t find this a humorous subject, but I don’t think you should worry about me.
catclub
@Punchy: How about the Phantom of the Opera?
Todd
One of my neighbors is a professional Elvis impersonator.
The culture is interesting, to say the least.
ranchandsyrup
@Belafon (formerly anonevent):
comes from Busy Bee and later the Sugar Hill Gang used it on Rappers’ Delight.
JPL
Kevin does 35 impersonations including Willie Nelson and Lionel Richie. link
LanceThruster
I think he was setup by a cadre of Buddy Holly impersonators.
Just sayin’.
JPL
uhoh..wingnuts are going to explode…
Gov. Patrick just said that Massachusetts invented the United States..
ricky
@Just Some Fuckhead:
What could this incident do to enhance the damage Kevin Costner already did in Dances with Webfoot Elvis?
Davis X. Machina
@JPL: Unless they live in Virginia, they need to be quiet. The Virginians can bitch.
Maude
@SatanicPanic:
#89
WIN
Cassidy
@ricky: Costner was good in 3000 Miles to Graceland.
ricky
@JPL:
While it would be obvious to pedestrian reporters that it had to be the dog with the camera whose posterior Mr. Tapper was investigating, according to John King’s exclusive sources in local law enforcement, it was a dark sphinctered
man whom the FBI denies having in custody.
artem1s
@Just Some Fuckhead:
If we outlaw Elvis impersonators then only criminals will have sequined jumpsuits.
Todd
@Cassidy:
We actually walked out within the first 15 minutes on that – something we almost never do. From the stupid graphics of the opening to the really stupid plotline and ridiculous levels of violence that weren’t even close to supporting the plot, that was the worst theater experience we ever endured.
And we love Tarantino movies, so it isn’t about us being film prudes.
Omnes Omnibus
@artem1s: You forgot Little Richard and his impersonators. Also too, Liberace impersonators.
Villago Delenda Est
@Punchy:
Breaking news: J.S. Bach organ stolen, local churches should be on the lookout for shifty dudes looking to fence it.
Punchy
@JPL: He’d better learn to do a Andy Dufresne act.
ricky
@Cassidy:
That’s a crock of tatankashit.
However Bokeem Woodbine does break new ground for the black Elvis impersenator genre, and director Demian Lichenstein’s treatment of a budding child crime genius in the subplot deserves mention.
Cassidy
@Todd: @ricky: Bah on both of you. Bokeem Woodbine, Christian Slater doing his “you’re so cool” persona, David Arquette, Kurt Russel and Kevin Costner playing Elvis Impersonators! That was like having a dragon eat a jump suited pheonix and shit sequins while watching an Elvis movie marathon. And Howie Long and Ice T showed up in the end. Kevin Pollack, Thomas Haden Church…how could you not like this film?
Omnes Omnibus
@Cassidy: I am not a fan of Elvis impersonators. Or David Arquette.
Yutsano
@Cassidy:
Costner’s only good movie ever was Bull Durham. And that’s mostly because he didn’t really have to act in it.
@Omnes Omnibus: Most of the Arquette clan I could do without. But then again I’ve been accused of being uncivil before.
ricky
@Cassidy:
Truth be told, I did like it. Especially seeing Jon Lovitz snuffed. And you are right about Howie Long, though I worry about him being typecast as a helicopter pilot.
Cassidy
All kidding aside, it was a fun movie to watch, I thought. It had that certain charm that films like Killing Zoe and Way of the Gun had.
ricky
@Yutsano:
Many others cite Costner’s performance in The Big Chill
as far superior to any other work. But clearly he owes most of his acclaim in that film to the editors.
AHH onna Droid
@Ben Franklin: That’s right Ben, you tell ‘ em, theres a big, lucrative, not to mention sinister market in severed limbs and heads that have been sitting in the ER morgue awaiting the coroners report.
They’ve got ted williams on ice, you know, in case they ever need him. Well, just his head, but thats all you need, thaw and suspend in a nutrient bath just like on Futurama.
Soonergrunt
@Ben Franklin:
If it doesn’t, it ought to.
ricky
@Yutsano:
Pardon my reply prior to your editorial addition. Surely the Arquettes are superior to many other sibling acting combinations, although they do not come close to the Cusaks
and, if you include total contributions to the film industry as well as work as children in television, the Howard boys are up there as well.
Soonergrunt
@Ben Franklin: “I don’t find this a humorous subject…”
Which statement says a great deal, all by itself.
