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I’m not watching the Cain “Imagine” video, I have strong memories of that song. I remember, right after 9/11, Neil Young did a version of it and it was getting played everywhere, even on pop radio in the south (where I lived at the time), despite the “imagine no religion” part. Then, they suddenly stopped playing it at all as we moved into the Lee Greenwood phase of the post 9/11 era.

I also remember John Denver doing a version of it on David Letterman, only the song was about sporks, spoon-forks. It ended “Imagine all the spoon forks, helping man to eat, you can say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one, I hope someday you’ll join us, in a world where spoons and forks are one.”

Anyone know how I can find this on Hulu or whatever the kids are calling it these days?

Update. I think it was actually spoon-straws.

Update. Apparently Hulu hates Letterman, so no go. Consider this an open thread then.

Update. Ask and ye shall receive! Thanks!

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  3. 3.

    cathyx

    Is bleg another word for open thread?

    I made pumpkin bread at the request of my daughter and I didn’t notice until I had to add 3 cups of sugar that it makes two loaves. I don’t need 2 loaves. Why do recipes do this???

    It is delicious though.

  4. 4.

    jon

    Hulu, owned by NBC, probably doesn’t have a huge interest in old David Letterman and Conan O’Brien bits. I’m sure you can find Jay Leno picking his nose from 1983. But those guys? That footage just went missing somehow or another.

  5. 5.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    @cathyx: I thought it was a blog beg??

    To beg for money on a blog. Beg + blog == bleg.
    I hate to bleg, but my car just got totaled and I really need some money to continue bringing you this high-quality blog material.

  8. 8.

    Roger Moore

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    since the bleg has been answered, doesn’t the thread default to an Open Thread?

    I think that all threads automatically revert to being open threads when people get sufficiently bored with the original topic. I don’t know if that’s an official policy, but it seems to be the de facto rule.

  11. 11.

    AliceBlue

    I too am going to pass on Cain’s little pizza ditty. I was living in New York at the time of John Lennon’s murder; I’ve always associated “Imagine” with that.

  14. 14.

    lamh34

    @ABL: yep, just bite the bullet. I’ve convinced my GBFF to get a twitter account cause it’s actually more private than FB for me…go figure.

  17. 17.

    lamh34

    ok, it’s been a long time since I watched HGTV’s House Hunters. I was waiting on the cable guy, so I’m watched it.

    First of all let me say that the cable guy was kinda cute, but why oh why don’t my cable guy/delivery me look like this: My Dream Delivery Guy

    Back to HGTV, what the heck are all these 20-somethings’ who are buying homes and condos for 250,000 to 500,000 dollars??? WTF do they do? It boggles my mind! and makes me a little pissy. I admit it. Ugh, this is probably why I stopped watching House Hunters!

  19. 19.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    anybody watching Lawrence O’Donnell? Was that Bonnie Raitt sitting next to Hillary CLinton at Bill’s Gaga party?

  24. 24.

    Jenny

    @Jay B.:

    Was it a millionaire who said imagine no possessions?

    Meh. He lived in one of the most expensive addresses in the world: Central Park West at the regal, opulent Dakota (get a load of this building).

  27. 27.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Jenny: I have no beef with his being rich and caring about the poor. It was the way he treated his older son that always leaves me with a sour, cynical taste in my mouth when people start singing hymns to the Dalai Lennon.

    @lamh34: I didn’t get the appeal of Lady Gaga when she was calling herself Madonna.

  30. 30.

    lamh34

    anyone catch Barney Frank on Rachel Maddow just now? he basically told Rachel, that he supports the OWS movement, but the teaparty is powerful because they also took political action. Mr. Frank said that the reason why the GOP congress are full subsidiaries to the Tea Party Movement is becasue the Tea Party voted and they lobby people. which led to current GOP members to be “afraid” to stand up cause they may be primaried.

    Mr Frank was a great interview, Rachel did a lot of talking over him, and kinda tried to make it seem like Barney was saying that the rallying is not useful, but Frank quickly told her that’s not what he was saying. He said that the rallying and protesting was good, but that it needs to also be felt at the voting booth…

    Anyway, I thought it was a good segment. if anyone finds the video later, I’ll post.

  31. 31.

    cathyx

    @gelfling545: I did just throw it in the freezer before I read your comment. I’m glad to hear that it freezes well, I wasn’t sure. I’d hate to take it out later and find it’s ruined and I could have given it to someone instead.

  32. 32.

    lamh34

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: @arguingwithsignposts:

    Maybe I missed the rest of the segment, cause the part I caught, was Gaga changing the lyrics of Bad Romance to we all want a little “Bill-Romance” in her high slitted unitard and then stopping in front of the old horn dog and doing what Gaga does best I guess. Hilary and Chelsea were there, but it was too much for me…

  36. 36.

    Mark K

    Clear Channel Radio, the nations largest owner of radio stations banned “Imagine” after 9/11 and I believe it still is….

    I’m a huge Lennon fan. Didn’t think I would like the movie “Nowhere Boy” but really enjoyed it. Can’t ever get enough of The Beatles.

  37. 37.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @lamh34: I saw that bit, too, and had the same reaction as you and L. O’D. Hillary’s a good sport, and at this point in her life, she shouldn’t have to be.

  38. 38.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Mark K: because of “imagine there’s no heaven”? Good lord, life imitates a thirty year old episode of WKRP in Cincinatti

  40. 40.

    Jenny

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I have no beef with his being rich and caring about the poor.

    Fine. Just don’t sing about “imagine no possessions” from gold plated palatial digs. As he said, “it isn’t hard to do”.

  44. 44.

    jon

    John Lennon didn’t mean it literally, much as “Blessed are the Cheesemakers” refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.

    Bono can still give a crap about poverty and starvation, and do some good in the process. And everyone can mention how pretentious he is while still finding out about new countries where starvation is occurring only because Bono brought it up.

  47. 47.

    slag

    I wouldn’t watch that Cain video either because I won’t defile that song by association. Although, I thought you didn’t like the song, DougJ…Didn’t you feel it pretentious or something?

  48. 48.

    jon

    @jon: I didn’t mean the actual starving occurred because Bono brought it up, though I’m certain that U2, like Dethklok, can somehow be responsible for such things when they’re vying to be the World’s Sixth Most Powerful Cultural Force.

  53. 53.

    gocart mozart

    My parody of Public Enemy’s “911 is a Joke”
    MC Crazy Bread’s “999 is a Joke”

    Hit me
    Going going gone
    Now I proposed 999 a time ago
    Don’t you see how now they’re reactin’
    They only come and they come when I poll well

    click my name for the whole song

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