Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Monday, December 27, 2010
Hackman. Winters. Bornine. Poseidon.
Albertson. Ostrum. Wilder. Wonka.
Albertson. Prinz. Chico. Man.
Thus Spake Albertson
Saturday, December 25, 2010
O'Ghoulihy Sprays His Magic Love Bullets Around the World
But especially to those lovely, overly polite people to the North.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Clevelandia Welcomes You, God of Rock, Neil Diamond
You're the most excellent inductee of all. Let's take that ride across the moon that you owe O'Ghoulihy.
Nevermind the haters: those pushy Kenny Loggins fans who think Kenny Loggins' Heartlight is, somehow, brighter than yours, as if such things could possibly be quantified.
It is the solemn duty of Clevelandia to protect your honor, Neil Diamond. Forever. Because, as the blood diamond cartel reminds us: Neil Diamond is Forever. No cartel ever said: Kenny Loggins is Forever. Did they?
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Slowly Proceed to Rush
Dear Rush: Thanks for acknowledging our sacred burg on your tour. When in Cleveland, do as O'Ghoulihy does.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
O'Ghoulihy for Governor Rally
Thanks to all those that made my first Goobernatorial Campaign Fundraiser such a success! Especially big oil and pharmaceuticals! You guys are great!
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
O'Ghoulihy Theater Presents:
Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, in 9 ten minute intervals.
Sit back and enjoy the subtitles!
Sit back and enjoy the subtitles!
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
This Episode of O'Ghoulihy Begins is Brought To You With Limited Commercial Interruptions by:
FIRST AMEND MINTS
FRESH BREATH. FREE EXPRESSION.
O'Ghoulihy Begins: The Pome
I'd rather be O'Ghoulihy
I'd rather be O'Ghoulihy
than any other clown.
He's found the key to liberty
within this shackled town.
He speaketh truth in riddles
and with trinitarian aplomb.
He shaketh spears at hypocrites
who thinketh Claudius dumb.
I, O'Ghoulihy, arrive today
to save your souls from whoredom.
I hope and wish and dream and pray
You'll find me free of boredom.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
O'Ghoulihy Says: Let All The Children Boogie
...especially, the kid in the red shirt and sweater vest.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
O'Ghoulihy's O'Schoolihy: Lesson Two
The Long, Boring Joke of Racial Politics: "A [certain ethnic] guy, a [certain ethnic] guy, and a [certain ethnic] guy walk into a Democratic Party..."
Since the turbulent 1960's when riots and white flight changed the racial composition of our beloved Clevelandia, the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party (three co-chairs) and/or the Cuyahoga County government (three commissioners) has been headed by an Irish-American, an African-American, and an Italian-American. The business of regional governance has been left to This Holy Trinity, with the occasional, grudging acceptance of a fourth.
From The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History:
The Democrats were a minority party during the years of the CITY MANAGER PLAN; however, with the plan's demise in 1931 Democrat RAY T. MILLER† was elected mayor. In the 1930s the party split into factions as Miller and MARTIN L. SWEENEY† fought for control. Ultimately, Miller was declared party chairman in 1940, and aided by the success of the New Deal he made Cleveland a Democratic stronghold by securing the political allegiance of both the AFRICAN AMERICANS and the nationality groups and consolidating the party organization. As more Democrats moved to the suburbs in the early 1960s, the party began to organize its latent strength there. Party unity was challenged when the 21st Dist. Caucus was organized by a group of black Democrats in 1970 to provide unified backing for the candidates of their choice. The caucus's name and membership boundaries came from the congressional district of Louis Stokes, who was elected chairman. In an effort to reestablish party unity, the regular Cuyahoga County Democratic party named 3 co-chairmen, George Forbes, Anthony Garofoli, and Hugh Corrigan in 1972. When Corrigan resigned in 1976, Forbes and Garofoli ran the party until Timothy Hagan was elected chairman in 1978. In 1982 John M. Coyne succeeded him as party chairman. Coyne resigned in Dec. 1993. Roosevelt Coats, the party's vice-chair, was acting chair until Jan. 1994, when Jimmy Dimora was elected to the unexpired term. Dimora was elected to a full 4-year term in June of 1994.
