7 ,7 , bye ,bye ,Russia , G8 without Russia ))

I’m not fond of transvestites, and Eurovision is sometimes a slow-motion train wreck, but ‘Russia good-bye’. Gotta love it.

Hopefully the Serbs will recognize that their ‘only friend’ Russia gave them only 5 points. Srpska!

One thought: Besides the Mongolian lyrics, I think that this is the first time that a cross-dressing man lost the contest to a cross-dressing woman.

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/story/2007/05/12/world-semifinals.html

Bleep those pesky Finns! Said with admiration.

CCCC

I like transsexuals/transvestites etc.

I dont like gay pride.

I dont like the above in music festivals.

Although I haven’t heard this particular Serdiuchka hit, assuming the “Russia goodbye” referenced is a translation of “Rossiia proshchai,” it’s not an unprecedented refrain in pop music. I seem to recall a pop song from the ’90′s going something like “American boy [that part was in English], uedu s toboi…Rossiia proshchai!”

I guess if one wanted to chart the changing tastes of Russian women (no doubt an important part of the electorate), later developments like the song “Someone like Putin” (“Takogo kak Putin”) would provide ample fodder, perhaps even enough for an Ivy League conference paper.

The 2007 Annual Soyuz Symposium, to be held April 27-29 at Princeton, features a paper by Joseph Crescente of Indiana University, entitled, “Performing Post-Sovietness: Verka Serdiuchka and the Hybridization of Post-Soviet Identity in Ukraine.” No kidding.

Rumours that Dmitrii Likhachev was working on ax expose of the Flowerpot Men when he died have yet to be substantiated.