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Ideal love a new purchase

by DougJ|  October 24, 201010:44 pm| 93 Comments

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This is probably only of interest to weirdos like me but I was surprised to hear this stridently anti-consumerist song (sans lyrics) played in an Xbox commercial:

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  1. 1.

    Cacti

    October 24, 2010 at 10:48 pm

    Well, wrangler jeans managed to make Fortunate Son sound like some sort of patriotic anthem.

  2. 2.

    norbizness

    October 24, 2010 at 10:49 pm

    The Ladytron remix of the song is pretty good. I wonder if Gang of Four lost their usage rights after it was inexplicably used in Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette?

    My favorite was always Lust for Life in Carnival Cruisers. Of course Kathie Lee has had it in the ear before.

  3. 3.

    Steeplejack

    October 24, 2010 at 10:49 pm

    File under “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we hang them,” etc.

    Really, I don’t think they listen to this stuff. It’s just noise behind their commercial. And the guys at the ad agency think they’re all edgy and subversive for sneaking it in. While sucking up to the Man and cashing his checks, of course.

  4. 4.

    arguingwithsignposts

    October 24, 2010 at 10:52 pm

    New blog: AWS and The Somebody Listen to Music. there’s already free Canadian music download links there. Go now! soc1alists! (and I’m trying to fix the RSS feed problem atm)

    And if you don’t like that, Mumford & Sons.

  5. 5.

    pdf

    October 24, 2010 at 10:54 pm

    I saw this commercial the other day and recognized Gang of Four, but couldn’t ID the exact song. (BTW, the video misquotes the lyrics, it’s actually “I do love a new purchase.”)

  6. 6.

    GangOfOne

    October 24, 2010 at 10:55 pm

    Repackaged sex keeps your interest, after all.

  7. 7.

    Bill Murray

    October 24, 2010 at 10:58 pm

    @norbizness: I don’t now if they ever had the rights. They re-recorded a bunch of old songs as “Return The Gift” to get some control back

  8. 8.

    DougJ is the business and economics editor for Balloon Juice.

    October 24, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    @pdf:

    BTW, the video misquotes the lyrics, it’s actually “I do love a new purchase.”)

    That’s what I thought too, but when I do a lyrics search, it comes out as “ideal love a new purchase”.

  9. 9.

    Steve M.

    October 24, 2010 at 11:02 pm

    Commodify your dissent!

  10. 10.

    West of the Cascades

    October 24, 2010 at 11:02 pm

    Entertainment is one of the top 50 best albums of all time.

    Also one of best album covers: “The Indian smiles, he thinks that the cowboy is his friend. The cowboy smiles, he is glad the Indian is fooled. Now he can exploit him.” Brilliant.

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    Kristine

    October 24, 2010 at 11:04 pm

    A few years ago, there was an NFL (iirc) commercial that used Morrissey’s “Every Day Is Like Sunday.” That was…strange.

  12. 12.

    Raenelle

    October 24, 2010 at 11:04 pm

    V. I. Lenin once remarked that a capitalist would sell you the rope with which you intend to hang him.

  13. 13.

    Bill Murray

    October 24, 2010 at 11:15 pm

    @Kristine: NFL Network I think

  14. 14.

    robert green

    October 24, 2010 at 11:22 pm

    i don’t know, but this gives me a sad.

  15. 15.

    freelancer

    October 24, 2010 at 11:30 pm

    Haha Favre. Seriously, is he crying?

  16. 16.

    Sly

    October 24, 2010 at 11:32 pm

    Or Royal Caribbean using “Lust for Life” in one of its advertising blitzes. Because nothing says holiday in the Caribbean like a song about Iggy Pop’s decades-long struggle with heroin addiction.

    However, I can conceivably see Bank of America using “Rape Me” to market a future line of home mortgages.

