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rain_gryphonClown Control to Bozo Tom.
Clown Control to Bozo Tom.
Tie your floppy shoes, and put your red nose on.
Clown Control to Bozo Tom.
The band is playing, spotlight's on.
Make your entrance, and then fall flat on your face.
This is Clown Control to Bozo Tom, you really fucked up good,
Now the big top's laughing at your pain and shame.
And you need to find another clown to blame.
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It would seem that in France these days, if you question the government's official version of history, you go to prison.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=658752004
It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad, coming this soon after the D-Day commemorations.
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Barbarians have thrown left-over pizza into the pool. The sodden wedges swirl in circles, propelled by the filter. The angular shape pleases me somehow, set against the background of interlocking ripples from the rain.
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I had some strange illness Tuesday. It seems to be more or less gone now. The whole thing was over in 12 hours or so, but for those 12 hours, it felt like I was coming down with major flu. My head hurt, my stomach was tight, and all my joints and muscles hurt. As rapidly as it came on, it was gone. I'd almost wonder if I managed to poison myself somehow, but I can't imagine how.
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Unwanted pizza
Wedges cleave the ripples
As rain falls
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I thought this was hilarious, but I'll give fair warning that if you're emotionally attached to the Bear in the Big Blue House, then you probably shouldn't look:
http://www.forumflames.com/uploads/CNN1.jpg
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Wahoo! You can finally get 'Der Fuehrer's Face' on DVD, just in time for Donald Duck's 70th birthday! No longer need we make do with a lossy video file.
For those who've not seen it, this is one of the funniest cartoons ever made, helped not a little by the Spike Jones soundtrack. Donald Duck's a Nazi, and every time he sees a picture of der Fuehrer, or even hears his name mentioned, he has to immediately salute. This imposes certain difficulties in his job at the armament plant. Everything in Germany is shaped like a swastika, even the clouds and telephone poles, and in every single thing that he does, Donald has to conform to all sorts of bizarre totalitarian regulations, all the while attempting to appear cheerfully compliant. It would try the patience of the Pope, let alone Donald Duck.
Now, if WB would just release the one where Bugs dresses up as Hitler and tricks Goering and Goebbels into building a bonfire of Mein Kampfs just as the real Hitler comes along, my cartoon library would be greatly enhanced. When I was little they used to show those constantly (including (I swear) one where Hitler got shot in the crotch with a bazooka), but somewhere during the 80s it apparently became un-PC to make fun of the Nazis.
Clown Control to Bozo Tom.
Tie your floppy shoes, and put your red nose on.
Clown Control to Bozo Tom.
The band is playing, spotlight's on.
Make your entrance, and then fall flat on your face.
This is Clown Control to Bozo Tom, you really fucked up good,
Now the big top's laughing at your pain and shame.
And you need to find another clown to blame.
*****
It would seem that in France these days, if you question the government's official version of history, you go to prison.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=658752004
It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad, coming this soon after the D-Day commemorations.
*****
Barbarians have thrown left-over pizza into the pool. The sodden wedges swirl in circles, propelled by the filter. The angular shape pleases me somehow, set against the background of interlocking ripples from the rain.
*****
I had some strange illness Tuesday. It seems to be more or less gone now. The whole thing was over in 12 hours or so, but for those 12 hours, it felt like I was coming down with major flu. My head hurt, my stomach was tight, and all my joints and muscles hurt. As rapidly as it came on, it was gone. I'd almost wonder if I managed to poison myself somehow, but I can't imagine how.
*****
Unwanted pizza
Wedges cleave the ripples
As rain falls
*****
I thought this was hilarious, but I'll give fair warning that if you're emotionally attached to the Bear in the Big Blue House, then you probably shouldn't look:
http://www.forumflames.com/uploads/CNN1.jpg
*****
Wahoo! You can finally get 'Der Fuehrer's Face' on DVD, just in time for Donald Duck's 70th birthday! No longer need we make do with a lossy video file.
For those who've not seen it, this is one of the funniest cartoons ever made, helped not a little by the Spike Jones soundtrack. Donald Duck's a Nazi, and every time he sees a picture of der Fuehrer, or even hears his name mentioned, he has to immediately salute. This imposes certain difficulties in his job at the armament plant. Everything in Germany is shaped like a swastika, even the clouds and telephone poles, and in every single thing that he does, Donald has to conform to all sorts of bizarre totalitarian regulations, all the while attempting to appear cheerfully compliant. It would try the patience of the Pope, let alone Donald Duck.
Now, if WB would just release the one where Bugs dresses up as Hitler and tricks Goering and Goebbels into building a bonfire of Mein Kampfs just as the real Hitler comes along, my cartoon library would be greatly enhanced. When I was little they used to show those constantly (including (I swear) one where Hitler got shot in the crotch with a bazooka), but somewhere during the 80s it apparently became un-PC to make fun of the Nazis.
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Date: 2004-06-11 07:14 pm (UTC)BTW, is that Bear in the Big Blue House link valid? I tried, and wound up at the front page of "Adult Friend Finder".
Gods. It's going to take me an age to catch up on the last few days of LJ happenings.. ^_^;; (I took a little break from Tuesday until now)
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Date: 2004-06-11 09:47 pm (UTC)The link's valid, but the server doesn't like direct linking. Copy and paste the URL.
Also, since I'm such a nitpicking little thingamajigger, I feel the need to pointlessly point out that Spike Jones and His City Slickers recorded their version (http://www.squeep.com/~steve/Spike%20Jones%20and%20His%20City%20Slickers%20-%20Der%20Fuehrer's%20Face.ogg) (which is great) after the cartoon (which is also great) came out.
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Date: 2004-06-12 01:35 am (UTC)