November 29, 2017

New Christmas Specials This Year

Rudolph's Big Career Move: After being scorned and then cheered by the other reindeer, Rudolph tells the frontrunners to FOAD. He moves to Detroit and becomes the mascot of the Detroit Stags Soccer team. (Animated)

Frosty's Frozen Hell: It's always winter in Christmastown. Eventually the carbon dioxide freezes out of the air and all the plants die, followed by the animals. The mentally challenged snowman clubfoots through six inane songs as the surrounding ecology dies. (Cheap jerky animation by bargain basement animators)

Flying to a Summer Wonderland: Maine couple Ernie and Janet decide to fly to Bermuda for Christmas. Follow them through the airport and onto the island. They don't miss the cold weather but have to listen to North Dakota farmers complain about their small subsidies and welfare chiselers.

Yes, Santa Claus, There is a Virginia: Santa Clause wonderes if there is just a big empty spot south of Maryland. He learns, to his delight, there IS a Virginia, and a North and South Carolina, too. (animated)

Rump's Christmas Surprise: Christmas episode of Rump, a sitcom about a moron who thinks he's President. In the Christmas episode, Rump learns the true meaning of Christmas, as he's put on trial for treason.

South Sun Santa: Father Christmas is overworked so he looks for some help to handle the Southern Hemisphere. The elves pick Harry Lassiter a retiring Sydney, Australia businessman with a soft spot for kids. At first he's reluctant, (He hates cold weather and declares "I've never been north of the Congo River and I have no intention of going.&quot He is talked into it and moves to Elf Island, off the coast of South Africa. See him drive wagons pulled by flying springboks, supersonic penguins and otherwise deal with his new status.

Wolf

November 25, 2017

Black Friday.

First here's a song.

And we got through the 22nd and 23rd without a Jackabang conspiracy clown cluster, and Thanksgiving without the Pilgrim bash and guilt wallow.

Thanks to everyone.

Wolf

October 29, 2017

The Beatles SAVED Rock and Roll

In the mid sixties it was declining into a bunch of sound alike Frankies and Bobbies, with Fabian as an example of the worst. (The author probably doesn't know what 'Doing a Fabian' is, which is taking a face and promoting it, regardless of talent, into stardom.) The Beatles put musicianship, composing, and breadth of interest and feeling into rock and roll. After them, rock and roll song writers could be composers, not just Tin Pan Alley like hacks.

I expect Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to write, "How Elijah Wald Destroyed Folk Music". But Wald is basically a wackademic, and we all know wackademics don't live in the real world, they live in wackademia, where things are the way they are because they're that way in the book.

Wolf

October 14, 2017

Would we be better off if Twitter IS what Opus thought it was

A chatroom for birds? Just asking. I am not on Twitter and don't plan to be.

Wolf

September 30, 2017

Question about the phone on the Tardis

If you use it to call a cop, do you get him?



Wolf

August 12, 2017

What's Your Favourite Song from 1797?

This is mine.

It's one of the most famous tunes in the world.

Wolf

July 13, 2017

Is Door to Door Salesman a Dead Job?

I haven't seen a door to door salesman in 25 years. We get people soliciting for donations, petition signatures, JWs, Mormons, but never people just selling things.

What does the hive say?

Wolf

July 9, 2017

Questions about the movie Baby Driver

Does it contain the following Song?

Does it have Statler and Waldorf saying. "Get those Baby Drivers off the road. Should they be booked? No, burped."

Wolf

June 11, 2017

What Language Do You Speak At Home?

Watter taal praat jy by die huis?

Zein hizkuntzatan hitz egiten etxean?

Don't say English. Everybody speaks English, but what language do you speak at home?

Wolf

May 8, 2017

Things You Used to Think Were Funny but Don't Now

Here are three of my examples

1: Some of the old National Lampoon. I have .pdfs from a now dead site that had the 'Poon back in the '70's when it was funny. Some of it, the comics, Bruce McCall's parodies and more are still funny. But did I ever think Mrs. Agnew's Diary, Mr. Chatterbox, My Meter is Running, and more were funny? Apparently I did, but not now.

2: P.J. O'Rourke's "Parliament of Whores". when I bought it, back in the '80's I thought it was a hoot. Now I think it's just spoiled brat smartassery.

3: Sol Weinstein's "Loxfinger" a James Bond parody about Secret Agent Israel Bond, Agent Oy-Oy Seven. I roared 40 years ago when I read it. Now I think it's just a succession of bad Jew Jokes. He was capable of better, Jonathan Segal Chicken, Everything You Never Wanted to Know about Sex but I'll Tell You Anyway.

Does anybody else have anything like that?

Wolf