Fuck the fucking Yankees. If they win tonight, I’ll have to re-run “Prince of Darkness”.
P.S. If Steve Gilliard were still blogging, I think he would say Sullivan hates Sarah Palin ‘cuz Levi Johnston never brung Andy a taco…
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General Winfield Stuck
LOL. The only Doo Wop tune I loved with a passion.
LABiker
Some interesting early (very early) Internet history here.
geg6
Calling Laura W! I have a rather lengthy comment in the Sully thread that I simply cannot re-type! It is very important that you read it!
JGabriel
I confess, I’m pretty fond of this song too.
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ellaesther
@geg6: Cut n’ paste might be your friend here!
demkat620
My Phils are making me nervous.
F the effing Yankees!
And woooooo! 1-0 Phils!
Violet
Laura W, is there any sort of Bitsy update? How are Sylvia and Evelyn doing? They must be exhausted after the craziness of the last week and the Oprah possibility that was dangled out there for awhile.
Martin
Y’all can thank me later for prompting Anne Laurie for the open thread.
And it seems only right to follow up The Nylons with TMBG.
And FTFY.
Demo Woman
It seems as though several people could have the hots for Levi. Sarah, Bristol and Andrew can have at it.
burnspbesq
Re the world series, can I just say …
Yawn. I. Just. Don’t. Care.
Virginia Tech needs to get its head out of its hindquarters and take care of the business at hand, i.e., burying the stinkin’ Tar Heels.
Betsy
I’m trying to write a damned “statement of teaching philosophy” for job applications. As I might have mentioned before, I kind of want to just write “It will turn the paper in on time, or else it gets the hose again,” and be done with it.
I fear that would not be a successful strategy.
kommrade reproductive vigor
My earworm du jour. Haven’t heard it for about 15 years.
I’m putting this, and all other weird ass brain shit, down to old age.
Demo Woman
Earlier this morning John had a post about the GNP. We had a poster who wrote about unemployment. The name on the post was Other but John asked why they changed their blog name. The person went away in a huff for being called out.
Has anyone seen Makewi today? Just curious.
Crazy Kale Lady
@geg6: Read. Answered. Pretty much my answer sucked. Hopefully someone here will be of more help to you.
@Violet: Bits-Who?
Yeah, I think everyone is just gathering their wits about them (trying to go back to work to earn money at their real jobs) and waiting for the next big poo shoe to drop on Nov. 12 when the four semi-finalists are announced. John has promised to do a lovely and very thorough wrap-up post within the next few days (huh, John?)
I’m sure you saw Evelyn’s first post on BJ but if not, I thought it was a lovely tribute and acknowledgment to the BJ community for the obvious part we played in the massive coup that was week 12.
MikeJ
I ranted when I found out that Comcast was doing that moronic DNS redirecting thing with bad domains. That pissed me off because it breaks stuff. Just not the way the interent is supposed to work. If something doesn’t work, return an error code so people can figure it out and fix it.
Yesterday I tried opening everyone’s favorite website, balloon-juice. Comcast filled my browser with technorati. After I tried it in chrome, it tried the lookup again and worked. Worked fine in firefox, the original browser I was using, too.
Today when I tried to go to LGM a website that keeps track of how many us service people have been killed in Iraq and AfPak came up. No dice trying it in chrome.
I finally found the still working dns that comcast has hidden away. played with bind a bit and hey presto, the world is sane again. Everything Comcast touches turns to shit. They can’t even properly implement something as simple as a dns redirect. They suck ass more than any isp has ever sucked ass.
+2
valdivia
@Demo Woman:
in the thread on Bobo and the Gallup conservatism thread. I saw Makewi then. Ignored everything she wrote as per usual. I just imagine she is talking about pie.
Eric S
Allow me to add my own FTFY.
Woo! Great catch, Ibanez.
Max
Watching Edward Norton on Countdown. I can’t wait to see “By The People”
O-bot. +1
jwb
@Demo Woman: Yeah, he attended the far-right nation thread.
ellaesther
Well all right then. If it’s to be an Open Thread, themed, however loosely, on music, then I’mma blog pimp for real.
I mean, this morning I was just: OMG! Balloon Juice, you are totally in my mind, randomly referencing the random song I just posted on my blog! (Or, Cat Lady was, at any rate. And The Grand Panjandrum and I had a mind meld going on too! I continue to await the third expression of ee-BJ oneness for the day, because this, like celebrity deaths, goes in threes). (Wait, where was I…).
