http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php en-US http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 ... Dad? http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/11/19/dad Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:35:12 +0000 Peaceboy Welcome Music Silliness 65@http://totalyellow.com/ <p>I saw this ad in Rolling Stone several weeks ago, never heard of this guy but... could it be?&#160; I see blood tests in our future.&#160; Especially if he got a nice bonus on a record contract.</p> <p><img src="/media/blogs/a/PostPics/Peaceman.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p><span style="background: #ffff99; color: #ffff99"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> <table style="background-color: #ffff99; border: 4px solid #000000; width: 450px; height: 15px;" dir="ltr" border="4" frame="box" align="center"> <tbody> <tr align="center" valign="middle"> <td> <p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><em>And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me<br />He'd grown up just like me<br />My boy was just like me</em></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/11/19/dad">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> I saw this ad in Rolling Stone several weeks ago, never heard of this guy but... could it be?  I see blood tests in our future.  Especially if he got a nice bonus on a record contract.


And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me
He'd grown up just like me
My boy was just like me

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]]> http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/11/19/dad#comments http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=65 OK, that's the end of September... http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/10/01/ok-that-s-the-end-of-september Fri, 01 Oct 2010 06:06:29 +0000 Peaceboy Music 62@http://totalyellow.com/ <p>... somebody go wake up Billie Joe.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"> <table style="border-color: #000000; border-width: 5px;" border="5" frame="border"> <tbody> <tr> <td><div class="videoblock"><object data="http://www.youtube.com/v/KjNJmwwf7QA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KjNJmwwf7QA"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param></object></div></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </p> <p style="text-align: center;"> <table style="background-color: #ffff99; border: 4px solid #000000; width: 450px; height: 15px;" dir="ltr" border="4" frame="box" align="center"> <tbody> <tr align="center" valign="middle"> <td> <p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><em>Beach baby, beach baby, there on the sand <br />From July 'till the end of September</em></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/10/01/ok-that-s-the-end-of-september">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> ... somebody go wake up Billie Joe.

Beach baby, beach baby, there on the sand
From July 'till the end of September

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]]> http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/10/01/ok-that-s-the-end-of-september#comments http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=62 An Open Letter to Songwriters http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/09/23/an-open-letter-to-songwriters Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:49:37 +0000 Peaceboy Music 61@http://totalyellow.com/ <p>Dear Songwriters:</p> <p>You do not always have to rhyme "wave your <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peaceboy/2767586412/in/set-72157606755405746/" target="_blank">hands in the air</a>" with "like you just don't care."&#160;&#160; There are numerous alternatives. Here are just a few:</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">"with savoir <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peaceboy/2772598527/in/set-72157606755405746/" target="_blank">fair</a>e"</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">"like a grizzly <a href="/media/blogs/a/PostPics/GolfingBear.jpg" target="_blank">bear</a>"</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">"with a chocolate e<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/PeaceboyOnYT#p/u/0/ZbbNHdpsl8E" target="_blank">clair</a>"</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">"like <a href="/media/blogs/a/PostPics/AstaireAndReno.jpg" target="_blank">Fred Astaire</a>"</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img src="/media/blogs/a/PostPics/MatchGameBetty.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">"show your <a href="/media/blogs/a/PostPics/JuliaPit.jpg" target="_blank">pit hair</a>"</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">"<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peaceboy/2766741473/in/set-72157606755405746/" target="_blank">klaatu barada nikto</a>"</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">"I am a derivative songwriter completely lacking in originality but I just <a href="http://boingboing.net/2005/09/08/katrina_kanye_remixe.html" target="_blank">don't care</a>."</p> <p>Feel free to use these, or any of a thousand other possibilities. Please.<br /><br />Please.<br /><br />Love,</p> <p>Peaceboy</p> <p>&#160;</p> <p style="text-align: center;"> <table style="background-color: #ffff99; border: 4px solid #000000; width: 450px; height: 15px;" dir="ltr" border="4" frame="box" align="center"> <tbody> <tr align="center" valign="middle"> <td> <p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><em>All you death wish addicts, you corrupters of truth<br />You killers of the spirit, you marauders of youth<br />Get your hands in the air</em></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/09/23/an-open-letter-to-songwriters">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> Dear Songwriters:

You do not always have to rhyme "wave your hands in the air" with "like you just don't care."   There are numerous alternatives. Here are just a few:

"with savoir faire"

"like a grizzly bear"

"with a chocolate eclair"

"like Fred Astaire"

"show your pit hair"

"klaatu barada nikto"

"I am a derivative songwriter completely lacking in originality but I just don't care."

