Four more for the “Stuff White People Like” list

Ooh ooh, before I forget them again — If the SWPL blog steals my ideas, they can have at ‘em …

1. The ’50s. I can’t tell you how many times I have had a fellow white person say to me how they “wish it was still the ’50s” or how “everything was so great in the ’50s.” For the record, I am not a big fan of the 50s, aside from Bettie Page (but I mean Bettie Page as in who she was [good Baptist bad girl], not as in a done-to-death rockabilly chick/Coop icon). I just can’t imagine black people being too fond of the ’50s either. “Gosh, remember that time when we had our very own water fountains?” (Hubby’s crack, so I’ll give him credit.)

2. Rockabilly. While I’m on the subject. Hot rods and rockabilly. All those chicks at the Star Bar (in Atlanta) who have the Bettie Page hairdos and the pale skin and the tattoos — the “death Betties.” Sorry, Rev. Horton Heat is just Brian Setzer on black beauties. And all that music sounds exactly the same — like Brian Setzer on black beauties. I dunno, it bores me.

3. Burning Man. I was flipping through channels the other day and stopped on Current TV for a few minutes. They were talking about the “spiritual” temple at Burning Man, and the segment kicked off with an image of a skinny white hippie sitting on a rock and playing a goddamn didgeridoo. Ugggghhh why do white hippies love to adopt aboriginal instruments? Then, when the temple was shown, it was swarming with a bunch of white people. The kind of white people you’d imagine. Girls with pink hair and belly button rings wearing halter tops and long skirts, unbathed white guys wtih dreads, and lots of Teva sandals. There was a time a few years ago when I wanted to go to Burning Man, but that was during a more “pagan” phase. All-night drum circles — and didgeridoo jam sessions — are NOT my idea of a good time.

4. Current TV itself. Ooh, it’s so hip and ironic and devoted to a higher cause. You can tell by the “intimate” concerts of Sigur Rios and Death Cab for Cutie they air.