Heard this old song on the radio a couple of days ago, and it keeps replaying in my mind:
I like the song, so I don’t mind the earworm. One time I got “Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter” stuck in my head. That I DID mind — nearly drove me mad. I’ve you’re susceptible to that sort of thing, please, for the love of dog, don’t look that song up on YouTube.
Here’s a shocking revelation that came out of a Piers Fucking Morgan interview with Donald Fucking Trump:
#BREAKING: Trump: I'm not a feminist https://t.co/SjvfRScCRA pic.twitter.com/uQKPkl6MzQ
— The Hill (@thehill) January 27, 2018
It’s shocking because Trump uttered a truth. The interview airs tomorrow, and we all may be endangered by it even if we sensibly plan to avoid the broadcast because when two towering masses of egotism and ignorance collide under the right conditions, it can create a cataclysmic wave of stupidity and self-regard that is capable of puncturing the atmosphere.
Quiet evening in our location tonight. Big storm heading our way across the Gulf, but that won’t hit until tomorrow.
Anyhoo, open thread.
Adam L Silverman
Don’t they broadcast Morgan’s show on some whacky bandwidth between local UHF and what they talk to the astronauts at the ISS on?
Omnes Omnibus
I don’t need to YouTube it for it to become an earworm. I hate you.
Mike J
Need a new throwback earworm?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkp-rtW-vp8
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Adam L Silverman:
They broadcast on shortwave.
Adam L Silverman
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: According to KellyAnne Conway, they broadcast via microwaves!
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: The Juliet of the early ’90s Boston scene. Never heard that one before.
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus: The new album hasn’t been released yet. That’s the lead single.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: That would explain it.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Adam L Silverman:
I recommend use of tin foil hats for best reception. If streams of electrons are arcing across the tin foil that means it’s working.
Jager
We binged watched “The Man in the High Castle”…Edelweiss drove me crazy for a couple of weeks.
joel hanes
@Omnes Omnibus:
Erase it with this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B41dXQp6Bw
Steve in the ATL
I’m back in San Francisco now. No one showed up at the Carmel-by-the-Sea meet up! Probably should have mentioned it before now….
Omnes Omnibus
@joel hanes: I used this.
joel hanes
@Omnes Omnibus:
Wow, that’s a generation difference.
I am old.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: I am sorry. Fucking Californians. Have some Scotch in the hotel bar. Bill it to the company.
Omnes Omnibus
@joel hanes: So am I.
Adam L Silverman
@Jager: Here’s Victor Garber doing it as a time displaced Professor Martin Stein – one half of Firestorm – from the TV show Legends of Tomorrow:
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus:
Thanks, but I perfected this move decades ago!
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: I would hope so.
Yutsano
@Steve in the ATL: Are you on per diem?
Whenever I see a pic of Dolt45 these days I keep thinking he looks terrible. He’s probably falling apart physically.
HumboldtBlue
Speaking of old tunes, here is Cork, Ireland’s, biggest Liverpool fan who created a new song to be sung on the Kop in honor of the Reds.
(He’s a comedian and he and his brother did this impromptu after he heard the song on the radio)
yet another jeff
So, has The Hill always been unable to understand what #BREAKING means?
Steve in the ATL
@Yutsano: not a per diem, but daily limits that I exceed almost daily. My boss doesn’t hassle me about it because she wants to retire but can’t until I agree to take over her job.
frosty
@Steve in the ATL: Leverage. We likessss it.
Mike J
@HumboldtBlue: The new Liverpool song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6gVOdbrcSg
Yutsano
@Steve in the ATL: Pfft. I went over my daily limits all the time on government trips. It’s just money that doesn’t come back to me at the end of the trip really. I’ve never been counseled about it.
Corner Stone
Who the fuck is Chris Stapleton?
Yutsano
@Mike J: Give me East German hockey anthems any day.
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: as usual, we are on the same page musically.
HumboldtBlue
@Mike J:
Yeah, OK. I’ll remember that.
trollhattan
@Steve in the ATL:
A town lacking actual street addresses, they’re probably wandering Carmel-by-the-Sea in an ill-formed jackal rabble, as we are wont to do, looking for the spot. They should go to Clint’s joint and ruckus.
