I was trying to avoid saying this out loud, but I think I'm going to have to reveal the reason I think Bruce Dickinson looks better in leather pants than Roger Taylor. LCG knows the reason, and he seems to find it very funny, although I'm guessing that Queen fans will not.
A very large portion of my email comes from hyperenthusiastic Queen fans that share my love of Queen. And a large percentage of the Queen fans who write also claim Roger Taylor as their favorite member, so they embrace my Roger-centric enjoyment of Queen. But after my declaration about the pants, the Roger army mobilized. It actually took a couple of weeks, so I thought I was going to get away with the comment unscathed. Wrong!
Of course, since these are Queen fans they are all civilized and pleasant about questioning my sanity, but they are questioning my sanity nonetheless. In fact, that is the phrase that crops up most frequently in my, "You are wrong about Bruce," emails. Questioning my sanity. I love Queen fans because they can combine irate with polite. As a side note, I find it interesting that the Roger army did not mobilize when I made fun of Strange Frontier. Apparently it's okay if I pick on his bad solo albums, but I had better not say anything bad about his butt. I wonder if I should explore this further one of these days.
Anyway, here is today's point: Bruce Dickinson is a fencer, and fencing keeps one in much better shape than tipping back vodka.