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Music To Celebrate – Na Na Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye

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What’s on your celebration playlists?

If you got just one song to send the dumpster fire on his way, what would it be?

I was going to go with Hit The Road Jack, but then a jackal sent me this one, and I think it’s hard to beat.

Any particular food that got you through?  I started with chocolate chip cookies, baking one at a time when I needed them, and potato chips were my “break glass in case of emergency” food.  Three times!

Open thread.

Oh, and this from one of our jackals (phdesmond) is so good, it deserves to be front paged.

An Inauguration Tune

Trump is gone, and none too soon!
Angry, smug, grotesque buffoon,
stupid-suited Pantaloon,
Queens brat trying to play tycoon,
piccolo posing as bassoon.
 
No more poison-gas balloon,
orange-caked, pale-eyed raccoon,
whose nightly hissing at the moon
has made this country his spittoon —
on January twentieth, at noon!  

—  Peter H. Desmond

 

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  4. 4.

    prostratedragon

    Bravo phdesmond, [though as a former piccolo player I must take slight exception —but] the concept is perfection!

  6. 6.

    feebog

    Chips and salsa for now.  Going to order out, but have no idea what goes well with bitter Republican tears.

  9. 9.

    Morzer

    I am going to listen to will.i.am’s Yes We Can a few times. That’s my celebration playlist contribution.

  17. 17.

    Bruuuuce

    My earworm today has been my favorite Beatles song. It helped that I spent most of the day sitting in 72 degree sunshine at Bad Seed cidery in Highland, NY (across the Hudson from Poughkeepsie) with the better half and her mom, whom we hadn’t seen since March.

  18. 18.

    JPL

    This is so exciting but let’s not be late.  Some of us haven’t slept in days…   just saying.

  24. 24.

    Spanky

    Question for the hive mind: Is there a meatspace meme I managed to miss? What’s the meaning of all the blue porchlights I’ve been seeing? The only residence with an indication of political leanings had Biden/Harris signs out front, so my original thought of Police Lives Matter must be wrong.

  28. 28.

    Yarrow

    Any particular food that got you through?

    Ice cream. So much ice cream. And this salty snack mix with nuts, honey pecans and wasabi peas.

  35. 35.

    JanieM

    I don’t have any songs to propose to send him on his way, but I’ve been celebrating with Ray Charles in the two iterations that have been put together for us this week:

    the Lincoln Project’s,

    and Kamala’s.

    Food: chocolate, what else? A square of Alter Eco Burnt Caramel gets me through most days. In emergencies I have two. For ordinary snacks, Ghiradelli dark chocolate chips.

  37. 37.

    Central Planning

    How about CeeLo Green’s Fuck You for a departing song?

    One song that I play that makes me feel good is Southern Skyline by Eric Steckel. I like many of his blues songs and have them in my Spotify rotation.

  38. 38.

    Danielx

    @Yarrow:

    Tonight’s menu is kebabs (on the grill in five) and and bottle of Veuve Cliqout, which has been chilling since Tuesday afternoon.

  43. 43.

    Mike in NC

    Opened a bottle of cheap Champagne, fired up a joint, and ready to watch ‘Young Frankenstein’.

  44. 44.

    Jim Appleton

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Do any of them look as good as Tubbs?

    Why is geography/demographics the primary concern?  Why not the guy who represents the entire state with a bomb-proof progressive CV?

    SoCal ran so much of CA’s last fifty years it’s not funny.

    This looks a bit like “but our feelings”.

  45. 45.

    BR

    I’d like Newsom to appoint a seat filler like Jerry Brown until there can be a primary. Too many good options and I want us as voters to decide.

  49. 49.

    Barbara

    I only listen to happy songs, but I think that my favorite video these days, Tiny Dancer, is somehow appropriate for Kamala Harris.  At the end of my fitness class today (online) they played Georgia On My Mind, and I nearly cried.

  53. 53.

    MisterForkbeard

    I was listening to this earlier today and belting it out while driving around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8wRzS_DSy0

    “Check It Out” by Oh The Larceny, and the beginning:

    I’m in a sweet spot
    I’m feeling good
    The sun is shining
    I knew it would

    The world’s a playground
     I’m in the clouds
     Let me show you what it’s all about (Check it out)

  57. 57.

    Barbara

    @Danielx: I couldn’t bring myself to plan for any celebration.  I did that in 2016 and I don’t think I will ever forget the emptiness I felt afterwards.

  60. 60.