  17. 17.

    asiangrrlMN

    October 24, 2010 at 11:34 pm

    @freelancer: “Brett Favre is limping. Brett Favre almost had another heroic win.” Uh, excuse me? Brett Favre threw four goddamn interceptions, one for six. Or was it that he threw five?

  18. 18.

    JGabriel

    October 24, 2010 at 11:34 pm

    Damaged Goods — pretty good live performance from 1980.

    Don’t know where this is from. At first I though it must be from Urgh!, but Wikipedia tells me that Go4’s performance for that movie was He’d Send In The Army.

    .

  19. 19.

    danno

    October 24, 2010 at 11:39 pm

    As much as I’d love to sign on to the theories that this is somehow co-opting an anti consumerist message to some nefarious ends, I have enough friend in advertising to know the real answer is much more uninteresting: the creative director/copy writer for the ad in question is a huge Gang of Four fan and loved the idea that someone might see the ad, google the song, and go out an buy the album.

    Seriously. That’s the reason.

    No, I don’t know the person who wrote the ad in question, but I know people who wrote ads for Target using obscure, 1970s Minneapolis punk songs, and lesser known Devo tracks, following the exact same logic. I’ll bet MY Xbox that’s why Gang of Four is in that ad.

  20. 20.

    Comrade Mary

    October 24, 2010 at 11:41 pm

    BL fave Janelle Monae (squee!) now has her song Tightrope in a new Chevrolet Cruze commercial. I don’t begrudge her licensing it at all if it opens her up to a larger audience.

    ETA: Ahh! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqmORiHNtN4"Cold War now has an official video (well, it’s from August).

  21. 21.

    Jay S

    October 24, 2010 at 11:43 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts: Edit: never mind.

  22. 22.

    Comrade Mary

    October 24, 2010 at 11:47 pm

    Huh? Anyway, the Janelle Monae Cold War video is here.

  23. 23.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 24, 2010 at 11:49 pm

    @asiangrrlMN: I enjoyed the game. The only thing that really disappointed me is that Donald Driver’s streak of games with at least on catch ended at 133 tonight. I wanted GB to win, I wanted no injuries for GB, and I wanted Favre to get beaten up. More or less 3 for 3.

  24. 24.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 24, 2010 at 11:51 pm

    @danno: Not a bad trick.

  25. 25.

    sven

    October 24, 2010 at 11:52 pm

    If your blood pressure is within a healthy range, Charles Murray has a new op-ed up at WaPo.

    Apparently America is ruled by a New Elite.

    Billionaires? Nope,… liberals who watch The Sopranos!

    Get into a conversation about television with members of the New Elite, and they can probably talk about a few trendy shows — “Mad Men” now, “The Sopranos” a few years ago. But they haven’t any idea who replaced Bob Barker on “The Price Is Right.” They know who Oprah is, but they’ve never watched one of her shows from beginning to end. Talk to them about sports, and you may get an animated discussion of yoga, pilates, skiing or mountain biking, but they are unlikely to know who Jimmie Johnson is (the really famous Jimmie Johnson, not the former Dallas Cowboys coach), and the acronym MMA means nothing to them.

  26. 26.

    M. Bouffant

    October 24, 2010 at 11:55 pm

    Few pay any attention to pop lyrics except (possibly) the chorus, if it’s understandable & all chanty/anthemic, &c. Certainly not corporate weasels.

  27. 27.

    Mnemosyne

    October 24, 2010 at 11:55 pm

    @sven:

    But they haven’t any idea who replaced Bob Barker on “The Price Is Right.”

    Drew Carey. And I didn’t even have to look it up.

    Though I do love that Republicans are still pulling the “we’s just plain folks here!” card. I will bet you any amount of money that Murray has never sat through a whole episode of Oprah, much less watched an MMA match.

  28. 28.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 24, 2010 at 11:57 pm

    @sven: 1. Charles Murray is a racist idiot. 2. From the bit you posted, I would rather stick needles through my tongue than click on the link.

  29. 29.

    sven

    October 24, 2010 at 11:58 pm

    @Mnemosyne: I’m told David Brooks loves professional wrestling.

