every little thing she does is Peanuts

Two of my favorite things: Linus sings The Police! A natural followup to the classic Peanuts Hey Ya.

Lyrics after the jump, and yes, I’m feeling a little low lately (like, since mid-December) so it’ll be YouTubes and quizzes and quotations and such unoriginal things (I lack even the strength to bother putting in the social bookmarking links!) until I feel up to laying down my righteous “Meet the Jasons” or “Marathongate” posts. Stay tuned!

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New Year’s Day

Happy New Year, all. But U2 says it much better than me, so listen to them. Recorded live in Chicago, 2005.

New Year’s Day

All is quiet on New Year’s Day.
A world in white gets underway.
I want to be with you, be with you night and day.
Nothing changes on New Year’s Day.
On New Year’s Day.

I… will be with you again.
I… will be with you again.

Under a blood-red sky
A crowd has gathered in black and white
Arms entwined, the chosen few
The newspaper says, says
Say it’s true, it’s true…
And we can break through
Though torn in two
We can be one.

I… I will begin again
I… I will begin again.

Oh, oh. Oh, oh. Oh, oh.
Oh, maybe the time is right.
Oh, maybe tonight.
I will be with you again.
I will be with you again.

And so we are told this is the golden age
And gold is the reason for the wars we wage
Though I want to be with you
Be with you night and day
Nothing changes
On New Year’s Day
On New Year’s Day
On New Year’s Day

Christmas in Hollis

Proof the Eighties weren’t ALL bad. From yo momma’s favorite rappers, RunDMC.

cross-posted, more wordily, to TeenyManolo , where you will find the lyrics.

London Calling…from beyond the grave

Perfect for Halloween; the tribute to the late Joe Strummer from the Grammys. Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl, Elvis Costello, Pete Thomas, Steven Van Zandt, and Tony Kanal.

LOLitics: Mannifest Destuny

Mannifest Destuny iz mannifestin

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Now, it’s not the first time the Yanks have made a move on our land. The last time they pulled this my ancestors had to go down and loot and burn the White House to discourage this kind of thing, and as we know from recent example, the gene pool has bred true.

But this time they have gone too far.

Welcome: Portraits of America, a new seven-minute film produced by Disney, will be shown in airports and embassies to woo visitors with a sanitised take on US landmarks. There are no shots of highways clogged with cars bumper to bumper. Instead, the camera pans over the wonders of the Grand Canyon, New York’s Chrysler building and the awe-inspiring power of the Niagara Falls.

But wait a minute. What falls are these? They don’t seem to resemble the Bridal Veil Falls that stand on the US side of the border. They do, however, look distinctly like the Horseshoe Falls, the immense curtain of water shrouded in mist that is the stock image of Niagara and lies almost entirely inside Canada. The annexation of a Canadian natural wonder was spotted by the news agency Associated Press.”This is an insult,” said Paul Gromosiak, an expert on the waterfalls. “This is not the US, this is 100% Canada, shot from the Canadian side.

 

We have previously had our issues with the Guardian‘s coverage of Canada, but in this case we have little to add. Very little. Except: you don’t want to piss us off again.

That’s what Portraits of Americans are like.
This is what Portraits of Canadians are like.

via Bridlepath

Swords, baybee. We have swords. What do you have? A weak military force squandered in Iraq and a couple of dozen reserves out scouring the country side for escaped weasels. Tell them to look in Congress and the Senate.