    Jim Appleton

    @Jim Appleton:

    I like your list and would be happy with any of them.

    All of them are well positioned as is.

    Here is an opportunity to remake the entire landscape with one move.

  62. 62.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Jim Appleton:

    Here is an opportunity to remake the entire landscape with one move.

    How many votes do you think Tubbs would have in Mitch McConnell’s Senate?

  72. 72.

    Mustang Bobby

    I went with the Pentatonix cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”  A bit more contemplative, but I played Kool and the Gang’s “Celebration” last night.

    For comfort food, I picked up fried chicken and potato salad from Publix.

  77. 77.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    Mine are kind of dated. I have a “Happy” playlist that I’ve been playing tonight, but I think the most appropriate from that list are:

    • “Celebration”, Kool & The Gang
    • “Dancing in the Street”, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
    • “Dancing in the Moonlight”, King Harvest
  78. 78.

    Mary G

    My first selection was a good loud Hallelujah Chorus with personally altered lyrics not a smidge as good as ph’s or SD’s, but mostly stuff like “Take Stephen Miller too, and Kkkayleigh, and Jared, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.” Then I had the best two hour nap. Lay’s original potato chips were my most frequent numbing food, but any port in a storm would do. The worst was eating the chips out of a box of Ghirardelli brownie mix, because I HAD TO HAVE CHOCOLATE NOW and not in an hour. That was when he abandoned the Kurds in Syria.

  80. 80.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Jim Appleton:

    SoCal ran so much of CA’s last fifty years it’s not funny.

    Huh?  The Browns are from NorCal, Boxer is from NorCal, DiFi is from NorCal, Kamala is from NorCal…really?  The last 50 years have been split, but Senate has been San Francisco centric almost the last 30 years.

  82. 82.

    PsiFighter37

    Speaking of music, someone just rolled down 6th Avenue blasting ‘Eye of the Tiger’. Pretty apropos, and maybe the only time you’d hear Philly’s anthem blasted in the heart of NYC.

  83. 83.

    brantl

    “America where are you now? Don’t you care about your sons and daughters? Don’t you know we need you now. We can’t fight alone against the monster.”  Monster/Suicide/America, By Steppenwolf. Or Positively Fourth Street, by Bob Dylan.

  87. 87.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    not surprising, but this is the first time I’ve heard it attributed to the campaign, “an aide”, but I’m inclined to believe it

    CBS News @CBSNews 
    @edokeefe says a Biden campaign aide told him weeks ago a crucial part of their strategy: “They said, ‘It’s very simple. We turned off Twitter. We stayed away from it. We knew that the country was in a different headspace than social media would suggest'”

  91. 91.

    WaterGirl

    @Mary G:

    The worst was eating the chips out of a box of Ghirardelli brownie mix, because I HAD TO HAVE CHOCOLATE NOW and not in an hour.

    I laughed so hard at that, until I got to your final sentence.  Such a terrible thing done in our name.

  93. 93.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @JPL:

    Some of us haven’t slept in days four years … just saying.

    For the first time in literally months, I didn’t feel the need for a nap today. I expect to go to bed at a reasonable hour and sleep soundly through the night. I’d so love to get back to a normal cycle, and feel refreshed when I wake up instead of even more fatigued.

  94. 94.

    Ken

    @BR: I’d like Newsom to appoint a seat filler like Jerry Brown until there can be a primary. Too many good options and I want us as voters to decide.

    I agree in principle, and I don’t live in CA so maybe shouldn’t have an opinion, but…

    With the jungle primary system, is there a risk that “too many options” means you get twelve Democrats in the primary because none are willing to drop out?  And they get 70% of the vote in total, but the two Republicans split the other 30% and go on to the general election?

  96. 96.

    Bluegirlfromwyo

    Tom Petty: Don’t Come Around Here No More and Bill Withers: Lovely Day

    For anyone on Spotify, feel free to look up ByeDon 2020 by buddy9228 for a complete playlist.

  99. 99.

    bluehill

    Liked this from Josh at TPM

    It is also far more than okay to embrace and exult in this moment of victory. It is not just acceptable. There is a moral imperative to do so. As much as policies or particular ideas political movements and coalitions are communities, ones that suffer reverses and victories as communities, either well or poorly. How they do so isn’t just a matter of individual experience. These choices can sustain and grow political power, something political movements are always in the midst of gaining or dissipating. It is important to relish the fruits of the common exertions of a political coalition you are part of. It doesn’t just feel good. It sustains and builds power, the experience and proof that hard work and the seemingly endless exertions can have a real and tangible impact on the world we live in. No one will celebrate your victories for you. You can’t be powerful if you don’t act powerful.

    https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/some-immediate-thoughts-on-the-election-of-joe-biden

  105. 105.