[Encyclopedia of Cleveland History]
This delicate, unspoken balance of power has touched upon every political decision and public works project Clevelandia has known in the second half of the twentieth century.
Now, consider this:
From The Plain Dealer,"Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Builds Powerful Political Network in Northeast Ohio, Mark Puente, March 28, 2010:
Political master: When longtime County Prosecutor John T. Corrigan stepped down in 1991, Mason was a young assistant prosecutor who wanted Corrigan's son, Michael, to get the job. But the Democratic Party's central committee, the largely anonymous foot soldiers who often determine which people get coveted political posts, passed over Michael Corrigan and appointed Stephanie Tubbs Jones.
"It was an education for everyone involved," Mason told The Plain Dealer in 1998. "We decided then to take control of the process so it would never happen again."
Mason joined with like-minded young West Side and suburban Democrats, whose goal was to wrest control of the county party from the people who long had been running it.
Mason and his allies spent the next four years amassing votes and support in the Democratic Central Committee. The coalition eventually paved the way for Mason's appointment as prosecutor when Tubbs Jones went to Congress in 1998.
[M. Puente]
And, also, consider this:
From The Plain Dealer, "Jimmy Dimora's Indictment Caps the Crumbling of His Political Machine", Henry Gomez, September 15, 2010:
Intent on securing a position of status within his beloved party, Dimora ended 1992 by beating out lawyer Frederick Middleton in an intraparty battle for a seat on the Board of Elections.
A close contest -- Dimora prevailed by one vote -- exposed deep racial tensions.
Because the open seat had been held by a black man, Stokes and others had favored Middleton, a black man, to fill the vacancy. The celebration was short-lived for Dimora, whose selection to the board was soon challenged by then-Ohio Secretary of State Bob Taft.
Taft, a Republican, cited problems with Dimora's campaign finance reports. The Ohio Supreme Court eventually sided with Dimora.
Hard as it is today to imagine a time where Dimora was a political underdog, in the early 1990s, he was an outsider, a man with whom many weren't quite comfortable.
That changed after Dimora triumphed his way to the elections board seat. In little more than a year, he was the only nominee to replace John Coyne as chairman of the Democratic Party.
As with Dimora, it is hard today to imagine such a political institution so down in the dumps. But in 1994, the party was bleeding money and reeling from the racial battles in which Dimora starred. And while Republicans weren't exactly a force, they weren't afterthoughts, either.
"We have a difficult task ahead of us in rebuilding this party," Dimora, who was 38 at the time, told about 500 party faithful assembled the day he was elected party chairman. "I call for unity. Unity from the East Side and the West Side, city and suburb, black and white."
Making peace with Stokes, whose long tenure in Congress made him the region's preeminent politician, regardless of race, proved to be a nearly impossible task. In 1995, Stokes and then-Cleveland Mayor Michael R. White blasted Dimora's efforts on behalf of black Democrats.
"Jimmy Dimora has not given any leadership in terms of trying to compensate the black community in Cleveland for the loyalty they have given to the Democratic Party," Stokes told The Plain Dealer at the time. On a radio show, White called the party "anti-African-American."
Dimora reacted angrily and suggested Stokes and White were unhappy with his rise.
"I'm trying to bring people into the process, but I will not go to people who want to call the shots," he told the newspaper. "If that is what Lou Stokes wants from me, he can count me out."
Both sides resolved their differences, but only temporarily.
When then-County Recorder Frank Russo left for the auditor's office in 1997, Stokes saw an opening for another black in countywide office. He pushed for Roosevelt Coats, the black Cleveland councilman who had beat Dimora for the party's vice chairmanship years earlier.
The party backed Patrick O'Malley, a white Cleveland councilman.
The following year, Stokes, about to retire from Congress, tried his best to keep Dimora from winning the job his adversary long had coveted: county commissioner. Stokes endorsed then-State Sen. Patrick Sweeney, Dimora's chief rival for the Democratic nomination.
