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    Aretha's Hat Goes from Internet Meme to Actual Business

    Is Aretha Franklin's Inauguration Hat Museum Worthy?
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    03/13/09

    In reply to Aretha's Hat Goes from Internet Meme to Actual Business
    Gay men love it, because they all like to think they are strong, proud black women like Aretha on the inside, except without the racism or sexism or loss of actual privilege.


    One way to increase clicks and comments is to include at least one outlandish or just plain wrong remark in each post. Overstate the case, and let people talk about it. It works—look at the first thread of this post—but it can also insult your readers and make you seem like a jerk.

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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/13/09

    @iplaudius: I LIKE you! Bitchy and well-spoken at the same time. Such a dangerous combination. :)
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    03/13/09

    @Oy Veh (Informality Reigns): I’d be dangerous if I were doing something other than writing a dissertation, developing software, and pissing in the wind commenting on this site.
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/13/09

    @iplaudius: You do yourself a disservice, sir! You're dangerous now. You would be deadly if you actually tried.
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    Image of tammyfey tammyfey
    03/13/09

    In reply to Aretha's Hat Goes from Internet Meme to Actual Business
    I was just discussing Mizz Retha the other night with some other (non-self-loathing, thank you) homosexuals, who reminded me that her appearance was gayer than a tree full of parrots, not only because of The Hat but because she took a big, fat, juicy diva-breath right in the middle of "country" with for a most hilariously bawdy effect.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    03/13/09

    @tammyfey: Yipes! Now I want to see it again to check out the cunt-try-ness of it all!
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    03/13/09

    @tammyfey: This is why I adore gay men.
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/13/09

    @tammyfey: "gayer than a tree full of parrots"-- Colorful, loud, and ultimately willing to shit all over you? Yikes! I mean, I'm gayer than an Easter Parade, but, well.. I think I'll try to stay on your GOOD side!
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    Image of ginger rant ginger rant
    03/13/09

    In reply to Aretha's Hat Goes from Internet Meme to Actual Business
    I like the hat and all, but it could sure use some pancakes.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    03/13/09

    In reply to Aretha's Hat Goes from Internet Meme to Actual Business
    It is a good day whenever a milliner gets paid.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    03/13/09

    @BookishLookish: This is exactly what I come to Gawker for: Not just sparkling wit, but sparkling wit that would never appear in my real life in a million years.
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    Image of AliHajiSheik AliHajiSheik
    03/13/09

    In reply to Aretha's Hat Goes from Internet Meme to Actual Business
    Detroit may have lost auto, but they can always fall back on their crazy hat and gator shoe sales.
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    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    03/13/09

    @AliHajiSheik: And murder! A thriving industry.
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/13/09

    In reply to Aretha's Hat Goes from Internet Meme to Actual Business
    I think that that is more of a be-bowed pillbox, personally.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    03/13/09

    @Oy Veh (Informality Reigns): Further indication that the glamour quotient has fallen: people cannot tell the difference between a pillbox and a beret! Shameful!
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    03/13/09

    @BookishLookish:


    No kidding! I'm not a fashiony gay man or a milliner and even I screamed "honey, no" at that hat description.
    End times, people, end times...

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    03/13/09

    @BookishLookish: They aren't even cloche!
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/13/09

    @scroll_lock: Now don't work yourself up into a snood ovr this.
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    03/13/09

    @Oy Veh (Informality Reigns): You're right. Fez be friends.
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/13/09

    @scroll_lock: I'm hungry--care to share a porkpie? I love listening to you go trilby-ing on over something or another..
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    03/13/09

    In reply to Aretha's Hat Goes from Internet Meme to Actual Business
    The Times or WaPo article yesterday missed that there is at least one Facebook group devoted to Hat-fannery. Or Hat fandom, as the case may be.
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    Image of JudgeFudge JudgeFudge
    03/13/09

    In reply to Aretha's Hat Goes from Internet Meme to Actual Business
    Does this fasten to my huggie?
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    Image of Dickdogfood Dickdogfood
    03/13/09

    In reply to Aretha's Hat Goes from Internet Meme to Actual Business
    Gay men love it, because they all like to think they are strong, proud black women like Aretha on the inside, except without the racism or sexism or loss of actual privilege.


    Ahem. NO.

