Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let there be snark.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Days Since JD Vance Insulted Women Across America: Zero

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

No Justins, No Peace

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Trump makes a mockery of the legal system and cowardly judges just sit back and let him.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

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  1. 1.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    I have the theme to wkrp in Cincinnati on my mind because it’s coming on AntennaTV in 10 minutes.

  2. 2.

    Villago Delenda Est

    There is no rhyme or reason as to how I get these things in my head.

    Straight line of the week. Go for it, commenters!

  5. 5.

    MikeJ

    @Just Some Fuckhead: Opening theme or the closer? Went to a bartender! We be a yeah! And I said put a lot, put a lot in our heart!

    Actually nonsense lyrics that were meant to be replaced but never were. That’s what they always sounded like to me.

  7. 7.

    trollhattan

    Once had “Sugar Sugar” by the Archies in my head for an entire backpacking trip. Seriously pondered a several-hundred foot cliff dive as a cure.

    Now make sure I always have an ipod along.

  12. 12.

    MikeJ

    @Just Some Fuckhead: If you get them the same day we do, the second ep is one of my faves. Hordes of godless tornadoes descending upon Cincy, and the only copy Les has on hand is for Russian invasion.

    The Contest Nobody Could Win (the first ep up tonight) was, like many of their eps, based on a true story. When they tried to bring it back in the late 80s/early 90s they put ads in R&R asking for funny stories for plot ideas.

  13. 13.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @trollhattan:

    Somewhere I heard that Diana Nyad had the theme song to some ’60s or ’70s TV show going in her head over and over during the entire swim. Mercifully, I can’t remember what they said it was, but I know if it had been me, I would have just opened up to the sharks and jellyfish and said, “Take me. I’m yours.”

  18. 18.

    lamh36

    @trollhattan: totally agree. I gave up on this season, even with my love of Alcide and Vampire Eric, just too many plot thread to unravel.

    I’m going to be interested to see how they clean all that up

  19. 19.

    vtr

    Back when I was running dozens of miles a week, I kept getting “Me and You And A Dog Named Boo” stuck in my head for 5 or 6 miles a day. Were that to occur today, I would listen to the North Mississippi Allstars.” Immediate relief.

  21. 21.

    getsmartin

    We asked for Mojo Nixon
    They said “He don’t work here”
    We said “If you don’t got Mojo Nixon
    Then your store could use some fixin'”

  22. 22.

    The Dangerman

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    …wkrp in Cincinnati on my mind because it’s coming on AntennaTV in 10 minutes.

    The Blog Masters reference to Hooters was a subliminal suggestion for WKRP (shakes fist at Blog Master).

    ETA: Shakes FIST, not Shake Weight (if you don’t know, googling may be NSFW)

  24. 24.

    gbear

    A guy who just joined a Facebook group about Twin Cities music started posting videos of a band I was in that were recorded at 7th Street Entry (the small room off of First Avenue) in 1981 – a year before REM’s Chronic Town came out. These videos really came out of the blue, and they’ve been my earworms today. Husker Du and The Replacements were filmed on the same stage on different nights that week and you can find some of those videos on YouTube too. I think 21 bands were recorded in all that week.

    Fine Art – Anything But That

    Fine Art – Mirror

    Excuse me for tooting my own horn, but this was a cool band to be in at a very cool time to be a musician in the Twin Cities.

  28. 28.

    raven

    @gbear: Nice! In “Hype” they talk about the “false dawn” in Athens and Minneapolis. Do you know any of the Semisonic people or were they a lot later?

  31. 31.

    jl

    The Dead Milkmen: one person’s earworm is another person’s brain destroying death caterpillar from hell.

    The Hooters tune was nice, though.

  33. 33.

    TheMightyTrowel

    Oh god earworms. This is mine right now.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrL9uMqeP8M

    I think I have the election on my mind. Last night I dreamed about it. So glad it’s over on Saturday, but Sunday is going to be ugly. The LNP (the right wing party who are going to win big) have promised min 12k civil servants will lose their ‘cushy government jobs’ meaning 5% of the population of my city are about to be laid off.

  35. 35.

    lamh36

    @raven: well then after reading that EW article, I’m guessing the bride won’t be able to watch this one. I’ma save it for a morning this weekend, cause I live alone and thanks to Criminal Minds, I don’t need no more reasons to check EVERY DOOR IN MY HOUSE again…lol

    From the EW article I linked (@lamh36: ):

    Watch our exclusive clip below from the tense premiere, which has already aired in the UK, and you’ll understand why some British viewers were afraid to retire to their bedrooms afterward. “I heard a lot of people stayed in their living rooms. A couple was huddled up on a sofa — a true story — and I was like, ‘You’ve got to be joking! There’s two of you. Why couldn’t you go to sleep?’” Elba reports, laughing. “People saying, ‘No, we just felt safer in the living room’ — I mean, that’s hilarious.”