So determined Stokes seemed to be to defeat Dimora, he bypassed a high-profile black candidate, Cleveland Councilman Bill Patmon. But with strong backing from organized labor and suburban officials, Dimora upset Sweeney and easily won the general election that November.
"He just bellowed and laughed and hand-shook his way through the election," Patmon recalled today. "Had it went a different way, it probably would have changed the landscape of Cuyahoga County immeasurably."
Over time, Dimora demonstrated his appreciation of blacks who had been faithful to the party. In 2002, he put his party capital on the line by endorsing Peter Lawson Jones, a black state representative, over O'Malley for a vacancy on the board of commissioners. Jones won.
[H. Gomez]
And, finally,from a timeline eulogizing Dimora's political career, consider this:
From The Plain Dealer, "Jimmy Dimora's Rise and Fall: A Timeline" Staff, September 15, 2010:
1994: Elected chairman of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, primarily with the support of the West Side Democratic Coalition, a group that included Bill Mason, Pat O'Malley, Dan Brady, Nancy McDonnell, Steve Dever, and Tom Coyne.
[work in progress]
Since the turbulent 1960's when riots and white flight changed the racial composition of our beloved Clevelandia, the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party (three co-chairs) and/or the Cuyahoga County government (three commissioners) has been headed by an Irish-American, an African-American, and an Italian-American. The business of regional governance has been left to This Holy Trinity, with the occasional, grudging acceptance of a fourth.
From The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History:
The Democrats were a minority party during the years of the CITY MANAGER PLAN; however, with the plan's demise in 1931 Democrat RAY T. MILLER† was elected mayor. In the 1930s the party split into factions as Miller and MARTIN L. SWEENEY† fought for control. Ultimately, Miller was declared party chairman in 1940, and aided by the success of the New Deal he made Cleveland a Democratic stronghold by securing the political allegiance of both the AFRICAN AMERICANS and the nationality groups and consolidating the party organization. As more Democrats moved to the suburbs in the early 1960s, the party began to organize its latent strength there. Party unity was challenged when the 21st Dist. Caucus was organized by a group of black Democrats in 1970 to provide unified backing for the candidates of their choice. The caucus's name and membership boundaries came from the congressional district of Louis Stokes, who was elected chairman. In an effort to reestablish party unity, the regular Cuyahoga County Democratic party named 3 co-chairmen, George Forbes, Anthony Garofoli, and Hugh Corrigan in 1972. When Corrigan resigned in 1976, Forbes and Garofoli ran the party until Timothy Hagan was elected chairman in 1978. In 1982 John M. Coyne succeeded him as party chairman. Coyne resigned in Dec. 1993. Roosevelt Coats, the party's vice-chair, was acting chair until Jan. 1994, when Jimmy Dimora was elected to the unexpired term. Dimora was elected to a full 4-year term in June of 1994.
[Encyclopedia of Cleveland History]
This delicate, unspoken balance of power has touched upon every political decision and public works project Clevelandia has known in the second half of the twentieth century.
Now, consider this:
From The Plain Dealer,"Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Builds Powerful Political Network in Northeast Ohio, Mark Puente, March 28, 2010:
Political master: When longtime County Prosecutor John T. Corrigan stepped down in 1991, Mason was a young assistant prosecutor who wanted Corrigan's son, Michael, to get the job. But the Democratic Party's central committee, the largely anonymous foot soldiers who often determine which people get coveted political posts, passed over Michael Corrigan and appointed Stephanie Tubbs Jones.
"It was an education for everyone involved," Mason told The Plain Dealer in 1998. "We decided then to take control of the process so it would never happen again."
Mason joined with like-minded young West Side and suburban Democrats, whose goal was to wrest control of the county party from the people who long had been running it.
Mason and his allies spent the next four years amassing votes and support in the Democratic Central Committee. The coalition eventually paved the way for Mason's appointment as prosecutor when Tubbs Jones went to Congress in 1998.
[M. Puente]
And, also, consider this:
From The Plain Dealer, "Jimmy Dimora's Indictment Caps the Crumbling of His Political Machine", Henry Gomez, September 15, 2010:
Intent on securing a position of status within his beloved party, Dimora ended 1992 by beating out lawyer Frederick Middleton in an intraparty battle for a seat on the Board of Elections.
