Performed by theipoetlaureate. Music produced by nomold. Today’s blong here: [wpaudio url=”http://www.ipoetblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Skyfall-2.mp3″ dl=”0″ text=”Skyfall“]
Category: year’s end
An Anniversary: Four Years of News Rap
Feeling wistful at four. Sometimes you just have to get back up. Everything you do. Start. Middle. Finish. Complete the task. I’m somewhere in the middle. Of song blogging and life. Happy birthday song blogging. Chingy knows what time it is. Performed by theipoetlaureate. Music produced by Dalama Jones. Lyrics here. Today’s blong here: [wpaudio […]
2013 Year in Review
What did you expect from a year that ended in the number 13? Tasteful pop star performances and privacy on your cellular calls? 8, 20, 14, 17, 39 and 7 in the Mega Millions lottery? (If so, that’s a really, really specific set of expectations.) I mean, it was never going to go well. It […]
AVAILABLE NOW: YEAR THREE Album Release
The entire song anthology from this site’s third year of operation is now officially available here. At 42 songs it’s notably shorter than it’s predecessors but no less news rappy. It includes smash hit blongs about deer antler spray, beef with an entire State, a lost cat, and a song about the Boston Marathon bombing […]
An Anniversary: Three Years of News Rap
Somewhere right around here, I almost gave up on news rap. But, then I remembered that the world needed news rap, and I refused to quit or apologize for continuing to put news inside of rap. 3 years and counting. To all my visitors, friends, family, followers, and fans, thank you. Performed by theipoetlaureate. Music […]
Occasional Poetry
Not as in “on occasion” but for them — occasions. Apparently, I didn’t invent it. I’ve been doing “occasional poetry” all along and had no idea there was a literary term for it. And, as one will note in the linked-to article above concerning the presidential poem delivered at this year’s inauguration, it suffers the […]
iPredict 2013
Apparently nothing is going to actually happen in 2013. For my annual predictions blong, I spared no traditional fortune telling method to learn the truth about the upcoming year. Scrying. Time travel. Palmistry. The coin flip. I shook the eightball. Adjusted the tinfoil hat (is that a thing?). Tuned the forks. Put dice in the […]
2012 Year in Review & The 1st Annual “Press Junkies” Blong Awards
So, as it turns out, there is no award show or other public recognition for great Blong (blog + song) performances each year. I know. I was surprised too. I assumed, of course, that I would certainly be under some serious consideration if there were. Imagine my disappointment. I’ve given it some thought, though, and […]
ON SALE: YEAR TWO Album Release
In the St. Nick of time, the entire 78 song anthology from this site’s second year of operation is now officially available for purchase here. You might be saying to yourself, “Barbara, why would I ever need 78 news rap songs? I own a John Tesh box set already.” Well, Barbara, I anticipated this riposte […]
iPredict 2012
Wait for it. Up through the ghoulish blue liquid the tiny icosahedrenal piece begins to settle against the plastic window. Appears to be “Outlook not so good.” Wait, or is that . . . “My sources say no”? With a wishful slight of hand I jostle the ball but can’t improve on “Better not tell […]
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