Soonergrunt
@Omnes Omnibus: ” I am not a fan of Elvis impersonators. Or David Arquette.”
Is there a functional difference, of which I am unaware?
Another Halocene Human
@JPL: Maybe it’s the impetus they need to declare their allegiance to the United States instead of the confederacy of states in rebellion or whatever other shit they fap to. (Cf: Republic Of Texas, etc.)
Cassidy
@ricky: You’re forgetting Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez.
Soonergrunt
@Cassidy: Wouldn’t we all like to forget Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez?
Omnes Omnibus
@Soonergrunt: “Scary Movie.”
? Martin
How the fuck did we get though 150 comments in an Elvis impersonator thread without a single mention of either Bubba Ho Tep or Dread Zeppelin?
Y’all are slacking.
Omnes Omnibus
@? Martin: Fuck. I loved Bubba Ho Tep.
Cassidy
@Soonergrunt: Dude, Men at Work! Young Guns.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
There’s only one Elvis impersonator for me.
Cassidy
@? Martin: And no one mentioned Val Kilmer’s turn as Elvis, either.
PaulW
@Cassidy:
Ahem. NOBODY was good in 3000 Miles to Graceland.
They had a good idea – Elvis Impersonators Rob a Casino – and they F-CKED it. They blew the wad in Act One, leaving us with 2/3s of a movie that SUCKED.
Mnemosyne
Best holiday album ever: Merry MeX-mas, by El Vez.
Discuss.
Citizen Alan
The coolest Elvis impersonator I have ever seen was a lesbian Elvis impersonator who performed under the name “Elvis Herselfis.” That is all.
Being from North Mississippi, I imagine I will have a lot to say about this dumbass going forward, but right now, I’m getting ready for a client meeting. That said, everyone on the Left needs to step back from the joking and get serious about this, because while the dumbass was a loon who hated Obama, he was also a self-described Democrat who supported the current Dem candidate for Mayor of Tupelo (who is a friend of mine). There’s also a photo floating around of the dumbass putting a bumpersticker on his car that says “Democrat And Christian.” It’s not going to take a whole lot for the media to pick up on him as being a “disaffected liberal.”
Patricia Kayden
@rda909: Touche!
ricky
@Cassidy:
There’s this, like, lattice o’ coincidence that lays on top o’ everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you’re thinkin’ about a family of actors. Suddenly, out of the blue somebody says Charlie Sheen. Or Emilio Estevez. Out of the blue. No explanation. No point in lookin’ for one, either. It’s all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
Cain
@Higgs Boson’s Mate:
Never mind the disaster this is to the growing elvis impersonator industry.
Mike E
@? Martin: Dread Zeppelin, best show I had ever seen up to that point hands down. Awesome combo of laughing my ass off and groovin to the tunes. Great experience.
ricky
@Citizen Alan:
A lot of folk hereabouts fit that description. Hope the FBI don’t go sniffin around for accomlimentarians.
YellowJournalism
@Cassidy: I thought I was the only person who likes Men at Work!
Omnes Omnibus
@YellowJournalism: Many people list it among their guilty pleasures. “Time to do the nasty.”
Thoughtcrime
Presenting the great ELFIS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DzmtX2g4bwY
He used to also perform here every holiday season: http://www.marinmommies.com/rombeiro-christmas-house-novato
Dr. Loveless
@? Martin:
Or El Vez?
Cassidy
@YellowJournalism: Oh there ar emore. They just pretend not to in public.
Mnemosyne
@Dr. Loveless:
Ahem. 167.
priscianus jr
@Villago Delenda Est: Much to his discredit, he got close enough to Nixon do do something about him, and did nothing (except to volunteer to be a Federal operative in the war on some drugs.)
But that’s just my point. He RESPECTED Nixon. I dare say he respected everybody in government. Hell, he respected just about everybody, period. Even that con artist Colonel Sanders or whatever the hell his name was.
(Actually his name was Colonel Tom Parker, but that wasn’t his name. His real name was Dries van Kuijk, a two-bit Dutch con artist who got lucky, and he gets the credit for slowly destroying the career and life of one of the greatest pop artists the world has ever seen. And it was all because Elvis respected him.)
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Sonny, Red, go fetch that man a fried-peanut-butter-‘nana-and-ricin sammich. And give him one of my Cadillacs, too. Hot damn tamales, baby!
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Tupelo
sonofsamantha
Comedians are going to have a field day with this clown.