If you have a moment, say “Hi!” to Cowboy The Cat.
The name alone should peak your interest.
I wish that interesting-blog-intermingling happened more often, but I’ll take what I can get.
It’s always a treat when you find an interesting agendaneer, or they find you, and you have a mutual appreciation for the other’s writings.
He somehow found me, and then I found him. It’s like Love Story, without the romance or incurable disease!
I heart your blog (agenda), Cowboy the Cat!
A couple months ago, I posted a knock-knock joke from my daughter.
I have now one to share from my eldest son (four years old). It’s not quite as ribald, but I like it.
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Son: Knock knock.
Me: Who’s there?
Son: Nobody.
Me: Nobody who?
Son: Somebody.
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Here’s a few more random observations about the kids.
1. I recently overheard my eldest son singing “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” to himself, but for some reason he was singing it as “take me out to the ball stretch”.
2. A couple doors down some people have a stuffed Frankenstein on their front porch, sitting in a chair. My kids unhumorously call it “Franken Einstein” (I think I might have pointed out a picture of Albert Einstein to them at some point).
3. My four-year old daughter has recently learned about the Incredible Hulk, and is now currently obsessed with *being* the Hulk. I recently taught her the line “Don’t make me angry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.”, which she is now fond of saying before she starts stomping around the house.
All the above is proof why kids are so much better than adults. It’s not even close, people.
If I were a writer for The Onion, you bet I would have suggested a funny story revolving around the Lolcat phenomenon. From what I can tell with my limited abilities using Google, this trend has not yet been skewered by them.
My article would have been something like “Majority of US cats now being raised for LOL pictures”.
The piece that I would have written in The Onion would have not been very funny, honestly. And, most likely, I would be fired after a few weeks, when they realized I was bereft of ideas that matched The Onion’s particular niche of comedy.
Before being fired, I would attempt to transition to a position in their non-funny but nevertheless stellar site A.V. Club. I would be entrusted to write a review about a new album by Sleater-Kinney. Instead of listening to the album, I’d procrastinate. At the last minute, I’d try and get my mom to write my album review for me, but she would refuse.
My editor at the A.V. Club would regrettably fire me for providing a hacked-up piece of piffle about Sleater-Kinney.
I’d have one last chance working in the ad department, but I’d accidentally (and unintentionally) say something extremely offensive about Burton-Marsteller, and whammo! Fired.
I’d be so angry, on my last day I’d run around with my pants off, peeing on anyone and anything I could get near.
Security would be called, and I would be sent to jail for being a weenie waver (for the record, I would be getting no sexual gratification from peeing on The Onion’s staff and property).
So, maybe it’s best for me not to be a writer at The Onion. And it had started out with such promise!
Bunny
Blueprint
It’s hard to believe, but we already have our track listing for ABC, Volume 9 of the Green Monkey Mix.
01 – Amazing Grace – Hayley Westenra [j.d.]
02 – Beep – The Pussycat Dolls feat. Will.I.Am [j.d.]
03 – Cloud Nine – Evanescence [j.d.]
04 – Disenchanted – My Chemical Romance [j.d.]
05 – Everything – Fefe Dobson [j.d.]
06 – Fee Fie – The Hidden Cameras [barbara]
07 – Go to Sleep – Radiohead [barbara]
08 – Hyper-ballad – Bjork [barbara]
09 – I Fought in a War – Belle and Sebastian [barbara]
10 – Just One More – John-Rae and the River [barbara]
11 – King’s Lead Hat – Brian Eno [splotchy]
12 – Love Action (I Believe In Love) – Human League [splotchy]
13 – Midnight – Kramer [splotchy]
14 – Nighttime – Big Star [splotchy]
15 – Oblivious – Galaxie 500 [splotchy]
16 – Passionate Fight – Ute Lemper [drmvm]
17 – Quit Hollerin’ At Me – John Prine [drmvm]
18 – Respectable – The Rolling Stones [drmvm]
19 – Senior Service – Elvis Costello and the Attractions [drmvm]
20 – The Rose of England – Nick Lowe [drmvm]
21 – Up North Kids – Papa M [timdrussell]
22 – Velouria – Pixies [timdrussell]
23 – War – Tones on Tail [timdrussell]
24 – X-Flies – Mouse on Mars [timdrussell]
25 – Young Man Blues – The Who [timdrussell]
26 – Zither – R.E.M. [beth]
27 – Zurna Preserve – Brooklyn Funk Essential [beth]
28 – Zap – Guided by Voices [beth]
29 – Zazueira – Stan Getz feat. Astrud Gilberto [beth]
30 – Zebra Trucks – Young Marble Giants [beth]
Oh, golly.
