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Another Day Of Schooled
Last week was breakfast at McDonald’s where a couple women attacked a huge guy with ninja-level indifference skillz, not to mention shrugging off a broomstick swung so hard it shattered against him.
This week it’s a woman on the subway who lays into a guy who ain’t so indifferent.
H/T to Vox
Begging To Get Schooled
This is hilarious for all the wrong reasons –
I don’t know who’s wrong or who’s right (if anyone) in this mess, but the women were stupid to mix it with this guy. Dude catches chairs like frisbees and ignores a broom handle shattering against him. I’ll even give the one woman credit for being able to swing the broom handle hard enough to break it, but you just don’t attack a guy that size. Hell, I’m 6’3″, 225 lbs, and in decent shape and I wouldn’t start something with that guy.
I don’t know how it turned out, but for the women’s sake, I hope dude just chilled out instead of snapping their necks like twigs.
Rocktober – A Lite Rock In The Storm
Before diving into tonight’s bonecrunching impossibelievable hypertastic Halloween finale of Rocktober 2014, kick back and enjoy a bit of smooth easy listening –
Rocktober – Automatic Madness
My wife was watching Todd’s One-Hit Wonderland and said I might be interested in a song Todd mentioned – “Automatic Man” by Michael Sembello is apparently what “Mr. Roboto” would sound like if written by Hall & Oates.
So of course I had to check out the video…
This video is beyond incredible. It’s a Frankenstein monster of music. It even alludes to this (probably unintentionally) with the line “like some Frankenstein.” A mad scientists dances his freaky dance while constructing a male android that looks suspiciously like the TV character Automan shortly before Automan even premiered, and the verses sound like Hall & Oates going on about robots while stealing chords from Olivia Newton-John, with elements swiped from the Doobie Brothers (the pre-chorus is reminiscent of “Taking It To The Streets” and the chorus is similar to “It Keeps You Runnin'”) as Sembello channels Michael McDonald in both vocal style and beardness. The entire thing sounds like random samples automatically(!) pasted together in a music console program, and the video looks like someone at Nickelodeon tried to recreate Star Trek with a $17 budget while tripping on industrial-grade acid.*
The solo features a futuristic stringless guitar that Guitar Hero only wishes it had.
All of this was before I even watched Todd’s video. Turns out there’s a loose Halloween connection to Sembello’s “Maniac” – it was originally written as a song about a serial killer. Knowing this, the lyrics make a LOT more sense. Todd also made mention of Sembello becoming a sort of poor man’s McDonald. The repeated electronic chant of “Ah-be-auto-we-bo-we” sounds like nothing more than a cyberized Michael McDonald, head kept alive and connected to a pirated mixing console in some dark, post-disco apocalypse.
I have to wonder if I’d seen this video back in the day and forgot about it. If, like me, you’re old enough to remember the early days of MTV and, like me, weren’t smart enough to stay away from it, you know that MTV was so saturated with these kind of faux science fictionesque videos that were so weird they made Philip K. Dick look about as surreal as an insurance salesman that they all kind of blurred together. I also believe Sembello’s video didn’t receive much airplay.
But if I don’t recall Automatic Man, I do remember about a dozen songs called “Automatic” or with that word in the title. And Automan. It was the 80s.
* Leonard Nimoy was at Nickelodeon circa 1983, hosting a show called Standby: Lights, Camera, Action, which featured behind-the-scenes info about movies.
Rocktober – Masquerade Music
Friday night, 12:30 AM
The primary aspect of Halloween is not the horror or scary stuff, but costumes and masquerades. People love to play at being something other than themselves once a year, as an escape from their everyday lives. A chance to do something different.
Music sometimes comes in costume too. Consider a chart-topping funk/jazz/R&B song which was actually written by a white guy…
Thanks to heavy airplay on urban contemporary radio stations, “I Can’t Go for That” also topped the U.S. R&B chart, a rare feat for a White act. According to the Hall and Oates biography, Hall, upon learning that “I Can’t Go For That” had gone to number one on the R&B chart, wrote in his diary, “I’m the head soul brother in the U.S. Where to now?” – Wiki entry on “I Can’t Go For That”
…which was later dressed up as a bossa nova by a female singer from Singapore –
For more literal costuming in music, there’s wdydfae‘s request for some Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. Serious costume overdose here –
Insane keytar aside, I’ve never seen anyone play drums with nunchuks before.
