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Happening Now

by John Cole|  June 21, 201212:33 am| 59 Comments

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  1. 1.

    Valdivia

    June 21, 2012 at 12:38 am

    Ah Violent Femmes. Hadn’t heard that in a long while.

  2. 2.

    Mark S.

    June 21, 2012 at 12:41 am

    Bristol Palin is totally waiting until marriage this time, for reals!

    Okay, we’ve just received word that Bristol is now expecting.

  3. 3.

    Mark S.

    June 21, 2012 at 12:43 am

    My question is why can’t Bristol just use the pill like 99% of women her age and leave us out of it.

  4. 4.

    Steeplejack

    June 21, 2012 at 12:49 am

    @Mark S.:

    Srsly.

    @Cole: I am not getting sucked into a late-night music-a-thon. Good night, sir!

  5. 5.

    Mark S.

    June 21, 2012 at 12:58 am

    Does anyone read NRO? Have they said anything about the racist they hired?

  6. 6.

    FlipYrWhig

    June 21, 2012 at 12:59 am

    Don’t forget your Mötley Crüe t-shirt. You know, all proceeds go to get their lead singer out of jail.

    (I think my iPad autocorrected to put the umlaut over the o in Mötley!)

  7. 7.

    Mark S.

    June 21, 2012 at 1:02 am

    @FlipYrWhig:

    What? Vince Neil is in jail?

    THIS WILL NOT STAND

  8. 8.

    MikeJ

    June 21, 2012 at 1:04 am

    @Mark S.: I must be kidding, the Bahamas are islands.

  9. 9.

    Quicksand

    June 21, 2012 at 1:05 am

    Looking at the images, I thought, “ah, Dead Milkmen, Dead Kennedys, and Orly Taitz.”

  10. 10.

    Jeff

    June 21, 2012 at 1:05 am

    You stole my cassette collection (stolen from Sound Warehouse and Musicland)!

  11. 11.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    June 21, 2012 at 1:06 am

    The problem with writing a character sketch that turns into a novel is if the characters get fully explored before all the plot holes get filled in.

  12. 12.

    Mark S.

    June 21, 2012 at 1:08 am

    @MikeJ:

    I don’t get it.

  13. 13.

    maven

    June 21, 2012 at 1:09 am

    I have these LP’s in my record bin.

    Along with many 12 inch singles. (That phrase used to be a personal ad….)

    Consider that…………..

  14. 14.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    June 21, 2012 at 1:10 am

    @MikeJ: Love me two times baby,
    Once for tomorrow,
    Once ’cause I’ve got AIDS

  15. 15.

    Jay in Oregon

    June 21, 2012 at 1:11 am

    @Mark S.:
    Watch the videos, all will be explained.

  16. 16.

    Ruckus

    June 21, 2012 at 1:12 am

    A fun commercial. Maybe not quite PC.

  17. 17.

    Mark S.

    June 21, 2012 at 1:13 am

    @Jay in Oregon:

    I would, but Bristol will be here any second.

  18. 18.

    FlipYrWhig

    June 21, 2012 at 1:15 am

    @Mark S.: Never mind that, the important thing here is that you ask me how I’m gonna get down to the shore.

  19. 19.

    Wag

    June 21, 2012 at 1:17 am

    I went out with Jello’s sister a couple of times in college. She was a cool girl from Boulder.

  20. 20.

    Martin

    June 21, 2012 at 1:18 am

    My wife and I can’t pass a Camaro without breaking out in ‘bitchin’ camaro…’ Thankfully there are quite few here in the OC.

    Our kids think we’re insane. They have no style.

  21. 21.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    June 21, 2012 at 1:18 am

    @FlipYrWhig: How you gettin’ down to the shore?

  22. 22.

    FlipYrWhig

    June 21, 2012 at 1:19 am

    What would really round out this sequence is… “Take the Skinheads Bowling.”

  23. 23.

    FlipYrWhig

    June 21, 2012 at 1:19 am

    @The prophet Nostradumbass: Funny you should ask, I got a car now.

  24. 24.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    June 21, 2012 at 1:20 am

    @FlipYrWhig: Ah, how’d you get a car?

  25. 25.

    Yutsano

    June 21, 2012 at 1:21 am

    @Martin:

    Our kids think we’re insane. They have no style.

    I submit this is not an either/or proposition.

  26. 26.

    Mark S.

    June 21, 2012 at 1:25 am

    @Jay in Oregon:

    All right, now I get it.

    Ugh, it’s like something my hipper-than-thou friend from high school would play for me.

  27. 27.

    Slamhole

    June 21, 2012 at 1:28 am

    And all this time I was under the impression you only liked Styx, Kansas, Foreigner, REO, you know, that kind of crap.

    slow clap

  28. 28.

    Mnemosyne

    June 21, 2012 at 1:29 am

    @Valdivia:

    You may have missed this the first time around:

    Amanda Palmer and friends play “The Violent Femmes”

    The whole album, in order, start to finish.

  29. 29.

    FlipYrWhig

    June 21, 2012 at 1:29 am

    @The prophet Nostradumbass: I refer you to the statement made earlier by my colleague @MikeJ.

  30. 30.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    June 21, 2012 at 1:31 am

    I got to see the DKs once, probably on one of their last tours (’85 or ’86) at the Varsity Theatre in Palo Alto, CA. In terms of musicianship, they were miles ahead of any of the other punk bands of the time.