We have gone a little crazy in recent volumes of the Green Monkey Music Project.
Can’t Wait For Halloween had a whopping ten participants and fifty songs, while Geography Pop Quiz had nine participants with over sixty songs.
For this, Volume 9, we’re going to have a mix with only six participants, and less than thirty songs.
Here’s how it works. This mix will be called ABC.
Each participant will have letters of the alphabet assigned to them. The only requirement on the participants is that they must provide a song for each letter they are responsible for. The first word in the song must begin with that letter. For example, if you are responsible for the letter “W”, the song “Waiting On A Friend” would be valid, but “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” would *not* be valid.
Okay, so how does a participant sign up for a group of letters? Well, you pick one of the shapes to the left. I have already randomly assigned letters to the shapes. If a shape has already been picked by someone else, you can’t pick it.
I won’t tell you which letters belong to which shapes, but I will tell you how the letters are broken down:
A-E
F-O
P-T
U-Y
Z
Yes, there will be one participant that has one only letter they will be responsible for — Z!
This mix has five open slots. Each participant has to pick a shape when they sign up for the mix. I’ll be taking the sixth slot. I will take whatever shape is left after the five participants have chosen theirs.
I’ll publish the key tying shapes to letters after we get a full number of participants on the mix (if you want to know what letters you got before the mix fills up, I can email the shape/letter key to you).
This mix has everything! The thrill of chance! The magic of the alphabet! And it’s not that long!
So, sign up, already!
UPDATE!
We have our participants!
Beth! (Pink parallelogram)
J.D.! (Blue Circle)
Barbara! (Green Triangle)
Tim! (Orange Star)
Dr Monkey Von Monkerstein! (Red Square)
Splotchy! (Yellow Oval)
Participants, here are your letters! Since übermixologist Beth got short-changed on the number of selections, I said she could still do five songs, provided they all start with the letter “Z” (don’t worry, she will have *no* problem coming up with the songs).
Just post your song selections as a comment on this post.
The *[English] Beat – Save It For Later
* North America only
Being a left-handed guitarist, I always notice other fellow left-handed guitar players.
David Wakeling, you may have broke up The Beat, but we are still brothers in arms (well, the left ones, at least).
I see that Sleestak, the part-time patriot over at Lady, That’s My Skull, is making a feeble attempt at showing his support for the red, white and blue.
Are we supposed to believe a puny pin worn on the lapel conveys support for this great nation of ours?
When the iSplotchy makes a patriotic statement, it’s with a capital ‘P’ and an italicized, bolded capital ‘S’.
Behold!
Vote iSplotchy for President in 2008 — the only candidate with an enormous flag sticking out of its pipe.
Volume 8 of the Green Monkey Music Project has been completed, and is available for download!
If the participants of this mix want to discuss their own selections, please feel free to do so! We’ll put a pointer on this post if you end up posting about it on your own blog (or you could always just add comments here, I suppose).
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GEOGRAPHY POP QUIZ!
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The Participants Discuss Their Selections:
Chris!
DGuzman!
Beckeye!
Manx!
Johnny Yen!
Gizmorox!
Bubs!
Moxie!
Splotchy!
The Songs:
Get the mix in chunks!
Zipfile of Songs 01-07 (All of Chris’ songs)
Zipfile of Songs 08-14 (All of DGuzman’s songs)
Zipfile of Songs 15-21 (All of Beckeye’s songs)
Zipfile of Songs 22-26 (All of Manx’s songs)
Zipfile of Songs 27-33 (All of Johnny Yen’s songs)
Zipfile of Songs 34-40 (All of Gizmorox’s songs)
Zipfile of Songs 41-47 (All of Bubs’ songs)
Zipfile of Songs 48-54 (All of Moxie’s songs)
Zipfile of Songs 55-61 (All of Splotchy’s songs)
No thanks, I’ll just pick at the songs!