A close contest -- Dimora prevailed by one vote -- exposed deep racial tensions.
Because the open seat had been held by a black man, Stokes and others had favored Middleton, a black man, to fill the vacancy. The celebration was short-lived for Dimora, whose selection to the board was soon challenged by then-Ohio Secretary of State Bob Taft.
Taft, a Republican, cited problems with Dimora's campaign finance reports. The Ohio Supreme Court eventually sided with Dimora.
Hard as it is today to imagine a time where Dimora was a political underdog, in the early 1990s, he was an outsider, a man with whom many weren't quite comfortable.
That changed after Dimora triumphed his way to the elections board seat. In little more than a year, he was the only nominee to replace John Coyne as chairman of the Democratic Party.
As with Dimora, it is hard today to imagine such a political institution so down in the dumps. But in 1994, the party was bleeding money and reeling from the racial battles in which Dimora starred. And while Republicans weren't exactly a force, they weren't afterthoughts, either.
"We have a difficult task ahead of us in rebuilding this party," Dimora, who was 38 at the time, told about 500 party faithful assembled the day he was elected party chairman. "I call for unity. Unity from the East Side and the West Side, city and suburb, black and white."
Making peace with Stokes, whose long tenure in Congress made him the region's preeminent politician, regardless of race, proved to be a nearly impossible task. In 1995, Stokes and then-Cleveland Mayor Michael R. White blasted Dimora's efforts on behalf of black Democrats.
"Jimmy Dimora has not given any leadership in terms of trying to compensate the black community in Cleveland for the loyalty they have given to the Democratic Party," Stokes told The Plain Dealer at the time. On a radio show, White called the party "anti-African-American."
Dimora reacted angrily and suggested Stokes and White were unhappy with his rise.
"I'm trying to bring people into the process, but I will not go to people who want to call the shots," he told the newspaper. "If that is what Lou Stokes wants from me, he can count me out."
Both sides resolved their differences, but only temporarily.
When then-County Recorder Frank Russo left for the auditor's office in 1997, Stokes saw an opening for another black in countywide office. He pushed for Roosevelt Coats, the black Cleveland councilman who had beat Dimora for the party's vice chairmanship years earlier.
The party backed Patrick O'Malley, a white Cleveland councilman.
The following year, Stokes, about to retire from Congress, tried his best to keep Dimora from winning the job his adversary long had coveted: county commissioner. Stokes endorsed then-State Sen. Patrick Sweeney, Dimora's chief rival for the Democratic nomination.
So determined Stokes seemed to be to defeat Dimora, he bypassed a high-profile black candidate, Cleveland Councilman Bill Patmon. But with strong backing from organized labor and suburban officials, Dimora upset Sweeney and easily won the general election that November.
"He just bellowed and laughed and hand-shook his way through the election," Patmon recalled today. "Had it went a different way, it probably would have changed the landscape of Cuyahoga County immeasurably."
Over time, Dimora demonstrated his appreciation of blacks who had been faithful to the party. In 2002, he put his party capital on the line by endorsing Peter Lawson Jones, a black state representative, over O'Malley for a vacancy on the board of commissioners. Jones won.
[H. Gomez]
And, finally,from a timeline eulogizing Dimora's political career, consider this:
From The Plain Dealer, "Jimmy Dimora's Rise and Fall: A Timeline" Staff, September 15, 2010:
1994: Elected chairman of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, primarily with the support of the West Side Democratic Coalition, a group that included Bill Mason, Pat O'Malley, Dan Brady, Nancy McDonnell, Steve Dever, and Tom Coyne.
[work in progress]
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Clamerican Splendor
September 11 has never been so awesome! Friends eating clams - the little ones - while watching a loving tribute to Clevelandia and several of its citizens. Select few. Secret handshakes.
Monday, September 6, 2010
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Oops! I Accidentally Received A Substantial Decrease in Property Taxes!