Feel free to use these, or any of a thousand other possibilities. Please.

Please.

Love,

Peaceboy

 

All you death wish addicts, you corrupters of truth
You killers of the spirit, you marauders of youth
Get your hands in the air

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]]> http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/09/23/an-open-letter-to-songwriters#comments http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=61 Things That Are Tricky http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/09/15/things-that-are-tricky Thu, 16 Sep 2010 03:00:22 +0000 Peaceboy Silliness Politics 60@http://totalyellow.com/ <p>1.&#160;&#160; To rock a rhyme that's right on time<br /> 2.&#160;&#160; Dick</p> <p>1968 was one of the worst years this country ever endured. ("This country" being the United States, so, sorry to all my Lichtensteinian followers.)</p> <p>Events in Vietnam (notably the Battle of Khe Sanh and the Tet Offensive) accelerated the rate of military casualties, further dividing Americans and some future Canadians.</p> <p>Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in April, then Robert Kennedy in June.</p> <p>Civil rights struggles led to <a href="/media/blogs/a/PostPics/ViolentConfrontations.jpg" target="_blank">violent confrontations</a> and cities burning.</p> <p>Police bashed fresh young skulls outside the Democratic Convention in Chicago.</p> <p>The Bobby Goldsboro song "Honey" went to #1 on the Billboard charts.</p> <p>Clearly, some really horrible shit was happening and it was a time of <a href="/media/blogs/a/PostPics/GreatConfusion.jpg" target="_blank">great confusion</a>. We required a leader who could step forward, allay our fears and restore calm.</p> <p>And so it was that on this very September 16th, 42 years ago tonight, presidential nominee Richard Nixon took to our nation's airwaves and amazingly graced America with the four soothing words we needed to hear.</p> <p> <table style="border-color: #000000; border-width: 5px;" border="5" frame="border"> <tbody> <tr> <td><div class="videoblock"><object data="http://www.youtube.com/v/A_8oH8OQG0c" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/A_8oH8OQG0c"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param></object></div></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </p> <p>Less than two months later <a href="/media/blogs/a/PostPics/StupidAmericans.jpg" target="_blank">he would be elected</a> President of the United States over Hubert H. Humphrey, proving that this country was prepared to elect a man with a middle name like "Milhous" as long as he displayed such fortitude. And had a better makeup artist than he did in 1960.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img src="/media/blogs/a/PostPics/Nixon-Win.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> <table style="background-color: #ffff99; border: 4px solid #000000; width: 450px; height: 15px;" dir="ltr" border="4" frame="box" align="center"> <tbody> <tr align="center" valign="middle"> <td> <p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><em>Do you remember your President Nixon?<br />Do you remember the bills you have to pay, or even yesterday?</em></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/09/15/things-that-are-tricky">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> 1.   To rock a rhyme that's right on time
2.   Dick

1968 was one of the worst years this country ever endured. ("This country" being the United States, so, sorry to all my Lichtensteinian followers.)

Events in Vietnam (notably the Battle of Khe Sanh and the Tet Offensive) accelerated the rate of military casualties, further dividing Americans and some future Canadians.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in April, then Robert Kennedy in June.

Civil rights struggles led to violent confrontations and cities burning.

Police bashed fresh young skulls outside the Democratic Convention in Chicago.

The Bobby Goldsboro song "Honey" went to #1 on the Billboard charts.

Clearly, some really horrible shit was happening and it was a time of great confusion. We required a leader who could step forward, allay our fears and restore calm.

And so it was that on this very September 16th, 42 years ago tonight, presidential nominee Richard Nixon took to our nation's airwaves and amazingly graced America with the four soothing words we needed to hear.

Less than two months later he would be elected President of the United States over Hubert H. Humphrey, proving that this country was prepared to elect a man with a middle name like "Milhous" as long as he displayed such fortitude. And had a better makeup artist than he did in 1960.

Do you remember your President Nixon?
Do you remember the bills you have to pay, or even yesterday?

