…really misses the Bush administration. Because, you know, there’s not much to mock or make jokes about in this one.
And you know, Mika, somehow, I managed to watch that entire clip without even cracking a smile. In fact, it was effortless.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
Thoughts On The Solar System
…and involuntary ant flights.
Battle: Los Angeles
Bill Whittle says go see it.
Top O’ The Mornin’
[Note: this post will be at the top for a while, so keep scrolling for new crap]
Start your day off with a few jigs from the best trad Irish band ever (in my opinion). Dual fiddles lend them a unique sound.
The leader, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (Mary Mahoney for Anglos, daughter of the famous fiddler Frank Mahoney from County Donegal) also has a beautiful, ethereal voice, particularly when she sings in Irish.
And yes, she sings in English, too. The Lass of Glenshee:
Finally, just to pick things up, a few reels.
[Update a while later]
Jim Bennett links in comments to an emigration song. Here’s another by Andy Irvine (one of the founders of Planxty):
It’s interesting to hear an Irish musician play an octave mandolin. He also plays bouzouki. He bummed around in southeastern Europe quite a bit in the seventies, and brought a lot of Romanian folk songs back with him, including houras, which have a very complicated rhythm.
You might note at the end that the tune starts to segue into another, which is the second in the trilogy from the album on emigration, but it doesn’t seem to be on Youtube. Nor is the third, Edward Connors. As you’ll note from the lyrics, the reality of the New World didn’t always live up to the hype. Thousands of them crossed the Atlantic to flee The Great Hunger to find but a grave.
Take Five, Joe
Joe Morello has rolled his last drum.
This version of the piece is faster than the recorded one, but I love Desmond’s sax solo on it. This is one of the tunes used as an example in my brief tutorial on time signatures a few years ago.
Dr. Seuss
Too Much Time On Their Hands
A compilation of all of the racy scenes in ST:TNG.
Saving Us From Ourselves
You know, when they were casting Atlas Shrugged, they should have seen if Henry Waxman would do a cameo. He’d be a perfect fit.
Charlie Sheen
…the New Yorker cartoon series.
Hey, someone had to do it.
[Update a while later]
The similarities between Charlie Sheen and Colonel Whathisname are somewhat frightening.
Forbidden Planet
Some thoughts on the SF classic and its implications, both historical and today, from Bill Whittle. And if you haven’t yet, sign up for Declaration Entertainment.