You might want to look back at my original post about the recent case ordering all Bratz! dolls pulled from the market, and my followup to it...Australian Court Rules Simpsons Cartoon "Child Pornography"In what today's (Monday) Sydney Morning Herald described as a "landmark finding," an Australian Supreme Court judge has ruled that a cartoon in which child characters looking like Bart, Lisa and...
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Way Way back when, *Tom Lehrer* wrote a song called The Old Dope Peddler, which, after saying that the titular characterGives the kids free samples,Because he knows full wellThat today's young innocent facesWill be tomorrow's clientele..."More >
Because it's Hannukkah. And because you've never really lived until you've heard someone rhyme "Yom Kippur" with "Mississippi".
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A live performance by hilarious satirist and singer Tom Lehrer. If you like funny songs and don't know him - go get his discs. Now.
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I grew up listening to old "Tom Lehrer":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer records that belonged to my parents. He was a mathematician, musician, comedian and political satarist. He wrote for the Electric Company (Silent E, N-apostrophy-T) and for grownups (The Masochismn Tango, Lobachevsky, and one of my all time favorites, I'm Spending Hanukka in Santa Monica). I loved the puns, wit, ...
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{play the red button -best song I can think of for this day- and take a deeeeeep breath}Chapter I, Vintage ValentineVery early in high school, a boy gives me a red teddy bear. I throw it at him, and run.Right before college, my boyfriend at the time gives me a bouquet of red roses with some hearts in it. I walk out of his apartment.2007, Valentine's day on MOG. I post Spacehog's At Least I Got ...
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Sometimes, when I'm enjoying the cultural fruits of the day (whether green, ripe, or over-ripe), I have to wonder what will really last (whether cool, critically-acclaimed, or just plain popular) - and what will fade away. I'm a little torn about the rediscovery of great artists who were previously lost to obscurity. It was wonderful that British folk-jazz singer-songwriter-musician Nick Drake,...
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You might want to look back at my original post about the recent case ordering all Bratz! dolls pulled from the market, and my followup to it...Australian Court Rules Simpsons Cartoon "Child Pornography"In what today's (Monday) Sydney Morning Herald described as a "landmark finding," an Australian Supreme Court judge has ruled that a cartoon in which child characters looking like Bart, Lisa and...
More >
Way Way back when, *Tom Lehrer* wrote a song called The Old Dope Peddler, which, after saying that the titular characterGives the kids free samples,Because he knows full wellThat today's young innocent facesWill be tomorrow's clientele..."More >
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| 1 National Brotherhood Week |
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| 2 MLF Lullaby |
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| 3 George Murphy |
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| 4 The Folk Song Army |
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| 5 Smut |
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