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

]]> http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/09/15/things-that-are-tricky#comments http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=60 Bev-er-ly-Hills... that's where I want TO BE! http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/09/14/bev-er-ly-hills-that-s-where-i-want-to-be Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:34:58 +0000 Peaceboy Silliness 59@http://totalyellow.com/ <p>I believe today, and by today I mean yesterday, I ran across the worst-reviewed hotel I've seen on the internets. Let's hit on some of the highlights, c/o <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g32070-d76029-Reviews-Beverly_Hills_Reeves_Hotel-Beverly_Hills_California.html" target="_blank">TripAdvisor</a> - and these are just from the first page of reviews, I was a little too scared to venture further:</p> <ol> <p>&#8220;Not <a href="/media/blogs/a/PostPics/YMCA.jpg" target="_blank">the place to stay</a>...&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;Very <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYqF_BtIwAU" target="_blank">Poor</a>&#8221; <span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>(uh, <span style="color: #ff0000;">NSFW </span>language)</em></span></p> <p>&#8220;<a href="http://womenfolk.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/canadianclub.jpg" target="_blank">Cheapest and not that great</a>"</p> <p>"<a href="http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bllobster.htm" target="_blank">Feces on the floor</a>&#8221; <span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>(Good journalism never buries the lead)</em></span></p> <p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/" target="_blank">Unauthorised credit card charge</a>!!!!!!!&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;Pay to Get <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Scabies" target="_blank">Scabbies</a>&#8221; <span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>(this is where I add a "sic" for their speeling)</em></span></p> <p>&#8220;<a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19940722/REVIEWS/407220302/1023" target="_blank">One star is more than this deserves</a>&#8221;</p> <p>&#8220;<a href="/media/blogs/a/PostPics/CheNose.jpg" target="_blank">Totally Disgusting</a>&#8221;</p> </ol> <p>I realize the economy is still marching to the beat of its own doldrums, and many fine American hometowns can get a little blight on 'em. So I guess it's understandable. Except this place is (or was) <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=map+120+S.+Reeves+Drive,+Beverly+Hills,+CA&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=120+S+Reeves+Dr,+Beverly+Hills,+Los+Angeles,+California+90212&amp;gl=us&amp;ei=p9qOTKz6Bsn6nAeQrdS4DA&amp;ved=0CBcQ8gEwAA&amp;t=h&amp;ll=34.067876,-118.400388&amp;spn=0.00903,0.016544&amp;z=16" target="_blank">two short blocks from Rodeo Drive</a> in Beverly Hills.</p> <p><img src="/media/blogs/a/PostPics/Clampetts.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p><span style="background: #ffff99; color: #ffff99"><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=map+120+S.+Reeves+Drive,+Beverly+Hills,+CA&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=120+S+Reeves+Dr,+Beverly+Hills,+Los+Angeles,+California+90212&amp;gl=us&amp;ei=p9qOTKz6Bsn6nAeQrdS4DA&amp;ved=0CBcQ8gEwAA&amp;t=h&amp;ll=34.067876,-118.400388&amp;spn=0.00903,0.016544&amp;z=16"><br /></a></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> <table style="background-color: #ffff99; border: 4px solid #000000; width: 450px; height: 15px;" dir="ltr" border="4" frame="box" align="center"> <tbody> <tr align="center" valign="middle"> <td> <p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><em>This room smells like hotel illness, the scars I hide are now your business</em></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/09/14/bev-er-ly-hills-that-s-where-i-want-to-be">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> I believe today, and by today I mean yesterday, I ran across the worst-reviewed hotel I've seen on the internets. Let's hit on some of the highlights, c/o TripAdvisor - and these are just from the first page of reviews, I was a little too scared to venture further:

    “Not the place to stay...”

    “Very Poor” (uh, NSFW language)

    “Cheapest and not that great"

    "Feces on the floor” (Good journalism never buries the lead)

    “Unauthorised credit card charge!!!!!!!”

    “Pay to Get Scabbies” (this is where I add a "sic" for their speeling)

    “One star is more than this deserves”

    “Totally Disgusting”

I realize the economy is still marching to the beat of its own doldrums, and many fine American hometowns can get a little blight on 'em. So I guess it's understandable. Except this place is (or was) two short blocks from Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.


