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Late Night Open Thread: Mercy!

by Anne Laurie|  February 17, 20113:00 am| 35 Comments

This post is in: Music, Open Threads

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Was gonna do some long-form snark on Mr. “Who knew selling my li’l princess Froggy Dimples to the Mouse Factory was gonna backfire?” and his belief that the Adopt-A-Highway program leads to Satanism, but the original “Come gawk with us at the trailer-trash novelty act and his deeply narcissistic narrative about Jeebus and other dead celebrities who can’t refudiate him” article is just another sad, sad mile marker on Real America(tm)’s Road Paved with Good Intentions. So, instead — go go boys!

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  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    February 17, 2011 at 3:11 am

    Some folks just don’t know what to do with themselves when their fifteen minutes is up. That’s about the best summation of Billy Ray Cyrus I can come up with.

    And before there was Duffy, there was Lesley. And I do indeed appreciate the homage.

  2. 2.

    freelancer

    February 17, 2011 at 3:17 am

    Are we far enough gone as a culture that we can’t implement Bill Hick’s last TV pitch anymore?

  3. 3.

    MikeJ

    February 17, 2011 at 3:35 am

    Billy Ray knows the saddest words are, “she’s 18, she can control her own money now.”

  4. 4.

    M. Bouffant

    February 17, 2011 at 3:36 am

    @Yutsano: Your link isn’t linking. But let me guess: Lesley Gore?

  5. 5.

    Anne Laurie

    February 17, 2011 at 3:37 am

    @freelancer: The GQ article actually does a pretty fair implementation of Hick’s pitch, but it feels like the kind of ‘canned hunt’ where they baited a particularly dumb, inedible quadruped for a few weeks and then blasted him when he showed up at the garbage dump snuffling for his nightly fix. Not that BRC doesn’t deserve to be humanely destroyed for the good of American culture, but the method just seemed… unsporting.

  6. 6.

    Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)

    February 17, 2011 at 3:38 am

    GQ:

    The Miley Cyrus birthday bong scandal of December 2010: in which her representatives quickly let it known that she was smoking the legal high salvia, although it’s tempting to suspect that they would say that, wouldn’t they?

    Hee!

    This chopped and screwed version of Party in the USA was a top 10 hit here at Castle Jewish Steel.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuP5cdrby0Y

  7. 7.

    Anne Laurie

    February 17, 2011 at 3:43 am

    @Yutsano: Duffy’s wiki page actually credits this lady as a key influence:

  8. 8.

    Yutsano

    February 17, 2011 at 3:47 am

    @Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): Holy shit. They actually improved that little piece of Disney pop tripe by a factor of a thousand. They overdo the beat skipping though.

    @M. Bouffant: I haz link fail. But you would indeed be correct. Second attempt hopefully without muffing it.

  9. 9.

    Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)

    February 17, 2011 at 3:55 am

    @Yutsano: Crazy, huh? What is piercingly irritating at regular speed is pretty damn groovy @ mid-tempo

  10. 10.

    Yutsano

    February 17, 2011 at 4:07 am

    @Anne Laurie: I’m not entirely certain that’s an either/or proposition. I hear them both in Duffy, but in a different and special iteration.

    @Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): My crazy confession: Miley does have a guilty pleasure for me. And no I ain’t apologizing.

    I just coughed up a snot ball that was an especially nifty color. I just figured I’d share that.

  11. 11.

    Villago Delenda Est

    February 17, 2011 at 4:11 am

    but the method just seemed… unsporting.

    Like Dick Cheney hunting anything at all?

  12. 12.

    Angry Black Lady

    February 17, 2011 at 4:15 am

    i’m accepting applications for a very special mission: the mission is shooting me so i don’t have to work anymore tonight.

    WHO’S IN?!

  13. 13.

    Amir_Khalid

    February 17, 2011 at 4:16 am

    @Yutsano:

    I just coughed up a snot ball that was an especially nifty color.

    Picture?

  14. 14.

    Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)

    February 17, 2011 at 4:20 am

    @Yutsano: I think chances are good that she is a genuine talent. Alas, chances are better still that, like Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson, her good musical instincts will be crushed by her handlers.

    Colored mucus means the white blood cells are winning the infection war, IIRC. Looks like you’ll live.

  15. 15.

    Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)

    February 17, 2011 at 4:22 am

    @Angry Black Lady: Posted right below a Cheney reference. He would be happy to oblige but apparently he is feeling poorly. Prob worse than Yutsano.

  16. 16.

