Look, I only had a handful of reasonable song blogging choices for tonight, right? Deadly power outages in Cuba; the terrible motorcade accident that killed one of President Obama’s police escorts; or writing a diss track to the members of my fantasy football league. Eat my % Owned Voldemort’s Confetti ! I kept it classy […]
Category: cultural events
Casinos and Daycares
So I have a friend who has a friend who does sweepstakes as a hobby. I know. Sounds like doing bath salts as a dessert. Or doing your nails as massage. Wait. People actually do that. Anyway, he raked. Like a serious family vacay every year. Hawaii not Dollywood. Sorry, Mom and Dad (they’re D-Wood […]
The Rise
My deepest, deepest condolences to all of the victims, their friends and families. This is a fairly unprofitable story to attempt to cover in song. Something about the victims, themselves, turns pretty quickly into unintended sap and what Andrew Sullivan calls, hathos. Something thematic or narrative threatens to be too dark and insensitive. Still, between […]
The Last White Point Guard
Since 1985, this is what I came up with: Mark Price John Stockton Scott Skiles Jason Williams Steve Nash Five white guys, roughly of North American descent, who were regular fixtures, over any meaningful span of time, as starting point guards in the NBA. Hinrich has run point. D]]><![CDATA[ragic has too (although a Euro). Steve […]
Allegedly,
Wow. This was nearly a new record. I sat down at my computer at 8:09 pm without a topic for today’s blong. Finished recording at 9:25 pm. My previous best had been High Alert Pt. 1, which I completed in roughly an hour, prior to trick-or-treating and then jumping on a plane. Today’s song was […]
BREAKING NEWS: An Occupy Wall Street EXCLUSIVE
The ipoet laureate has been given exclusive access to the previously mysterious demands of the Occupy Wall Street protests. The OWS community has asked that the demands be read rhythmically to the following pumpkinFoot musical accompaniment. Weird, I know. The List: [wpaudio url=”https://thefreshjunket.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cde58-occupy-wall-street.mp3″ dl=”0″ text=”Bad Guy“]
Sleepless in Seattle
Today’s post betrays the depth of my neuroses for this site and its content. At about 11:30 p.m. Friday night, I came across this story (the link was posted on a board I visit; I wasn’t perusing Fox News dot com video’s of Kelly’s Court). Three and a half hours later, after having fallen into […]
Give and Take
Steve Jobs passed this week. I don’t need to fill you in on his story. He’s an accepted technological genius of our time. Apple’s products have changed the way we live our lives. I’m not an Apple or Jobs worshiper but our family has nearly the entire product line, in various specs, and has been […]
Falling Down
It’s worth remembering that the advanced and relatively civilized condition of our present society is the product of men who believed this: “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on […]
12 Angry Men
My apologies to Nancy Grace. This ain’t her fault. I didn’t watch a minute of the Casey Anthony trial. Literally, not one. I know the sparest about it. This song blog is not some considered opinion on its outcome. It appears reasonably perceived as wrong. But, it seems a collective sin that we so consistently […]
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