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GROUND XERO: LIVE FROM L.A.
The aesthetic wonders of God Hates Fags, and furniture porn

By Xanadu Xero| RAW STORY COLUMNIST

“What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets,” wrote Andre Malreaux.

No more, baby. In the good old days, humans were protected from each other’s ghastliness, at least in daily life, by a nice, thick layer of Shame.

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Shame, my friends, is a magnificent thing. It’s Mother Nature’s way of saying, “Shut the fuck up and behave yourself!”

Shame doesn’t oppress people; people do. And even that can work to society’s advantage. Back When, there were no grandmas in tube tops. There was no whuppin’ upside the head on Rikki Lake. It was gauche to be out of control, so, if righteously loaded, one stayed decorously put.

Television made a bloody gash in the grace of the world… and then the Internet, that psycho skinhead, dealt the fatal blow and ruined everything.

The Net smashed Shame’s Last Stands — eye contact and the fear of live altercation.

Once online, you’re in a rave of disembodied spirits. Anonymous. Impunity assured. Any pissant bully/coward can spew lunacy or poison from a cyber fort, metaphorical dong now huge without surgery, or drugs!

The real tragedy of all this, to me, is my fascination with it.

Torrents of useless data have roared from my screen to my brain, dwarfing even old song lyrics, overwriting those already fragile programs “Sense of Direction’ and ‘How To Make Money.’

Why do I continue to pursue this, uh… information? So you don’t have to. Yeah. That’s right.

I now present to you two elite filleted selections from my Web Id Jungle Safaris (Part One.) Strap in or on; whatever suits.

* * * * *

GOD HATES AMERICA
(to the tune of ‘God Bless America’)

God hates America!
Home of the fags!
He abhors them!
Deplores them!
Day and night, all his might, all his days!

AMERICA THE BURNING
(to the tune of ‘America the Beautiful’)

O wicked land of sodomites
God struck the shuttle down
With body parts and broken hearts
He scattered them around (all over Texas)

* * * * *

There are more finely crafted verses for each tune, but you get the gist. These snappy re-mixes are courtesy of that kicky, kooky web world, GOD HATES FAGS, the cyber Versailles of Calvinist Baptist Pastor Fred Phelps.

God may hate Fags, but evidently He does not hate plastic surgery. Phelps, 75, has snug, waxy skin and eyelids big enough to post a billboard. He was #5 in George Magazine’s ‘Top Fascinating Men In Politics of 1999’ and is dancin’ proud of it, even though God Hates The Filthy Fag Media, too.

I guess there weren’t any you-know-whats on the George staff.

Mention GOD HATES FAGS and Leftys go frickin’ wacko, like slugs with salt poured on ‘em. This is a knee-jerk mistake.

Phelps’ Homey G(od) doesn’t just hate ‘Fags,’ mind you, or the Left. He hates the Right. Reagan. Bush. Rumsfeld. Cheney. He hates Canada. Tahiti. Nuns. Outer Mongolian toddlers. The Amish. Eskimos. He hates Baptists five atoms more liberal. In fact, he hates every man who isn’t exactly like him, which pretty much makes him an average Joe.

Opinions of Pastor Phelps’ vision vary, yet few really bother to plumb his site — a scan of his phantasmic brain. I tell you, riches lie within. Not only is there gratis poetry and song (no sweat to download a party’s worth of fun!), but free art as well.

GHF’s sister site, GOD HATES AMERICA, boasts dozens of ‘fliers,’ screaming to be framed, any one distinctive gilding for an aesthete’s home. They are printed on what seems to be an antique press, with pleasing old-fashioned fonts, text uneven in the style of yesteryear. Their layout is charming, each a masterpiece of wordplay and craft. Try to print just one!

My favorite flier thus far declares that our country’s military was “sodomized by Clinton” and now those cockamamie Fags’n’Dykes run wild “on every level.” Such tsuris, oy vey iz mir!

It is adorned by an utterly gratuitous, waaay too graphic illustration (apparently by Phelps) of a U.S. soldier raping a little boy. Grenades and bullets fly from his person, yet he is oblivious. “Butt Lube” is strapped to his helmet. Batman-like words float around the backside of our man-at-arms: HUMP. PANT. BAM. SLAM. WHAM.

Prurience level: Off The Charts.

Hey, perverts — what’s the web’s #1 Nastiest, Jammin’ Steamy Super Freak FREE Fetish Website? GOD HATES FAGS!

In a cut-and-dried case of ‘protesteth too much,’ Phelps always bypasses PG descriptions of What He Objects To for XXX, everywhere, on endless loop.

This even transcends the Fag Kingdom! There is a page with the names and detailed vignettes of Godless fetishes, far out as klismaphelia. Look it up. There are ceaseless references throughout the sites of… lower body emissions. All of them. Especially the, um, darkest. Smeared on the Bible. And worse. Ugh.

Pastor Sicko clearly spends oodles of time ‘researching.’ One wonders if God Hates Masturbation. Sigmund Freud is guffawing in heaven — oh, I mean burning in hell for all eternity. Excuse me.

“It’s really creepy for a ‘Man of God’ to be putting this stuff out there,” I said to my boyfriend, Aap.

“He’s not a ‘Man of God,’” Aap laughed, “He’s just a fucking asshole.”

* * * * *

Every parent wonders what their teenagers do when they’re not around… and teens, you sons-of-guns — you know what you do.

Most people’s worries, inanely, stop there. And the childless, in their fool’s paradise, think, all smug-like, that they can leave their homes and do errands with no consequence.

HA! Denial, you know, ain’t just a river in Egypt.

Ever wonder what your furniture is up to? Yeah, go on — pretend that you have no idea what I’m talking about.

All of us have had the experience of coming home and feeling that things just aren’t… right. Sofas, tables, plants seem a tad off mark. Not quite as we left them. You find sunglasses on the floor — you could have sworn that you left them on the nightstand. And so on.

Throughout history, this universal phenomenon has been (conveniently) attributed to supernatural sprites, mischievous spirits, leprechauns, etc. But here and now, I reveal to you the whole truth. Don’t shoot the messenger.

Here’s a hint: Hot chair on chair action.

Furniture Porn (.com) reinforces the theory — yet again — that ‘the answer’ is most often the obvious one. Quite simply, your possessions live the life you dream of, while we idiot humans slave away to pay the tab.

And we cluck we’re the ‘top of the food chain.’ Furniture doesn’t even need food! It parties all day! Who’s more evolved now?

I recommend that when you enter the site, you get down with wassap by watching the Furniture Porn Movie. Once oriented, you’ll be prepared to assimilate such sections as All Amateur Seating, The Office Party, and the very special Chairlie's Angels.

By all means, take a stroll through their links (Wild Wicker, Fast Food Fornication, Hot Knob Photos) if you’ve stout of heart and have the stuff to really want to know, gloves off, man, What Time It Is.


TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.


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