Oh yes! Blog pimping!
I declared Three Dog Night Day over at my place, and I highly recommend that you check out both the awesome singing chops of the Dogs, and their almost equally awesome fashion sense. (And then, if you’re so inclined you can read my thoughts on Hamas! Come for the music, stay for the fun!)
Violet
@Crazy Kale Lady:
Thank you for that! I can’t remember if I’d seen Evelyn’s post or not, but thank you anyway. I’m so glad to be part of the whole thing.
November 12th is definitely going to be interesting. No telling what nonsense is going to blow up in dogblogland.
Demo Woman
Shucks, a week without brick and Makewi would be nice.
valdivia
@Max:
another o-bot +1 here dying to watch that documentary. Looks like its going to be great.
MikeJ
@Demo Woman: I think “to avoid personality issues” is troll language for “to avoid pie filters a fling shit more widely.”
RedKitten
Mind-melds and general weirdness seem to be the order of the day lately. Last night, I was watching an interview with Michael Bublé, and he was asked the question about whether there was any music he liked that would surprise his fans, if they knew about it. And as soon as the question was asked, I said, “the Beastie Boys”. He hemmed and hawed for a bit, and then said, “I really like the Beastie Boys.” It was likely just a lucky guess, but it was still a bit freaky.
Roger Moore
@MikeJ:
Have you considered manually pointing your DNS at somebody other than Comcast’s sucktastic servers? I did that for a while when Charter seemed to be having some DNS reliability problems, and it helped.
Kathy
Gotta love any thread that deals with FTFY, Phillie’s awesomeness and Bitsy. My kind of night, keep up the good work folks!
Kathy + not nearly enough
ed
All American Pets Brands,sponsor of the Cutest Dog competition, ran a million dollar competition in June, 2009 for the person and dog that looked the most alike. The following message appears on the website for that contest. http://www.bowwowmillion.com
Seems as though “unforeseen legal issues” have happened again. Is the Cutest Dog competition on the level? Just asking.
SiubhanDuinne
@Max 8:44 pm
I was just wondering if it would be worth it to subscribe to HBO. Might actually be cheaper to get a cheap hotel room that night someplace that puts HBO in the rooms. I am seriously thinking about doing Þhis (pathetic, I know).
ed
Block quote should have extended to all except the last para.
MikeJ
@Roger Moore: That’s the next step if this doesn’t work. DNS is one of the things I’ve not had trouble with until recently, and pointing at the non-lobotomized dns seems to work for now.
ellaesther
@RedKitten: That is so funny/cool! I would have screamed, and then looked around for who to tell. I would have frightened the baby, totally.
Also, and not insignificantly: Points for Michael Buble!
Bad Horse's Filly
No BoSox, no Rockies. No underdog. My only hope is the series ends quickly and the Yankees go down in flames. That is all.
asiangrrlMN
Someone say something funny, please. I’m fresh out tonight.
valdivia
@SiubhanDuinne:
hey I was am going to my parents in a whole other state to see this (ok not really my dad has an operation the next day so I was going to go down there anyway but now I have a god fun reason for the overnight and not just the bad hospital one)
asiangrrlMN
Oh, and I really wish someone would punch BuCarver in the neck. Repeatedly.
Max
@SiubhanDuinne: If you are near Oakland, come on by.
RedKitten
@ellaesther: Yeah, my jaw definitely dropped. I yelled upstairs to the hubby and told him, but he wasn’t particularly overwhelmed. I think it was one of those “you had to be there” moments.
Bad Horse's Filly
@asiangrrlMN: I can’t give you funny, but I can give you 20″ of snow in my neighborhood. And I will tell you, it was very, very beautiful. Hard to complain – the roads were fine by today and the snow looked heavenly on all the trees, fence posts and mountain tops as I drove into work this a.m.
I hear it’s coming your way.
RedKitten
@asiangrrlMN:
Knock-knock
Who’s there?
Zebra
Zebra who?
Zebra goes over ze boobs.
That’s as good as it gets with me tonight, sorry. :)
MikeJ
Anything that’s on HBO will be downloadable within an hour or two of it airing. Not that I would suggest downloading a show. But if you had a friend who taped it, you’d borrow it. And if your friend lived far away, you’d “borrow” it via email. And if your friend were 10,000 anonymous people scattered around the globe, well, you have a situation like piratebay.