Ninedragonspot
@Adam L Silverman: and here’s the real Max Lorenz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKUApCaaP24
efgoldman
@Steve in the ATL:
You want it?
NotMax
Funny, because the movie Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter was on TCM earlier today.
ruemara
There are times when I do not handle the collective “meh” of folks I know very well. I’m really reconsidering being a supportive friend.
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: judges also would have accepted “ruby soho”
Mnemosyne
I currently have the worst earworm of ALL TIME. Worse than that ride at Disneyland.
Click at your own risk.
Steve in the ATL
@efgoldman: not sure. But I’m their only option. As with Suzanne, it would involve a move to a state I don’t want to move to. And not enough of an increase to make me forget how much I don’t want to move there.
Steve in the ATL
@trollhattan: I said “meet at the hobbit-looking place”. What could be easier?
For the record, there was no meet up planned. I was simply enjoying some free time away from the aggressive panhandlers.
Mnemosyne
@ruemara:
You already know my opinion of your so-called friends, so I won’t repeat it.
I got a good response reading the first 3-ish pages of my novel to a group of women writers, so that was nice.
efgoldman
@Steve in the ATL:
Northeast, or farther into Faulkner territory?
C Nelson Reilly
My high school senior son received an email Thursday that he was accepted to a local highly regarded college and was awarded a $96,000 scholarship (24k for 4 years). He has a 3.9+ GPA and is ranked 4th in his class of 1300 students. We only have to come up with 100k (over 4 years) to make it happen. Checking the couch cushions for the remaining pocket change. Community College here we come!
Steve in the ATL
@Yutsano: did you ever stay in hotels that cost ~$200 a night more than policy allows? That’s my new favorite thing to do. “If the accounting gnomes don’t like it, they can negotiate the next contract!”
Steve in the ATL
@efgoldman: Texas. [shudder]
Mnemosyne
@Steve in the ATL:
Personally, I would have gone to Monterey to visit the aquarium, but I love that kind of shit. Plus I have an aunt in Carmel who would expect me to stop by and visit if I was there.
efgoldman
@Steve in the ATL:
Yutsano works for the fed gummint. He’s lucky if they let him buy a carton to unfold and sleep on under the bridge.
Corner Stone
@Steve in the ATL: We already have more than our per capita of assholes, thanks though.
ruemara
@Mnemosyne: Congrats!
@Mnemosyne:
& No.
NotMax
Trivia: Before there were counties, the colony of Virginia was organized into 8 shires. One of them was given a tongue twister of a Native American name, Warrosquyoake, which was changed to Isle of Wight fairly fast.
Steve in the ATL
@Mnemosyne: I hit Monterey and Point Lobos State Reserve as well. I didn’t hit your aunt; don’t believe anything she says about it.
efgoldman
@Steve in the ATL:
Enormous Brokerage & Mutual Funds LLC built a huge new operations center in the Dallas Metroplex, and offered huge bonus and promotions to move from New England. I didn’t do it. Of those that did, about 1/3 cane back.
Steve in the ATL
@Corner Stone: [shutter]
Steve in the ATL
@efgoldman: 1/3 came back, 1/3 stayed, and 1/3 were killed by gunfire or run over by F-150s?
Mnemosyne
@Steve in the ATL:
She looks pretty darn good for her age, so I wouldn’t blame you if you hit that. She went to Burning Man this year and had a great time.
Mnemosyne
@ruemara:
It’s a support group, not a critique group, but I was happy to get a gasp of disappointment when I stopped at a crucial moment in the meet cute.
Peale
@C Nelson Reilly: hmm. Have you thought of feeding him steroids in case the prestigious college needs an offensive lineman and is willing to pay? It’s probably easier than asking him to become a French horn prodigy at this point.
Yutsano
@efgoldman: @Steve in the ATL: Yeah they alreasy block out my hotel so I don’t get much choice there.
The fact they let me spend $1200 on a flight without blinking tho…
Mnemosyne
@Peale:
Apparently the big scholarship instrument these days is the bassoon. Start your kids on it early. Nobody wants yet another violinist.
