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by E.D. Kain|  March 15, 201111:48 pm| 110 Comments

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This is just a damn fine song:

How y’all been?

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  1. 1.

    Rick

    March 15, 2011 at 11:50 pm

    Weird man — this track is playing on my home mix, right this friggin’ minute. (The Gulu widow choir version) —

    The women in the choir started “The Voice Project” — it is extremely cool. go here http://www.voiceproject.org/movement.php if you don’t know what I’m talking about

  2. 2.

    burnspbesq

    March 15, 2011 at 11:51 pm

    The headline on the NYT page got me thinking that “the 50 workers” are going to take a place alongside the 47 ronin in Japanese cultural iconography.

  3. 3.

    JGabriel

    March 15, 2011 at 11:59 pm

    Hey, seems like you haven’t been around in a while, Erik. What’s going on? I hear you’re doing some good stuff over at Forbes, although that seems a kind of odd choice for good stuff. Pearls, swine, etc.

    Of course, I’m sure the people at Forbes would think the same of us here at Balloon Juice … if they knew who we were or gave us any thought at all.

    .

  4. 4.

    E.D. Kain

    March 16, 2011 at 12:02 am

    @JGabriel: Yeah I’m mostly focusing on my Forbes blog.

    @Rick: spooky…

  5. 5.

    Seebach

    March 16, 2011 at 12:02 am

    Another fucking earthquake in Japan. A 6

  6. 6.

    TBogg

    March 16, 2011 at 12:03 am

    Not to argue with you but… I fucking hate that song. It used to come on the radio every morning when the alarm went off and my delicate wife could be heard to mutter: “That band should die in a fucking plane crash.”

    So, to sum up: not a fan.

  7. 7.

    Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)

    March 16, 2011 at 12:06 am

    “…cuz none of them can stop the time.”

    I have a weakness for Rastafarian hogwash.

  8. 8.

    Mark S.

    March 16, 2011 at 12:07 am

    I finally got my bracket done. At first it told me the balloon juice group was full and I was going to cry myself to sleep. For some reason it worked the second time. It said there were 499 entries before I joined, so that makes me the lucky 500th!

  9. 9.

    mr. whipple

    March 16, 2011 at 12:07 am

    This is a jaunty uplifting type of song that makes me want to thrown them in a melting reactor.

  10. 10.

    sfinny

    March 16, 2011 at 12:08 am

    Rule number 349 is do not listen to music videos after midnight. That darn song is firmly in my head and surely won’t help my insomnia.

    But hey, good to see you Ed.

  11. 11.

    wag

    March 16, 2011 at 12:09 am

    welcome back!

  12. 12.

    Mike (Hammer) Kay

    March 16, 2011 at 12:10 am

    Opinions on the recall drive, E.D.?

    Nice work on your blog, btw.

  13. 13.

    wag

    March 16, 2011 at 12:12 am

    I hadn’t heard this song before, but was immediately reminded of this classic from the Talking Heads

  14. 14.

    jnfr

    March 16, 2011 at 12:12 am

    I’m hanging around the house worrying. Mr. J is away on a business trip so I’ve got nothing else to do but watch the news and worry.

  15. 15.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 16, 2011 at 12:13 am

    If you bring m_c down on this place again, you and I will have words. I don’t want to drive to Arizona, but I will do what needs to be done. Just sayin’.

  16. 16.

    JGabriel

    March 16, 2011 at 12:14 am

    @TBogg:

    It used to come on the radio every morning …

    Was it followed every morning by radio announcers asking if Punxatawney Phil would see his shadow today?

    .

  17. 17.

    E.D. Kain

    March 16, 2011 at 12:14 am

    @Mike (Hammer) Kay: Thanks. Well, I think it’s a noble cause with a decent but not great chance of success. Can’t hurt to try.

  18. 18.

    E.D. Kain

    March 16, 2011 at 12:16 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Some things are out of my control. Alas.

  19. 19.

    sfinny

    March 16, 2011 at 12:19 am

    @wag: Man I love that song to bits. Sadly my cassette tape has broken and I have not yet moved into this decade as far as music delivery. Still have my walkman held together with duct tape.

