#you can call me al

[officialpizzarat]

#Paul Simon #you can call me al #Simon and Garfunkel #trade offer #trade offer meme #my post

[satansfavoritedyke]

Not to disability post on main or anything but I'm just about sick and fucking tired of so-called "medical professionals" who are supposedly "specialists" (i.e. rheumatologists, for example), thinking they can slap me with a myofascial pain syndrome/fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue/hypermobility diagnosis, tell me to stop eating gluten, and call that a done and dusted day on the job when those diagnoses don't even BEGIN to explain the majority of my symptoms.

What about the fact that I randomly run low-grade fevers with no evidence of other infections (flu/COVID/RSV), what about my positive ANA factor, what about my low igA levels, what about my chronic iron deficiency anemia, what about my MULTIPLE documented activated EBV infections that have damaged my spleen, what about the fact that I have no reflexes in my knees, I could literally keep fucking going.

I'm so fucking sorry that I'm a fat AFAB trans person with the kind of disabilities that land me in medical appointments multiple times a week, but a doctor who hasn't cracked a fucking textbook since 1997 does not know more about my condition than me, the person living with my symptoms 24/7. And quite frankly I'm not going to be jammed into a diagnosis like fibromyalgia which is the clinical equivalent of "fuck off and die" disorder and a classic excuse to just categorize and disregard patients with complex symptoms when doctors don't want to do their JOBS to figure out what's actually wrong. There is something wrong with my immune system and I need TREATMENT, not a convenient label to send me to my grave with. I refuse to be a docile "ideal patient" and I am not afraid to be a "doctor shopper" either, because what I think medical professionals forget is that Y'ALL work for ME and I CAN and WILL fire you if you're fucking useless.

DO. FUCKING. BETTER.

#cripplepunk #cripple punk #cripple problems #disabled vent #disability vent #disabled dyke #medical malpractice #medical maltreatment #ableism #medical ableism #medical fatphobia #medical rant #disabled liberation #immunocompromised #physically disabled #chronic illness #spoonie #you can call me al

[cyber-corp]

Somewhere out there, there is a T4T couple whose names are Betty and Al and they are having such a great time

#paul simon #you can call me al #song of all time #trans #t4t #gecko boy

[feralchaton]

If you'll be my bodyguard I can be your long lost pal

#paul simon #you can call me al #this video is a classic #❤ #why am i soft in the middle? #the rest of my life is so hard #life soundtrack #YouTube

[canwriteitbetterthanueverfeltit]

when you're having a romantic tryst with Paul Simon's role model

#personal #you can call me al #is this too niche

[nimuetheseawitch]

I can call you Betty, and Betty, when you call me, you can call me Al

#paul simon #you can call me al

[anxiousrelief]

if you'll be my bodyguard i can be your long-lost pal i can call you Betty and Betty when you call me you can call me Al

#paul simon #you can call me al #meme #80s music

[superbeans89]

#shitpost #youtubers #callmekevin #Kevin o’reilly #you can call me al

[teedeekay]

From the department of before & after pop culture mashups that have fallen out of my brain:

Don't Let's Start Me Up

The Polka King Kong

Freddy vs. Jason Momoa

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Malfunction

The Color of Money Plane

You Can Call Me Al Pacino

Mad Max: Fury Road House

#they might be giants #tmbg #the rolling stones #the polka king #king kong #jack black #freddy krueger #jason momoa #henry cavill #the lion the witch and the wardrobe #the wizard of oz #janet jackson #justin timberlake #the color of money #money plane #tom cruise #paul newman #mary elizabeth mastrantonio #helen shaver #you can call me al #paul simon #chevy chase #al pacino #scarface #mad max fury road #road house #tom hardy #patrick swayze #before and after #mashup

[myimaginaryradio]

You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon - 1986

#paul simon #you can call me al #classic rock #80s #wednesday mood #Youtube

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: August 1, 1986

Lyrics:

A man walks down the street

He says, "Why am I soft in the middle, now?

Why am I soft in the middle?

The rest of my life is so hard

I need a photo-opportunity

I want a shot at redemption

Don't want to end up a cartoon

In a cartoon graveyard"

Bonedigger, Bonedigger

Dogs in the moonlight

Far away in my well-lit door

Mr. Beerbelly, Beerbelly

Get these mutts away from me

You know, I don't find this stuff amusing anymore

If you'll be my bodyguard

I can be your long lost pal

I can call you Betty

And Betty, when you call me, you can call me Al

A man walks down the street

He says, "Why am I short of attention?