  30. 30.

    Nick

    October 24, 2010 at 11:59 pm

    where are the hippies who want the Democrats to “fight dirty” and/or use Republican tactics. I feel like punching some.

    ppppolls: By a 41-24 margin Democrats in KY think Aqua Buddha was inappropriate. You can imagine what everyone else thinks

  31. 31.

    freelancer

    October 24, 2010 at 11:59 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    We got pissy about this last night. I don’t care to repeat that process again tonight.

  32. 32.

    suzanne

    October 25, 2010 at 12:00 am

    @Kristine: I remember seeing some recent NFL ads that used Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up”. Which I thought was really fucking weird.

  33. 33.

    Sly

    October 25, 2010 at 12:00 am

    @sven:
    The New Elite doesn’t think that eugenics is an idea worth pursuing, so of course Charles Murray doesn’t like them as much as he likes the Old Elite.

  34. 34.

    asiangrrlMN

    October 25, 2010 at 12:01 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: I wanted Brett Favre to get knocked out of the game. I wanted AP to win the game. I wanted Randy Moss to take himself out of the game. I wanted the Vikes to win the game. I got 0 for 4. Good thing I didn’t make any bets with you Packers fans!

    ETA: I guess I am no more the New Elite than I was the Old Elite. Good to know.

    @freelancer: What the hell did I miss last night?

  35. 35.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 25, 2010 at 12:02 am

    @M. Bouffant: I have right wing friends from law school who are Billy Bragg fans.

  36. 36.

    BGinCHI

    October 25, 2010 at 12:03 am

    I have the Gang of 4 box set and it’s excellent. So many songs that still sound great that I hadn’t heard. Smart band all the kids should be rediscovering these days.

    “At home he feels like a tourist….”

    I love that song.

  37. 37.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 25, 2010 at 12:05 am

    @asiangrrlMN: I don’t bet on Packer games.

    ETA: For movie fans, a remastered print of Nosferatu just started on TCM.

  38. 38.

    BGinCHI

    October 25, 2010 at 12:07 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: That’s fucking Jeff Tweedy’s fault. Yeah, that’s right, Tweedy lives in the suburbs.

    Saw Billy Bragg play two shows (Fri/Sat) at the 40 Watt in Athens, GA (old location: longish cinder block garage with a bar and a dirty bathroom) in 1990. It was mind-blowing. The energy was as good as any show I’ve ever been too (and that’s lots). God he was good.

  39. 39.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 25, 2010 at 12:13 am

    @BGinCHI: This occurred long before Mermaid Avenue.

    ETA: I’ve never seen Bragg live. Lucky you.

  40. 40.

    Jay S

    October 25, 2010 at 12:17 am

    @arguingwithsignposts: Let’s try again, none of the links to pages below //arguewithsigns.net/reviews/ (about, comment, the post itself, categories, feeds) except images (reviews/wp-content…) seem to work. They all 404. It’s not just the RSS feeds.

  41. 41.

    JCJ

    October 25, 2010 at 12:22 am

    @sven:

    I bet the “new elites” don’t go to the salad bar at Applebee’s.

  42. 42.

    asiangrrlMN

    October 25, 2010 at 12:22 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Fair enough. In the end, I didn’t even offer a bet because I did not have confidence in the Vikes.

  43. 43.

    Yutsano

    October 25, 2010 at 12:26 am

    @asiangrrlMN: I am never betting on the Seachickens again. Evah. It already cost me a debt I haven’t paid yet. I haven’t forgotten.

    Oh and new kitteh is anti-union. Well not really, she was just attacking the lanyard they gave me when I joined up. Gawd I’ve turned so sociaIist it’s not even funny.

  44. 44.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 25, 2010 at 12:27 am

    @JCJ: Not taking that bet…

  45. 45.

    asiangrrlMN

    October 25, 2010 at 12:29 am

    @Yutsano: Ha! Funny. Cooookies! And, kitteh sounds adorable. Did you name her Mao?