    For the first time Cross, who lives in New Zealand, was able to monitor Twitter reaction while season 3 aired live in Britain. He, too, saw the strong reactions Elba described: “First, there’s the shock during the show itself. But then there’s the kind of long, long tale of ‘I can’t go to bed.’ ‘I have to watch some comedy before I go to bed.’ ‘I’ve had to go and ask my neighbors to check my attic for me,’” Cross says. (Yes, people with attics, you are doubly screwed.) “There’s an infinite number of postings of people saying, ‘Thank god I’ve got boxes under my bed.’ ‘I can’t sleep alone.’ Women saying that their husbands have been teasing them by knocking on the wardrobe door, and husbands saying their wives had been teasing them by running into the garden and tapping on the window. It was this great explosion of terror across the Twittersphere, which was an immense pleasure

  37. 37.

    gbear

    @raven: John Munson, the bass player in Semisonic, was in a band called E Brown that we used to play gigs with occasionally. John went on to form a band called Trip Shakespeare that I used to go see now and then. That band broke up and morphed into Semisonic. John works for MN Public Radio now and I haven’t run into him in ages. I saw Semisonic when they were still called Pleasure (first couple gigs), but I quit hanging out in bars about the same time so I kind of lost track of bands.

  39. 39.

    raven

    @gbear: I really loved Jake’s book “So You Want to be a Rock and Roll Star”. It was a bonus that he was from Champaign, my home town too. Did you know “Closing Time” was NOT about bars but about Wilson’s preemie baby?

  41. 41.

    lamh36

    @MomSense: me too, but man I have a hard enough time getting to sleep without creepy scenes percolating in my head…lol.

    So I’m save the episode for when the sun is up…lol

  42. 42.

    MomSense

    @lamh36:

    A wise move. Thank goodness I have my vicious attack lab to protect me!

    He’s useless and would probably just wag his tail and lick the intruder to death.

  43. 43.

    gbear

    @raven: I read Jake’s book but didn’t remember that part. I liked the moment that Jake realizes that the record exec that has just ‘treated’ the band to an expensive meal is going to go back to the office and bill the whole thing to the band’s expense account against their royalties.

  44. 44.

    RobertDSC-PowerMac G5 Dual

    I wish the folks who are making Star Wars VII/VIII/IX just make the Thrawn trilogy. It’s all there. No muss, no fuss.

    It’s hot here in LA. I’m completely bent out of shape, tired, frustrated, and sick to death of GOP shit.

  46. 46.

    eemom

    @cathyx:

    Yes, we must be riveted on a serious subject at all times. No distractions allowed.

    Yea, preach it, O quick-witted mistress of nuance.

  51. 51.

    MomSense

    @lamh36:

    I don’t think I will be able to sleep tonight. Five minutes in and I’m already covering my eyes.

    See you on the late, late, late, late night threads!

  52. 52.

    geg6

    @Ted & Hellen:

    In his defense, he’s been dealing with all this shit and the serious illness of his wife. She was at the hearing today, but it was her first public appearance since she collapsed. Yeah, he looks bad (and may have Botox injections, who knows?), but he has every reason to be looking bad. I’m sure it’s been a tough few months on the job, what with both international and personal crises.

  56. 56.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @cathyx: No, some people use them that way. Some people use them as punctuation. Some use them for color. Some are fucking artists with them.

  58. 58.

    geg6

    @cathyx:

    Yeah, that’s why. No great writers, for instance, ever use profanity in their writing. If they did, they’d be lame writers and not great ones, right?

  63. 63.

    geg6

    @geg6:

    Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer and Hunter S. Thompson, too. All too untalented to use the Queen’s English. Disgusting.

  64. 64.

    Drc

    I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man by Prince is running through my head now. Out of pure evilness I’ll mention Muskrat Love by the Captain and Tenille

  65. 65.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    I’m with cathyx on this one. Some of you do seem to have a problem with profanity. I’ve wanted to say something for a while now but it seems like I’m always scolding you all so I just kept quiet.

  71. 71.

    Paddy

    I read sometime in the past that earworms are a product of our brains trying to make sense of random notes. I’ve noticed that if a commercial on tv has a couple notes that are similar to a song I know, that song climbs in.

    Kinda like that tv show “Name That Tune”.

    Your brain just wants to connect the notes to something you know.

  74. 74.

    gbear

    @Drc: At least you didn’t mention the America version of that song. Almost every hit song by America is an earworm from hell.

  80. 80.

    YellowJournalism

    Thank my husband for this one.

    The only cure for it has been the new one from Eminem, but it doesn’t last long before the other one creeps back in.

  81. 81.

    RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual

    But the actors are all too old, to be fair.

    That is my main objection to this sequel trilogy. I don’t want a 70-year-old Han Solo on my screen. An old Indiana Jones was bad enough, though old Indy had a smidge of plausibility. An old Han Solo would have none whatsoever.

    Recast the roles and follow Zahn’s plot detail by detail.

  82. 82.

    Mnemosyne

    @RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual:

    I thought they handled Very Old Spock pretty well in the first Star Trek reboot, so they may be able to figure out a way to have Old Han, Luke and Leia participate in the story but not be the main focus. We’ll see, I guess.

  83. 83.

    FlipYrWhig

    @gbear: I don’t remember any of their songs but I remember Trip Shakespeare being solid. I did college radio in the very early 1990s.

  84. 84.

    MC Simon Milligan

    Once in 1985 a friend of mine booked the Dead Milkmen to play at a club. The club went out of business two weeks before the gig but he didn’t inform the band. They drove around until they saw some punker kids and asked us where he was so they could kick his ass. We told them, but he’d already left where we’d last seen him.

    That is my Dead Milkmen story. I have no Hooters story. The band nor the restaurant.

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