Okay, here’s the song fragment I warned you about. Please help me identify the song and artist.
Thanks for any help.
UPDATE:
DGuzman nailed it!
I had misheard the lyrics, just as D did when she was younger.
Thank you so much for your help!
If anyone has a song fragment they want identified, there’s a fair chance one of the musical geniuses hearing it will be able to help you.
And now…
Patti Smith – Because The Night
I’m thinking about possibly posting from my cellphone a little during my trip.
This post is testing the functionality of blogging-by-email. I’m cheating a little with this one, in that I’m sending the email from my Gmail account.
If it helps any, I’ll abbreviate a little.
L8R D00DS CYA MY PEEPS!!!!!
SPL!
I got ideas, that’s a given.
One of my favorite ideas I outline here.
I don’t have the time, or frankly, the skills, to design such a website. And, I don’t really know how many people have song fragments in their head in need of identification.
So, this is what I am going to do. I will devote part of this blog to identifying songs that you need help identifying. Use the email address on my profile to send me a small sound file of you humming, whistling, singing the song in question. I’ll then post it and ask for help from the readers of this blog.
I am aware that asking people to provide MP3’s or WAV files of them singing requires some technical expertise — you need a microphone, you need to know how to record sounds on your computer, etc.
I’d really like to allow people to just pick up their phone and make a call, and leave a voicemail with their song ID request, a voicemail which I could easily translate into an MP3 and post. I’m thinking Skype might be an appropriate tool to allow me to do this, but I’ll have to look into it further. I know some people who occasionally visit here are much more adept at Skype than I — please feel free to make suggestions.
I’m going to kick off this new feature tonight with a song fragment that has been stuck in my head for about two weeks. I hope someone can ID it!
Love,
Splotchy
Due to the rampant LOLCats phenomenon, the world is in danger of experiencing a shortage of cute cat pictures. Some experts predict a drought of uncaptioned cute cat pictures by as early as April of 2008.
I felt it was time for me to step up and offer what I can to LOL-ers toiling in the LOLCat mines. These pictures were taken in the fall of 2003, a few short months after our Mission was Accomplished.
Please take these pictures of our cat *Frances Faye and do with them what you will. Click on a pic to get a larger image.
Remember, you can’t spell LOLCATS without CATS.
* Yes, our cat is named after the singer, thank you for asking!
UPDATE:
Manx has made a truly wonderful LOLCat picture from one of the above Frances Faye photos. Kudos to you, Manx!
Here’s a treat for you, a sporadic new feature.
Words that I have mispronounced, in some cases for years.
I’ll present the pronunciation according to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, and my own mispronunciation.
For the first installment of this feature, you get a twofer!
Hyperbole (Correct)
Hyperbole (Splotchy)
I can’t promise this will be a regular feature, as people often nod their head and smile when I talk, and probably are too polite to correct me.
There are some juicy controversies brewing at the happy butterflies and flowers paradise that is Wikipedia.org.
Wikipedia black helicopters circle Utah’s Traverse Mountain
Secret mailing list rocks Wikipedia
Both stories I discovered via the wonders of SlashDot.
From today’s Chicago Sun Times, the latest installment in the ongoing missing person investigation of Stacy Peterson:
“I would tell her I’m ashamed of her for putting the family through this,” Morphey said. “She knows where she is.”
In a lengthy interview, Morphey, 79, spoke about how heartbreaking she finds the insinuation that her son would harm anyone. Stacy’s family believes the young mother would never have left her two children and fear she is dead.
“I could swear on a Bible that he would never hurt anyone at any time,” Morphey said. “I’m proud he’s my son and I feel so bad he’s got to go through all this because of her. She was just too young.” There is a 30-year age difference between Drew and Stacy Peterson.
A mother doesn’t believe her accused son is responsible for a crime? Is this news?
Did you remember to press the Turbo button?
Hello, my good blogfriends!
My name is Strudel, a mysterious gentleman of indeterminate ethnic origin! Splotchy has asked me to help him with his little website, and so, I help! What can I do, but help? That is who I am, after all. I am Strudel.
I want to learn you an exciting new opportunity in the realm of Technorati Authority magic! As Mister Bearded Man Dorion Carroll will tell you in a post on his own famous Technorati blog:
The Technorati Top 100 shows the most popular 100 blogs based on Technorati Authority. The #1 ranked blog is the blog with the most other distinct blogs linking to it in the last 6 months. If your blog’s rank is, say 305,316, this indicates that there are 305,315 blog ranks separating your blog from the #1 position.
Ha, ha, ha! That is a good one, Mister Dorion Carroll. What else you have to say?
The best way to increase your Technorati Authority is to write things that are interesting to other bloggers so they’ll link to you. Linking to source material when you blog is also a great way to engage in conversation and help others find what you find interesting.
Ha, ha, HA! That is so very funny, Mister Dorion Carroll.
But to be serious men and ladies. I have for you a onetime offer. You do not need to write interesting things. You do not need to engage your conversation. I can give you Technorati Authority beyond your wild blogger imaginings. I have foolproof way to improve your Authority so much it grow bigger than BoinkBoink!
Here is my idea, which Mr. Splotchy says I may to share with you.
It does not cost you anything. It is free. I GIVE TO YOU.
You take Mister Splotchy’s website address.
It is this:
http://isplotchy.com/blog
You take this address and you make link to it on your blog. Then you get five people to list Mister Splotchy’s address and YOUR blog address. You see where I go with this?
Them people that put yours and Mister Splotchy address gets five more people to list THEIR address, YOUR address and Mister Splotchy address.
Abacabra! You have many new points to your Authority. You see?
No?
You want picture?
See you later, high-ranked Technorati Authority brothers and sisters!
A couple people (perhaps jokingly) asked for a t-shirt of a recent doodle. As I am very susceptible to suggestion, even without the benefit of hypnosis, here’s the t-shirt.
Front
Back
Get it here:
UPDATE:
jin wants a feral cat thong, jin gets a feral cat thong (see her comment on this post, and note the legally binding verbiage she used).
