Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Let there be snark.

The words do not have to be perfect.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

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

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Republicans in disarray!

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

“woke” is the new caravan.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

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  1. 1.

    hitchhiker

    Ha, we’ve got the Pandora Neville Brothers channel blasting in our kitchen right now. YUM!

  5. 5.

    Svensker

    For some reason, I’ve been listening to Britten’s Ceremony of Carols (wrong season!) and especially liked this version of the Deo Gracias.

    Also, Aaron Neville is teh yum.

  11. 11.

    The Dangerman

    Everybody plays the fool (by choosing Missouri over Norfolk State); there’s no exception to the rule (I picked them, too). Listen, baby, it may be factual, it may be cruel…

    …because that BOOM you heard was my bracket. Is it St. Patrick’s Day yet? Because I need to tie one on.

  14. 14.

    Steeplejack

    @The Dangerman:

    I feel your pain. Bracketology aside, I attended Mizzou about a hundred years ago. This is a dark day.

    But kudos to Norfolk State. They played like hell and deserved it.

  15. 15.

    The Dangerman

    @Steeplejack:

    But kudos to Norfolk State. They played like hell and deserved it.

    They did, indeed; didn’t look like a 15 seed in the slightest (ok, maybe some late FT woes, but they were solid).

  17. 17.

    burnspbesq

    For some reason, it took me a year to figure out that “The King Is Dead” is a great record. “Rise to Me” and “January Hymn” are in heavy rotation.

  20. 20.

    MikeJ

    @The Dangerman: Norfolk deserved it. Mizzou should have swept the floor with them but they just didn’t do it.

    That ruins my bracket. I was looking forward to beating KU in the semi.

  24. 24.

    geg6

    I’ve been grooving to the Foo Fighters Greatest Hits in my car all week. My favorite song of all time is “Everlong” and Greatest Hits has the original recording and an acoustic version. Here’s the acoustic version:

    http://youtu.be/PGQAfolOJUI

    And here’s the original recording:

    http://youtu.be/eBG7P-K-r1Y

    The Foos always make me feel strong in my convictions. Don’t know why that is, it just is. And I was never the biggest Nirvana fan, either. Liked them (don’t get me wrong!). But I may have been the wrong demographic for them. They never struck me as so groundbreaking. But then, I saw the Ramones, Talking Heads, the Sex Pistols, and a lot of local punk bands back when punks were truly punks. Nirvana was too much Kurt Cobain angst for me. I do, however, love Dave Grohl. His drumming on “Teen Spirit” was the first time I noticed him. And I’ve been a fan ever since.

    And I really don’t give a shit how much any of the rest of you hate the Foos. I adore them. Best rock band of the last decade. Perhaps more.

  26. 26.

    JPK

    @geg6: I always thought Grohl was a great drummer. What surprised me was how good a songwriter he turned out to be in his own right.

  29. 29.

    geg6

    @JPK:

    I know that a lot of people would consider this heresy, but I question (and questioned back in the day) how resilient a talent Cobain would be had he lived. I always saw him as a one-noter and someone who, had he not taken a shotgun to himself, would have flamed out some other way, probably a narcotic overdose. But Grohl caught my eye (I know a lot of drummers who thought he was the heart of Nirvana) early on and has more than lived up to any expectations I may have had. The Foos rarely disappoint me. They may not be groundbreaking, but they are consistently excellent if rock is your game. I am, at heart, a punk but I also loved me some vintage Aerosmith and Stones and Springsteen and Mellencamp. And the Foos are, the 2000s, the equivalent to me. Certainly more than U2 or Coldplay could ever be, though U2, back in the day, was a pretty good band. They haven’t been for a very long time.

  30. 30.

    Gus

    But Grohl caught my eye (I know a lot of drummers who thought he was the heart of Nirvana)

    Yeah, I know some drummers who think Ringo was the heart of the Beatles, too.

  31. 31.

    JPK

    @geg6: I agree Cobain did leave himself pretty much only the one way to go. He was clearly intent on it at the end. But it does make him an appealingly romantic figure, plus he was a pretty amazing singer and songwriter. On the other hand, I have to admit, I have more and more sympathy with the “hope I get old before I die” folks, headed up by Leonard Cohen, Keith Richards, Neil Young, etc., etc., etc., and Grohl too. He’s a lifer in all the good ways.

  32. 32.

    Steeplejack

    @Gus:

    When the Beatles remasters came out (09/09/09) I got in the habit of asking people who bought them about their thoughts about the albums and the group. One guy who was with his 12- or 13-year-old daughter turned out to be a professional drummer. As a joke, I asked him, “So, Ringo—luckiest drummer ever?” And he gave me a serious response. He said Ringo was a great drummer because:

    * He kept rock-solid time, which really became apparent as the band started doing more and more separate (recording) tracks per song and stitching them together later.

    * He evolved tremendously as a musician/drummer, keeping step with the band’s evolution from the early knockabout stuff through the various later phases.

    * He did a lot to maintain harmony in a group that contained two, arguably three, of the creative geniuses of the era.

  34. 34.

    Gus

    @Steeplejack: Oh, yeah. I don’t want to underestimate Ringo’s contribution. Ringo was never flashy, but he was rock solid. I’ve read some comments from session drummers who think of him as their model, and they said that being able to drum like Ringo has made their careers. Maybe he was even the heart of the band. I know when he left the band during the White Album sessions (I think it was, might have been Let it Be), they didn’t think of replacing him. They didn’t think he was replaceable. t was being facetious. I’m guessing Lennon/McCartney (and George) could have made due with a lesser drummer, and I’m guessing Mr. Cobain had the talent to make a splash with a lesser drummer, too.

  37. 37.

    Steeplejack

    @Gus:

    I didn’t think you were dissing Ringo. Your comment just reminded me of what turned out to be a very thought-provoking conversation with that drummer and his daughter.

  39. 39.

    Steve M.

    I’m just not sure you can ever go wrong with this guy.

    I’m going to be a spoilsport and say I really, really don’t like the lyrics of his much-anthologized song “Over You,” which is basically a guy telling the woman in his life that she’d better not leave him or he’s going to kill her (y’know, just like every actual murderous abusive shithead who ever terrorized a woman in real, non-song life).

    And I hate saying that because, yeah, I love a lot of his work, and a lot of the work of Allen Toussaint, who wrote the song.

  40. 40.

    Thatgaljill

    This week, I’m in love with the (not released but playing in my head) soundtrack from SMASH and especially “Marilyn: The Musical” I am hoping they release the cast recording.

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