  46. 46.

    Yutsano

    October 25, 2010 at 12:33 am

    @asiangrrlMN: She came pre-named, but since she has the little lynx tufts on her ears it should be related to that somehow. Right now she’s Lexie, but I get the feeling she will tell me what her real name is in due time. For now she’s settling into things and figuring out what’s what.

  47. 47.

    J. Michael Neal

    October 25, 2010 at 12:33 am

    @asiangrrlMN: Since you like black cats, I’m making sure that you caught my Monster post from earlier.

  48. 48.

    J. Michael Neal

    October 25, 2010 at 12:34 am

    @Yutsano: Kitties are adorable, but they do tend to be right wing nuts.

  49. 49.

    asiangrrlMN

    October 25, 2010 at 12:41 am

    @Yutsano: She sounds adorable! You’re right. She’ll tell you her name when she’s ready. In the meanwhile, PICTURES!

    @J. Michael Neal: Awwwww, Eddie has the sweetest eyes. That first pic of you and Monster is fabulous!

  50. 50.

    Mnemosyne

    October 25, 2010 at 12:42 am

    @Yutsano:

    Sometimes the name they come with turns out to be their real name. Annie has been Annie since the day we brought her home — we were never able to find a name that suited her better.

    ETA: Though G did have a dream the other night that other people adopted our cats and re-named them, and they called Annie “Sneakers.” So sometimes we tease her that her new name is Sneakers. She does. not. like. that.

  51. 51.

    Yutsano

    October 25, 2010 at 12:45 am

    @J. Michael Neal: Sigh. I know. It’s why I’m being mum for now as to the exact source of her kitteh fud funding. That would get most unpleasant quite rapidly.

    @Mnemosyne: Just for that instance until she tells me otherwise her formal name is Lwxanna. I won’t call her that though, mostly because it doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as well.

  52. 52.

    J. Michael Neal

    October 25, 2010 at 12:46 am

    @asiangrrlMN: For once, my tendency to close my eyes at the flash worked out well.

  53. 53.

    Comrade Mary

    October 25, 2010 at 12:46 am

    @Yutsano: So maybe you should call her Aynie?

    /ducks

  54. 54.

    M. Bouffant

    October 25, 2010 at 12:49 am

    Perhaps the “New Elites ” don’t know who replaced Bob Barker & have never watched an entire Oprah because they are at work all day long, rather than retired & racist like Murray. Wonder what he really thinks of Oprah.

  55. 55.

    J. Michael Neal

    October 25, 2010 at 12:51 am

    @Mnemosyne: Monster, Dirk and Ringling were all strays that we found, so their names were provided by us. Eddie got that name at the pound, and it’s perfect for him, though it did take him 18 months to learn that it meant him. (He still thinks ‘Ringling’ means ‘Come here.’)

    Monster got her name because the day after she showed up, I was watching the Dom DeLuise episode of The Muppet Show, and one of the monsters was making the same facial expression she did.

    Dirk has long, flowing fur and is very pretty. So he named to be one of the male characters on the cover of romance novels.

    Ringling was, at that time, the fifth cat to join the house. I said that, if we took her in, our house would become a circus.

  56. 56.

    asiangrrlMN

    October 25, 2010 at 12:57 am

    Shadow was Shadow when he arrived, and the name suits him. Raven was Midnight, but he was pretty emphatic about being Raven. Midnight never fit him.

    @Mnemosyne: That’s cool about Olive. In my case, my Chinese/Taiwanese name and my American one are the same–just pronounced differently.

  57. 57.

    Mnemosyne

    October 25, 2010 at 12:57 am

    @J. Michael Neal:

    Keaton started life as Kiki, but that just didn’t seem to fit a boy cat. Technically, Keaton is his middle name since he’s named after Buster Keaton, but we thought having a Boris and a Buster in the same house would get too confusing, so he’s Keaton.

