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How You Gonna Go?

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AWOL describes me to a T.  Nothing like a crappy week at work (but no complaints — for real; I got work) + a break for some enforced remembrance to kill the blogging impetus.

Not to mention that the cycle of dangerous mood swings brought on by living within a class war is making it hard to focus on writing sweet reason. It’s plain tiring to watch the neo-feudalists as they advance their attempt to envassal and enserf* us all.

So it was that this very new version of an old song heard while driving this a.m. seemed terribly threatening:  if this becomes the soundtrack of our day, as it was of a London I lived in all those years ago, hard times are going to get  harder.  Can’t say it won’t though.  Listen:

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And how about a bonus track — the Clash original:

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That about captures my mood today.  You?  As per usual, I suspect you may consider this an open thread.

 

*F’w’at we blog if not to coin neologisms.[Or not. See Arrik’s correction.]

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  1. 1.

    adolphus

    I for one am fine with the front pagers here taking time off from blogging. You deserve a life and we are still getting our money’s worth.

    Besides, there’s always The Daily Dish.

  3. 3.

    Mino

    If the Occupy WallStreet folks have evolved a heads down style of leadership, it makes it harder for the police to know whose door to kick in, doesnt’ it?

  4. 4.

    Cat Lady

    I’m trying to think of a song that describes the mood of Red Sox Nation, and frankly I’m drawing a blank. It would combine death metal and Morrissey lyrics, with punk stylings and lots and lots of painful piercings inflicted on management. Jeesh, it’s been kind of fun to watch the sharp knives come out, and I’m a huge Sox fan. I’m rooting for Tampa to go all the way now. The baseball gods have smited Boston and smiled upon the Rays, even though their fans suck and don’t deserve them.

  5. 5.

    beltane

    When the Revolution comes, I will support the appointment of Tom Levenson as Arts & Sciences minister of the provisional government.

    Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about my Russian great-grandfather, a quiet, gentle man who liked to play chess and talk of revolution. I always regretted that I never knew him as he was a legendary figure in my family.

  12. 12.

    LM

    The song on my mind today is Fleet Foxes’ Helplessness Blues: “What good is it to sing helplessness blues, why should I wait for anyone else?” And how apt is this part: “I don’t need to be kind to the armies of man that would do such injustice to you. Or sit down and be grateful and say, ‘Sure, take all that you see,’ to the men who walk only in dimly lit halls and determine my future for me.”

  13. 13.

    BruceFromOhio

    The baseball gods have smited Boston and smiled upon the Rays, even though their fans suck and don’t deserve them.

    Spoken like a true Red Sox fan. =)

    Cold and rainy in the Buckeye today, if the trees weren’t still mostly green I’d be gassing up the snowblower, ’cause the lake effect kicked in heavy this morning. Good day/night to stay inside, cuddle with comfort (food, spouse, whiskey) and run the quarterly reports.

    What happened to the comments on SP&T’s gay-hater post below? ‘Comments closed’ is a rarity, eh?

  15. 15.

    BGinCHI

    It’s not protest-related, but if you haven’t heard the new record by The War on Drugs (called “Slave Ambient”), you ought to.

    You can trust me on this one.

  17. 17.

    Arrik

    @ Tom:

    Yeah, they just sounded too legit to be true neologisms. My favorite in this category is beclown, which the rightbloggers were pushing a few years back. It strikes me as a great word, genuinely useful in certain situations, though I worry it is permanently tainted by its recent champions.

  18. 18.

    Cat Lady

    @BruceFromOhio:

    No one goes to see them play – when the Sox play there, if you’re not watching but just listening, there’s as many Sox fans as Rays fans. As if there weren’t enough reasons to despise Florida.

  19. 19.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal: I dunno. I kinda like it, because I admire anything that gets a lefty viewpoint out into the mass consciousness. And I’m not that worried about uniformity or coherence of message. But I’m slightly worried that some infiltrator will push it over into something violent.

  20. 20.

    beltane

    @FlipYrWhig: “We got sold out, they got bailed out” is the predominant chant at the march. Pretty simple message, IMO. Who knows what will happen except that we now know it is incorrect to say “Americans will never get out on the streets”.

    Any real attempts to dismantle Social Security may meet with more resistance than the Beltway crowd imagined.

  21. 21.

    kdaug

    It was once reported (a year or two ago, maybe longer) that Obama had gathered the heads of the major banks and told them, point-blank, that he was the only thing standing between them and the pitchforks.

    They snickered.

    Now we dance.

  22. 22.

    Yutsano

    @kdaug: They certainly can’t say they weren’t warned…although I doubt the kids will get violent. That would blow up the whole thing.

  24. 24.

    Baud

    @FlipYrWhig: I’m less worried about the violence at this point, but I’m concerned that some idiot will decide to build on this protest and try to emulate the 1968 Democratic convention fiasco, or something like that. But we’ll see. I don’t like negative speculation, so I’m going to remain optimistic.

  25. 25.

    Dee Loralei

    @Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal: Down in the Max in Fog thread, Singfoom posted a manifesto from the Occupy Wallstreet folks. You might take a gander, it seems pretty solid to me. And nicely lefty. Clash is a great band for a revolution.

    @kdaug: That’s great! I was thinking something similar the other day.

  26. 26.

    Corner Stone

    I just don’t understand this place during the New Era of Civility. Last season there would’ve already been a 100+ comment thread about college football going, with 25+ people who don’t comment here anymore.
    No one would have had to ask for it.

  27. 27.

    beltane

    Mayhem on the Brooklyn Bridge right now. It looks the the protesters are in the process of being kettled and rounded up. Lots of screaming and chants of “Shame!”.

  28. 28.

    Corner Stone

    @kdaug:

    It was once reported (a year or two ago, maybe longer) that Obama had gathered the heads of the major banks and told them, point-blank, that he was the only thing standing between them and the pitchforks.

    That was comedy at the time, now it’s tragedy.

  31. 31.

    Yutsano

    @efgoldman: I do indeed prefer the alternative. Since that would have FUBARed this thread and possibly the whole blog. It wasn’t pretty.

    I’ll get over the ruined joke. Chocolate will help.

  34. 34.

    eemom

    You are a very nice gentleman, Tom Levenson. Love your neologisms. AND your art.

    L’Shanah Tovah.

  37. 37.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Fantastic cover of a great song. You’re okay in my book, no matter what everyone else says about you.

  38. 38.

    Corner Stone

    @beltane:

    Mayhem on the Brooklyn Bridge right now. It looks the the protesters are in the process of being kettled and rounded up. Lots of screaming and chants of “Shame!”.

    Any update on how that’s going?

  40. 40.

    beltane

    @Corner Stone: The livefeed cut out, possibly because the cameraman was arrested. There are also reports of a NYT reporter being arrested on the bridge.

  42. 42.

    Corner Stone

    @Corner Stone:

    I just don’t understand this place during the New Era of Civility. Last season there would’ve already been a 100+ comment thread about college football going, with 25+ people who don’t comment here anymore.
    No one would have had to ask for it.

    Sad. So sad.

  44. 44.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @Cat Lady:

    I’m trying to think of a song that describes the mood of Red Sox Nation…

    Dunno about a song, but this game was sweet revenge for this Orioles fan who is sick of Red Sox and Yankees fans coming into my stadium and rooting for the other team. I wish I had been there to watch the O’s nail their collapse to the wall.

    Crawl back to Boston and stay there.

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