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He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

If West Virginia and San Francisco had a love child.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

I’m more Christian than these people and I’m an atheist.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Everybody saw this coming.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Please don’t feed the bears.

Washington Post’s Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

with the Kraken taking a plea, the Cheese stands alone.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

If marriage is the equivalent of selling yourself into slavery, women with self respect should reject the offer.

When the time comes to make an endorsement, the pain of NYT editors will be palpable as they reluctantly whisper “Biden.”

‘Museums aren’t America’s attic for its racist shit.’

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

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An early edition of Song of the Week from Can’t Explain…..

Margo Guryan, “Under My Umbrella” (1968)
Awww, it’s getting rainy around here. Maybe snowy where you are. Time for staying indoors more often, hot chocolate and marshmallows, games of Scrabble and old black and white movies, that kind of thing. This Margo Guryan song fits the mood pretty well. Guryan was a terrific songwriter from Far Rockaway. Her life and musical orientations changed in all kinds of interesting ways once she heard the Beach Boys song “God Only Knows.” I happened to discover her and this song courtesy of the great music blog blowupdoll, always worth a visit if you happen to find this sort of thing up your alley, as I do.

Sunday songs:
Julie London, “Sunday Mornin'” (written by Margo Guryan)
Spanky & Our Gang, “Sunday Will Never Be the Same” (this act also covered Margo Guryan’s “Sunday Mornin'”)
Velvet Underground, “Sunday Morning” (not the Margo Guryan song)
More at Can’t Explain

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Doug again here: wait this isn’t the under my umbrella the title refers to. I didn’t think those guys were called Margo Guryan, but you never know.

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  2. 2.

    harlana

    I have to admit, although I was completely devoid of compassion yesterday, I thought Perry was funny on Letterman.

  3. 3.

    Poopyman

    wait this isn’t the under my umbrella the title refers to. I didn’t think those guys were called Margo Guryan, but you never know.

    Yeah. Hollies fail. But since I’d never heard Margo Guryan … thanks!

  4. 4.

    BGinCHI

    This makes me thik of two great, great songs:

    John Prine, “Blue Umbrella.” One of his most beautiful, sad, and underrated songs.

    Kris Kristofferson’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” sung by Johnny Cash. Just an unbelievable song, about which not much needs to be said.

  5. 5.

    DougJ

    @harlana:

    Me too, hilarious in fact. I like the guy as an on-camera retail politician when he’s scripted. How can he be such a fuck up in debates?

  7. 7.

    Cat Lady

    Add a French accent and it’s Claudine Longet, or more breath in the voice and it’s Jane Birkin in je t’aime. I’ll take Janis Joplin plz kthx.

  10. 10.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @DougJ:

    He has to think on his feet.

    He’s not an improvisational comic. Without a script, stage directions, and someone manipulating his every move, he’s toast.

  11. 11.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @Cat Lady: Oh my god I can’t believe someone mentioned Claudine Longet. I had such a crush, I can’t tell you. Hey I was 14, what can I say, and hadn’t developed much musical taste yet. Actually two years later was listening to Janis all the time also. But, oh my, at the time…..

  12. 12.

    Woodrowfan

    I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I really like Eagles Tequila Sunrise as a morning song.

    I like the Eagles so that’s fine by me. being of college age in the 70s the Eagles were good at slow dance/making out music.

  13. 13.

    Matthew B.

    Claudine Longet actually covered a couple of Guryan’s songs (“Think of Rain” and “I Don’t Intend to Spend Christmas Without You”).

  18. 18.

    Cat Lady

    @DougJ:

    I don’t remember that, but her reputation as a sweet kitten type belied that it had all the juicy 70s stuff of sex, drugs, glamour and Aspen. Who would have played Claudine on SNL? Gilda?

  19. 19.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @Cat Lady: No kidding. This was long before all that though. Voila. For instance.

    Actually this is a lot more Astrud Gilberto than I remembered, though more girlish and breathy and so on.

    “We’re not expecting wainbows…” I think the first time I realized, years later, that there were actual people on the planet who spoke English like that, it was all over.