Bad Horse's Filly
@RedKitten: All right, whatever you’re drinking, you’re cut off now. You have a baby now ya know.
Demo Woman
@ed: Hopefully she received at least the $500 check.
asiangrrlMN
@Bad Horse’s Filly: The ‘coming to me’ part definitely puts a warm glow in my heart.
@RedKitten: Heh. That was half-funny.
valdivia
@MikeJ:
pardon the ignorance how do I download from HBO if I dont have it at home?
SiubhanDuinne
*Kathy + not nearly enough*
LOL Kathy. I feel your thirst.
Siubhan + 1/2
Demo Woman
@RedKitten: I do think we need a new baby picture. Sam must be 11 weeks now.
Comrade Kevin
@valdivia: Legally? You don’t.
demkat620
@asiangrrlMN: Oh big time! Tim McCarver is so out of it and Buck is just nonsensical.
Burnett’s just thrown like four pitches up and away and almost over Molina and then he throws one that almost gets past Molina and Buck says “First pitch Burnett’s thrown out of the strike zone tonight”
I think those two only exist to annoy baseball fans all over the world.
Max
Mini-rant…
This is my first Halloween as a diagnosed diabetic and it SUCKS. I went and bought candy for the kiddies and the mini-3 Musketeers and Snickers are calling me.
valdivia
@Comrade Kevin:
let us imagine x wants to watch an hbo series anyway, how would person x, go about seeing it without a subscription?
gwangung
@demkat620: And there are those of us who have more than a passing familiarity with sabremetrics and stats…
RedKitten
@Bad Horse’s Filly: Sober as a judge, my friend.
And I’ll be taking photos of Samuel on Saturday, when I put him in his Halloween costume, and will send them to John to post. :) That’ll be your treat.
demkat620
@gwangung: They are killing me.
I always thought it would be fun to let the home teams broadcast teams call the game.
These two are just overrated.
valdivia
@Comrade Kevin:
ok that +1 was being totally bad for my sense of understanding. I got it now.
asiangrrlMN
@demkat620: I so want the Yankees to lose so Bucarver will commit seppuku on national television.
@Max: Aw, that is sucky. Boo!
Comrade Kevin
@valdivia: Pirate Bay, mentioned above, is about all I know, and I haven’t actually looked at the site.
geg6
ellaesther @5: On the BlackBerry there is no cut and paste. :-(
asiangrrlMN
@demkat620: Oh, hell, ya. I so wanted Dick and Bert for the Twins vs. the Yanks. It would have been infinitely better.
Roger Moore
@asiangrrlMN:
Especially if the punches hit the larynx hard enough to require Vin Scully be called in as a replacement announcer.
valdivia
@Comrade Kevin:
yeah thanks I was being totally obtuse. Too much grading or too little alcohol or too much or both!
SiubhanDuinne
@Valdivia 9:03 pm
I’m glad I’m not the only one to consider extreme measures. Good luck to your dad. I hope his surgery is straightforward and fully successful, and his recovery fast and comfortable.
@Max 9:04 pm
I wish. (I’m in Atlanta.)
@MikeJ 9:08 pm
I’d do that in a heartbeat but I’ve been invited to Oakland.
FTFY
asiangrrlMN
@Roger Moore: We can but dream.
asiangrrlMN
@valdivia: Good luck to your dad and his operation. Sending you strong positive vibes.
gwangung
@demkat620: Oh, yeah it’d be fun to let the home announcers do the telecast.
I’m almost at a point where I turn off the sound and read the live blogging off a local blog—wayyyyy more intelligent and insightful.
asiangrrlMN
@gwangung: Yup. When it gets to be too much, I DO mute the fuckers. Then I just watch. Much better on the blood pressure.
Roger Moore
And FTFY and Teixeira.
burnspbesq
@Betsy:
What a fabulous idea – I think I’ll try it on my kid.
I assume you mean he gets sprayed, not beaten.
MattR
@gwangung: Are any of the radio broadcasts streamed over the web? Maybe thru mlb.com?
Best part of the Fox broadcast is the music playing going ro commercial. Enjoying playing “Name that Widespread Panic tune”
burnspbesq
@Max:
I am feein’ ya. Get several packages of the sugar free mini-Altoids.
valdivia
@SiubhanDuinne:
@asiangrrlMN:
thanks guys it is pretty minor, a small skin tumor in the face and they think they can get the whole thing out and it is early and all should be well. We already went through prostate cancer a few years back but he is good now and this is just minor and a tad unnerving.
