Today is the kind of weather that puts the “bleak” in “Bleaksburg.” So here’s ten lyrics: you tell me the artist and the song.
Last week’s
two unanswered lyrics were MC Chris’s “Illy Oy” and Molly Hatchet’s “Flirtin’ With Disaster.”

Paul Simon, “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” [
Kim ] And then she slipped into [...] Read more »

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I had a dream this morning — stick with me, it won’t take long — that
Cory said his first word. And then his first paragraph. So I started teaching him arithmetic, but before I could get beyond the “you have six apples” bit Cory was using typical arithmetic word-problems to riff on military spending. [...] Read more »

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…That Piss Me Off.
I’ve decided I don’t need to keep every piece of every CD I own, so the most egregious and unrewarding packaging for some of my CD box sets are going in the trash. It’s not high value clutter-tossing, but every little bit counts. Here are three boxes that aren’t worth keeping.

3. [...] Read more »

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KMD Trading Card (found at
Freemotion)
Having just given the
gas face to top-40, I thought it might be fun to talk about some of the stuff I am listening to right now. For example, 1990s New York rap group KMD. KMD got their recording start working with fellow New York rappers and anti-MC Hammer raptivists [...] Read more »

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If I may quote Pinky, it’s a yummy sunny day. But sometimes I grow so tired.
So stay indoors and guess the artist and song associated with each of these lyrics. The answers for
the last game and the
game previous to that have been posted.

John Lee Hooker, “Boom Boom” When you talk like that you [...] Read more »

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