Charles Johnson Fri Jan 28, 2005 at 1:34 pm PST • Views: 181
John Rosenthal has put together a disturbing photo essay on an event hosted by the mayor of Paris’s 3rd arrondissement, billed as a “contribution to understanding and Franco-American friendship,” that became a forum for astoundingly venomous America-hatred: Anti-American Nights: a Photo Essay (with Update).
The family was from Arkansas. The Dad (Dink) was a furniture salesman in San Bernardino, but back in the way-back-when he used to play 'bones' or 'spoons' in a minstrel show. To relive the golden days of yesteryear he would, from time to time, force his children to accompany him (Ronnie on guitar, Kenny on trombone) in a living room replay of a minstrel routine called "Lazy Bones."
The kids often found this to be an inconvenience, as they were fascinated by, and constantly perfecting new techniques for, The Manly Art Of Fart-Burning. Kenny explained to me that it was scientific - that it demonstrated (this is a real quote) "Compression, ignition, combustion and exhaust." -- Kenny & Ronnie Williams (later immortalized in "Let's Make The Water Turn Black").