I have been infected by a song, and I tried to give it away, but I made a tragic mistake.
I gave it to my hubby, who only stops singing, or playing the piano, or playing the guitar, or whistling, or banging on something … think of the Grinch’s imagination of the young Who’s on Christmas morning, with their floofloovers, tartookas, whohoopers and gardookas, not to mention the electro whocarnio flook in the basement … when asked, which is often met with the most astonishing puppy-dog eyes, and a look that says, “why do you hate all music, and me,” so we don’t like to do it.
So now I know that it is a real song, and have listened to it on the internet. And heard it figured out on the piano. And strummed on a guitar. Certainly whistled and sung. I know the lyrics by heart.
And now it is your turn.
The initial blame lies with the Jeeves and Wooster series I have also almost memorized, as it really keeps Nana happy, and me still entertained, fourth time through [IQ beginning to drop, but meds kicking in, ed.].
As Hugh Laurie sets it up, in his role as Bertie, here is today’s intellectual content:
Now if you didn’t watch to the end, here is the song I am teeing up to haunt you, with the lyrics helpfully superimposed, in case, in their complexity, you missed them:
Sorry, but desperate times call for desperate measures. May your day, or daze, be ever so goosey, goosey, goosey, goo … see!
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Ahh, that feels better.
Xty
Your pernicious attempt to infest my cranial playlist goes unrealized, as the weather has assumed paramount import.
Today Jan 2
Flurries
10°F
-10°F
Flurries
Chance of snow:
30%
Wind:
N at 13 mph
Details
Fri Jan 3
Partly Cloudy / Wind
12°
9°
Partly Cloudy / Wind
Chance of snow:
0%
Wind:
S at 22 mph
Details
Sat Jan 4
AM Snow Showers / Wind
24°
-4°
AM Snow Showers / Wind
Chance of snow:
60%
Wind:
SW at 21 mph
Details
Sun Jan 5
Cloudy
2°
-22°
Cloudy
Chance of snow:
10%
Wind:
NNW at 12 mph
Details
Mon Jan 6
Mostly Cloudy / Wind
-13°
-22°
Mostly Cloudy / Wind
Chance of snow:
10%
Wind:
W at 21 mph
i read your thoughts under the ‘Word of the Day’ heading. i have been posting less lately, but not because of any dissatisfaction with your writing. i am just feeling down in the dumps. the weather here has just been wretched pretty much since the first cold wave hit early in December. also my wife and i have had non stop car problems through this entire period in addition to, and largely because of the weather. then there is my financial situation. we all know about that because we all in fact know each other because of a past investment theme. and generally i am feeling a nagging sense of doom. almost every person i know, friend or family, is either struggling, or scared out of their wits because of this economy. at least most of the people i know aren’t pretending everything is rosy. the statistical nonsense coming from the US government these days is not even laughable anymore. it smells desperate.
don’t worry, i will bounce back in a few days. have to get past Monday though. we are going to have the coldest weather since the early 90’s here, but it will be brief. by the way, i say this weather is not normal to any climate change deniers reading this out there. i know a lot of farmers, and also garden myself. you may not think i’m all that credible, but farmers are very aware and very intelligent. remember they once were the majority of small business owners in the USA. the weather is VOLATILE. i have a strong science background. the weather (which over a longer period is called climate) is behaving like a disturbed equilibrium. think of a spinning top after you ping it with your finger. hope it can right itself is all i can say.
i turned down Packer tickets because of the cold weather. i have never turned down Packer tickets in my life! i have sat through plenty of cold games too. i almost feel guilty! so i guess that is bumming me out too.
rant done. for a little balance i will at least post some music later. thanks for letting me vent. 🙂
ahh, Woodpecker, my man…mother earth is angry and rightfully so. Sorry about your stat’s Xty but i truly hope that you will carry on.
and i were listening to this earlier in the car and it pretty much explains where i am. as always, best to all.
people like you give me a lot of hope 44. you have been through hell lately, but who posts first after my rant? i believe that you are paying it forward. but that is not the reason for your kindness. well, you know what my beliefs are. thanks for the tune(s).
a friend sent a series of these snow sculpture pics to me today in an e-mail. every January there is a competition in Breckenridge Colorado.
