The Powder Blue Tuxedo Boys & The Navajo

The Powder Blue Tuxedo Boys & The Navajo,

September 4, 2025

The scene is a hot, sweltering day in Los Angeles. The powder blue tuxedo boys are in their booth at the Frolic Room on Hollywood Boulevard.

The TV over the bar is showing local Indians doing the Fancy Dance in Beverly Hills.

Patrick: The Chief of the Navajo and the Téhéno tribes needs us to help stop the dilution of the Tribe’s honored Fancy Dance.

Timothy: Eddie, you’re pretty good at watering down cocktails. Maybe you can give us some tips 

Patrick: Listen, the chief has 1.2 million in wampum for our assistance.

Timothy: Send that shit to Switzerland. Do the Swiss take wampum?

Patrick: The Swiss take anything. Hell, they have Cher’s wigs and that costume she wore on the Battleship in a vault somewhere.

Patrick: Timothy, didn’t you learn about the Native American culture when you stayed in South Dakota?

Timothy: Four words, ‘firewater’, ‘stick that holds the sun’, ‘Indian TV’, and ‘fireworks’.

Eddie: The Pantages Theatre has some old Indian outfits in the backstage area. You guys oughta suit up and see what you can do.

Patrick: I Googled Fancy Dancing . . . Getting a lot of Porn Spam now.

Timothy: Let’s start with. How bout the Injun on TV pounding the drum, take off his Lakers cap.

Patrick: Yeah, and “YMCA” playing on the boombox doesn’t help the authenticity. 

Timothy: Are those casino names on their feathers?

Patrick: You can see why we got the call from Chief Tesala to prevent this crap.

Timothy: Who is this Chief Tesla? Is he a Tesla dealer? 

Patrick: No, it’s “Tesala”. Means “Falling Stars”.

Timothy: So, he likes Ford Comets?

Patrick: I think he drives an old Chevy pickup.

Timothy: The casino is named “Wapi”. What does that mean?

Patrick: “Lucky”, what else?

Timothy: You’re a regular Navajo Talker.

Patrick: My distant cousin sells Wolf Call Auto Horns to the Navajo. He taught me some Navajo words.

Timothy: I know of a Fancy Dancer choreographer in Vermillion, South Dakota. “Dances with PomPoms” is famous all over the Seven Tribes area.

Timothy, Patrick, and Eddie fly to New Mexico and drive to the Navajo Reservation. Eddie has put the Indian costumes from the Pantages Theater in the back of the black Cadillac Escalade. They are all wearing powder blue cowboy outfits.

They meet Chief Tesala and the Navajo council of elders.

Chief Tesala: Welcome! We thank you for your help. The Fancy Dance must be taken seriously. It is sacred to our tribe.

One of the elders gives Patrick and Timothy a basket of corn.

Patrick: Thank you, Chief. Our special choreographer is working with your Navajo dancers down at the gym. They will give a performance tonight at sunset.

As the sun sets behind the pueblo and the mesa rising above it, Dances with PomPoms drives up in an old Chevy van with the Navajo dancers in the back. Eddie has given them all costumes from the Pantages Theater.

The dancers get on the stage in twilight. As the last flicker of light leaves the western sky…

Patrick: Hit the stage lights!

Timothy throws the switch. Colored lights illuminate the stage and dancers.

Patrick: Cue the music!
The Navajo band Redbone, set up at the back of the stage, begins to play “Come and Get Your Love.”

Dances with PomPoms is in the front of the Navajo dancers, leading them all in the Fancy Dance.

The crowd of Navajo loves it! They begin to play their Wolf Call Auto Horns. The noise is tremendous! The dancers are in a frenzy of motion, feathers, and beads.

Chief Tesala stands and shouts: Is that a woman doing the Fancy Dance?!? This is forbidden!

Navajo Elder: And she’s a Lakota to boot!

Chief Tesala: Where are those powder blue morons? Get them!

Timothy, Patrick, and Eddie run to the Escalade and head for Albuquerque at full throttle.

…
Back at the Frolic Room. “Come and Get Your Love” is on the Jukebox. Timothy and Patrick are in their booth drinking Beck’s Beers.

Timothy: Did we at least get the basket of corn?

Patrick: Nope.

Eddie: And those Indian costumes aren’t coming back either.

Timothy: Looks like the Indians won this time.

Patrick: I wonder what happened to Dances with PomPoms.

Scene changes to the Wapi Casino. Chief Tesala and Dancing with PomPoms are having a drink at the bar.

Chief Tesala: I like the way you move, Dances with PomPoms.

Dances with PomPoms: You have a nice PomPom yourself.

They clink glasses.

PK & TJM