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Manly Gay Boys

What’s with all these soyboy gay-o’s? The real gay men of old were so masculine! Look at Freddie Mercury - with that bloody moustache - he wanted to fuck anything that moved! He was like that quote from Scarface, “This town’s a giant pussy, waiting to be fucked!” How good’s that?! Go Freddie.

Don’t know what’s come over me, I just have a sudden appreciation for Freddie’s crazy manliness.

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Whatta’ ya mean I just KO’d you? Get up and fight, sucka’!

In one of the most iconic and controversial moments of his career, Muhammad Ali stands over Sonny Liston and yells at him after knocking the former champ down in the first round of their 1965 rematch. Skeptics dubbed it “the Phantom Punch,” but films show Ali’s flashing right caught Liston flush, knocking him to the canvas. Refusing to go to a neutral corner, Ali stood over Liston and told him to “get up and fight, sucker." Ali, the heavyweight boxing legend who fought opponents in the ring and on behalf of social justice outside of it, has died at 74 years old. (Neil Leifer)

GALLERY: SI’s 100 Greatest Photos of Muhammad Ali

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Everyone’s seen this picture a million times in the last 12 hours, but you have to hear the story of how it happened:

Neil Leifer, possibly the best sports photographer of his generation, covered Ali for Time and Sports Illustrated from the early 1960s through Ali’s fight against Larry Holmes.

NEIL LEIFER: “How good was Ali at self-promotion? Let me tell you a story that shows his genius. After he turned pro, Sports Illustrated did a piece on him. They assigned a free-lance photographer named Flip Schulke, and Ali—he was Cassius Clay then—asked, ‘Who do you work for?’ Schulke told him he did a lot of work for Life. This was when Life was the biggest magazine in the country, and Ali wasn’t that big then. He’d won the gold medal, but that was it. There was no reason for Ali to be in Life magazine, so when he said, ‘Man, how about shooting me for Life,’ Schulke told him, ‘I’d love to, but I’d never get it past the editors.’ 

Well, Ali accepted that, but a few minutes later, he was asking questions again. ‘Tell me some of the photographs you’ve done.’ And Schulke explained that he did a lot of underwater photography; that was his specialty. And Ali thought of something on the spur of the moment, which shows what an absolute genius he was. His eyes widened, and he told Schulke, ‘I never told nobody this, but me and Angelo have a secret. Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains  underwater.’ Schulke said, ‘What do you mean?’ 

And Ali explained, ‘You know why fighters wear heavy shoes when they run? They wear those shoes because, when you take them off and put the other shoes on, you feel real light and you run real fast. Well, I get in the water up to my neck and I punch in the water, and then when I get out of the water, I’m lightning fast because there’s no resistance.’ Schulke was skeptical, but Ali swore it was the truth, and to prove his point, he told Schulke, ‘Tomorrow morning, you can see me do it. I do it every morning with Angelo, and no one’s ever seen it before. I’ll let you photograph it for Life magazine as an exclusive.’ 

So Schulke called up Life and suggested the piece, and I think they ran five pages of Ali up to his neck in a swimming pool. And the two things I remember most about that were, first, Ali couldn’t swim, not a bit; and second, Ali had never thrown a punch underwater in his life. It was a total bullshit story he made up, but it got him in Life, and Life didn’t do it as a joke. They were convinced he trained underwater. Now that’s a genius you don’t see in people very often. Genius and a bit of a con man, too.” 

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Ali!

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“They’ve started calling you an anarchist…Just ‘cause you don’t offer any solution.”

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bob dylan in ‘dont look back’ (1967)

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“You have to die a few times before you can really live.” Charles Bukowski

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good weather is like good women— it doesn’t always happen and when it does it doesn’t always last. Charles Bukowski

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Finally

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Feel like this is a good place to start.

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