Day Eleven: Zappadan

From the album One Size Fits All: PoJama People. 1975. RIP Frank Zappa. 12/21/40 - 12/4/93

The Crisis of Capitalism

Ewwww. Long video. Short attention span? Hit the 'Pause' every 3 minutes so you can pick the lint out or something. And resume.


<Thanks AMERICAblog>

You know that song spinning around in your brain - but you can't remember what it is?

Move the mystery song from your head to your MP3. Finally!

<via Consumerist>

Back when - before the earth cooled - it used to be the job of radio DJs and Sam Goody employees to translate your pathetic humming and insipid descriptions of songs you like into genuine song titles, as well as the tunes' artists and albums.

Technology has teamed with capitalism to make it easy to discover the songs that drive you crazy by playing on repeat in your brain. Digital Inspiration runs down cheap and free methods to track down your lost tunes:

*Mobile apps on cell phones - Download Shazam, which will listen to a few seconds of a song on the radio, identify it and show you a prompt to buy it.

*Search engines - If you know a few words of the lyrics, you can type them in on a computer and find the song within seconds.

*Humming - Midomi doesn't even need the genuine article or any lyrics to track down songs. Just hum part of the song and the site will pull up suggestions of possible matches.

What's your favorite way to unmask mystery music?
Find the Song Name Without Knowing the Lyrics [Digital Inspiration]

Alien Obama

SPLIT RUN. Ole Perfesser Instapundit:

PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH: “It is not any kind of orthodox Republican talking point that Barack Obama is ‘an alien and a threat.’”

Elsewhere and previously:

The Alien in the White House -- Dorothy Rabinowitz, Wall Street Journal

Obama the Alien -- Larry Kudlow, National Review

Alien Obama... The heartland of America, the small towns and suburbs, the "baseball, apple pie and Chevrolet" that forms the core of our cultural experience is alien to Barack Obama. He cannot love it, share it, or reflect it, because he does not know it. -- Confederate Yankee

CHRIS MATTHEWS: He [Obama] wasn’t born here and he’s never gone through a naturalization that you know of, right?
G. GORDON LIDDY: Not that I know of.
MATTHEWS: Therefore he’s here illegally. You’re saying he’s an undocumented alien.
LIDDY: Illegal alien.

This Christmas, give someone the gift of your impeccible honesty

John Boner cries on Teevee - again

 <via TPM>

America’s single greatest achievement, John Boehner, was interviewed on last night’s 60 Minutes. Thanks to his stage mom standing off-stage, yelling at him to cry on cue, he didn’t disappoint.

“I’ve never been in a tanning salon in my life, I’ve never used a tanning product in my life,” he said, his tears  tuning orange as they flowed down his orange cheeks. 

“Burnt Sienna,” not “Peach,” is the natural skin color of white people, right? Despite what five-year-olds coloring with a box of crayons say. Other things John Boehner says that will make him cry on teevee: walking into a school — something he will never do again because of the tears, so our education crisis is now solved...Christ - and Barack Obama said he is a mean hostage man.

“Some things, there are some things that are very difficult to talk about. Family, kids — I can’t go to a school anymore, I used to go to a lot of schools. You see all these little kids running around, can’t talk about it,” Boehner said. “Making sure that these kids have a shot at the American dream, like I did, is important.”

These children - pointing at him and making fun of him for crying - well, it just hurts his feelings even worser. Stahl asked him why he got choked up on election night.

“Talking, trying to talk about the fact that I’ve been chasing the American dream my whole career,” Boehner said.

In an interview with Leslie Stahl of “60 Minutes” for broadcast Sunday night on CBS, Boehner said Obama showed him “disrespect” by calling him a hostage-taker.

“Excuse me, Mr. President I thought the election was over,” Boehner said, according to a transcript obtained by POLITICO. “You know, you get a lot of that heated rhetoric during an election. But now it’s time to govern.”

So the president chose not to lie about how you gasbags negotiated in bad faith. Boo fucking hoo. Dipshit.

Adulthood: It's really fun!

 

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Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL) sez:

 

"In Washington, the view is that the banks are to be regulated, and my view is that Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks."

Day Ten: Zappadan

From the album Absolutely Free: Brown Shoes Don't Make It. 1967. RIP Frank Zappa. 12/21/40 - 12/4/93