Posted in Pop Culture, Popular Culture, comedians, comedy, entertainment, george carlin, literature, obituaries, tagged comedians, comedy, george carlin, obituaries, oldies on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
When I was a teen, my first exposure to George Carlin was from a cassette I purchased called “Occupation: Foole”. I found myself listening to the cassette over and over again, and pretty soon I could almost recite his routines myself. That album has the now-legendary routine of his “7 words you can’t say on [...]
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Posted in Literary, Pop Culture, Rants, articles, comedy, entertainment, humor, internet, parody, racism, ramblings, satire, tagged Ireland, Irish, lampoon, media, National Lampoon, P J ORourke, white supremacy on June 13, 2008 | No Comments »
I have been a fan of the National Lampoon since I was a teen in the 1970s. One of the most shocking articles for me to read in the mid 70s was P J O’Rourke’s “Foreigners From Around The World”, which appeared in the National Lampoon in May, 1976. The article is really a heap [...]
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Posted in Friendship, Friendships, Life, Literary, Miscellaneous, Musings, QOTD, QOTMFD, Quote of the Day, Random, Thoughts, Writing about writing, amusement, daily life, entertainment, friends, literature, misc, random thoughts, writing, tagged fiction, stories, writing fiction on June 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Philo was working late again. But the payoff was that he could have the next day all for himself. He wanted to beat his next-day deadline and have his sales forecast all ready by the this evening. He put the finishing touches on his spreadsheets, and imported the tables to word preocessor. Then, after emailing [...]
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Posted in Creative Writing, Miscellaneous, Pop, Pop Culture, comedy, computers, entertainment, fiction, humor, humour, lampoon, literature, media, misc, parody, satire, video, writing, tagged comedy, computers, Creative Writing, entertainment, fiction, humor, humour, lampoon, literature, media, misc, Miscellaneous, parody, Pop, Pop Culture, satire, video, writing on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Some updates to the story I wrote.
There are some minor changes to my story. (link above)
The Chris Crocker video in question.
His imitators (parody, of course, and not all male). Many of these stray far off the topic of Chris Crocker: 1 2 3 4 5 (Israel?) 6 7 8 9 10 (a hockey player?) 11
There [...]
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Posted in Academe, Creative Writing, Life, Literary, Miscellaneous, Musings, Random, Thoughts, amusement, articles, babbling, comedy, daily life, entertainment, humor, humour, math, mathematics, misc, poetry, ramblings, random thoughts, satire, writing, tagged Academe, amusement, articles, babbling, comedy, Creative Writing, daily life, education, entertainment, humor, humour, Life, Literary, math, mathematics, misc, Miscellaneous, Musings, poetry, ramblings, Random, random thoughts, satire, Thoughts, writing on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
I think that I shall never c
A # lovelier than 3;
For 3 < 6 or 4,
And than 1 it’s slightly >.
All things in nature come in 3s,
Like ∴, trio’s, Q.E.D.s;
While $s gain more dignity
if augmented 3 x 3 –
A 3 whose slender curves are pressed
By banks, for compound interest;
Oh, would that, paying loans or rent,
My [...]
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Posted in Academe, Creative Writing, Life, Literary, Miscellaneous, Musings, Random, Thoughts, amusement, articles, babbling, comedy, daily life, entertainment, humor, humour, math, mathematics, misc, poetry, ramblings, random thoughts, satire, writing, tagged Academe, amusement, articles, babbling, comedy, Creative Writing, daily life, education, entertainment, humor, humour, Life, Literary, math, mathematics, misc, Miscellaneous, Musings, poetry, ramblings, Random, random thoughts, satire, Thoughts, writing on May 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You take tan b and ×
sin(cos(q+y))
and just to make it more complex
÷ cot(Δx)
And so then by csc(Θ)
× angles π, ρ, η
and show that they continue on
by proof with δ - ε.
Once tidied-up you then inspect
and find the answer incorrect
So then you do the question over
Once it’s right you then discover
You were to do the even [...]
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Posted in Cartoons, Celebrity, General Comments, Musings, Opinion, Pop Culture, Popular Culture, Random, Rants, amusement, articles, babbling, entertainment, factoids, media, ramblings, random thoughts, video, tagged amusement, articles, Cartoons, Celebrity, entertainment, factoids, media, movies, Musings, Opinion, Pop Culture, Popular Culture, ramblings, random thoughts, Rants, statistics, top 10, video on April 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It is difficult to believe that this junk constituted the highest and most original and imaginative output of Western Civilization over the past 23 years.
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Posted in Pop Culture, Popular Music, entertainment, folklore, music, oldies, pop music, tagged Bobbie Gentry, entertainment, folklore, music, Ode To Billie Joe, oldies, Pop Culture, pop music, Popular Culture, Popular Music, Southern Rock on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
I was listening to a Pravda Records cover of a song from the late ’60s called “Ode to Billie Joe” (originally a Bobbi Gentry tune). It made me think about the original, the words, and musings about how hard it is to play on the guitar.
I recall there was also a mysticism regarding the words [...]
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Posted in Jazz, Miscellaneous, Pop, Popular Music, comedy, entertainment, humor, international music, misc, music, pop music, video, world music, tagged comedy, entertainment, humor, international music, Jazz, misc, Miscellaneous, music, Pop, pop music, Popular Music, video, world music on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Pink Martini is a Jazz ensemble (although much of what they do is of an “international” flavour) featuring a lead vocalist, a pianist, and a string and horn section. I purchased a CD recently called Hey Eugene, whose title track is really hilarious. It was played on our local jazz station. The other tracks are [...]
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