01 – Joe Williams – Goin’ To Chicago Blues [chris]
02 – Guster – Amsterdam [chris]
03 – Donovan – Sunny South Kensington [chris]
04 – Fats Domino – Mardi Gras In New Orleans [chris]
05 – Lionel Hampton & Oscar Peterson – Indiana [chris]
06 – XTC – It’s Nearly Africa [chris]
07 – John Linnell – Michigan [chris]
08 – Fats Domino – Walkin’ to New Orleans [dguzman]
09 – Bangles – Going Down to Liverpool [dguzman]
10 – Creedence Clearwater Revival – Lodi [dguzman]
11 – Glen Campbell – Wichita Lineman [dguzman]
12 – Michelle Shocked – Anchorage [dguzman]
13 – Missing Persons – Walking in L.A. [dguzman]
14 – Tony Bennett – I Left My Heart in San Francisco [dguzman]
15 – John Hiatt – Memphis in the Meantime [beckeye]
16 – Bill Janovitz and Crown Victoria – Florida [beckeye]
17 – Juliana Hatfield Three – Feelin’ Massachusetts [beckeye]
18 – Mason Jennings – New York City [beckeye]
19 – Billy Joel – Allentown [beckeye]
20 – Duran Duran – Rio [beckeye]
21 – The Bogmen – Mexico [beckeye]
22 – Do Make Say Think – Chinatown [manx]
23 – Stereolab – Outer Bongolia [manx]
24 – Pink Floyd – Grantchester Meadows [manx]
25 – Tortoise – Eros [manx]
26 – Sufjan Stevens – Springfield, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in his Hair [manx]
27 – Lloyd Cole and the Commotions – Charlotte Street [johnnyyen]
28 – R.E.M. – (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville [johnnyyen]
29 – Brook Benton – Rainy Night In Georgia [johnnyyen]
30 – Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska [johnnyyen]
31 – Red Rockers – China [johnnyyen]
32 – Paul Butterfield Blues Band – Born In Chicago [johnnyyen]
33 – The Blasters – Hollywood Bed [johnnyyen]
34 – Ben Kwelller – Commerce, TX [gizmorox]
35 – Okkervil River – Savannah Smiles [gizmorox]
36 – Pedro the Lion – Arizona [gizmorox]
37 – Wilco – Via Chicago [gizmorox]
38 – David Bowie – This is not America [gizmorox]
39 – Simon & Garfunkel – Only Living Boy in New York [gizmorox]
40 – The Clash – London Calling [gizmorox]
41 – Tom Waits – Singapore [bubs]
42 – Bob Dylan – Mozambique [bubs]
43 – Marty Robbins – Streets of Laredo [bubs]
44 – Elvis Presley – Viva Las Vegas [bubs]
45 – Bill Monroe – Blue Moon Of Kentucky [bubs]
46 – The Pogues – Wild Cats of Kilkenny [bubs]
47 – Lyle Lovett – That’s Right (You’re Not From Texas) [bubs]
48 – Nellie McKay – Manhattan Avenue [moxie]
49 – Peter Gabriel – Mercy Street [moxie]
50 – Dixie Chicks – Lubbock or Leave It [moxie]
51 – Led Zeppelin – Going to California [moxie]
52 – Erasure – Blue Savannah [moxie]
53 – Marc Broussard – Lonely Night in Georgia [moxie]
54 – Train – Mississippi [moxie]
55 – Bob Haggart & Ray Bauduc – Big Noise From Winnetka [splotchy]
56 – Bob Dylan – Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again [splotchy]
57 – The Ramones – 53rd & 3rd [splotchy]
58 – Magnetic Fields – Come Back From San Francisco [splotchy]
59 – Tom Verlaine – Stalingrad [splotchy]
60 – Wire – Map Ref. 41N 93W [splotchy]
61 – Tino Contreras – Brazil [splotchy]
It is our great honor to award Green Monkey Master Badges to Manx and Beckeye!
This is their third time participating in GMMP, which now makes them Green Monkey Masters.
Congratulations, Beckeye and Manx!