Comments on: Five hours to go.

By: coozledad

coozledad — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:11:08 +0000

Nancy: Did it have the diplomatic plate from WVA? You know, the one with an airbrushed buck that says “Lookin’…”?

By: nancy

nancy — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:00:15 +0000

When I remarked on the front-bumper flag post, the fixer’s friend said he thought it had been a diplomatic-corps vehicle, but I’m not so sure. For one thing, it has two cop-style spotlights (the kind you use to poach deer) on the front windshield, and the color’s all wrong. Maybe the Republic of West Virginia.

Partial report later. George Carlin, RIP.

By: john c

john c — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:22:11 +0000

Friend of mine had a car like that. It wasn’t a stretch. But it was a 70’s vintage lincoln, or Grand Marquis, or something. Anyway, he called it the Isle de France. “Why?” I asked. “Because it takes a team of tugboats and whole day to turn it around.”
And I don’t have any ELP. But I’m sure I can dig up my electric green Jethro Tull 8-tracks, and maybe some Seger. My 8-track player - in my ‘73 Mazda RX-4 - was in the glove compartment.
Can’t wait to see the movie.

I always chuckle when I think of Carlin’s “seven words” bit, the part where he imagines substituting the word “Fk” (I’m not skittish, just trying to avoid filters) for the word “kill.” As in, “Fk the Ump! Fk the ump!” or in old westerns: “Okay sheriff, we’re gonna Fk you now. But we gonna Fk you Slooow.”

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:18:32 +0000

Caliban, to be truthful, i was more of a Who fan than Zepp, which was likely just my contrary streak, since at my high school the battle lines were Zepp v. Nazareth/Foghat (the cheer gear gang were all REO/Cheap Trick, oddly enough).

Mick Jagger brought unity to Soldier Field to all factions my senior year, 30 years ago this month. And people lined up to get tickets, while murmuring “dude’s getting pretty old, isn’t he?”

None of which stopped the band from doing a cover of “Color My World” at prom — life can be cruel.

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:46:05 +0000

Somehow it’s so “right” to read Caliban this morning just after reading about George Carlin.

By: caliban

caliban — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:18:07 +0000

ELP made the great miscue; the greatest song most people ever heard was the first, and everything but “Welcome back my friends” was kind of anticlimactic.

Oh what a lucky man was about John Kerry, right, before 527 villains and Diebold laid him low. When the Levee Breaks is totemic. Listened before I went to bed, for years, full volume on earphones. I would have thought Nancy was a faux Fleetwood fan. There’s ripping and tearing, and there’s Yankees and Dodgers, and there’s Peter Green and Lindsay Buckingham-Nicks.

I dunno. What’s the best Sex Pistols’ song Bod Save the Queen. What’s the best Foreigner song? A conundrum. Now, Arcade Fire. A very good band. Echoing U2, not hardly. (If you know how to play guitar, the Edge is guitar techs and tunings.) The Boss, maybe. Big Country, sure as shit.

Peachy held Danny’s hand:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8LPiUQShvM

I find it hard to believe, Nancy, that you didn’t fly a flag of some sort on the limo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jolly-roger.svg. If you’re so caught up in the cinema, how about Zero de conduit? There’s something so obvious its’s ridiculous. We wake up andit wa all a bad dream.

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:35:31 +0000

Funny you should mention ELP. My husband and I were in the car with our 12-year-old tonight.
Son: “You smoke pot.”
Husband: “What!? No, I don’t.”
Son: “You listen to Emerson, Lake & Palmer, don’t you?”
Husband: “Sure, I have.”
Son: “Well, then you definitely smoke pot.”

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:59:16 +0000

Hey Jeff - my hubby was (and still is) a fan of EL&P. Once he was wearing his EL&P shirt - about 35 years ago - and his grandmother said “Emerson Lake? Where’s that? I’ve never heard of that!”

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:01:38 +0000

Big scary decaying limo?

I have some Emerson, Lake, & Palmer 8-tracks if you need ‘em . . .

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:33:44 +0000

Woo That looks great

Suzanne