    Charlotte is the one we named ourselves since G found her and her sister in a parking lot. We actually named them Chuck and Olive after the characters on “Pushing Daisies” but once Olive went to her forever home, it made more sense to call her Charlotte.

    Olive actually kinda/sorta kept her name — the woman who adopted her works with G and is Taiwanese so, like her owner, the cat has a Chinese name and an American name and Olive is her American name.

    Delving into the late cats, Boris was Boris because he had that beautiful Russian Blue coat, and when I adopted a girl cat, of course she had to be Natasha (aka Tashi).

  58. 58.

    Yutsano

    October 25, 2010 at 12:59 am

    @Mnemosyne: The Japanese word for kitten is koneko…hmm…I may have to muse over this some.

    OH!! Before I forget…she’s a rescue from my mom’s (now fixed) barn cat.

  59. 59.

    Martin

    October 25, 2010 at 1:05 am

    @sven: You know what book is read more than “Left Behind”? The dictionary.

    Maybe our teabagger elitists could get down with us regular folk and crack it open now and then.

  60. 60.

    Mnemosyne

    October 25, 2010 at 1:05 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Olive’s Chinese name is Lan Lan (IIRC), but I have no idea if one has anything to do with the other.

    She’s also very chubby and spoiled and has her own pink cat carrier. She definitely landed soft. ;-)

    ETA: Sorry — it’s a pink fake Chanel carrier. That detail seemed important.

  61. 61.

    JGabriel

    October 25, 2010 at 1:07 am

    @sven:

    I’m told David Brooks loves professional wrestling.

    And raindrops on roses and and whiskers on kittens and politician’s hands on his inner thigh.

    .

  62. 62.

    Anne Laurie

    October 25, 2010 at 1:11 am

    @sven:
    __

    I’m told David Brooks loves professional wrestling.

    There’s a lot of screaming, threats & chairthrowing, but it’s all carefully scripted in advance, with winners and losers pre-determined for best marketing value. Sweaty, muscular individuals pose in costumes that allow them to be easily identified even by those of very low intelligence and/or people not paying much attention. Behind the scenes, it’s a megacorporate network where a few entrepreneurs have made millions exploiting legions of low-paid serfs who “legally” sign away control of their own bodies…

    Of course David Brooks loves professional wrestling — it’s his dream of the way American politics should be!

  63. 63.

    asiangrrlMN

    October 25, 2010 at 1:15 am

    @Mnemosyne: I don’t know what Lan Lan means, but yeah, she’s got it good!

  64. 64.

    JGabriel

    October 25, 2010 at 1:20 am

    Charles Murray via sven:

    Get into a conversation about television with members of the New Elite, and they can probably talk about a few trendy shows—“Mad Men” now, “The Sopranos” a few years ago. But they haven’t any idea who replaced Bob Barker on “The Price Is Right.”

    How did anyone ever take this asshole seriously? Racist jackass writes an entire fucking book just to say “blacks are dumb“, then bitches about people not knowing who’s the host of a fucking game show?

    Fuck you, Charles Murray. Fuck you with a big black serrated fucking dick.

    .

  65. 65.

    Mark S.

    October 25, 2010 at 1:20 am

    Here’s my favorite line from Murray:

    They can talk about books endlessly, but they’ve never read a “Left Behind” novel

    I think Murray is a total idiot so I didn’t read him very carefully, but he seems to divide the country into two camps: those in the top 0.1% economically and socially, and the rest of us who apparently think getting dressed up entails putting pants on for the few times a week we can summon the strength to get off the couch (probably to get more Left Behind books on tape). There doesn’t seem to be any in between.

  66. 66.

    asiangrrlMN

    October 25, 2010 at 1:27 am

    @Mark S.: Holy shit. That’s cracking me the fuck up like The fucking Left Behind series is classic literature. I’mma gonna Roto-Rooter him with a rusty Garden Weasel.