This room smells like hotel illness, the scars I hide are now your business

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

]]> http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/09/14/bev-er-ly-hills-that-s-where-i-want-to-be#comments http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=59 Goin' down to Ansgar's Farm http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/09/08/goin-down-to-ansgar-s-farm Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:39:03 +0000 Peaceboy Silliness Politics 58@http://totalyellow.com/ <!--noteaser--><p>Hard to believe but it's September 8th again, Saint Ansgar's birthday, when we celebrate the famed Archibishop of Hamburg-Bremen.&#160; Has it already been 1,209 years since he was born?&#160; Sheesh.&#160; Anyway, every year on this day I wish I were Bremenese, and not just so I could take the day off.&#160; Happy birthday, "Apostle of the North"!</p> <p>&#160;</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img src="/media/blogs/a/PostPics/Ansgar.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p><span style="background: #ffff99; color: #ffff99"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> <table style="background-color: #ffff99; border: 4px solid #000000; width: 450px; height: 15px;" dir="ltr" border="4" frame="box" align="center"> <tbody> <tr align="center" valign="middle"> <td> <p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><em>Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters and canisters, bishops and fishops and rabbis and popeyes</em></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/09/08/goin-down-to-ansgar-s-farm">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div>

Hard to believe but it's September 8th again, Saint Ansgar's birthday, when we celebrate the famed Archibishop of Hamburg-Bremen.  Has it already been 1,209 years since he was born?  Sheesh.  Anyway, every year on this day I wish I were Bremenese, and not just so I could take the day off.  Happy birthday, "Apostle of the North"!

 


Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters and canisters, bishops and fishops and rabbis and popeyes

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]]> http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/09/08/goin-down-to-ansgar-s-farm#comments http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=58 Old man, take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/09/07/old-man-take-a-look-at-my-life-i-m-a-lot-like-you Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:55:51 +0000 Peaceboy Silliness 55@http://totalyellow.com/ <p>I watch the East Coast feed of NBC Nightly News at work, and stepped away from my desk in mid-broadcast.&#160; I come back a half hour later, long after it's over, and for some reason this image was frozen on the screen.&#160; I don't know what happened, I didn't put it on pause or nothin', and I don't know what kind of face Brian Williams is making but considering the subject he's reporting on I believe it means something.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img src="/media/blogs/a/PostPics/SeniorMoment.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p><span style="background: #ffff99; color: #ffff99"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> <table style="background-color: #ffff99; border: 4px solid #000000; width: 450px; height: 15px;" dir="ltr" border="4" frame="box" align="center"> <tbody> <tr align="center" valign="middle"> <td> <p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><em>Hope I die before I get old...</em></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/09/07/old-man-take-a-look-at-my-life-i-m-a-lot-like-you">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> I watch the East Coast feed of NBC Nightly News at work, and stepped away from my desk in mid-broadcast.  I come back a half hour later, long after it's over, and for some reason this image was frozen on the screen.  I don't know what happened, I didn't put it on pause or nothin', and I don't know what kind of face Brian Williams is making but considering the subject he's reporting on I believe it means something.


Hope I die before I get old...

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

]]> http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/09/07/old-man-take-a-look-at-my-life-i-m-a-lot-like-you#comments http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=55 Finest Worksongs - A musical Labor Day quiz http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/09/06/finest-worksongs-a-musical-labor-day-quiz-1 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:05:21 +0000 Peaceboy Music 54@http://totalyellow.com/ <p>Wanna take my 30-songclip Labor Day music quiz? Then go here:</p> <p><a href="/blog1.php/2010/09/06/finest-worksongs-a-musical-labor-day-quiz" target="_blank"> Clever text identifying that this is the Labor Day Musiz Quiz goes here</a></p> <p>It may save your life.</p> <p>I can't even imagine how, but I'm always looking out for you guys.</p> <p><img src="/media/blogs/a/Quiz/LaborDay.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p><span style="background: #ffff99; color: #ffff99"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> <table style="background-color: #ffff99; border: 4px solid #000000; width: 450px; height: 15px;" dir="ltr" border="4" frame="box" align="center"> <tbody> <tr align="center" valign="middle"> <td> <p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><em>'Cause Thursday is a hard workin' day, and Friday I get my pay</em></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/09/06/finest-worksongs-a-musical-labor-day-quiz-1">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> Wanna take my 30-songclip Labor Day music quiz? Then go here:

Clever text identifying that this is the Labor Day Musiz Quiz goes here

It may save your life.

I can't even imagine how, but I'm always looking out for you guys.


'Cause Thursday is a hard workin' day, and Friday I get my pay

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]]> http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php/2010/09/06/finest-worksongs-a-musical-labor-day-quiz-1#comments http://totalyellow.com/blog1.php?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=54