  22. 22.

    BGinCHI

    Now I have the strange and wonderful version of “Sunday Afternoon” by Blossom Dearie stuck in my head.

    Crist.

  23. 23.

    Poopyman

    @Cat Lady: IIRC, Claudine wasn’t portrayed in that sketch. I’m sure you could find it on Youtube somewhere, but I think it was Chevy Chase and Jane Curtain (?) sportscasting the “Claudine Longet Downill Event” or somesuch. Videotape of downhill racers flying along, a gunshot sounds, and they wipe out. One after the other.

    I guess you have to see it.

  27. 27.

    PurpleGirl

    @Cat Lady: And even though she and Andy Williams divorced, he stayed her friend and support for years.

    Yeah, Nancy Grace would have a meltdown and never give her peace.

  28. 28.

    harlana

    @DougJ: one of the few Eagles songs I still enjoy – most have been played to death and whenever I hear Hotel California, I want to shoot myself in the eye.

  33. 33.

    Davis X. Machina

    Yay, regulation!

    The FCC and many industry partners are offering broadband Internet access to needy families for $9.95 per month (with tax) for two years. There will be no installation, activation, or modem rental fees (although customers can buy a modem for $10), and the service must have at least 1Mbps performance.
    —
    To qualify for the program, a family must have at least one child enrolled in the Free School Lunch Program. The family also must not be a current broadband customer and can’t have any unpaid broadband bills or un-returned equipment on the books for that service provider.
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    Participating ISPs include Bend Cable, Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Charter, Comcast (via Internet Essentials), Cox Communications, Eagle Communications, GCI, Insight, Mediacom, Midcontinent, Sjoberg’s Cable, Suddenlink, and Time Warner Cable.

    In Maine, every middle-schooler has a laptop, and many districts follow that up, even some of the less prosperous ones, through high-school, that goes home with the child.

    This will help to close the gap a bit between the haves and the have-nots…

  43. 43.

    Violet

    @Steve:
    I love that song. It’s on the “Love Actually” soundtrack, which I love. Especially the hilariously awful “Christmas is All Around” by Billy Mack.

  49. 49.

    Captain Goto

    “Spanky’s Greatest Hit(s)” has a place of honor on my digital music thingy. I categorized it for my daughter as “60’s hippie harmony”, of which there were many fine practitioners.

  51. 51.

    4jkb4ia

    In the context of the idea of this song, Rihanna’s “Umbrella” isn’t even a snide joke, although it is much more in your face. Which reminds me of the parody “Vuvuzela” that was done for the World Cup and which Goal linked to.

    (OT: Here is an informative article on banks and European sovereign debt since John now has the sense not to show up for the rest of the afternoon.)

  53. 53.

    burnspbesq

    Sunday songs, country division:

    “After All This Time,” Rodney Crowell.
    “You and You Alone,” Vince Gill.
    “This Is Love,” Mary Chapin Carpenter
    “Reason to Live,” Kathy Mattea

  55. 55.

    General Stuck

    I recognize that song, I think it was on the movie soundtrack for Emmanuelle, The Convent Years

  56. 56.

    different-church-lady

    So that’s what Julie’s last album sounded like. Better than I’d imagined. She does a nice job with that song.

  57. 57.

    different-church-lady

    I suppose we gotta do this:

    Sunday Will Never Be The Same – Spanky & Our Gang
    Monday Monday – Mamas & Papas
    Tuesday Afternoon – Moody Blues
    Wednesday Week – Elvis Costello and The Attractions
    Thursday (?)
    Friday (?)
    Another Saturday Night – Cat Stevens

  58. 58.

    ed_finnerty

    sundays

    lucinda williams

    love sunday morning coming down – but am partial to the Kristopherson version having heard it first

  59. 59.

    JPK

    @different-church-lady: “Thursday” by Morphine, Asobi Seksu, and/or Country Joe & the Fish + “To Claudia on Thursday” by the Millennium
    “Friday on My Mind” by the Easybeats, “Black Friday” by Steely Dan, “Thank God It’s Friday” by Love and Kisses

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