  20. 20.

    Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)

    March 16, 2011 at 12:22 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’m pretty sure she’s still bansville.

    freelancer does an awesome m_c impression if you need a fix though.

  21. 21.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 16, 2011 at 12:22 am

    @TBogg: I’m with T on this one. I shut it off after about thirty seconds.

    My friends, here is my platform for president. Read it and weep.

    E.D., you’re doing good work over at Forbes, and it’s good to see ya.

  22. 22.

    freelancer

    March 16, 2011 at 12:23 am

    I can’t stop listening to the leaked Explosions in the Sky album.

    Also, this song that was used in the Friday Night Lights series finale is so full of win, I can’t listen to it without breaking out in goosebumps.

    Good to have you back EDK. I was gonna say, now that you’re letting your freak flag fly, you’re not allowed to do anymore GBCW posts.

    Here’s one more EITS track from “Take Care, Take Care, Take Care”, called “Let Me Back In“. Let it just sit and play for 5 or 6 minutes, and it goes from minimalistic to bursting with creativity.

  23. 23.

    burnspbesq

    March 16, 2011 at 12:23 am

    NYT is reporting a possible containment breach in reactor number three at Fukushima Dai-Ichi.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/asia/16nuclear.html?_r=1&hp

    I think we may have just left Three Mile Island, headed for Chernobyl.

  24. 24.

    Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther

    March 16, 2011 at 12:25 am

    You’re back!

    Nice to see you. I’ve been largely a lurker of late, but I’ve missed being able to lurk you.

  25. 25.

    freelancer

    March 16, 2011 at 12:26 am

    @TBogg:

    I fucking hate that song. It used to come on the radio every morning when the alarm went off

    Every morning when the alarm went off, you say…

  26. 26.

    JGabriel

    March 16, 2011 at 12:27 am

    E.D. Kain:

    Well, I think it’s a noble cause [the WI recall effort] with a decent but not great chance of success.

    If the Dems & unions can collect enough signatures in the top 4-5 districts, then I think they’ve got a pretty good shot at the recalling the 3 State Senators necessary to flip the WI Senate.

    In one district, the Democrat has a wide lead, while Democrats in two districts have narrow leads, according to DKos/PPP. Make the further observation that, in a recall election focused on collective bargaining, the Democrats are likely to be more motivated — then their turnout is likely be higher, increasing that narrow lead.

    It’s still a while away, but I think the odds are pretty good, let’s say 2-1 in favor of the Dems. Provided that they can get the signatures, and that the petitions survive the inevitable legal challenges.

    .

  27. 27.

    Mark S.

    March 16, 2011 at 12:27 am

    Here is Nate Silver’s bracket. Using wussy mathematical models, Nate boldly predicts all four top seeds in the final four. Using real Merkin gut instincts, I’m picking only three top seeds.

    Is it just me or is the Southeast bracket pretty weak?

  28. 28.

    MattR

    March 16, 2011 at 12:28 am

    @asiangrrlMN: For the record, that outfit is beyond the limits of what I am willing to subject Ellie to. You can try to convince Cole to put Lily in it though.

    @Mark S.: Yes. Yes it is.

  29. 29.

    Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther

    March 16, 2011 at 12:28 am

    @Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: Oh hell I just realized how insanely creepy that sounds.

    Thanks heavens on the internet “lurk” doesn’t mean “stand outside your window with a flashlight and extra keys.” Thank GOD.

  30. 30.

    BR

    March 16, 2011 at 12:30 am

    @burnspbesq:

    Indeed.

    The level of dedication it takes to go into those nuclear plants, with radiation, fires, earthquakes, and hydrogen explosions… it’s hard to imagine.

    I also never knew how big the long-term cleanup effort might be:

    To clean up the Chernobyl site after the accident, the Soviet Union conscripted workers in proportion to the size of each of its republics, and developed a system to limit their exposure.
    __
    “They sent up to 600,000 people in to clean up the radioactive debris around the plant and build a sarcophagus,” said Dr. John Boice

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/asia/16workers.html

  31. 31.

    burnspbesq

    March 16, 2011 at 12:31 am

    @freelancer:

    My senior year in college, I did morning drive two mornings a week on the campus radio station, so I got to decide what came on a thousand people’s radios when the alarm went off. It’s an awesome sort of power, and sad to say, I abused it egregiously.