  31. 31.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    June 21, 2012 at 1:32 am

    @FlipYrWhig: Uh uh, what kinda car do y’ got?

  32. 32.

    FlipYrWhig

    June 21, 2012 at 1:37 am

    @The prophet Nostradumbass: As a kid growing up in New Jersey, in a Shore county, I have specific people I picture any time I heat the word “Camaro.”. Also, “IROC.”

  33. 33.

    FlipYrWhig

    June 21, 2012 at 1:38 am

    In closing, I’m drunk on unleaded. Outski and g’night.

  34. 34.

    Fordpowers

    June 21, 2012 at 1:39 am

    Dude… Dead milkmen
    Takes me back to middle school

  35. 35.

    earl in ca

    June 21, 2012 at 1:41 am

    Wow. I was really into these three bands back in 7th grade (85′) and they are still on my ipod to this day. Looking back all these years later – its all too obvious that we were much cooler than those dorky Jefferson Starship fans.

  36. 36.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    June 21, 2012 at 1:42 am

    @FlipYrWhig: Here’s a song that’s right up your alley, then.

  37. 37.

    Mark S.

    June 21, 2012 at 1:47 am

    Did anyone see the Pacquiao fight? How big of a robbery was it?

  38. 38.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    June 21, 2012 at 1:58 am

    One of these things is not like the others. One of these things doesn’t belong.

  39. 39.

    Violet

    June 21, 2012 at 2:01 am

    Oh, dear Lord. Cole’s drunk tweeting again.

  40. 40.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    June 21, 2012 at 2:07 am

    @Violet: That tweet from an hour ago?

  41. 41.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    June 21, 2012 at 2:07 am

    Cole:

    Triangulating here….I think you might like this.

    Naked Raygun I Lie

  42. 42.

    John Cole

    June 21, 2012 at 2:10 am

    @Mark S.: Fucking highway robbery. Most outrageous decision I remember.

  43. 43.

    Mark S.

    June 21, 2012 at 2:18 am

    @John Cole:

    I’m pretty sure the mob had something to do with it.

  44. 44.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    June 21, 2012 at 2:30 am

    Boxing makes professional cycling look good in comparison.

  45. 45.

    Mark S.

    June 21, 2012 at 2:42 am

    @The prophet Nostradumbass:

    There are so many horrible decisions, it’s hard to argue.

    Or these judges unbelievably suck. I remember watching Chambers vs Peters. Chambers clearly won, but he didn’t win 9 of 10 rounds, and he sure as fuck didn’t draw. Oh fuck, at least they got the right result there.

  46. 46.

    Tehanu

    June 21, 2012 at 3:18 am

    There is (or was) a band in the San Francisco area called The Dead Kenny Gs. From their mouths to God’s ear… just sayin’.

  47. 47.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    June 21, 2012 at 3:32 am

    @Mark S.:

    She has a TV show and fans to feed. Oh, and most importantly, a bank account to fill!

    Like her mother, she’s down with making a sleazy living.

  48. 48.

    ponce

    June 21, 2012 at 3:35 am

    Too big, too big for her top…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPjLTDtn2sw

  49. 49.

    James E. Powell

    June 21, 2012 at 3:38 am

    Boxing died for me when they gave it to Leonard over Hagler. It was all about the show because the show is what makes money. I stopped thinking it was any better than pro wrestling.

  50. 50.

    Lance Boyle

    June 21, 2012 at 3:40 am

    I would donate a kidney to see video of Mr. Cole doing air guitar/vocals in his living room to Dead Kennedys. How anyone with such great taste in music was ever a Republican is beyond belief, although I used to suspect that people in the pit who were actually trying to hurt people were probably Rs.

  51. 51.

    hamletta

    June 21, 2012 at 4:31 am

    Tony Orlando and Dawn!

    The Dead Milkmens’ Middle-Atlantic (as opposed to Mid-Atlantic) accents weren’t quite as pronounced as I remembered.

    Prolly like mine, before I spent 30 years in Nashville.

  52. 52.

    Valdivia

    June 21, 2012 at 4:40 am

    @Mnemosyne:

    that is so full of win I have no words.
    Thank you! :D

  53. 53.

    David Koch

    June 21, 2012 at 4:53 am

    @Mark S.: She does use the pill. She holds an aspirin pill btwn her knees.

  54. 54.

    Ron

    June 21, 2012 at 7:46 am

    @FlipYrWhig: Great song. Here ya go

  55. 55.

    Mino

    June 21, 2012 at 8:44 am

    All of these numbers would be improved if the singers were cut and only the music remained. Or maybe a bouncing ball with the lyrics in sub-title. (I know, showing my age here.)

    Styling doesn’t excuse horrid singing.

  56. 56.

    Sloegin

    June 21, 2012 at 11:58 am

    Add a little Primus to that list and you’ve nailed my musical demograpic.

  57. 57.

    Ralph Spoilsport

    June 21, 2012 at 12:22 pm

    Saw all three Live

  58. 58.

    Ralph Spoilsport

    June 21, 2012 at 12:26 pm

    @Lance Boyle:

    With the Animutts in Total Terror…

  59. 59.

    dj spellchecka

    June 21, 2012 at 2:14 pm

    just saw a computer commercial that uses various versions of “blister in the sun”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smRt9V7mNG0

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