C Nelson Reilly
@Peale:
Steroids probably wouldn’t help at this point. He’s more of an oboe type of guy.
lamh36
Ok, I posted this in the LA Meetup thread, but I’m not really sure if anyone is still reading it, so I’ll just post it here too.
My understanding:
Meetup Place: Grand Central Market (exact spot TBD?). I can just hop on the METRO.
Time: I’d prefer 6 instead of 7, afterwards, I can always UBER back to the Motel.
I’ll check back in the morning here at BJ before heading out to do more touristy stuff (and maybe Anne Laurie can email me, if anything changes
lamh36
hello BJ!!! Don’t know who’s still up, but I’m just getting back to the hotel from hanging with my friend. We went to a mall and ended up at the Landmark theatre and saw The Shape of Water. I really liked it and wasn’t as skeeved out by the fishy love interest as I thought I’d be. I def recommend it…but to be clear it’s a romance for sure so if ur not quite into that then maybe still go see it because it was beautifully shot and the story really draws you in and even the sappy romance ending feels like a triumph!
P.S… I loved Octavia Spencer, but I really hope Richard Jenkins wins he was sooo good…& instead of Octavia, but Micheal Shannon or Michael Stuhlbarg deserved a nom more, IMHO
Tokyokie
@Mnemosyne: Back when I was in high school, we held a fund-raising garage sale at a community center that had a malfunctioning jukebox that would play a song for a nickel. As a result of that and kids with lots of small change, I heard the Osmonds’ “One Bad Apple” more or less continuously for about six hours. For months afterward, I’d find myself humming the damn thing while driving, whereupon I’d begin screaming in agony. And I now worry about my drive home in the morning. For some reason, a couple of weeks back, my ear worm was the theme song to “The Great Escape,” even though I haven’t watched it in probably 10 years. But hey, better Elmer Bernstein than the fucking Osmonds.
Yutsano
@Mnemosyne: Any double reed really. But yeah the bassoon got me into Stanford.
OnkelFritze
Of Course I HAD to look it up on youtube.
I honestly always thought Herman’s Hermits were some kind of punk band that I had missed.
Amir Khalid
@Tokyokie:
I can’t imagine a worse audio experience, except maybe six hours straight of Donny’s Nat “King” Cole covers.
Elizabelle
Good evening, pals. (Good morning for me.). Saying hello from Strasbourg, France. (Alsace Lorraine.). Just here for an overnight. Cloudy, but cheery and charming. City’s symbol is the stork, apparently. No boat tours — the river is too high.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Went to the “Night on Broadway”, really good crowd but I only went into one of the theaters(the lines were too long for the others).
ETA: They really should keep the lights on every night at those old theaters, it really makes Broadway look nice.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Elizabelle:
The river got stoned?
Betty Cracker
@lamh36: I really want to see that but haven’t had the chance. Haven’t heard a negative review yet from folks I know who’ve seen it.
Betty Cracker
@OnkelFritze: Hahaha! I don’t know anything else they did and don’t want to! That one song is unforgivable!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@lamh36: Grand Central Market is about a half a block from the Metro station on 4th and Hill and is across from Angels Flight. Get off at the Pershing Square station but don’t go to the exit for Pershing Square(that’s Hill and 5th). I was just at that station tonight.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
You may want to email Anne Laurie and ask her to post an update thread. I agree that 6 pm would be a better start time than 7 — the latecomers can always show up at 7. I don’t think I’ve been to any meetup that was less than 2 hours.
Amir Khalid
@Betty Cracker:
As breakup songs go, No Milk Today isn’t bad.
Sab
@Steve in the ATL: @Betty Cracker: @C Nelson Reilly: I love the oboe. I desperately wish I have enough wind to play it, but I never will. So I plunk away on my guitar and harp.
Sister Golden Bear
@Steve in the ATL: Shouldn’t Texas qualify for extra pay as a hardship post?
@Betty Cracker: Definitely go see it!
ruemara
@Elizabelle: Faintly jealous. Hope you’re having a great time.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: There better be green balloons for us late folk.
Elizabelle
@ruemara: Am. Starting to plan to return to JackalLand. The time away has been useful.
Will have to come out to SoCal and NorCal and elsewhere to meet up w jackals, when possible. Glad lamh is out there; hope she gets W&Grace tickets, and that tonight’s meetup is great.