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    Image of homoviper homoviper
    03/13/09

    @Dickdogfood: Yeah. Um, fuck off, Owen.
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/13/09

    @Dickdogfood: Thank you.
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/13/09

    @eXXX: @Dickdogfood: BOTH of you.
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    Image of icallthebigonebitey icallthebigonebitey
    03/13/09

    @eXXX:


    I've always thought of myself as more of a cowardly, self-hating white boy. But I DO think I could turn that hat *out* (snaps)

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    03/13/09

    @Dickdogfood: This gay man prefers to laugh at the hat and it's foolishness.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    02/01/09

    In reply to Is Aretha Franklin's Inauguration Hat Museum Worthy?
    Has Seinfeld's puffy shirt been encased at the Smithsonian? If so, so should THE HAT.
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    01/31/09

    In reply to Is Aretha Franklin's Inauguration Hat Museum Worthy?
    Contrarian opinion here. In my opinion, Aretha Franklin is almost solely responsible for the dozens of howling, screaching "divas" currently cluttering the airwaves. Without her, singers might actually sing clear and touching notes and not compete in a contest to shatter beer mugs. She should go back to being a solitary heroin addict. I'm going now.
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    Image of Trixie from Toronto Trixie from Toronto
    01/31/09

    @Weegee's bored: I know what you're saying, and I partly agree, but the thing is, she had the voice to do it. They don't. There's really been no voice to match hers. They keep trying, but they either don't have the timbre or they have shitty songs. She's in a class by herself.
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    Image of Zorica Zorica
    01/31/09

    In reply to Is Aretha Franklin's Inauguration Hat Museum Worthy?
    Is this a serious question? Exactly what object is worthy of representing that day in a museum, if not for the "hat heard round the world"? Every inauguration has a Bible and chairs and suits and ties and banners. I mean, it's crystal-encrusted for goodness sake. If you put that hat down on a table a museum practically grows up around it. Certainly it's hard to resist containing it in some kind of plexiglass . . . just for the safety of everyone in the vicinity.
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    01/31/09

    @Zorica: I totally agree about the hat, for a number of reasons but specifically because Aretha wore it and the very idea of it being in a museum is humorous and really cool.
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    01/31/09

    In reply to Is Aretha Franklin's Inauguration Hat Museum Worthy?
    It belongs on the table between Archie and Edith's glass-encased chairs. I think it'd accent the set quite nicely..


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    01/31/09

    @lobstr:


    Looobstah... stiii-fle!

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    01/31/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Eeeedit! Wheaas my beeeah!
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    01/31/09

    In reply to Is Aretha Franklin's Inauguration Hat Museum Worthy?
    Anything that woman ever touched should be in a museum.
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    Image of OwenKlient OwenKlient
    01/31/09

    @Mount_Prion(allrightsreserved): You ain't never lied. Several years ago Aretha gave a free concert sponsored by the Smithsonian on the Mall. There are no words to describe how great it was. She was beautiful-- still a big lady, but a lot thinner than she is now. Every note from her mouth was effortless. Before that concert, I didn't know a lot about her since I was born a few years after her heyday, but I left that concert a fan.
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    01/31/09

    @OwenKlient

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    Image of Zorica Zorica
    01/31/09

    @OwenKlient: I was at that concert. It's the fundamental experience that causes me to have delusions of best-friendship with Aretha. Whenever RESPECT comes on the radio I'm still pretty sure she's sending me a personal message to dump my boyfriend.
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    Image of Trixie from Toronto Trixie from Toronto
    01/31/09

    @OwenKlient: She has the best voice ever. Try to find some of her really early stuff, before the Queen of Soul emerged and they were trying to turn her into a cute little pop star and she was singing songs like "You Made Me Love You." Look at this duet with a Lurch-like character -- love it ...
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    01/31/09

    In reply to Is Aretha Franklin's Inauguration Hat Museum Worthy?
    Dear Josh,


    You ask many questions!


    1) Yes, it is museum-worthy

    2) What makes it worthy? Obama, and internet-users

    3) Because none of those other items of headgear can hold a match up to the BOW HAT

    4) Virtual orgasms

    5) It brings us closer to god, Obama and the deification of a perfect internet meme

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    01/31/09

    @King Blago: Can't. Stop. Photoshopping. Today.


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    Image of LilyBartleby LilyBartleby
    01/31/09

    @King Blago:


    Gotta light?

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    Image of pufflehuff pufflehuff
    02/01/09

    @LilyBartleby: Severe Non-Sequitur Verbal Diaorrhea Syndrome is a precursor for early-onset Alzheimer's. Not joking here, Lils. Get yourself checked out, please. If only for your loved ones. x
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