Demo Woman
@burnspbesq: Oh how yummy! Snickers.. sugar free altoids.. mmmm
Betsy
@burnspbesq:
Naturally. :) I certainly wasn’t intentionally referencing a certain serial killer from the Silence of the Lambs.
Betsy
@asiangrrlMN:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-haskins/target-women-your-garden_b_188347.html
(I hope it loads for you – I’ve been having trouble loading Target Women segments tonight.)
ellaesther
@asiangrrlMN: You could giggle at the fashion sense of the Three Dog Night fellas, circa 1969 in particular?
SiubhanDuinne
@valdivia 9:42 pm
Well, minor or not, it’s worrying when it’s someone you love. Your dad is a lucky guy that you are willing to be with him from a whole nother state.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
If god didn’t intend for man to eat it he wouldn’t have made it to look like a taco.
Are you sure Sully really wanted a taco from Levi? ;)
Speaking of . . .
I have been wrestling with a rear end all afternoon and finally got it down on the floor. Now I’m going to tear into it, all the while carefully examining it for wear and tear or anything abnormal. After 31 years I have to expect that it would be pretty worn but so far everything still seems nice and tight.
I guess I haven’t been as hard on it as I thought I’d been.
How’s your evening going? ;)
valdivia
@SiubhanDuinne:
well it is just me and my mom and him now (my brother died 6 years ago today, actually) so we are very tight. Wouldn’t think of being anywhere else. Then again some of my friends think I am neurotically attached to my family and that may well be true! ;-)
Martin
Um, mute the TV and turn on the radio broadcast. Almost always better and for local games you get the local commentators.
ellaesther
Oh, honey, I am so sorry for your loss! What a sad, grievous thing.
I think that it’s lovely that you’ll be there to support your dad, and I wish him, and your mom, and you the best of luck with the operation, minor or not. Love is it, man. It’s the whole point.
Betsy
@valdivia:
I’m so terribly sorry to hear that!! Truly, things like that shouldn’t happen. I hope that the surgery goes perfectly and is minor enough that you’re able to enjoy this time with your family.
valdivia
@ellaesther:
thanks, really. both my parents are lovely strong courageous people so we got through it together.
still it is weird this day, it seems like a regular day but it isn’t. no matter how long ago it was you know?
but let me not bring the thread down! valdivia +2!
SiubhanDuinne
@valdivia
I know you are thinking about your brother. My mom died 34 years ago yesterday and sometimes it still feels raw and shocking and wrong. It doesn’t sound to me as though your love for your family is neurotic at all. And if it did, so what? They are your family. I’m glad you’ll be there for both parents. You are all fortunate to have each other. Let us know how everything goes, please?
valdivia
@Betsy:
thanks. and just to say it because it really is the only way that i feel better on this day, my brother was a beautiful wonderful warm soul of a man who spent his life helping others and he is missed every single day. I am thinking of you big bro.
SiubhanDuinne
@DougL 9:55 pm
Okay, I’ve read your post about three times now and I’m laughing harder with each reading. I’m not sure whether you meant to engender such mirth, but the visuals, the visuals!
SD +1.5
Oh yeah, FTFY
valdivia
@SiubhanDuinne:
absolutely! thank you so much you all. My parents went to where he is buried and I was not able to because of work (I am already taking some days off next week for the operation) so I have been feeling disconnected all the day from the ritual part of it. But you guys have been great. I usually dont even mention it to people because it seems to brings conversaitons to a halt but here I am at BJ telling you all and feeling very supported.
so again gracias, danka, toda, molto grazie.
valdivia
@SiubhanDuinne:
and I am sorry about your Mom, hope yesterday was not very hard for you.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@valdivia: The anniversaries always get ya, even when you’re not consciously aware of the date. It’s strange. But glad your family isn’t bat-shit crazy and you can be close to them. That’s really wonderful. Thinking good thoughts about the surgery and recovery.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@SiubhanDuinne: Oh yes, I understand that so well. My father died 15 years ago Nov. 5th, and I sometimes have a stunned feeling that he’s not here anymore. I feel that way about pets who have passed away too.
Betsy
@valdivia:
No thanks needed. Sounds like he was a gift to the world.
