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Late Night Open Thread

by John Cole|  February 15, 20122:11 am| 26 Comments

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I guess pretty much everyone here forgot to celebrate Valentine’s Day, so here is a belated Happy Valentine’s Day. My sister, Devon, called to wish me a Happy Valentine’s but I missed the call, so she left a message. She told me Happy Valentines, and then reminded me that when she was 14 and organizing the Valentine’s Day dance at her girls school, when she asked me for a song they should play, I suggested this:

I honestly don’t know what makes me happier. The fact I have always been an asshole, the fact that when other douchebags were listening to top 40 crap, as a 16 year old I had Zappa in my repertoire, or the fact that my sister remembers all the music I passed down to her.

At any rate, Happy Hallmark day!

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  1. 1.

    Comrade Mary

    February 15, 2012 at 2:14 am

    It’s Canadian Flag Day, John. We can all celebrate that.

  2. 2.

    C Nelson Reilly

    February 15, 2012 at 2:17 am

    Bozzio!

  3. 3.

    Yutsano

    February 15, 2012 at 2:21 am

    Ahh to hell with it. I’m crashing.

  4. 4.

    Comrade Mary

    February 15, 2012 at 2:24 am

    @Yutsano: BUT IT’S FLAAAAAAAG DAAAAAAY!

    /whine

  5. 5.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    February 15, 2012 at 2:34 am

    I don’t know who came up with the whole “Valentine’s Day” scam, but bravo, you devious asshole.

  6. 6.

    M. Bouffant

    February 15, 2012 at 2:38 am

    Still a bigger asshole, & since I was about 13. Keep trying though!

  7. 7.

    thalarctos

    February 15, 2012 at 2:39 am

    @Yutsano: Did the Seattle meet-up get pushed back, or is it still on for this weekend?

  8. 8.

    amk

    February 15, 2012 at 2:55 am

    ACA benefits more the gooper CD’s than the dems’ and yet their nutjob candies are all for kill obamacare. Fucking lunatics.

  9. 9.

    Biscuits

    February 15, 2012 at 2:59 am

    My husband is more romantic than me and I consider him to be as warm and cuddly as Mr. Spock. What can I say, he had me with his mind.
    There’s a Seattle meet up?

  10. 10.

    BruinKid

    February 15, 2012 at 3:23 am

    Just saw the rerun of The Young Turks, where Cenk had Andrew Breitbart on as the first guest to talk about the viral video of his Occupy rant, and his other work.

    Cenk, unfortunately, got nowhere with Breitbart, who’s a pro at dissembling and bringing in all these unrelated issues to try and cloud what’s going on. Talk about Shirley Sherrod? He brings up how her husband wants to “get rid of” white people. WTF?

    It’s almost impossible to “get” Breitbart on live TV. He’ll throw so much bullshit at you it’s hard to separate out what’s what.

  11. 11.

    fuckwit

    February 15, 2012 at 3:42 am

    Ram it, ram it, ram it…!

  12. 12.

    RedKitten

    February 15, 2012 at 5:58 am

    @Comrade Mary: Happy flag day, Comrade Mary!

    I, for one, am celebrating it by staying home in my bathrobe and attending to a sick toddler.

  13. 13.

    donnah

    February 15, 2012 at 6:24 am

    My husband recently bought an old fashioned “whirly pop” popcorn maker, the kind where you turn a crank handle and the popcorn pops on the stove. He loves it dearly, so for Valentine’s Day, I gave him expensive fluffy popcorn and those cute old fashioned red and white boxes to eat it from.

    He gave me a dozen red roses. We were both happy!

  14. 14.

    Gin & Tonic

    February 15, 2012 at 7:11 am

    First record I bought, back when I was 13 or 14 and had enough money to buy a record, was Freak Out. I still have it.

  15. 15.

    60th Street

    February 15, 2012 at 8:12 am

    Uncanny, Cole.

    Believe it or not, I started randomly IM-ing the lyrics to this song not two weeks ago to a good friend of mine for laughs.

    Been stuck in my head ever since.

    Laughed my ass of when I saw it here this morning.

  16. 16.

    Tokyokie

    February 15, 2012 at 8:27 am

    When I was in high school, I was selected to compile a report about school events and select the school’s top three songs for what was supposed to be a weekly feature on a nearby radio station. Because I wanted to hear it on the radio, I claimed the top song was “Weasels Ripped My Flesh.”

    And although the radio station continued this feature for the rest of the school year with other high schools, it never ran the one I submitted and never called our school back.

    RZZZZZ!

  17. 17.

    Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937

    February 15, 2012 at 9:22 am

    Sheik Yer Booty is a classic. When I was in college I had the misfortune of meeting a middle aged man whose name was Bobby Brown. That song could have been written about him. Naturally, I had to play it for everyone else who thought he was a turd.

  18. 18.

    Amir Khalid

    February 15, 2012 at 9:27 am

    @RedKitten:
    Samkitten is under the weather? Hope he gets better real soon.

  19. 19.

    Raenelle

    February 15, 2012 at 9:57 am

    Oh John. You might be gruff and grumpy, but you certainly do not strike me as an asshole. Assholes are unkind, and I just don’t see that in you.

  20. 20.

    AliceBlue

    February 15, 2012 at 10:02 am

    Mr. AliceBlue and I didn’t do anything special for VD; I had really forgotten about it. We just celebrated our 26th wedding anniversary about a week ago, and we had a lovely dinner at our favorite restaurant.

    My entry for the best Zappa VD song: “Dirty Love.”

  21. 21.

    Peter

    February 15, 2012 at 10:04 am

    Sheik Yerbouti was the first Zappa album I bought. I also was 16, I think.

    Speaking from extensive personal experience, there’s a world of difference between curmudgeon and asshole.

  22. 22.

    Peter

    February 15, 2012 at 10:06 am

    @AliceBlue: Yes, although the bridge to “Zombie Woof” is pretty romantic as well.

  23. 23.

    Death Panel Truck

    February 15, 2012 at 10:12 am

    That’s a good song, but I liked “Flakes” better.

    “Wanna buy some Mandies, Bob?”

  24. 24.

    Paul in KY

    February 15, 2012 at 10:42 am

    @BruinKid: You have to pick your best point & focus only on that until you have plumbed the depths of his depravity.

    Not easy & he won’t help you, but pick one out & chew on it.

  25. 25.

    Origuy

    February 15, 2012 at 10:45 am

    The woman I’d be celebrating Valentine’s Day with had pool league, so I went to a pub, listened to an Irish music seisiun, and tried Tullamore Dew. I think I like it better than Bushmills or Jamesons.

    What do you do in Canada for Flag Day? Have pancakes with maple syrup?

  26. 26.

    earl in CA

    February 15, 2012 at 11:54 am

    I just saw (Dweezel) Zappa Plays Zappa in San Luis Obispo last weekend. They only played one from Sheik Yerbouti but it was well placed within the set. They encored with Dancin’ Fool -> Willie the Pimp, Whipping Post.

    If you’re into Frank, go see ZPZ!

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