HumboldtBlue
Earworms.
I made the mistake of listening to Diamond sing Sweet Caroline the other night. Sweet mother of annoying refrains I tried to use Having my baby to clear my head and all I got were stark memories of my mother’s anger at the fucking song. What the fuck was 1974 thinking? That shit went to number one in the US and Canada.
Fair Economist
@lamh36: 6 PM at Grand Central Market sounds good, and I’m planning to be there.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@HumboldtBlue: Just looked at the #1’s from 1974, that’s a horror show except for the former Beatles and Elton.
Tokyokie
@Amir Khalid: As I recall, the Carpenters covered both “No Milk Today” and “There’s a Kind of Hush,” which were the A- and B-sides of a late Herman’s Hermits single in the U.S. Needless to say, the Carpenters’ versions are much better known.
HumboldtBlue
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Jorg (I don’t know how to do the umlaut) Hegemann is a palate cleanser
?BillinGlendaleCA
@HumboldtBlue: Actually the Lennon #1(his only one post Beatles and before his death*) was “Whatever Gets You Thought the Night” which was a duet with Elton.
*(Just Like) Starting Over hit #1 but only after Lennon was assassinated.
Stardus614
Those horrible Bud Dilly Dilly commercials have doomed me to a perpetual earworm of “Lavender Blue, Dilly Dilly.” And not even the cool blues version from the 50s; the nursery version. I can still picture my little yellow 45 record going round and round on my phonograph. As if the Bud itself wasn’t unforgivable enough.
P.S. posthumous apologies to my mom. You probably should’ve come upstairs and broken that damn record if I played it one more time.
Amir Khalid
@Tokyokie:
I remember both the Herman’s Hermits’ and the Carpenters’ There’s A Kind of Hush, but not No Milk Today. YouTube doesn’t seem to have the Carpenters’ version of the latter. And I’m not sure if the lyrics could be changed for a woman singer and still work.
Tokyokie
@Amir Khalid: I could be misremembering that. And given my long-term dislike for the Carpenters, I’m not going to look it up. When I was 12, I loved me some Herman’s Hermits, but now that I’m an old crank, my favorite British group from that era is The Kinks.
Central Planning
@Steve in the ATL: I once worked for a company where I tried to keep my daily food spend under $100. That’s tough in NYC.
Anyway, during a period of corporate belt-tightening, a VP sent out a note saying please try to keep daily food spend under $200. That opened up a whole new world of restaurants to me.
I have never been questioned about any expenses. And really, in any job, don’t lie on the expense reports. That’s a quick and easy way to get fired.
zhena gogolia
My constant earworm these days is “Come Back, Barack.” But I don’t mind it.
MattF
I know that MoDo is not-so-cordially disliked here, but today’s op-ed about how Melania has repeatedly dissed her husband was news to me.
debbie
Interesting, because I remember Trump admitting to Letterman that he treated women like shit.
Cathie from Canada
Just had to share — one summer, when I worked at a food booth at the local Exhibition, a neighbouring booth played “I’m Henry the Eighth I Am” on a continuous loop. Over and over and over…. So for 40 years, that’s been my fall-back earworm. Aghhhh!
Gin & Tonic
@Central Planning: Only lying I do on expense reports is to understate the things that wouldn’t fly. I ate dinner at Saison in SF one time while there on business. I knew that one was coming out of my own pocket.
WaterGirl
@Elizabelle: How cool. Alsace Lorraine is where my ancestors hail from!
chris
@Cathie from Canada: Me too! As soon as I hear “Herman”s Hermits” that’s the song I hear.
chris
Dead thread but on topic. Here is my $2 squirrel-proof feeder. (It’s old, I need to make a new one.)
A widemouth jar is best but I have used juice jugs, a $2 funnel and some old wire. Cut a little port in each side and let the fun begin. There is no place for the red squirrels to get a grip except for the wire but they sure tried. They tried off and on for several years but now the local population doesn’t even try. Our squirrels is learning!
It gets better. The label is left on because, amazingly, the flying squirrels can cling to it and I like feeding them. They grab the label, slide down to the port and hang there stuffing their faces. Two feet from the window where Steve the mighty hunter is going mental. Too cute.