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Recent Posts in My Blogosphere

Recent Posts in My Blogosphere

I haven’t done a roundup in a while. For each blog (alpha-order) I’ve selected my favorite among recent posts.

I hope that you find a few interesting things to read here, but I remember now why I don’t do this very often. (smile)

Right-Wing Facebook

Right-Wing Facebook

Now here’s some political parody that I can appreciate. Check out the satire of the Right-Wing Facebook.

If it seems a little too truthful, that’s because it’s meant to get a few messages across to a sometimes under-informed American public. The Right-Wing Facebook parody site is a project by People For the American Way and RightWingWatch.org – two of my favorite sites.

Rudy Giuliani Has Added You as a Friend on Right Wing Facebook

10/19/07 – At the Voters Value Summit this weekend the five frontrunners for the Republican nomination will be cozying up to the right wing’s most powerful leaders. Right Wing Facebook will give you an inside look at who’s friends, who’s enemies, and who’s leaving nasty messages on Rudy Giuliani’s wall.

It’s funny. Don’t miss the individual pages (I particularly like the networking of their friends and the wall messages).

These two organizations have been gathering information for a long time – they are well-qualified to do this. I was laughing out loud, and wanting to cry too.

But the site is not done. I wanted to read Ralph Reed’s page! He’s listed as a friend of Guiliani, but the page. doesn’t. go. anywhere.

This is good stuff! Congrats!

Springsteen Editorial Comment?

Springsteen Editorial Comment?

Is it my imagination, or does Bruce Springsteen’s new single “Radio Nowhere” make reference to the 1980’s Tommy Tutone song “Jenny (867-5309)”?

Compare:

Radio Nowhere

[youtube width=”300″ height=”174″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUI6Eq50y-g[/youtube]

This is Radio Nowhere
Is there anybody alive out there
This is Radio Nowhere
Is there anybody alive out there
I was sitting around a dead dial
Just another lost number in a file

867-5309 (Claymation version)

[youtube width=”300″ height=”174″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbB6ygODTGc[/youtube]

I got it (I got it), I got it
I got your number on the wall
I got it (I got it), I got it
For a good time call
Jenny don’t change your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny I’ve got your number
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)

A comment on the superficiality of the music scene that goes beyond the lyrics? Or just a coincidence?

Or perhaps a comment on the apathy of the radio audience. Is there anybody alive out there?

Or are they so easily controlled by the industry…the government…the church, etc. etc.?

Discuss amongst yourselves.

(Yes, I’m not only old enough to remember the song, but also to remember a few friends who called the number. You know, just in case.)

Happy Happy Joy Joy

Happy Happy Joy Joy

Hardcare:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOmRDt5T-Qs[/youtube]

This has been your editorial of the day.

On the other hand:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8eRc4erX_A[/youtube]

I really like that one.

Here’s the original Ren and Stimpy version:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNqrNIdcPMA[/youtube]

Saw George Carlin

Saw George Carlin

We went to see George Carlin at the Fox Theater last night.

I wore black to honor his traditional uniform.

It was a good time, but we noticed that his new rants are less specific. They probably will not “date” as quickly as the last one we saw.

At 70, he was still great, but there was nothing really… masterful. His humor was on the gritty and sometimes gross side, but much of what I thought could have been the most interesting bits were delivered straight. He has always been a court jester, but he’s tipped into roughshod truth-telling.

He told three vile jokes – with plenty of warning. I had heard one of them before. The most disgusting of them was actually the funniest – it was a gift to divorced dads, and I couldn’t possibly publish it here (yikes). It was misogynistic and horrible, but it was still funny.

The refrain of the show was – “it’s bullshit, and it’s not good for you.”

He had a great guy as the warm-up – not really a comedian, although his asides were hilarious, but a very talented guitarist and singer. I wish I could remember his name. Something like David Travis? The mike was turned up way too high, and at some point he realized it. He sang one song a capella (“Acapulco”) way away from the microphone – what a lovely voice!

We lucked into a free parking space a block away – on the street – on a Saturday night – in Atlanta. Unbelievable.

A lot of the people there were very drunk.

It was a fun night out.

I’m the Mom

I’m the Mom

So many of my friends emailed this to me that I had to think I’m either a kind of Mommy-archetype for my friends, or it had to be a very fun video. I think (I think) it’s the latter.

A woman condenses everything a mom would say in a typical 24-hour period into the framework of the William Tell Overture.

So, by viral selection, here it is:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anSpBUxsgAU[/youtube]

Yup. That’s about it.

(Thanks to Barbara, and Jacque, and Troy, and….)

Anybody got the lyrics?