    Example: the morning of the MCAT and GMAT, the song that reverberated around campus immediately after 7:00 a.m. was (this will come as no surprise to you) “What Do You Want from Life?”

  32. 32.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 16, 2011 at 12:32 am

    @MattR: Aw, come on. She would be soooo cute in it! But, I do think Lily would actually wear it with a modicum of good humor. Or, for laughs, I can try to get Cole to coax Rosie into it. Snort.

  33. 33.

    burnspbesq

    March 16, 2011 at 12:33 am

    @Mark S.:

    It’s not just you. The Southeast is the weakest region.

    “Our Kyrie’s back and there’s gonna be trouble …”

  34. 34.

    suzanne

    March 16, 2011 at 12:35 am

    I’m great, thank you. Loving my new job almost as much as I love having a paycheck. (HOLY SHIT I GET MONEY NOW!) How are you, ombudsman?

  35. 35.

    Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther

    March 16, 2011 at 12:36 am

    Ok, what I’ve been up to:

    Last week? Wallowing in the misery. The exponential, exploding World Misery.

    This week? Still wallowing, but carving out enough space to think about the non-essentials, too.

    Like bugging God about the flaws in His engineering http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/memo-to-god-engineering-issues/

    And contemplating pennies http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/wheat-head-pennies/

  36. 36.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 16, 2011 at 12:38 am

    @suzanne: Awe-sum, girlfriend! So glad to hear that. How’s the little one?

    @Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: I was just going to say something snarky about that!

  37. 37.

    MattR

    March 16, 2011 at 12:38 am

    @burnspbesq: Pitt could lose in the second round or it could make the Final Four. I think your Blue Devils are gonna get through (enjoy that kiss of death) along with Ohio State and one of the Big East teams in the Southwest, Louisville or Notre Dame.

    Watching the roast of Donald Trump. The Situation seems like slightly less of a douche than I imagined. He at least has the ability to laugh at himself.

  38. 38.

    wag

    March 16, 2011 at 12:39 am

    An interesting take from the Times on the meaning of Godzilla to the japanese people in light of the current events there. I had always approached Godzilla as pure camp, without understanding the real roots from whence he sprang

  39. 39.

    suzanne

    March 16, 2011 at 12:43 am

    @asiangrrlMN: Awww, thanks. :) Both the little one and the not-so-little one are great. I am looking forward to a pedicure this weekend as my first-paycheck-present-to-myself. I havw to buy some new work clothes, too, ’cause this place takes clothes seriously.

  40. 40.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 16, 2011 at 12:43 am

    @wag: May I just say I love the wording of your last sentence and the use of the word whence?

    @suzanne: Nice! Good to hear that all is well and that you will be pampering yourself a bit.

  41. 41.

    Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther

    March 16, 2011 at 12:44 am

    @asiangrrlMN: Phew! Under the wire!

  42. 42.

    suzanne

    March 16, 2011 at 12:46 am

    @asiangrrlMN: I am 100%, completely, TOTALLY behind your presidential campaign. I can be your director of the EPA.

  43. 43.

    RossInDetroit

    March 16, 2011 at 12:47 am

    I like that video but might not like the song without it.
    It reminds me of Blanche.

    I’m in a cranky mood so I’m listening to The Spinanes really loud.

  44. 44.

    opie_jeanne

    March 16, 2011 at 12:47 am

    You want damned fine singing, I offer you Perpetuum Jazzile:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MolSDhFS2Lc

  45. 45.

    RossInDetroit

    March 16, 2011 at 12:49 am

    Oh, here’s the video I was looking for. Blanche’s cover of Jack on Fire. Spooky, powerful and dangerous.

  46. 46.

    E.D. Kain

    March 16, 2011 at 12:50 am

    @asiangrrlMN: Why thank you, ma’am. Good to see you as well.

