Cooking Up the (funky) Raw Deals
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Wouldn't Preston Tucker be proud? Talk about gettin' too big fer your britches...The splintering of auto giant GM will shower us with toothpicks for decades, I'm sure. It'll over-burden the already bloated health care system, as well as offer retailer Walmart some brand new work force candidates.
Hummer? Sold to China!
GM, which filed for bankruptcy court protection on Monday, has said it plans to shed its Saturn, Hummer, Pontiac and Saab brands. Earlier this week, GM said it found a buyer for Hummer in China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co.However, any such deal would require Chinese Commerce Ministry approval, and reports in state-run newspapers Friday said Sichuan Tengzhong had not yet obtained such an approval. [Yahoo news]
Saturn? Sold to NASCAR! (sort of)
For me, it's all just a great excuse to post the closing track to Cheap Trick's 2005 release Special One. "Hummer" is a reworking by Dan the Automator of the track that immediatley precedes it on the cd, "Low Life in High Heels"
I'll let Pterodactyl close this up with a snapsot of what was going on on this day precisely 500,000,000 years ago.
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That Pterodactyl track is seriously freaky & the Cheap Trick is bouncy but neither is particularly funky, just rocky.
everybody's a critic... :)
U betcha, hehe!
feh what da FUNK does he know 'bout FUNK anywho? :p
Regardless of it's funk quotient, a worthy friday evening song!
Rock On!
I have always been afraid of the day when I could not get a hummer when I needed one
Funk you Pimpster, ahahahaha!
Scot- I like this Trick track. I don't think it's one of their best but it's still way better than most music out there and, like I said, I always liked it.
The band got criticized (justly or unjustly) for putting 2 versions of the same song on the album (probably would have gone over better if one was simply labeled a "bonus track") but I admit to listening to both versions- "Hummer" and "Low Life in High Heels"- several times over and over, when I first got the Special One CD, just to discern the differences.