Final Friday Finale next week, but there may be more Rocktober sets between now and then.
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Random Static: Low Tax And High Times
The entire Gamergate mess with Social Justice Wannabes… I mean, Warriors, trying to impose their Flavor-Of-The-Month causes on gamers strikes me as a total waste of leftist resources. Seriously, what group of people is least likely to interact with women, much less harass, rape, or oppress them?
Many gamers have been treated like shit most of their lives and just want to be left alone. If they’re busy gaming, they can’t be out oppressing anyone, and when they do go out, they’re pumping money into the economy buying games, the same money which is taxed and funneled to the SJWs. So the SJWs have steady income and no hassle as a result of gamers gaming, but they wanna sledgehammer that golden goose anyway.
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It would be nice if the people always blathering nonstop about standing with the workers actually asked some of the workers what they thought.
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Angel investor Jeffrey Carter blasts career politicians –
Most of the Republican candidates that are running for state wide office were private business people at some time in their careers. Bruce Rauner was a successful investor. He ran a Venture Capital and Private Equity firm that made hundreds of investments. Jim Oberweis has run a successful money management business, and also has a dairy/ice cream business. Mike Webster is a CPA. Without Tom Cross, gay marriage would not have passed the General Assembly.
…Yesterday, Senator Dick Durbin blasted Oberweis on minimum wage, taxes, corporate inversions and any other capitalist endeavor he could think of. I guess if I was a reporter, I’d ask Durbin, “What private business have you ever run?”
The Senator, bless his heart, has been a career politician. When I mean career, I mean the last time he worked in the private sector was probably mowing lawns as a kid. Our current governor is a career politician. Every Democratic candidate for statewide office is a career politician.
Personally, I don’t agree with Oberweis on all the issues. However, I hate to see the Democratic Party continually demonize Americans that are successful. What? Should we all be failures?
Carter also blames career politicians from both sides for running up massive debt, cronying, and rampant bureaucracy. I say there should be a law stating no one can run for office if they haven’t at least worked in a 7-11 for six months.
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Regarding the above-mentioned Bruce Rauner… Carter writes that Rauner “wants term limits. By the way, the Democrats sued to get that issue off the ballot. He wants to cut taxes, and decrease government spending.”
Cutting taxes, retiring replicants politicians, and slicing spending, he should campaign as “Blade Rauner!”
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Some of you may recall when New Y ork Times columnist Maureen Dowd went to Denver Colorado in June and ate a marijuana candy bar, not knowing the the recommended dosage for a newbie was one-sixteenth of a bar. She snarfed the whole thing and got SO HIGH, MAN!!! that she hallucinated for eight hours.
I kind of felt bad for her going through that. but I still find this ad amusing –
“… it was cut with extra sugar. And almonds!
Complete with a Dowd stand-in (sit-in?).
The article and ad remind me of when beer companies started their “drink responsibly” campaigns. I expect to see roadside billboards with slogans* such as “Don’t eat candy and drive” and “Eating chocolate? Make it a choc-o-little!”, not to mention the inevitable Forrest Gump parody ads.
Halloween would be changed forever.
*The worst “Don’t-do-edible-pot-and-drive” billboard would be, of course. “Don’t let your edible make you a dead-ible!”
No, I refuse to apologize.
John’s XCMVIXXXXVCIIVth Letter To Ecologians
John Kerry says faith and environment are inextricably linked –
Because, you know, the Bible states again and again that global warming is, like, Bad, man. The Beast of Revelation is made of CO2 held together by sugar-laden trans-fats. Look it up.
Always watch these gasbags when they pontificate publicly…. note the gestures and hand motions, the pauses, and the excess of words with four or more syllables. Also throwing words like “profoundly” into grammatically dangerous places to fend for themselves.
There are patterns to these speeches designed to numb the rubes at home watching on television – repeating key words like “duty,” “sustainable,” and “responsibility” to make viewers feel guilty (“Check your climate privilege!”), and using fifteen dollar words that the speaker is sure the rubes don’t understand but sounds really book-smart, to name a couple examples. The gestures recall the Sage Old Professor of bygone days. All profoundly, inextricably linked to bamboozle the ig’nant Joe Sixpacks.
Speakers like that have the package down pretty well but nothing inside the box, like throwing fancy dressing and expensive croutons on an empty salad plate.
(Click to embiggen) When will L.H. Puttgrass finally be given his own cable show? The citizens demand it
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