  47. 47.

    burnspbesq

    March 16, 2011 at 12:51 am

    @MattR:

    As it happens, I live ten minutes from the Honda Center, the site of the regional in which Duke will play if they survive this coming weekend. I will likely go to the Sweet Sixteen on Thursday night, but I will be on a plane en route to London when the regional championship game tips off on Saturday.

  48. 48.

    E.D. Kain

    March 16, 2011 at 12:51 am

    @Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: I am here to be lurked. By all means lurk away…!

  49. 49.

    sfinny

    March 16, 2011 at 12:52 am

    Lurker begging: I have a car that does not work (well it drives but has no brakes) that I want to donate. Many of the online donation groups seem suspect. Asked IAVA if they had any recommendations, but they don’t. Does anyone here have a group that is reliable?

  50. 50.

    E.D. Kain

    March 16, 2011 at 12:54 am

    @suzanne: I have resigned from my high-paying ombudsman position, sadly.

  51. 51.

    burnspbesq

    March 16, 2011 at 12:55 am

    The kid takes his road test for his driver’s license tomorrow.

    Tension around here is so thick you’d need a chain saw to cut through it.

  52. 52.

    Turgidson

    March 16, 2011 at 12:56 am

    @TBogg:

    Ha! I wouldn’t go that far, but a couple of my close friends who I usually agree with about music got really obsessed with Edward Sharpe when that album came out, and I never got into it, then grew very tired of it as they made me listen to it in their cars and such to try to get me to change my mind.

    I guess I tried the same shit on them to try to get them to like Deerhunter, with the same results. The issue, of course, is that I’m right and they’re wrong. Microcastle >>> Edward Sharpe.

  53. 53.

    freelancer

    March 16, 2011 at 12:57 am

    Some wiseass registered

    http://godhatesjapan.com/

    ETA: Okay, nicely done.

  54. 54.

    suzanne

    March 16, 2011 at 12:57 am

    @burnspbesq: Hand him a beer and tell him to relax.

    Kidding.

  55. 55.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 16, 2011 at 12:59 am

    @Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: yeah, you beat me to it.

    @suzanne: Excellent. You can be in charge of destroying our environment.

    @E.D. Kain: I’m busy pimping my Republican candidacy!

  56. 56.

    freelancer

    March 16, 2011 at 1:00 am

    @burnspbesq:

    Tension around here is so thick you’d need a chain saw to cut through it

    I suggest you take the chainsaw to the steering column.

  57. 57.

    RossInDetroit

    March 16, 2011 at 1:00 am

    @opie_jeanne:

    You want damned fine singing, I offer you Perpetuum Jazzile:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MolSDhFS2Lc

    You’re right. That’s marvelous. I was an ensemble singer for 12 years and I hereby refudiate my whole vocal career.

  58. 58.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 16, 2011 at 1:00 am

    @sfinny: The Car Talk guys suggest your local public radio station.

    @burnspbesq: Oy. Good luck to the kid–and to you!

  59. 59.

    Comrade Mary

    March 16, 2011 at 1:02 am

    Here’s something a little sweeter and mellower: Mission Bells by Armistice, an impromptu Canadian supergroup composed of Coeur de Pirate — the lovely girl with all the tats — and the lead singer from Bedouin Soundclash.

    Oh, and HI! ERIK!

  60. 60.

    MattR

    March 16, 2011 at 1:03 am

    @burnspbesq: It’s amazing that you probably will be able to catch the game in-flight. (ANd good luck to the family tmrw)

    @freelancer: Well played indeed. I think it is worth re-linking to the statement of the US government after Katrina.

  61. 61.

    BR

    March 16, 2011 at 1:04 am

    @sfinny:

    You can contact your local PBS station and donate it to them (they do it via an agency that handles the donations). Just search for your local station and “car donation” in Google.

  62. 62.

    freelancer

    March 16, 2011 at 1:04 am

    @Turgidson:

    I guess I tried the same shit on them to try to get them to like Deerhunter, with the same results. The issue, of course, is that I’m right and they’re wrong.

    Oh Shit, if Peter Suderman is posting here under the handle of Turgidson, I’m out. I’m fucking out.