O.K.- so what’s good about cold weather? It gives you an excuse to sit in your comfy recliner, eating and drinking way too much while watching football, football, and more football, New Year’s resolutions on hold. No guilt because you have not really wimped out to it, having proved your manliness twice already by taking two 2 mile walks lately at -5, (no wind).
it was great weather outside today though. i had to shovel a little more snow, but i was able to wear shorts, sandals, and a tee shirt. well, i could have. 🙂 we hit 30F (-1C). hard to believe that Monday morning it will be 50 degrees colder.
the coldest i have ever experienced is -28F (-33C). i was staying in a hotel at the time for job training too which made things even tougher. i was taking the battery out of the car every night that week. (these cold spells used to generally hang around more than a few days when they occurred.)
well i hope we don’t beat that record. my and my wife’s cars have already given up the fight this winter.
http://wtaq.com/news/articles/2014/jan/02/wolves-from-wisconsin-migrating-towards-illinois/
I saw one once on my land on the Tues before Easter 2006, thrilling, breathtaking. Now it seems there may be a pack a few scant miles from our woodpecker.
Jan 1994, I always remember it as 1996, but records indicate ’94 colder. Either one, we had -42. Only know that because our mercury thermometer was pegged at -30 but someone near us called local radio and reported the -42. I believe it because I saw ice fog manifested over our small nearby creek.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_fog
The furnace ran continuously that day and wonder of wonders my plugged in diesel truck started that morning as I had to work.
Leo Kottke- been meanin’ to add that I noticed he didn’t sing and even though he does attempt to at times and not all that badly, I have an album which I am too lazy to go identify in which he notes on the back that he thinks his voice “sounds like goose farts on a muggy day.”
And wouldn’t that song really be awesome if there were words, with John Hartford on banjo, his voice pretty funky too, both pickin-n-grinnin and singin-n-sinnin.
http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/01/03/nfl-playoffs.html
title- playing with frozen balls
I am tempted to buy this even though I would only understand half or less. At the very least, the review was engrossing.
http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/01/03/hyperobjects.html
“Hyperobjects such as global warming and nuclear radiation surround us, not some abstract entity such as Nature or environment or world. Our reality has become more real, in the sense of more vivid and intense, and yet it has also become less knowable,”
“In Hyperobjects, Timothy Morton brings to bear his deep knowledge of a wide array of subjects to propose a new way of looking at our situation, which might allow us to take action toward the future health of the biosphere. Crucially, the relations between Buddhism and science, nature and culture, are examined in the fusion of a single vision. The result is a great work of cognitive mapping, both exciting and useful.”
“Occasionally, a new book comes along with a concept so startling that you never see the world in the same way again. Hyperobjects is such a book. Concepts, ideas, and entities that Morton terms “hyperobjects” challenge and then defeat traditional thinking about how the worlds works. This way of thinking is critical to fully understanding the consequences of climate change, the technology revolution, chemicalization of the environment, and the coming paradigm shift resulting from the confluence of these changes. Transformational thinking, such as Morton presents in Hyperobjects, is not the first step – that occurred in the 1970s with the whole earth concept and later presented as the Gaia hypothesis – it’s the first leap into comprehending the world we live in now and that near future generations will inhabit.”
“So what are hyperobjects, exactly? That’s an excellent question. I may as well allow Morton to answer, since he invented the concept. Hyperobjects, he writes, are:
directly responsible for what I call the end of the world
real whether or not someone is thinking of them
real entities whose primordial reality is withdrawn from the world
a good candidate for what Heidegger calls “the last god”
harbingers of a truly “post-modern” age
very uncanny
vivid and often painful
viscous
disturbingly squishy and mollusk-like
impossible to handle just right
As is probably evident from the above, Hyperobjects is occasionally insane; far more frequently, though, it is brilliant. I can’t pretend to have gotten the whole thing, and I suspect that few outside the university will. That shouldn’t hinder the inquisitive, though.”
http://www.amazon.com/Hyperobjects-Philosophy-Ecology-after-Posthumanities/dp/0816689237