  67. 67.

    MikeJ

    October 25, 2010 at 1:28 am

    @JGabriel: Maybe we don’t know who hosts daytime game shows because we’re out creating the culture and economy while the wingnuts sit at home and watch TV.

    As for who does what on TV, I can tell you that if anybody else works at the Hayden Planetarium, Neil deGrasse Tyson has them handcuffed in the basement. Beyond that, I mainly watch TCM.

  68. 68.

    JGabriel

    October 25, 2010 at 1:30 am

    WaPo:

    [Charles Murray] will be online Monday, Oct. 25, at 11 a.m. ET to discuss this article. Submit your questions and comments before or during the discussion.

    Oh, Doouuugggg! DougJ! WaPo calling!

    .

  69. 69.

    J. Michael Neal

    October 25, 2010 at 1:36 am

    @JGabriel: I believe that Doug is banned from WaPo chats. Or is that the NYT?

  70. 70.

    mclaren

    October 25, 2010 at 1:39 am

    @JGabriel:

    Question number one: Mr. Murray, why did you write a book about population genetics when you don’t know a thing about population genetics and your doctorate is in political science, not genetics or statistics or mathematics or population genetics?

    Response: (sound of crickets)

  71. 71.

    JGabriel

    October 25, 2010 at 1:39 am

    @J. Michael Neal: NYT.

    .

  72. 72.

    Anne Laurie

    October 25, 2010 at 1:40 am

    @J. Michael Neal: Toby is a nondescript grey tabby we adopted because the shelter group wouldn’t let us have the adorable plushy blue-cream tortie we would name Isis unless we took her “brother” as well. It was clear that Toby had inherited all the brains in that litter, so the Spousal Unit chose Toby Tyler “who always looked after his little sister carefully”. Toby is now 17, has outlived Isis by several years, and is basically the cranky old butch lady she was born to be.

    Madeline was a calico cowering at the back of the crate at the big-box pet-store ‘adoption event’. When she joined Figaro, Isis, and Toby, she was “the smallest of them“, but for most of the last 10 years she’s been known, with reason, as Fat Maddy.

    Kishkan came with her name (“kitten” in Faroese). The owners she’d chosen, by laying siege to their house, were moving ‘temporarily’ back to the islands, where there’s a six-month rabies quarantine. Since Ms. Kish is a six-pound tabby Maine Coon analog with the sort of commanding personality best exemplified by actresses with names like Crawford and Hepburn, it seemed appropriate. That was seven years ago…

  73. 73.

    JGabriel

    October 25, 2010 at 1:42 am

    @JCJ:

    I bet the “new elites” don’t go to the salad bar at Applebee’s.

    Or “watch” NPR.

    .

  74. 74.

    Andy K

    October 25, 2010 at 1:48 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    :D

    Missed you earlier.

  75. 75.

    J. Michael Neal

    October 25, 2010 at 2:05 am

    @Anne Laurie:

    Since Ms. Kish is a six-pound tabby Maine Coon

    Does she have a tapeworm?

  76. 76.

    sven

    October 25, 2010 at 2:40 am

    @JGabriel: That is literally the only time I would have found dinner with David Brooks entertaining. I have $10 that says it was Jim Bunning.

  77. 77.

    arguingwithsignposts

    October 25, 2010 at 2:43 am

    Would someone please go to AWS and The Somebody Listen to Music and check to see that the RSS and assorted files are working? I changed .htaccess so it should work, but I need someone else to check it for me. Thanks. BTW, there’s free awesome Canadian music there for you as well.

  78. 78.

    MikeJ

    October 25, 2010 at 2:49 am

    Comments rss 404.

  79. 79.

    sven

    October 25, 2010 at 2:50 am

    Music?

    I’m listening to this:

    I Predict A Riot

    I’ll try the feed and let you know.

  80. 80.

    sven

    October 25, 2010 at 2:52 am

    @arguingwithsignposts:
    Likewise, comments not found

  81. 81.