  63. 63.

    sfinny

    March 16, 2011 at 1:07 am

    @asiangrrlMN: My local radio station is WNYC which hosts the car talk guys. Personally I love them and already donate annually. Was hoping that I could find someone who needed this more, but will probably end up with your suggestion.

  64. 64.

    PanAmerican

    March 16, 2011 at 1:12 am

    Japan says it is ready to ask the US military for help in battling the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant, the AFP news agency reports.

    Asahi newspaper reports that according to TEPCO, the operator of the troubled nuclear power plants in Japan, US military personnel were involved in fighting the fire in Reactor Number 4 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

  65. 65.

    RalfW

    March 16, 2011 at 1:12 am

    @burnspbesq: Sky news now reporting all reactor staff withdrawn.

    Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the workers dousing the reactors in a frantic effort to cool them needed to withdraw. “The workers cannot carry out even minimal work at the plant now,” Edano said.

    It must be really, really bad. May FSM have mercy.

  66. 66.

    sfinny

    March 16, 2011 at 1:14 am

    @BR: Thank you both to you and asiangrrlMN. Sounds like that is good option and giving a donation now is especially rich. F/U defunders of NPR, I am giving my car, that doesn’t work. Well maybe it is not quite the strong statement but I try my best :-).

  67. 67.

    JGabriel

    March 16, 2011 at 1:14 am

    @freelancer:

    Some wiseass registered http://godhatesjapan.com/

    Huh. I’ve registered CatsVsRepublicans.com, but haven’t decided what to do with it yet.

    .

  68. 68.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 16, 2011 at 1:15 am

    @sfinny: Hm. Maybe a local homeless shelter or something like that?

  69. 69.

    Calouste

    March 16, 2011 at 1:19 am

    France is urging all its nationals to leave Japan and has asked Air France to make planes available for the evacuation. Two planes are already underway.

  70. 70.

    opie_jeanne

    March 16, 2011 at 1:19 am

    @RossInDetroit: A good friend who teaches voice in the Lancaster, CA area also directs choir at her local Methodist church, and she has a choir made solely of womens’ voices. She just got back from a convention in Chicago and posted this on her FB page. She’s really fired up right now.

  71. 71.

    freelancer

    March 16, 2011 at 1:20 am

    @MattR:

    Oh, wow. I hadn’t read that. Okay, I forgive them for http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235198/. No, not really, that movie’s more fucked than Human Centipede (of which I’ve only seen the trailer, but Blech!)

  72. 72.

    opie_jeanne

    March 16, 2011 at 1:22 am

    @Comrade Mary: I like that recording.

    I’m so woefully out of touch the last couple of years.

  73. 73.

    freelancer

    March 16, 2011 at 1:22 am

    FYWP.

  74. 74.

    RossInDetroit

    March 16, 2011 at 1:26 am

    @Comrade Mary:

    That’s a really nice song. I hear all the time that ‘modern music all sucks’ but only from people who make no effort to find stuff they like. Yes, a Canadian boy with a learner’s permit is popular. Ignore him and follow your own taste.
    Thanks for the nice recommendations today. I spent the afternoon listening to Neko Case and now I’ll have to go find more Beatrice Martin.

  75. 75.

    GregB

    March 16, 2011 at 1:26 am

    The UK’s Guardian has a blog on the Japanese quake/nuke disaster.

    Reactor number three is not looking so good.

  76. 76.

    Chris Wolf

    March 16, 2011 at 1:28 am

    I’ve heard the song a million times, never saw the video…I gotta say that they look exactly as I imagined them.

  77. 77.

    Mart

    March 16, 2011 at 1:30 am

    Alabama Arkansas??? why the hell the shoot in the desert west?

    Me thinks with the Grammy’s giving a nod or two to Mumford and Sons and Arcade Fire; the “industry” is giving this genre a shot at the next “grunge” movement. (Lord knows they need something.) My 24 and 22 year old’s and their “hippie” friends dig it. OK by me, as I spent my whole life making them listen to music I like, not teen pop or the ugliest of rap/death metal. Electric folk worked for me in the late 60’s and early 70’s; these groups work fine now.

