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Open Thread: Pescado Mojado Me Encontre

by $8 blue check mistermix|  August 1, 20109:04 am| 18 Comments

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I’ve had this song in my head ever since riding in Critical Mass on Friday, so here’s a corny video and an open thread.

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  1. 1.

    cathyx

    August 1, 2010 at 9:12 am

    What does pescano mean? It’s not in any of my spanish dictionaries.

  2. 2.

    Steeplejack

    August 1, 2010 at 9:15 am

    Love that song.

    Thread title: you met a fish drinking a mojito? WTF?!

  3. 3.

    jurassicpork

    August 1, 2010 at 9:17 am

    Ever notice how many liberal/progressive blogs, the ones most critical of BP, are now plastered with BP ads? Eschaton has a banner ad at the top of its index page now it’s Balloon Juice. What’s up with that? Don’t you guys care who pays you?

  4. 4.

    debit

    August 1, 2010 at 9:27 am

    @jurassicpork: I don’t think Cole gets to picks the ads.

  5. 5.

    Kristine

    August 1, 2010 at 9:41 am

    I love Michelle Shocked’s voice. Great thing to hear before coffee!

    Nothing more to add, except that I often notice ads on prog blogs that run counter to the blog philosophy. I am wondering if there’s a program or something–no clue how any of this works–that analyzes how often a term is mentioned by posters, and runs ads accordingly? So if many people bitch about BP, the algorithm will only see “BP-BP-BP,” and so show ads for BP. It doesn’t measure pro/con or attitude of the posters, just # of mentions.

    Since a conservative blog would mention the same company names/politicians/etc in a more favorable light, they would get the same ads, but they wouldn’t run counter to the blog philosophy, so they wouldn’t stand out. And no, I haven’t tested this and have no idea whether it’s true. I haven’t even had coffee yet, a situation I need to correct, like, now.

  6. 6.

    mai naem

    August 1, 2010 at 9:44 am

    @jurassicpork: You just noticed that? Over the years, I’ve seen anti-union/card check ads on progressive blogs. Ann Coulter ads. Energy company ads. Anti-net neutrality ads. Nothing new here.

  7. 7.

    Alwhite

    August 1, 2010 at 10:00 am

    @jurassicpork:

    I find those ads hilarious! Not only are they supporting web sites that undermine the brain-damaged goals of these morons but they are not farming people that might actually fall for their bullshit. Its a win-win.

    One question: Cole, do you get extra money if we click though? If so I’ll click through just to take a few extra cents from the bastards.

  8. 8.

    mistermix

    August 1, 2010 at 10:05 am

    @Steeplejack: She encountered a wet fish in East LA, meaning she saw somebody who had entered the US by crossing a river, so they were a “wet fish”.

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    Josie

    August 1, 2010 at 10:10 am

    Except the word for fish is pescado, not pescano.

  10. 10.

    Scott

    August 1, 2010 at 10:16 am

    @Alwhite: Not sure about the ads on Balloon Juice, but on some blogs, they pay on the basis of page views — every time someone loads the blog. So there may be no need to click.

  11. 11.

    mistermix

    August 1, 2010 at 10:22 am

    @Josie: Yeah, typo, just fixed it. Thanks.

  12. 12.

    db

    August 1, 2010 at 10:51 am

    Great song about story and place. For those not from L.A., she nails it.

  13. 13.

    KCinDC

    August 1, 2010 at 10:57 am

    Leonard Peikoff, head of the Ayn Rand Institute, comes out against property rights in the case of the “Ground Zero Mosque” (the Peikoff part starts a few paragraphs in, after the bit about Pamela Geller). He favors bombing the place if it is built.

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    Steeplejack

    August 1, 2010 at 11:03 am

    @mistermix:

    Humor fail on my part, apparently. I am aware of all wetback traditions.

  15. 15.

    mistermix

    August 1, 2010 at 11:07 am

    @Steeplejack: Well, title fail on my part. Every blogger needs an editor or commenters, preferably both.

  16. 16.

    Hob

    August 1, 2010 at 11:27 am

    @mistermix: Not quite– it’s “me encontré”, reflexive, literally “I found myself [being] a wet fish” in the sense that she was one. The joke is that she arrived in East LA by crossing the river, so that makes her a wetback.

    Random memory: I listened to this song about a million times when I’d never seen LA and had no idea what the hell any of it was about, and I assumed the Watts Towers must be some huge apartment complex. Heh.

  17. 17.

    Hob

    August 1, 2010 at 11:56 am

    OK, more Michelle Shocked nostalgia trip: I got to see her in concert twice (not counting the time she did some live music for a dance piece) and damn she has an intense live presence.

    #1 was a medium-size show in New York in the early ’90s, packed with folkie fans, and after doing a lot of her standards, she explained that she’d just joined an evangelical church and proceeded to do a bunch of gospel tunes. The audience didn’t know what to make of this at all, but went with it, and it was a great show & generous show – about half a dozen encores, the last one being “Come a Long Way.”

    #2 was at the Health & Harmony Fair, a NoCal hippie thing, with a much smaller crowd, and she reduced every person in that crowd to tears when, in “Anchorage”, she hit the line “What was the name of that love song you played” and then segued right into the aforementioned song, which turned out to be “The Water Is Wide”.

    That’s all…

  18. 18.

    Ash Can

    August 1, 2010 at 2:18 pm

    @KCinDC: A Randroid ditches everything he supposedly stands for when his personal prejudices are riled? Hoodathunk?

    I suppose he’d say he was just exercising his GodRand-given individual freedom to bomb the shit out of people he didn’t like.

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