Category: Off the Wall
A Sampler of Songs for a Sweeter Tuesday Morning
Tuesday has no feel. - Newman Tuesday is the most nothing day of the week. The only purpose of Tuesday is to remind you of everything that you failed to accomplish yesterday. So, to sweeten the oncoming dreariness, we provide a sampler of songs that will make your...
George Costanza Was Channeling Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard believed that philosophy begins, not with thought, but with existence: an egalitarian life lived passionately within a world of absurdity. George Costanza, the Seinfeldian Everyman who extracted more than should be expected from a life lived absurdly...
Annie in Wonderland
In which we learn that the grass is not always greener on the other side. The trouble started when I left my jacket in the car. Or maybe it started when the plane touched down in Denver. Or maybe it started in 1975... If you attended college in the 70's, you smoked...
A Cornucopia of Country Covers
The themes of real country music - the pleasures and aches of Life and Love - are timeless, are worth repeating. The pain you feel today is the same pain that your great grandfather felt. He was just more stoic about it because he didn't have Twitter to share his hurt...
After Further Review: NFL Vacates Packers 1967 Championship
The National Football League announced yesterday that they have invalidated the results of the 1967 NFL Championship game, known as the Ice Bowl, ruling that Green Bay guard Jerry Kramer moved early on the Packers game-winning touchdown. 'After further review,' NFL...
The Earworm: Explained by SCIENCE!
Guest post by Gavin Baker Why is 'Ghost,' that song by Halsey, stuck in my head? Why do certain songs bore into our ears and latch onto our brains like musical maggots? It's a controversial question, involving individual tastes and preferences. But everyone can agree...
There Once Was A Deer From Australia
An Original Limerick in Four Stanzasby Reverb Raccoon There once was a deer from AustraliaWho developed a taste for azaleasBut he couldn’t find noneFrom Perth to MelbourneSo he caught the next plane for Georgia Upon seeing the azaleas in bloomThe deer immediately...
Five Songs to Fry Your Aux Cord
The blood and lifeline of a car trip, it is handed around the car so that all the homies can partake in playing their sweet jams until some shitter plays Nickleback then the aux cord is immediately yanked and not to be returned to said homie. -- Urban Dictionary,...
Facebook Makes Me Nervous
Facebook makes me nervous. I used Facebook for a while, and then I stopped using it. And when I started using it again, they had made a few updates. And, since then, I've always had the feeling that I'm doing something wrong. I have these two Facebook pages and...
A Plethora of Pop Paeans
And you may find yourself in a beautiful houseWith a beautiful wifeAnd you may ask yourselfWell, how did I get here?-- Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime My father's father, a lineman for the county who bought the farm years before I was recorded and remixed, once...