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hangingfire (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} hangingfire) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} otf_wank,@ 2005-03-09 13:41:00 |
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"No rich, young white guy has ever gotten anywhere with with me comparing himself to Rosa Parks."
So. Here I go with my very first wank report. (Subject line ganked from Sports Night; it is not invoked in the wank, but seemed peculiarly appropriate.)
Many people don't realise it, but the swing dance revival of the 1990s did not end when the Gap took the swing dancer commercial off the air -- there are many very active pockets of dedicated swing dancers all over the country. I used to be heavily involved in the Austin swing dance scene, and several of my friends are still in it. And they concede that swing dancers are capable of ASTONISHING amounts of wank.
The following case-in-point is from the forums run by Austin's swing dance nonprofit, which hosts weekly dances at a big old building called the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs (aka The Fed). It's an old, restored mansion that includes a big, gorgeous ballroom, and two smaller rooms ("the Georgian Room" and "the Gallery"). At the weekly dances, the smaller rooms are often used for teaching introductory lessons, as well as providing dance floors with specialised dance music -- slower tempi for West Coast Swing, faster tempi for Balboa, and so on. (The music in the ballroom tends to be geared towards as wide a range of tempi as possible, a very difficult trick, as I learned from my experience as a DJ.)
The whole music speed debate is a hoary, longstanding one with whiskers on it, but that doesn't stop certain people from bringing it up every few months or so.
Frequent poster Chels kicks things off, arguing that people need to just get used to dancing at faster speeds. She also makes some sweeping statements about how "the majority of the country has moved on, they've gone back to the roots of lindy hop, which is faster. not necessarily fast, but faster." (For another example of Chels's style, check out this thread.)
Exception is taken to this statement. Debate goes to and fro, the wank fluctuating back and forth, until FigaroDave comes out with this gem:
Nothing says "wank" like dragging out segregation, slavery, or Hitler to make a point totally out of proportion to the original issue, eh? Those who run the dances, and who put considerable effort into making sure they run smoothly, are understandably displeased.
The argument continues on from there, but as always happens with this particular discussion, no one is left very happy in the end.
Thus follows this particular little wank. It's by no means the first, and will hardly be the last...
So. Here I go with my very first wank report. (Subject line ganked from Sports Night; it is not invoked in the wank, but seemed peculiarly appropriate.)
Many people don't realise it, but the swing dance revival of the 1990s did not end when the Gap took the swing dancer commercial off the air -- there are many very active pockets of dedicated swing dancers all over the country. I used to be heavily involved in the Austin swing dance scene, and several of my friends are still in it. And they concede that swing dancers are capable of ASTONISHING amounts of wank.
The following case-in-point is from the forums run by Austin's swing dance nonprofit, which hosts weekly dances at a big old building called the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs (aka The Fed). It's an old, restored mansion that includes a big, gorgeous ballroom, and two smaller rooms ("the Georgian Room" and "the Gallery"). At the weekly dances, the smaller rooms are often used for teaching introductory lessons, as well as providing dance floors with specialised dance music -- slower tempi for West Coast Swing, faster tempi for Balboa, and so on. (The music in the ballroom tends to be geared towards as wide a range of tempi as possible, a very difficult trick, as I learned from my experience as a DJ.)
The whole music speed debate is a hoary, longstanding one with whiskers on it, but that doesn't stop certain people from bringing it up every few months or so.
Frequent poster Chels kicks things off, arguing that people need to just get used to dancing at faster speeds. She also makes some sweeping statements about how "the majority of the country has moved on, they've gone back to the roots of lindy hop, which is faster. not necessarily fast, but faster." (For another example of Chels's style, check out this thread.)
Exception is taken to this statement. Debate goes to and fro, the wank fluctuating back and forth, until FigaroDave comes out with this gem:
This was mentioned earlier, but I will say it my way. I would like the average tempos to be faster, but I want to dance in the same hall with the same group of dancers. I find the Idea of the side room to be kinda like the supposed "seperate but equal" treatment of Black Americans last century. I wanna dance with everybody else!
Nothing says "wank" like dragging out segregation, slavery, or Hitler to make a point totally out of proportion to the original issue, eh? Those who run the dances, and who put considerable effort into making sure they run smoothly, are understandably displeased.
The argument continues on from there, but as always happens with this particular discussion, no one is left very happy in the end.
Thus follows this particular little wank. It's by no means the first, and will hardly be the last...
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