Oh, well. Since I'm the most important person in the whole wide world, no one should mind.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
Bloomsday's Top Ten Cinematic Epiphanies
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Thursday, May 6, 2010
Clevelandia: Remembering
deus ex machina est non spiritus mundi
ghost in the machine will hide in secret cavity
skinner box has chicken pox with soto voce cry
vox humana, Pax Clevelandia, et bono populi
Infested blanket, pesticide, colon's twisted hide
river discharge overflow into Lake Erie pride
river view is opened new across the dead pile, lost
remember them at city's gem no matter what the cost
More poetic mind bullets from O'Ghoulihy, here.
And here.
And here.
And here.
And here.
ghost in the machine will hide in secret cavity
skinner box has chicken pox with soto voce cry
vox humana, Pax Clevelandia, et bono populi
Infested blanket, pesticide, colon's twisted hide
river discharge overflow into Lake Erie pride
river view is opened new across the dead pile, lost
remember them at city's gem no matter what the cost
More poetic mind bullets from O'Ghoulihy, here.
And here.
And here.
And here.
And here.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Borgnine: The Musical
O'Ghoulihy does not endorse belief in the occult. Except that tiny fringy element that holds that you will most certainly perish in the hellfires of the rapture if you fail to heed the gospels of Steve and Edie. And Ernest Borgnine. And the esperanto translations of the Latter Day Shatners.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Three More Big Players in the County Corruption Scandal
NAME: THE GREAT FONDINI
ELECTED POSITION/JOB: BUSINESS AGENT, CHOCOLATE DIPPERS UNION LOCAL 23
CORRUPTION PROBE CONNECTIONS: FBI WIRETAPS SATURATED WITH HIS FAMILIAR SINISTER GIGGLING.
NAME: KILBOURNE PLATT
ELECTED POSITION/JOB: FINGERPOINTER IN CHIEF
CORRUPTION PROBE CONNECTIONS: RUMORED TO ONLY POINT VERY, VERY FAR AWAY ("OVA DEY!"); SECRET HANDSHAKES TAINTED WITH POISONOUS BALMS.
NAME: O'GHOULIHY
ELECTED POSITION/JOB: CRIMINAL MASTERMIND; LATE NITE HORROR SHOW HOST
CORRUPTION PROBE CONNECTIONS: ONLY THE FBI KNOWS...
ELECTED POSITION/JOB: BUSINESS AGENT, CHOCOLATE DIPPERS UNION LOCAL 23
CORRUPTION PROBE CONNECTIONS: FBI WIRETAPS SATURATED WITH HIS FAMILIAR SINISTER GIGGLING.
NAME: KILBOURNE PLATT
ELECTED POSITION/JOB: FINGERPOINTER IN CHIEF
CORRUPTION PROBE CONNECTIONS: RUMORED TO ONLY POINT VERY, VERY FAR AWAY ("OVA DEY!"); SECRET HANDSHAKES TAINTED WITH POISONOUS BALMS.
NAME: O'GHOULIHY
ELECTED POSITION/JOB: CRIMINAL MASTERMIND; LATE NITE HORROR SHOW HOST
CORRUPTION PROBE CONNECTIONS: ONLY THE FBI KNOWS...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
The Auto Repair Shop that Dripped Blood
Lurking with evil at the corner of West 150th and Brookpark is The Geek Shop. The letters of its sign out front drip with blood. No one knows why the letters drip with blood. Anyone foolish enough to ask has never been seen alive again.
For Whom Doth the Geek Shop Drip with Blood?
It Drippeth for Thee! It Drippeth for Thee!
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Synchronicity or Not? (A Public Service from O'Ghoulihy)
I am often asked by friends, colleagues or, more disturbingly, complete strangers, whether a particular experience of theirs constitutes synchronicity. Here are some recent examples:
Question: "I saw an electronic billboard as I was driving on the highway and it said the time was 3:33 and the temperature was 33 degrees. Is this synchronicity?"
Answer: No. It's just a lot of threes in a row. Keep your eyes on the road.
Question: "At a restaurant, I ordered a reuben and, suddenly, the guy from The Partridge Family whose name was Reuben popped into my head. Is this synchronicity?"
Answer: No. Reubenesque, maybe, but it is not synchronicity.