If I may ask, what subject do you teach? And to what age group? If you’d rather not go there that’s cool too.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal):
Mmmhmmm. Well, your evening sounds much more exciting than mine.
SiubhanDuinne
@valdivia
Thank you. No, it wasn’t especially hard, but the day is always a bit melancholy. I think what shocked me the most this time was doing the numbers and realizing that for the first time I have NOT had a mother longer than I HAD a mother. (I was 33 when she died, she’s been gone 34 years — now that is an awareness that’s just hard to wrap your mind around.) But I have wonderful memories of her and I don’t usually dwell on the downer stuff. Mostly I laugh — she was one funny lady :-)
valdivia
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta:
thanks. and we get a tad crazy (ask me about my uncle sometime) but we love and like each other and those two don’t always go together right?
@SiubhanDuinne:
yes the melancholy feeling was the same for me, like a sad soundtrack was playing really quietly in the background all day.
@Betsy:
I used to teach mostly graduate students, now I am teaching freshmen which is fun and challenging in a different kind of way. I teach poli sci and latin american studies. So pretty much 500 years of depressing history with dashes of magic realism political insanity! The worst part is end of term when I have to read at least 15 papers on Evita Peron and another 15 on Che Guevara. I need to be +7 at that point to be able to grade and not go mad.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
@SiubhanDuinne:
Being a mechanic opens the door to a whole lotta double entendres. :)
SiubhanDuinne and valdivia:
Now that I have read and caught up here (Leap first? Who, me?!), I am very sorry to hear of both of your losses. It’s very painful and devastating to deal with losing a member of your immediate family. Memories are all we have to hold but as long as they are held they are still alive within us.
It sounds glib to say that time heals all wounds but it usually does. Memories like these are like a fine wine, horrible on day one but with time it gets better. I too lost my Mom this year and at first it was a rough time for myself and our many families but we have all accepted it and have moved on without leaving her behind. Mom will always be near and dear in our hearts and thoughts.
Best wishes to both of you and yours.
SiubhanDuinne
@DougL. Well, your loss is much fresher than mine, and I well remember how hard it is to go though one of everything (each birthday, anniversary, holiday, etc.) which makes the first year a real challenge. In a way I can kind of understand the traditions of earlier times/other cultures which mandate very formalized mourning dress and rituals during the first year, and the anniversary or Jahrzeit . Not that I would want to be secluded or spend 12 months wearing unrelieved black, but I get the rationale. Anyhow, I am sorry for your own recent loss but you are quite right about the healing powers of time.
Betsy
@valdivia:
Oh dear. I salute you. Thus far in my wee career I haven’t actually taught any survey classes. My favorite line from a student paper was from one of my partner’s students, years ago, who talked about how the “ladies” at Seneca Falls were “man-haters.” That was cute.
SiubhanDuinne
@SIA aka / 10:32 pm
Oh yes. “Stunned” is the perfect word. My father also died 15 years ago (come February) but I often have those waves of WTF? Where is he?
Dunno if you lived in Atlanta in April 1998 when terrible tornados ripped through the northern suburbs, but that “stunned” feeling reminds me of driving around Dunwoody, Chamblee, Norcross after the storms — which took out something like 100,000 trees IIRC — and being just shocked to see sky where there should have been leaves. To this day I get that on certain streets even if I’ve driven them hundreds of times since then. Very disconcerting, and for me very much the same feeling as that quick sense of loss of a loved one, years after the fact.
valdivia
@DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal):
thanks and sorry for your loss too. I do think that in time you remember the best of those you love and not the sad stuff. I think what is hardest w=is when it creeps up on you that you have forgotten or how time passes, as Siubhan mentioned. I had to check again today that it was 6 years because it feels like just yesterday but also ages ago.
@Betsy:
oh boy! Last year I had a student who did a paper on immigration from mexico and used, drum roll please, Lou Dobbs as a source! And mind you this is supposed to be one of those top liberal places they warn you about. But–survey course can be fun. What do you teach, if I may ask?
