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LOKI: NOW MORE THAN EVER
Last night I said that I had a morale boosting idea in the post-Bears ass whupping era. It boils down to one word, er, name, er, nickname: Loki. Here's what he said last week over at Humid City: "Let me start by saying that I am a rarity, an American male who cannot stand football. Keep that in mind. Now even I cannot miss the fact that the Saints have one more game to go in order to make it to the Super Bowl, if they make it I will watch my first SuperBowl ever! Not only that, but I will also go so far as to state (are you listening, Ashley? Rachel G? Oyster?) that if someone provides the garb I will do so wearing a Saints Cheerleaders outfit. Something this momentous deserves some spectacle, don’t you think?"
Photo and alterations by Lisa Palumbo.
In victory this would have been merely hilarious but in defeat it is essential. It's easy to dress up as a Sainsation when things are good but it takes a real mensch to do so after yesterday. So, Loki, baby, we need ya. Think about Ashley, Mr. Clio, Charlotte, Mr. Wet and all the little chirren who are heartbroken. What they need is a belly laugh that can only be provided by the spectacle of Loki leaping about with pom poms. It's not that big of a leap, after all, Loki got married in a kilt.
Finally, I was inspired by the stirring thought of Loki as a cheerleader to update and, um, localize, the lyrics of a classic song by former short term NOLA resident Raymond Douglas Davies. It's not quite finished or polished but a crisis calls for swift action. Jeez, I wish Beavis, Meemaw and C Ray would have gotten that memo on 8/29. Anyway, here it is, such as it is:
LOKI (With Apologies to Ray Davies)
I met her at a blog on the internets
where they make bad jokes about going to
the pokey. P-o-k-e-y, pokey.
She walked up to me and she asked me to post
I asked her her name and in a smoker’s voice she said
Loki. L-o-k-i. Lo lo lo lo Loki.
Well I’m not the world’s geekiest guy
But when she im’d me I nearly lost my mind
Oh my Loki. Lo lo lo lo Loki.
Well I’m not dumb but I can’t understand
Why she walked like a woman and talked like a man
Oh my Loki. Lo lo lo lo Loki; lo lo lo lo Loki.
Well we traded jokes and emailed all night
Under glowing computer light
She booted up and hollered at me
And said dear boy come to Humid City
Well, I’m not the world’s geekiest guy
but when I looked at her kilt
well I almost fell for my Loki.
Lo lo lo lo Loki; lo lo lo lo Loki.
Well that’s the way that I want it to stay
And I always want it to be that way for my Loki
Lo-lo-lo-lo Loki
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It’s a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Loki
Lo-lo-lo-lo Loki
Oh boy, did I need that. Wound up with chocolate milk all over my keyboard.
Perhaps in lieu of your ticket idea, we should sell posters. Maybe not just
Loki as a Saintsation, Ashley, you, Oyster, Ray, hell, we could do a
blogger pin-up calendar!
Slate's was choco milk -- my sputum was coffee (still craving another cup
of yours, Loki!).....you are a genius,A!!
I think a pin-up calendar is a GREAT idea....all the male bloggers in
cheer-leader get-up - yeah!
Show us some legs!!!
Thanks for spitting, y'all, I guess. The Pin-up calendar is a funny idea
but I have a medical condition that prohibits me from participating: I'm
sane.
What's worse, Ray Davies, getting shot in the leg while walking in the FQ
or this?
Yay, a triumph. A minor one but still a triumph, Mai, mai, mai, mai,
Maitri.
I want that calendar, especially if somehow we can incorporate the
appropriate tatoos.
Oh there WILL be a calendar, and Adrastos WILL be Ms. January! I have
pictures of all of you from the geek diners and various other sordid
places. I am also armed with the newest version of Photoshop! Better watch
it A, I have Jane on my side!
I get it now: we in NOLA fit into a scale of sanity.
View Adrastos' girlish figure here:
http://humidcity.com/2007/01/23/something-to-cheer-about/
So is it me, or in this picture does he look like "Riff Raff" from Rocky
Horror???
Who? Loki or me? Choose your words carefully, big mon...
Yeah,Adrostos look more like a prepubescent version of the a*shole
(pre-whellchair)...
I think I woke up a some of the neighbors laughing at those lyrics and the
subsequent discussion of Adrastosanity. I think you've got it right,
Gentilly Girl; NOLA has its own scale of sanity. It's just off the rest of
the world's charts. And that's why I'm so happy to live here.
Oh dear, what did I start? Oh well, Loki will finish it! LOVE the Adrastos
photo::::::::::more chocolate milk in the keyboard:::::::I think it's time
for us to decide who is which month. Since Adrastos likes the sun, I'm
voting Miss June for him. Ashley must be some time during football season,
Shroeder, well with that crown on should be Miss February or March for
Mardi Gras.
Hilarious pic, good song treatment... great post.