    Anne Laurie

    October 25, 2010 at 2:53 am

    @J. Michael Neal: That’s why I called Kish ‘a Maine Coon analog’ — she’s just little, by “real” MC standards, even though she’s got all the other recognized markers (tufted ears, ruff, snowshoe paws, slab-sided rectagular build & tiny silly squeaky voice). Every shelter in New England is full of cats carrying the original, unrefined version of the Maine geneset. Well adapted to the local climate, obviously — not least in their piratical personalities, which have enabled the proud inheritors to make themselves at home in the flinty hearts of the local Ethan Fromes and Hester Prynnes.

  82. 82.

    J. Michael Neal

    October 25, 2010 at 2:59 am

    @Anne Laurie: When it comes time to get a new feline, I’m considering trying to find a rescue Maine Coon.

  83. 83.

    arguingwithsignposts

    October 25, 2010 at 3:00 am

    @sven: @MikeJ:
    Okay, so the Comments RSS 404s, but everything else? (I can get the posts RSS to work in FF, and post a comment to work, which are main things I was worried about atm)

  84. 84.

    sven

    October 25, 2010 at 3:11 am

    @arguingwithsignposts: I tried everything on the page and it all appears to work! I skipped logging into WP but otherwise 100%.

  85. 85.

    arguingwithsignposts

    October 25, 2010 at 3:19 am

    @sven: thanks!

  86. 86.

    freelancer

    October 25, 2010 at 3:20 am

    Last night I found the thing I will be falling asleep to for the foreseeable future. A small business I work at on weekends pipes Soma FM’s Indie pop station through its PA as Muzak and looking around at the different channels, I came upon a station that blends ambient electronic with archival recordings of NASA audio recordings. Too cool, and all of it available for free online. This is Soma FM Mission Control.

  87. 87.

    sven

    October 25, 2010 at 3:57 am

    @arguingwithsignposts: good luck

  88. 88.

    jeff

    October 25, 2010 at 8:39 am

    Once while at the supermarket I heard “Lost in the Supermarket” over the PA.

  89. 89.

    MarkJ

    October 25, 2010 at 9:09 am

    Thanks for the reminder on that Gang of Four album – it’s fantastic. I had it on cassette in high school but it turns out cassette tapes don’t have an unlimited shelf life, so I must buy it again soon.

  90. 90.

    JGabriel

    October 25, 2010 at 9:52 am

    jeff:

    Once while at the supermarket I heard “Lost in the Supermarket” over the PA.

    Once while in a computer store, I heard My Shit’s Fucked Up over the PA. Also heard Anarchy in the UK at a party in a fancy Gramercy Park (NYC) apartment, which was a different kind of cognitive dissonance.

    .

  91. 91.

    Cacti

    October 25, 2010 at 10:10 am

    As for Charles “negroes are genetically inferior” Murray’s lament about the new “elites”

    I’ve never watched an episode of the Sopranos or Mad Men.

    Drew Carey replaced Bob Barker.

    I don’t watch Oprah because I’m not her target audience.

    My favorite sport is baseball.

    He contradicts himself about Jimmy Johnson not being famous. If he wasn’t famous, why would more casual observers know who he is than JimmIE Johnson, the nascar driver?

    MMA stands for Mixed Martial Arts – where the wingnut racist heavyweight champ of the UFC, Brock Lesnar, got KTFO this weekend (that stands for Knocked The F**k Out).

  92. 92.

    jake the snake

    October 25, 2010 at 1:13 pm

    On commercials, anyone noticed Howling Wolf as the soundtrck for the Viagra ad? From what I know about Wolf, he wouldn’t have cared as long as he got paid.
    He might have taken some of it in pills, though,

  93. 93.

    chopper

    October 25, 2010 at 1:23 pm

    there’s that stupid car commercial showing some broad taking the kids to soccer practice or some such with ‘if i should fall from grace with god’ in the back. wonderful.

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