Betsy
@valdivia:
modern u.s. history and u.s. women’s history, plus some history method courses
Wow. Lou Dobbs. I take it he wasn’t using it as a primary source to critically analyze? lol
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@SiubhanDuinne: I wasn’t in Atl in 98 – as part of some weird process I was in for a few years after the deaths of my father, grandmother, and a dear friend I needed “a change” and moved us to Purgatory County, GA for 6.5 years. Thank the FSM I got back to the city 6 yrs ago and I ain’t never goin’ back to Green Acres. But I understand what you mean and you put it very well.
skippy
in re: lion sleeps tonite (of which the nylons version is one of my favs):
i did a moderately-researched skippy’s late nite music club last summer tracing the evolution of this song from its south african roots thru the american folk-doo wop-rock scenes (with a nod to the nyons, as well!)…
anyone who has a major earworm from this song should visit and listen to the various versions. i especially like the original by solomon linda and the evening song birds.
Steeplejack
@Betsy:
That seems like a perfectly reasonable teaching philosophy to me. Clean, simple, direct. What’s not to like?
hamletta
I lived in East Nashville, and we got a whopper on April 16, a day that will live in infamy.
Since I still live here, I have trouble remembering when the sky looked like an open wound. At the same time, I have trouble remembering when Eastland Avenue looked like a green womb.
It is what it is now; trendy, with funny-looking trees.
hamletta
@skippy: skippy, you shameless blog whore! ;-)
But seriously, thank you for the back story. I worked for the organization that benefited from the first annual Harlan Howard Guitar Pullin’, and I remember Weiss being one of the performers, and he sang “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”
But I am appalled that you left out the recently departed Yma Sumac. I understand she doesn’t quite fit into the political history of the song*, but shame on you, sir!
*Unless you want to get into the politics of nice suburban American girl posing as a Peruvian princess.
Steeplejack
@valdivia:
From one who has been there:
I assume he is having Mohs surgery, which is pretty much the norm for cancer/tumor surgery “above the neck.” They like to leave you looking pretty, so extra pains are taken to get all the cancer/tumor with minimal destruction to your father’s (no doubt) craggy good looks.
The surprising thing is how bruised your face looks afterwards. I had a little shmitz of basal cell carcinoma taken off my forehead, but, because of the way they do the excision and the suturing to minimize the scar, for a few days afterwards one side of my face looked like I got hit with a baseball bat. Weird.
Now, skin cancer surgery below the neck a whole different thing. It’s basically unchanged from the days of medieval barbering, except with anaesthetic and no leeches. Good times.
Steeplejack
@DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal):
God, that sounds like you’re channeling Brick Oven Bill. You are talking about a car, right?
SiubhanDuinne
@SIA: Purgatory County, GA. Hee! I’m going to use that!
@Hamletta: That April of 1998 was just a wicked cruel time for tornados all across the South. Did bazillions of dollars worth of property damage, and I believe there were a pretty large number of deaths, certainly in AL and GA and quite possibly TN and other states too.
I well remember piling blankets and pillows in the bathtub and sleeping there — it was the only room in the apartment without windows.
2th&nayle
@RedKitten: speaking of mind meld and such…My brother and I went yesterday to visit my Dad and his ‘new’ fam, which includes an adopted, ‘just-turned-15’ step-brother, who is really a good kid except for the usual obnoxious, ‘my balls just dropped, so don’t fuck with me’ attitude. He and I were going to ride down to the local church together to help set up tables and chairs and whatnot for the N1H1 flu shots they were giving out today. He was sportin’ a new ipod that was blaring some kind of metal type music, invented mostly to irritate grown-ups, and I asked him who the band was? He made some smart-assed remark about ‘his’ music, and how I wouldn’t understand and that he couldn’t care less if I liked it or not. I said, “Its all rock and roll, and believe me, these guys didn’t invent it.” He said “No it’s not! It’s not rock and roll! It’s heavy metal!” and I said “It sounds like the Beasty Boys to me”. He looked at me stupidly and asked, “Who’s that?”, I said “The question is, who is THAT?” He said it was Slipknot. I said, “Oh, it’s death metal!” He looked at me kind of blank-eyed, “Death Metal! Yeah, it’s Death Metal!” like he liked the sound of the term. I said, “Yeah, its death metal, son; it’s a guaranteed cure! Now get in the truck!” He didn’t get the joke, but he did get in the truck! hahaha! What a hoot!
valdivia
@Steeplejack:
thanks for the tip, they did tell him he would have a bruise…
Steeplejack
@valdivia:
Forgot to add that he will look worse than he probably feels. But let him milk it for sympathy. Good luck to him.
HarleyPeyton
Yankee haters are like Ralph Nader voters. The pose is based on nothing more than a desire to pimp one’s own nobility and has precious little to do with the game at hand.
1-1.