So NYTimes columnist Maureen Dowd (with camel), fifyish, never married, luckless with American men, travels to Saudi Arabia.
But I found a chance to revisit Maria's hit song:
Do you remember where you were (if you're old enough) in 1974 when this song was hotter than the Sahara desert? I was at WJBK TV (then a CBS affiliate, now Fox) in Detroit.
Mo looks great in that designer burka.
ReplyDeleteI had just move to Houston in '74. Heard that song and wondered if it was, um, a little suggestive for the radio. Times have changed.
I was doing all news at WTOP AM-1500 in Washington, DC, listening to this on WWDC AM-1260 as I recall.
ReplyDeleteMaureen is witty, pretty, connected, and apparently somewhat fucked up. But even with her head not quite on straight, worth a date or 2.
jimbo right about maureen, hard to believe she comes from a family of conservatives, what happened to her??? boy do I remember that song, good to hear it again marty, had a two year old son and four year old daughter living in my home town san antonio , those were good years just starting out.....
ReplyDeleteMaria Muldaur asking the musical question, "How do you like your camels? One hump, or two?"
ReplyDeleteFreshman year at Ohio U. Oh man! Sexy voice, moreso than even Carly Simon or Carole King.
ReplyDeleteThis song soooo takes me back to my yute. Got a little tickle down my leg there while listening. Miss her.
Don't know what to make of Dowd. The combo of her looks (she IS nice looking) and her screwy ideas. What do they call that -- cognitive dissonance? Didn't she win a Pulitzer or something too?
You'll never see <span>her</span> camel toe with that outfit.
ReplyDeleteJoe: 1999 Pulitzer for commentary on Bill and Monica.
ReplyDeletei still get a boner when i hear that song. sadly, it's no longer on many play lists
ReplyDeleteI was in Detroit when it came out. It even made ME horny!
ReplyDeletePoor spinster Maureen. What is she? 58? She goes to the same dermatologist I frequent in DC: Dr. Tina Alster - for those Botox shots that make her face so frozen. I knew she was a patient by the smoking gun Maureen I hate men book or whatever that title was - carefully placed in the waiting room.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Sandra, I was at my second broadcast station in Detroit. The good old days!
ReplyDeleteHave you ever been on a camel, cranched? I have. In Egypt. 1981. God, I wasn't fond of those beasts or the Arab shysters trying to make a buck by luring lame tourists to hop on. They're huge, those camels! Two of the shysters got in a fight over who got our dough. They started whacking at each other with sticks. Our driver high-tailed us out of there posthaste!
ReplyDeleteYeah, she's a Pulitizer Prize-winning NYT columnist but never got the big prize: a husband.
ReplyDeleteVinney, you just made me laugh out loud!
ReplyDeleteIf I had a dick, I'd get a boner every time I heard that song, too! If I had a dick, every time I heard the Righteous Brothers sing 'Ebb Tide,' I'd get a boner.
ReplyDeleteI was sitting in a bar on the Mekong River in Thailand having a beer. This song reminds me of my times in SEA since it was such a hit on Armed Forces Radio. Thought it was a goofy song, but I loved the catchy tune.
ReplyDelete"If I had a dick"--the missing verse from the Peter Paul and Mary classic:
ReplyDelete"If I had a dick, I'd swing it in the morning..."
But we don't like to think of you that way, Marty!!!! Bad visual!!!!
I was sitting in a bar on the Mekong River in Thailand having a beer. This song reminds me of my times in SEA since it was such a hit on Armed Forces Radio. Thought it was a goofy song, but I loved the catchy tune.
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