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Offensive jokes are, IMO, fine if they're funny. The have to be funnier than they are offensive. I'm glad a gay found that joke funny. I did not. Having said that, if I were a moderator, I wouldn't have deleted it.

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

Kids concert featuring http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty33v7UYYbw AND (apparently only one media link allowed per post, so stay tuned...)

Beautiful, beautiful song. I wish the v-roys had stayed together. Just Add Ice is a gem. I used to get emails from Miller, but he never seems to leave the south these days, so I gave it up.

Can't Hardly Wait

70 tomorrow!!! Or today where Froggie is.

Harmon led a life away from the spotlight for the past 35+ years. He's beloved in Minnesota, but not nationwide. "Macho Man" did all he could to maximize his national exposure beyond his prime. Killebrew was 74, Savage still in his 50s. I am much sadder about Killebrew's death because I've been a Twins fan since childhood (around the time he retired), but I understand why most people are more shocked and/or saddened by Savage's death.

I love that picture except its setting. RIP Harmon. Fuck the Yankees.

Talent Show is one of my favorite 'mats song. Achin' to be was ahead of it's time. I'll Be You is Good. Most of the rest is pretty lame, so I'd never buy it on vinyl, even if I was a vinyl collector.

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Harmon Killebrew enters hospice care This fills me with great sadness. When Kirby died, I bawled. Didn't bawl for this, but did get teary and do every time I think about it.

In honor of Stevie Wonder's 61st and Friday the 13th, I shared this with my students today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZFf0pm0SE

I like it when Bruce doesn't take himself so seriously. That was brilliant and funny as hell.

I always liked that Beck/Stewart version. I think it's the first I remember hearing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJYSu2OVCGM

As a middle school teacher, let me tell you, there are plenty of Nirvana fans out there who have no idea what context the music belongs in. Pretty much anything made before 2000 is "classic rock" to them, which makes sense considering they were born around 1997. But still, to them The Beatles = Kiss = Van Halen = Nirvana. Kids going to a Miley Cyrus concert may hear that and think, "Hey, I heard that on my dad's radio station once, cool!" But the kids who stay into it will because they heard it on their dad's radio station, brother's iPod, or friend's house, not because Miley sang it. Sh

It might fit the dictionary definition for odd and incongruous, but so does an outfit with plaid and stripes. This was beyond odd and incongruous.

One wonders if she fully appreciates the irony. She, like Debbie Gibson, has her own perfume.

Still wrong thread, getting closer.

I made a new thread for that Miley Cyrus video if someone wants to post it up here.

Wrong thread

I follow my older brother like a lapdog when it comes to music. EXCEPT, I take credit for turning him on to Wilco. In the late 90s, we were both frustrated with most of the rock scene. He really got into jazz, and I followed. Then he got really deep into classical, esp. opera. I learned a lot from him, but opera requires a big investment of time and focus to really get into. It was around that time I got him into Wilco. I'd bought him Being There when it first came out. He liked it, but didn't love it. Then came YHF and it blew him away. We went to residency night #2 together. Anyh

YAY for Liriano.

We have killed, we have built. We have killed for sound reasons (WWII) and crappy (Vietnam, Spanish-American, etc.), but we HAVE built up. bin Laden has not. Counting dead bodies is a pretty crappy and wholly incomplete way to evaluate the legacy of a 230+ old country vs. that of a 57 year old man.

My kids turn 6 Wednesday. They go through phases and we're definitely in a Star Wars drought. I hope this changes soon. I'd watch any of the Star Wars (even the new ones, hell, even Clone Wars) for the rest of my life than be exposed to any of the schlock my kids have gotten hooked on from the Disney Channel. It all started with Phineas and Ferb, which is great, now it's all the crap. Lemonade Mouth, Wizards of Waverly Place, Zach & Cody, Good Luck Charlie. The best thing about this is it's easier for me to enforce T.V. time limits because they're watching crap that I cannot stand.