  78. 78.

    GregB

    March 16, 2011 at 1:32 am

    This tune by Florence and the Machine has been my ear worm lately.

    The Dog Days are Over.

  79. 79.

    opie_jeanne

    March 16, 2011 at 1:44 am

    @GregB: My adult daughter has been living with us temporarily and I hear this coming from her room sometimes.

    The lead singer’s voice reminds me of someone else, but I can’t think who.

  80. 80.

    Uriel

    March 16, 2011 at 1:54 am

    Cudlip! you can’t stop the signal with your Big White Christian Bwana moral equivalence head fake! Why aren’t you talkin about the demographic time bomb and how Assanges system-killer is actually WAI so far?
    It is running RIGHT NAOW! Admit it, Doug J trolled you at LOG. NAOW i’m AABTTHWNHHCLDGSGWVEGSGD!

    (Sorry, with makoto banned, I thought someone should step up and welcome you back in a manner you would find familiar, and dare I say, comforting… Yes, I dare.)

  81. 81.

    GregB

    March 16, 2011 at 2:00 am

    @opie_jeanne:

    Maybe Sinead O’Connor?

  82. 82.

    Mnemosyne

    March 16, 2011 at 2:05 am

    The Giant Evil Corporation that I work for announced today that they will match employee contributions for Japan to the Red Cross or Save the Children, so I’ll probably be doing that after I get paid this week. And probably throw some (unmatched) money to Doctors Without Borders, too.

  83. 83.

    opie_jeanne

    March 16, 2011 at 2:06 am

    @GregB: Hmmm…. yes. Or Annie Lenox as far as strength, not necessarily the sound.

  84. 84.

    Mark S.

    March 16, 2011 at 2:06 am

    @Uriel:

    Maybe not.

  85. 85.

    freelancer

    March 16, 2011 at 2:07 am

    @Uriel:

    Eh, too articulate. Not enough self-created acronyms. This thread is how you spoof, engage, or mock m_c; and I beg y’all’s pardon for tooting my own horn.

  86. 86.

    opie_jeanne

    March 16, 2011 at 2:09 am

    @Mnemosyne: Driving to Phoenix from LA today we were trying to find a radio station and I stopped on one long enough to hear Rush ranting about only giving to liberal charities because the Japanese were a bunch of rich bastards and we shouldn’t send our money to them, only to liberal charities. I swear, I still don’t know what the feck he was talking about even though I know it was supposed to be sarcasm. One of the charities he mentioned was Doctors without Borders. Are they in the cross-hairs these days?

  87. 87.

    Mnemosyne

    March 16, 2011 at 2:14 am

    @opie_jeanne:

    They probably are, but fortunately they’re not a US organization and won’t give a shit what Rush thinks of them.

    He’s probably hated them ever since he found out they’re French (Médecins Sans Frontières is their official name).

  88. 88.

    Yutsano

    March 16, 2011 at 2:15 am

    @burnspbesq: May the saints and angels have mercy on you tomorrow. Cause the drivers of California won’t. Ganbatte kudasai.

    @asiangrrlMN: If I get the new rig in the next few months I’ll be donating my old car, which will be sweet for them since it runs and drives and they can sell it instead of trashing it. Though I keep waffling on making the jump just yet. I got the cash it’s not that, I’m just being a wuss.

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    opie_jeanne

    March 16, 2011 at 2:19 am

    @Mnemosyne: I realize I came in on the station mid-rant, but the rant still makes no sense at all. I can’t figure out what the starting point was, because who just writes a freakin’ check to a foreign government instead of to a charity, when giving to a cause?

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    Uriel

    March 16, 2011 at 2:30 am

    Man- tough crowd.

  91. 91.

    Uriel

    March 16, 2011 at 2:30 am

    Man- tough crowd.

  92. 92.

    Uriel

    March 16, 2011 at 2:36 am

    Sorry ’bout the double post there…,

  93. 93.

    Turgidson

    March 16, 2011 at 2:39 am

    @freelancer:

    Nah, I hate hipsters. I don’t like music for the fashion of it like those chuckleheads.

