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Saturday, December 5, 2009
4:06PM - The irony! It burns!
From the Lawrence Welk show: People Unclear on the Concept.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYx
To make it worse, this clip was broadcast after Nixon publicly complained about the song.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
1:09PM - Wilt not tri a holidai in Sweden this year?
M00se bites can be realli nasti, you know.
http://tinyurl.com/yhy98m2
Monday, October 26, 2009
10:00AM - Appropriate for the week
We're definitely approaching Halloween.
This morning, when I opened my car door, I found a large spider in a web blocking me.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
1:08AM - This one is embarrassing to my home state
I grew up in Connecticut. At one time, our most visible Republican was Lowell Weicker.
Now we get this:
http://hartfordadvocate.com/article.c
Friday, October 2, 2009
5:28PM - Bad earworm! Heel!
After the Olympic vote, I've been earworming Limbo Rock
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
6:29PM - Check the Water
The politicians in South Carolina have to be on something.
http://news.aol.com/article/south-carol
Friday, September 25, 2009
9:31PM - Another reason to wonder about the Birthers.
One of the leading figures is named Gary Kreep.
http://tinyurl.com/y9hud6k
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
10:58PM - Earworm Mashups
Earworms are one thing. When they start mashing up, it gets annoying.
Right now, I'm suffering through Canyons of Your Mind by the Bonzo Dog Doodah Band, Starting Over by John Lennon, and Put Your Head on My Shoulders by Paul Anka.
I suspect that can be topped by one of you weirdos. :-)
Friday, August 14, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
8:04PM - There are filk possibilities here
o/~I said Lord take me Hogwarts
I'm just lookin' for the one
Or
o/~He's got wands
He knows how to use them
http://tinyurl.com/mtlbd5
7:46PM - A bit of political jujitsu
The proposed Congressional resolution for the 50th anniversary of Hawaii's statehood, as drafted by Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), identifies Hawaii as the birthplace of one Barack H. Obama.
http://tinyurl.com/m75aru
6:57PM - Blessed are the cheesemakers
At least in Vermont.
http://tinyurl.com/klso8x
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
8:51PM - I beg your pardon, Mr. Goldberg?
I think Jonah Goldberg just went off the deep end.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/com
Friday, July 10, 2009
8:08PM - We have found a witch, my lord. May we hire her?
7:43PM - The Gravity of LOLcats
Newtonian:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/07/1
Relativistic:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/07/1
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
3:02PM - Karl Malden, 1912-2009
We've lost another one.
http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.a
Friday, June 19, 2009
7:31PM - Two amusing LOLNewses
http://punditkitchen.com/2009/06/19/pol
http://punditkitchen.com/2009/06/19/pol
Friday, June 12, 2009
6:47PM - Apparently Imelda Marcos has been prematurely reincarnated
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
8:08PM - On People Taking Things Into Their Own Hands
Not quite as bad as the Tiller murder, but problematic nonetheless:
http://tinyurl.com/q4cu8s
Sunday, May 17, 2009
7:24PM - Crit request: Filkly Blues
Roger Manning's "Pearly Blues" is a stream-of-consciousness anti-folk song. The original lyrics can be found at http://rogerm.net/roger_words/words.p
As an exercise, I tried filking it. Here's what I came up with:
Filkly Blues
Lyrics: Daniel Reitman
Music: “The Pearly Blues,” © 1987 Roger Manning
Black is the color
Of the deep of space
They think I want to go there
I just want to find some fuel
And I offer up some words
It's dark as a dungeon
Qay out in the spaceways
Hey, don't eat me just because I'm from Earth
And I won't eat you because you're not
But come on hang out
Check out
My string of words
On a late filksinging night
I almost caught myself playing some ose for the man
Instead, I’ll sing something with puns
And thread them through your minds
As you make your way back up to your rooms
Surrounded by a thousand fen
In the hallways in every direction on the party floor
I was doing point nine c on the night shift at 3
The locker she hid my sax to be found by me
She gave my heart back with that little gesture
I played soft until relief
She’s my love
I left her behind and she gave me tones and words
The words are mine but not the song
Said the next-in-line bardic filker
The lyrics are all about Kong
Fall to the street
Fay Wray stands on a small ledge
Cold barefoot Empire State
The fighter planes buzz past the window
But she’s standing there crying
People roam out and come back with monkeys
Well I ain’t got a monkey, but at least I didn’t
Get stuck up there!
Ain't got nothing
Except maybe a string of words
At the hotel I slept next on the floor with six others,
Sang until dawn,
And ate at the consuite
Never saw Leslie Fish around
though I hear she was out smoking off the grounds
Back at the con
Late in the hallway
No one to chase us away
And everyone taking their turns
"Banned from Argo" was playing
And it had to be a filk song
Because everybody changed the words
But this is not a filk song
This is not a filk song
This is not a filk song, no
It's just a string of words
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