Author: dni

They Might Be Giants – Your Racist Friend

Lyrics
This is where the party ends
I can’t stand here listening to you
And your racist friend
I know politics bore you
But I feel like a hypocrite talking to you
And your racist friend

It was the loveliest party that I’ve ever attended
If anything was broken I’m sure it could be mended
My head can’t tolerate this bobbing and pretending
Listen to some bullet-head and the madness that he’s saying

This is where the party ends
I’ll just sit here wondering how you
Can stand by your racist friend
I know politics bore you
But I feel like a hypocrite talking to you
You and your racist friend

This is where the party ends
I can’t stand here listening to you
And your racist friend
I know politics bore you
But I feel like a hypocrite talking to you
And your racist friend

Out from the kitchen to the bedroom to the hallway
Your friend apologizes, he could see it my way
He let the contents of the bottle do the thinking
Can’t shake the devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding

This is where the party ends
I can’t stand here listening to you
And your racist friend
I know politics bore you
But I feel like a hypocrite talking to you
And your racist friend

Written by John Flansburgh, John Linnell, John C. Flansburgh, John S. Linnell • Copyright © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc

You have seen that kind of people who will never let on that they don’t know the meaning of a new big word.

“I wish I could photograph them!”

You have seen that kind of people who will never let on that they don’t know the meaning of a new big word. The more ignorant they are, the more pitifully certain they are to pretend you haven’t shot over their heads. The queen was just one of that sort, and was always making the stupidest blunders by reason of it. She hesitated a moment; then her face brightened up with sudden comprehension, and she said she would do it for me.

I thought to myself: She? why what can she know about photography? But it was a poor time to be thinking. When I looked around, she was moving on the procession with an axe!

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Well, she certainly was a curious one, was Morgan le Fay. I have seen a good many kinds of women in my time, but she laid over them all for variety. And how sharply characteristic of her this episode was. She had no more idea than a horse of how to photograph a procession; but being in doubt, it was just like her to try to do it with an axe.

  • Mark Twain in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Happy 70th Birthday Gary Doak

Happy 70th birthday to Boston Bruins #25 Gary Doak. Born February 25, 1946 in Goderich, Ontario.

Though the guy kindof looked like an accountant, he was a solid member of the Bruins for most of the 1970s.  I used to really enjoy watching him play, as a kid.

He was also a member of the 1966-67 Oklahoma City Blazers that included future Bruins teamates Wayne Cashman, Derek Sanderson, Gerry Cheevers, and a host of others who would go on the NHL fame.