    WaterGirl

    @Mike in NC:  Just saw your comment from the other thread.

    I think the world is going to think today was almost as big a deal as the Berlin Wall coming down.

    I think you are right.  I love that they were ringing bells in France.

  109. 109.

    Jean

    @JanieM:  I listened to the Ray Charles’s “America the Beautiful” on the Harris tweet several times this afternoon. Made me cry. It’s my favorite patriotic tune, and I remember crying when hearing it when Obama won in 2008.

  110. 110.

    CarolPW

    @artem1s: Thank you! Watched it twice, cried both times. This stuff keeps making me cry, as well as the Kamala bits, and the picture frame This Land thing and the Lord of the Rings Aragon in front of the gates of Mordor. I would worry except I know I have four fucking years of stuff to cry about, and it makes sense to get it all out between now and the inauguration so I can tackle whatever the Biden team needs from me.

  114. 114.

    zhena gogolia

    I’ve been playing patriotic songs on my piano at intervals all day. Star-Spangled Banner, My Country ‘Tis of Thee, America the Beautiful, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Grand Old Flag, and Battle Hymn of the Republic. I don’t think I’ve ever played them with more feeling.

  116. 116.

    prostratedragon

    O friends!
    Not these sounds!
    Rather let us turn to sounds more pleasant and more joyful!

    [Addressing Joy]
    Your spells reunite that which was strictly divided by convention;
    all men become brothers where your gentle wing rests.

    [Of those who can find no kindred soul on earth]
    And he who could never accomplish this, let him steal away weeping from this company.

    —from “Ode to Joy,” taken from CSO performance

  119. 119.

    LurkerNoLonger

    “The Battle of Yorktown” from Hamilton, because it was a battle and as the company shouts “We won! We won! We won!” Except the world didn’t turn upside down, it’s righted itself.

  121. 121.

    JanieM

    @Spanky: Sometime early on it was proposed that people display blue lights to thank and honor first responders during the pandemic.

    Sample article.

    That article doesn’t mention the ongoing thing, but I’d like to think some people are still doing blue lights for this reason. I’ve had a string of blue Christmas lights in a window since springtime.

    Edited for clarity.

  129. 129.

    Jim Appleton

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Agreed, NoCal has had some dominance, but the effect of SoCal conservatives has been notable.

    Prop13 is one pole.

    Congressional representation as a fraction of overall is another — Issa, Duke Cunningham, Duncan Hunter, Rohrbacher …

    That list goes on.

    Thanks, SoCal!

  131. 131.

    Central Planning

    Two more came to me that would be non-negative – Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds and also Jimmy Cliff’s I Can See Clearly Now.

  132. 132.

    zhena gogolia

    Watching the crowd in Wilmington on CSpan. Very heartwarming.

    It’s like all the decent people in the country are just coming out onto the streets and letting it all hang out!

  137. 137.

    patrick II

    @Baud:

    Lindsay is already talking about investigating the election. We could really use a Democratic senate to avoid all of that bullshit.

  141. 141.

    CarolPW

    @JanieM: No, not from an ad, it is the scene in the movie where the armies face off and Aragorn gives heart to the forces.

    ETA: and I could fucking remember to put the r in Aragorn.

  147. 147.

    Jim Appleton

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Dead thread, but you deserve this.

    Reagan.  So many executive actions that decimated services.

    Prop 13.

    Those destroyed California forever.

    Those are 100% SoCal.

    Thanks SoCal!

  151. 151.

    J R in WV

    Kamala and Joe are making a great speech right now.

    I bought our champagne Tuesday, wife had a Dental appointment, and I bought the bubbly from a friend who sells wine.

    Champagne has been our go to beverage over the past few months to assuage the pain of Trump and his plague. I’m trying to hold off on my hate for Trump and his minions for Joe, who is telling us right now that even those people are fellow Americans.

    While LIndsey wants to investigate the election. I dunno about that, but I’ll try.

  154. 154.

    Greg VA

    I think massive crowds outside the White House singing Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye all night on January 19 would be a fun way to end our national era of shame.

  156. 156.

    Pete Mack

    Since that picture of Harris striding out in high heels, I’ve had “These boots are made for walkin'” as an earworm. But I did listen to NewWorld Symphony this AM

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