    Angry Black Lady

    February 17, 2011 at 4:24 am

    @Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): he may be feeling ill, but if you were all, “HEY DICK! Wanna go shoot a mouthy black lady in the face?” i bet he would pop out of bed like a dick-in-the-box.

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    Yutsano

    February 17, 2011 at 4:24 am

    @Angry Black Lady: No can do. I’d need you to defend my ass in court if that ever happens.

    @Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): Things are draining and I’m no longer feeling the irritations and congestion in my sinuses, so I’m fairly certain I’m making progress. I wish I could take another damn day off though.

  18. 18.

    Villago Delenda Est

    February 17, 2011 at 4:29 am

    You may find this difficult to believe, but the asshats in John’s rape thread are still there, rebutting people who are most likely in their comfy, comfy beds right now.

    Jeeze. It’s like being on USENET all over again…

  19. 19.

    Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)

    February 17, 2011 at 4:31 am

    @Yutsano: Strangely, my nose is getting irritated. Power of suggestion? Super-cyber rhino virus?

    @Angry Black Lady: Not until John Yoo wrote him a memo saying it was okay, amirite?

  20. 20.

    Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)

    February 17, 2011 at 4:37 am

    @Villago Delenda Est: Yeah, I saw that in the recent comments box. Thanks for peaking my interest and sending me over there. I’m ready to un-see that now.

  21. 21.

    Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)

    February 17, 2011 at 4:49 am

    @Villago Delenda Est: I’ve never seen Tim or Wil before. Do they only troll threads about rape?

  22. 22.

    Jebediah

    February 17, 2011 at 5:02 am

    @Angry Black Lady:
    If you will do the same for me, I think we are in the same part of CA.

  23. 23.

    JPL

    February 17, 2011 at 6:06 am

    Good morning, I also,too went over the ABL’s thread and sometimes the lack of civility still amazes me.
    The NYTimes has an article about those among us who sleep with our pets. link

  24. 24.

    Angry Black Lady

    February 17, 2011 at 6:11 am

    Those asshats have been at it all day. Meanwhile, I’m eating pizza and watching Battlestar Galactica. I win!

  25. 25.

    stuckinred

    February 17, 2011 at 6:20 am

    @JPL: Dead link.

  26. 26.

    stuckinred

    February 17, 2011 at 6:21 am

    Pet sleep link

  27. 27.

    JPL

    February 17, 2011 at 6:47 am

    @stuckinred: thanks for the proper link. I normally check to make sure it works but not today. Moxie always waits until she’s invited to jump up at night unless I’m not in the room. Does that mean that Cesar would only be slightly pleased?

  28. 28.

    JPL

    February 17, 2011 at 6:53 am

    @Angry Black Lady: What are you doing up? They are asses that aren’t into reason and logic.

  29. 29.

    Southern Beale

    February 17, 2011 at 7:09 am

    Oh wow. You know, I’ve actually talked to Billy Ray Cyrus a few times (I’m in Nashville, after all). He’s actually a really decent guy.

  30. 30.

    JayP

    February 17, 2011 at 8:23 am

    You know, he can complain about Hannah Montanna all he wants, but he was actually on the show with her! Playing her father, no less. So, to complain that it ruined her is a bit disingenuous.

  31. 31.

    Svensker

    February 17, 2011 at 9:19 am

    Had no idea BRC was that nutsy. Makes me feel better about hating Achy Brachy Hart,not that I really needed any help there.

  32. 32.

    4jkb4ia

    February 17, 2011 at 10:09 am

    Via Annie Laurie’s link, Mistermix gets a shoutout from Savage Love. Apprehension about quality of new readers to be had thereby

  33. 33.

    4jkb4ia

    February 17, 2011 at 10:30 am

    You wonder if the celebrity machine will eat Justin Bieber to the same degree, or be as cruel. Seen during the review of “I Think I Love You” is that David Cassidy is still performing.

  34. 34.

    Sko Hayes

    February 17, 2011 at 10:58 am

    I’m so sick of BRC whining about how bad things are. Hey buddy, you’re no different than all those other stage mothers who saw the $$$ signs over their children’s heads.
    Now that she’s an adult, and you can’t control her anymore or live off her money, it’s everyone’s fault but yours.
    Pardon me if I don’t give a damn.

  35. 35.

    Betty Cracker

    February 17, 2011 at 3:20 pm

    Who knew selling my li’l princess Froggy Dimples to the Mouse Factory was gonna backfire?

    I beg you to reconsider your decision to forgo the long-form snark project.

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