Question: "I got new fillings at the dentist, and on the way home, I was listening to the live Supreme Court Nominee Sonja Sotomajor hearings on NPR thinking about what type of amalgam the dentist had used for my fillings and at the very instant the word "amalgam" was in my head, Supreme Court Nominee Sonja Sotomajor used the word "amalgam" to describe a particular aspect of her judicial philosophy. Is this synchronicity?"
Answer: No, but the new amalgam-based radio transmitter your dentist implanted to monitor the mind of a liberal elite is working great.
[If you need clarification of a potentially synchronistic event in you life, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: SYNCHRONICITY OR NOT? 2121 Random Ave. Cleveland OH or just type it in the comment section below.]
Question: "I saw an electronic billboard as I was driving on the highway and it said the time was 3:33 and the temperature was 33 degrees. Is this synchronicity?"
Answer: No. It's just a lot of threes in a row. Keep your eyes on the road.
Question: "At a restaurant, I ordered a reuben and, suddenly, the guy from The Partridge Family whose name was Reuben popped into my head. Is this synchronicity?"
Answer: No. Reubenesque, maybe, but it is not synchronicity.
Question: "I got new fillings at the dentist, and on the way home, I was listening to the live Supreme Court Nominee Sonja Sotomajor hearings on NPR thinking about what type of amalgam the dentist had used for my fillings and at the very instant the word "amalgam" was in my head, Supreme Court Nominee Sonja Sotomajor used the word "amalgam" to describe a particular aspect of her judicial philosophy. Is this synchronicity?"
Answer: No, but the new amalgam-based radio transmitter your dentist implanted to monitor the mind of a liberal elite is working great.
[If you need clarification of a potentially synchronistic event in you life, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: SYNCHRONICITY OR NOT? 2121 Random Ave. Cleveland OH or just type it in the comment section below.]
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Influenced by Non-Fictional Accounts
do not, under any circumstances, ask me to
explain how to synch up Close Encounters of
the Third Kind to The Dark Side Of the Moon
so that this song plays when the mother ship
arrives.
All right, all right! I'll tell you. But don't ask
again. You wait until the moment in the movie
when a military guy utters the phrase, "the
dark side of the moon." And you begin side
one of the album.
Heartbeats. helicopters. "breathe."
And if you get all confused as to why the music
doesn't quite synch up after "The Great Gig in
the Sky" ends, it's because you have to wait
until someone else in the movie utters the
phrase "the dark side of the moon" to begin
side two of the album.
Now, don't ask again or I'll send you here.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
The Anthem of Clevelandia
walked swam hunted danced sang
Let's put our heads together
and start a new country up
Our fathers' fathers' fathers tried
erased the parts they didn't like...
A Cuyahoga Joke:
Corruption and Reform walk into a bar. Corruption says to
the bartender, "Hey, a coupla drinks for me and my old
friend, here..."
(Happy 50th, Mr. Stipe)
Let's put our heads together
and start a new country up
Our fathers' fathers' fathers tried
erased the parts they didn't like...
A Cuyahoga Joke:
Corruption and Reform walk into a bar. Corruption says to
the bartender, "Hey, a coupla drinks for me and my old
friend, here..."
Reform says, "Now, wait just a minute. I'm not your friend.
You just happened to open the door for me. It's purely a
coincidence that we arrived here at the same time. I don't
You just happened to open the door for me. It's purely a
coincidence that we arrived here at the same time. I don't
know you and you don't know me."
So Corruption says, "You use that line everywhere we go,
and there ain't a bartender in town who's fooled by it. We
drove here together. "
and there ain't a bartender in town who's fooled by it. We
drove here together. "
"It ain't exactly free, you know," says Corruption. "There's
bribes, kickbacks, payoffs, shakedowns, hush money, not to mention campaign contributions..."
bribes, kickbacks, payoffs, shakedowns, hush money, not to mention campaign contributions..."
Reform sticks his fingers in his ears. "La! La! La! I'm not
listening! La! La! La! I'm not business as usual! La! La! La!"
listening! La! La! La! I'm not business as usual! La! La! La!"
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