Got a short little span of attention

And, whoa, my nights are so long

Where's my wife and family?

What if I die here?

Who'll be my role model

Now that my role model is gone, gone?"

He ducked back down the alley

With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl

All along, along

There were incidents and accidents

There were hints and allegations

If you'll be my bodyguard

I can be your long lost pal

I can call you Betty

And Betty, when you call me, you can call me Al

Call me Al

A man walks down the street

It's a street in a strange world

Maybe it's the third world

Maybe it's his first time around

Doesn't speak the language

He holds no currency

He is a foreign man

He is surrounded by the sound, the sound

Cattle in the marketplace

Scatterings and orphanages

He looks around, around

He sees angels in the architecture

Spinning in infinity

He says, "Amen and Hallelujah!"

If you'll be my bodyguard

I can be your long lost pal

I can call you Betty

And Betty, when you call me, you can call me Al

Call me

Na na na na, na na na na

Na na na na, na na na-na na-na

Na na na na, na-na na-na na na

Na na na na, na na na na

Songwriter: Paul Simon

If you'll be my bodyguard

I can call you Betty

If you'll be my bodyguard

I can call you Betty

If you'll be my bodyguard

SongFacts:

👉📖

#new #new music #my chaos radio #Paul Simon #You can call me Al #music #spotify #youtube #music video #youtube video #good music #hit of the day #video of the day #80s #80s music #80s nostalgia #80s video #80s charts #1986 #pop #rock #classic rock #pop rock #singer songwriter #new wave #contemporary pop #lyrics #songfacts #1074

[spockulative]

i want to know the 20th and 23rd songs

also the 11th bc it's november

aaand the 29th :)

#to be on theme for 2023 #mine are #you can call me al #paul simon #dancing in the dark #bruce springsteen #spotify wrapped #11 is #freedom #jon batiste #29 is #colgando en tus manos #carlos baute and marta sanchez #and honestly that is one of the prettiest duets i've ever heard #zenta rambles

[satansfavoritedyke]

I just need to dump this somewhere because some of you people have astounding brain rot, truly.

Transmisogyny and transandrophobia are not opposites, and not in competition with each other for the "worst/best form of transphobia" because they're equally dangerous for very different reasons. Transfems who want to completely deny the existence or validity of the violence, shunning, and routine suppression of transmasculine identities (transandrophobia) make no sense to me, same for transmascs who may be complicit in or even in some cases perpetuating transmisogyny.

It makes no sense because these are just ways to break down the individual experiences of violence and bigotry that we GENERALLY A L L face as trans people. It's genuinely lost on me how fighting between us and arguing about these things is productive at all. If you think transmascs have it easy in any way or somehow have privilege we can leverage to perpetuate patriarchal violence onto you, we literally can't, at least not at the social and societal level that cis men can. I won't explain the details to you of why, as a historical archive researcher boy could I, but I'll spare you the gruesome nature of it because you can probably already guess the nature of the identity suppression and violence we've faced through history (NOT LEAST OF WHICH BECAUSE IT'S VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL TO OTHER TRANS VIOLENCE, JUST LESS DISCUSSED)

So yeah, I'm not trying to start shit I'm just so egregiously irritated that I approached a transfem with staunch "transandrophobia doesn't exist" beliefs with a "please learn about this because I care about you and trans people" and she's decided that only trans women experience transphobia and that transmascs are partial perpetuators of that bigotry. STOP. All of you stop now. I'm sick of it.

#transphobia #transandrophobia #transmisogyny #transmasc issues #trans issues #trans community #you can call me al

[cyber-corp]

"You Can Call Me Al" by Paul Simon stopped being conventionally entertaining the day I started listening to the lyrics and realized how well they fit

Might you be going soft in the middle/questioning your short attention span/wondering if you'll die here? That's kind of rough man.

(I'll be your bodyguard if it makes you feel any better!)

#paul simon #you can call me al #that song goes hard though ngl #gecko boy

[admiralgiggles]

I really love this jam.

#You Can Call me Al #Paul Simon #when music was epic #good stuff #i love the 80s #Youtube

[dark-night-of-the-clownfish]

John Mayer - Till the Right One Comes / You Can Call Me Al

#Silver sky #electric guitars #John Mayer #Sob Rock #concert #prs guitars #paul simon #you can call me al #music video #guitar