  94. 94.

    opie_jeanne

    March 16, 2011 at 2:39 am

    @Mnemosyne: Well, you know, French isn’t a real language at all. He probably just thought those snotty Frenchies were laughing at him behind his back:

    http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/02/16/sarkozy-admits-french-language-a-hoax-after-wikileaks-expose/

  95. 95.

    Mnemosyne

    March 16, 2011 at 2:44 am

    @opie_jeanne:

    I have to say, I am much more concerned about the motives of Julian Assange now that I know he’s carrying a white Persian everywhere. Clearly he can be up to no good.

  96. 96.

    Suffern ACE

    March 16, 2011 at 2:45 am

    @opie_jeanne: He didn’t want us to help Haiti because it was too poor. Can’t help Japan because it is too rich. He’s just picky, that’s all. It’s the scene in Goldilocks that is often deleted.

  97. 97.

    Peter

    March 16, 2011 at 2:51 am

    I doubt anyone is going to top El Cid’s masterpiece from the last thread m_c had with us. That was incredible.

  98. 98.

    freelancer

    March 16, 2011 at 3:07 am

    @Peter:

    I doubt anyone is going to top El Cid’s masterpiece from the last thread m_c had with us. That was incredible.

    If you had a link, I’d be more than willing to concede the prize. The “Cid” is a brilliant and funny guy.

  99. 99.

    Yutsano

    March 16, 2011 at 3:12 am

    @Mnemosyne: If it ain’t Mr Bigglesworth color me unimpressed.

  100. 100.

    Calouste

    March 16, 2011 at 3:23 am

    @opie_jeanne:

    From the same site: US Republicans disband after voters still don’t get the joke

  101. 101.

    Dennis SGMM

    March 16, 2011 at 8:03 am

    @sfinny:
    A few months ago we donated a car to NPR. Like you, I had tried a couple of other organizations but they wanted me to jump through all of the hoops. NPR took care of it with one phone call and their truck arrived just when they said it would to pick up the car. They even provide you with the necessary form for your tax deduction.
    Edit: They also provided the form for release of liability.

  102. 102.

    Peter

    March 16, 2011 at 8:29 am

    @freelancer: I’m having trouble finding it. I’ll see what I can do.

  103. 103.

    suzanne

    March 16, 2011 at 8:30 am

    Awww, matoko got banned?! Sad. How I enjoyed her senseless, linguistically-challenged ranting.

    This is what happens when I go and get a job. I miss stuff.

  104. 104.

    Peter

    March 16, 2011 at 8:35 am

    @freelancer: Ah, here we go.

  105. 105.

    otto

    March 16, 2011 at 8:38 am

    My six year old has loved that song since she first heard it a year ago.

  106. 106.

    RossInDetroit

    March 16, 2011 at 9:24 am

    @GregB:

    This tune by Florence and the Machine has been my ear worm lately.

    The Dog Days are Over.

    There’s a whole lot of modern R & B sound in that. It makes more sense if you close your eyes and ignore the weird visual spectacle. A little Amy Winehouse maybe?
    I can see how that would get stuck in your head.

  107. 107.

    Bulworth

    March 16, 2011 at 9:25 am

    Nice to have you back, E.D.

  108. 108.

    sneezy

    March 16, 2011 at 9:49 am

    Man, that song is awful.

  109. 109.

    RossInDetroit

    March 16, 2011 at 10:26 am

    @sneezy:

    Man, that song is awful.

    Meaning Florence and the Machine? Over singing is the modern style. It’s too bad. Not everything sounds best blasted flat out all the way through. Dynamic contrast matters. I’d like to hear what Holly Cole or Rachel Yamagata could do with that. It’s catchy.

  110. 110.

    sneezy

    March 16, 2011 at 2:25 pm

    @RossInDetroit:

    “Meaning Florence and the Machine?”

    I don’t know who Florence and the Machine are. I just mean that the song itself is awful. As soon as they start playing, I wish they would stop. Musically, I don’t like anything about it: not the whistling, not the rhythm guitar part, not the melody, nothing. To me, it’s unlistenable.

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