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I'm so old, I remember when Jarvis wasn't a MACHINE!

One of the gay bars here in Boston is called Machine.

My favorite gay bar when I lived in Boston was the Napoleon Club. It was a quiet bar. Part of its crowd was older, giving it the nickname "The Wrinkle Room". That wasn't why I liked it, though. It also had a wonderful sing-along piano bar. There were actually three pianos in the place all together, in three different rooms, though no more than two ever played at a time. It had a little disco upstairs called Josephine's. Sadly it closed in 1998, about a year and a half after I moved away. I still miss it.

Sounds like it's time to open your own place, Rocky.

there used to be a place like that at the end of the Castro in SF, we called it the 'Glass Casket' cause we were so nice and it had big windows all around. I used to run in there to use the toilet when wandering the streets as an 18 or 19 year old.


wow and a quick google search 'glass casket castro bar' surprises me that it's still there!!!! and next to a place called Hot Cookie.

hmmmph information age.


maybe you can go there Rocky ... and pseudo relive something or other.

no pianos though but you would definitely still be considered 'chicken' by far, if you catch my drift. by alot.


there also is a gay piano bar in l.a. and it looks to be a bit older but not elderly. called the other side. i've never been there though, to use the bathroom or otherwise. and i'm not sure if it has an clever nicknames.

There is a gay sports bar in the D.C. area that's very popular. Can't recall the name just now.

I seem to be quite popular in gay bars!

At least, more so than straight bars.

back in the day, the best place to pick up ladies was at the local gay bar

One guy I knew insisted the best time to meet women was after a Chippendales performance.

I'm trying to remember the last time I was actually in a gay bar. I met a friend who was visiting from out of town at a little neighborhood bar around the corner back in January, but it's not specifically a gay bar, though it has a large gay clientele. I just don't go out much any more.

I live in a town of Long Island that has tons of bars where folks from all over come to hang out... when people ask where I hang out, I'm always like, "Um, Starbucks or the cupcake place"...

"Cupcake's Place." It has a nice ring to it, bar-wise. I wonder if I could rehab my garage to accommodate a piano...

there apparently was a drug dealer nicknamed Cupcake in the town I lived in around 2002-2005. I didn't know him, but the cops at one point thought a friend of mine was he. I was tempted to write a play, a mistaken-identity comedy, called "I'm Not Cupcake."

Cupcakes are currently a huge deal here, partially thanks to some reality TV show filmed in the area.

The early '80s cartoon Fonz and the Happy Days Gang was, of course, based on Happy Days. In it Fonzie, Richie and Ralph (voiced by Henry Winkler, Ron Howard and Donny Most) traveled through time in a time machine with a girl from the future named Cupcake (voiced by Didi Conn). She had magic powers that frequently went haywire. Also featured was Fonzie's anthropomorphic dog, Mr. Cool. The Fonz's finger snaps and "technical taps" became a sort of telekinesis.

It was as bad as it sounds.

Nothing could be as bad as that sounds. Unless it was that Osmond Brothers cartoon where their Japanese dog mascot spoke broken English all the time.

No, I remember those and they weren't that bad.

Which is not to say they were good.

Take a moment and look at the clips:

Fonz and the Happy Days Gang

The Osmonds

Which is worse? Tough call.

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There were a few bad Asian characters on Saturday morning.

There were the Chinese pandas Ping & Pong on the Brady Kids. Although the Brady Kids did feature Wonder Woman and Superman in separate episodes.

And then there was The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan Although I remember them having the kids (the Chan Clan) acting and sounding like American kids. But I am sure if I saw it again, I'd see some stereotypiing.

I loved Margaret Cho's routine about her show-biz aspirations as a kid watching American TV:

"Someday...I could be a hooker on *Vegas*!!"

"Thank You, Mistah Eddie's Fatha'!"

Also "An extra on MASH."

As far as The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan goes, there are some ethnic stereotypes, but it's not awful.

What struck me seeing it a couple years ago were two of the kids. Anne was a tomboy who wore a ball cap and a T-shirt and jeans (all the other girls in the family wore dresses). Alan was kind of quiet, bur he wore an outfit that included a bright pink vest and pink glasses. Those seem to be stereotypes of a different kind.

That's pretty funny, given that caps, t-shirts and jeans were pretty much the norm for girl's clothes by the 1970s, at least where I'm from.

"Cartoon logic." Gotta' love it.

I think that I might have had pink eyeglass frames once, back around the 3rd Grade or so...

When I was in 4th grade at recess I would play hopscotch with another boy.