Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet

[Gazoo]

Google Ancient Earth:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/12/rome-reborn-italy

[RGMike]

Design your own Muppet!  only 130 bucks...

http://www.fao.com/catalog/boutique.jsp?parentCategoryId=98&categoryId=793

[urth]

A friend posted this on his Facebook page:

Rock musicians of the early 70s in their parents' homes:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/look/look-70s-rock-musicians-and-their-parents-homes-070419

Gaz, take note of the one of the apparently preggers Grace.

[RGMike]

a VERY cool posting by Suzanne Vega (she has a NYTimes blog about music'n'stuff) regarding her mixed-race background and how it relates to music.

http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/which-side-are-you-on/?8dpc

[mshray]

a VERY cool posting by Suzanne Vega (she has a NYTimes blog about music'n'stuff) regarding her mixed-race background and how it relates to music.

http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/which-side-are-you-on/?8dpc

This was a truly LOL moment:

Songs brand us a part of a tribe. We can pick and choose what tribe we belong to. Goth, emo, hippie, punk, folk, alternative, for example.

“Mom! Why are you wearing all black?” my daughter recently shouted at me. “You look so emo!”

“I always wear black,” I mumbled.

“But we are at the beach!” she said.

Well, maybe she had a point.

[RGMike]

a VERY cool posting by Suzanne Vega (she has a NYTimes blog about music'n'stuff) regarding her mixed-race background and how it relates to music.

http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/which-side-are-you-on/?8dpc

This was a truly LOL moment:

Songs brand us a part of a tribe. We can pick and choose what tribe we belong to. Goth, emo, hippie, punk, folk, alternative, for example.

“Mom! Why are you wearing all black?” my daughter recently shouted at me. “You look so emo!”

“I always wear black,” I mumbled.

“But we are at the beach!” she said.

Well, maybe she had a point.

yes! I also liked the story about how she was wearing a Smiths t-shirt in the mid-'80s and passed a group of young NYC black guys and one of them shouted out "I am human and I need to be loved!"

[mshray]

a VERY cool posting by Suzanne Vega (she has a NYTimes blog about music'n'stuff) regarding her mixed-race background and how it relates to music.

http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/which-side-are-you-on/?8dpc

This was a truly LOL moment:

Songs brand us a part of a tribe. We can pick and choose what tribe we belong to. Goth, emo, hippie, punk, folk, alternative, for example.

“Mom! Why are you wearing all black?” my daughter recently shouted at me. “You look so emo!”

“I always wear black,” I mumbled.

“But we are at the beach!” she said.

Well, maybe she had a point.

yes! I also liked the story about how she was wearing a Smiths t-shirt in the mid-'80s and passed a group of young NYC black guys and one of them shouted out "I am human and I need to be loved!"

yes, but that part practically teared me up, not cracked me up.

[Wayback]

I've submitted votes in prior years, now its your turn ...
(This is in association with the ol' WABC year-end countdowns):
We're inviting you to vote for your 7 favorite all-time songs, as we present the 11th Annual Top 77 Song Survey.  Everything you need to know is at this link, which is where you can vote: www.tunemagic.net/VoteTop77/
Voting ends Dec 14 -- please don't forget!   Then after Dec 25, check that site again to see the results, sorted and analyzed all sorts of ways!

[RGMike]

Gaz especially will appreciate this, from the NY Radio Message Board:

http://www.musicradio77.com/wwwboard/messages/349243.html

[RGMike]

a wonderful Jon Carroll column in today's Chron about "the reason for the season":

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/12/DDD814LL83.DTL

[mshray]

a wonderful Jon Carroll column in today's Chron about "the reason for the season":

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/12/DDD814LL83.DTL

effin' brilliant!

"Jesus is not the reason for the season; the reason for the season is the Northern Hemisphere tilting away from the sun, and everything else is just culture. So give it a rest. Let us all be of good cheer. Let us practice tolerance and love. Nothing is warmer in winter than a friendly human to embrace.

I think the point is merriment. That's what we seek, and that's what we wish for. If you want to drag a tree into it, be my guest."

[RGMike]

Donald Fagen meets Jean Shepard:

http://www.slate.com/id/2207058/pagenum/all

very interesting, especially if you've seen AChristmas Story more times than you can count. But (like Fagen) I really WAS a Shepard fan when I was 12, so this article was quite amazing to me.

[princessofcairo]

Donald Fagen meets Jean Shepard:

http://www.slate.com/id/2207058/pagenum/all

very interesting, especially if you've seen AChristmas Story more times than you can count. But (like Fagen) I really WAS a Shepard fan when I was 12, so this article was quite amazing to me.

He's not just a great song writer. That was fun to read, thanks!

[urth]

Donald Fagen meets Jean Shepard:

http://www.slate.com/id/2207058/pagenum/all

very interesting, especially if you've seen AChristmas Story more times than you can count. But (like Fagen) I really WAS a Shepard fan when I was 12, so this article was quite amazing to me.

He's not just a great song writer. That was fun to read, thanks!

Amen, that was fascinating. And props to Slate, for somehow sussing out that Fagen was a Shepard devotee, and getting him to write that remembrance.

[ggould]

Donald Fagen meets Jean Shepard:

http://www.slate.com/id/2207058/pagenum/all

very interesting, especially if you've seen AChristmas Story more times than you can count. But (like Fagen) I really WAS a Shepard fan when I was 12, so this article was quite amazing to me.

funny, my daughter's fiance's family has a tradition of seeing AChristmas Story every year on TV.  I've never seen the movie.  I did however want a BB gun when I was a kid, and my mom did say no, it would poke your eyes out.  The point is, I didn't understand who this kid with the glasses was when I first saw this post, and had to scour the message boards to relocate this!  It doesn't seem like that good a movie to me, is this a true classic?