Hunyo 29, 2007

Friday pop quiz.

What Velvet Underground song mentions Wisconsin?

49 (na) komento:

saintrussell ayon kay ...

I guessed right, but I had to do a web search to confirm the answer, so I won't claim any credit.

Dewb ayon kay ...
Naalis ng may-ari ang komentong ito.
Dewb ayon kay ...

Is either the origin or destination of ________ somewhere in Wisconsin?

Edited to not give it away, if anyone just wanted a hint.

Ron ayon kay ...

"He didn't have enough money to go to Wisconsin in the accepted fashion, true, but why not mail himself? It was absurdly simple."

The Gift!

Ron ayon kay ...

The Violent Femmes had an album entitled "Viva Wisconsin!"

er, ah, nothing inferred or implied about our always-charming vortextress, of course!

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

I think Ron is right. It must be from "The Gift."

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Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

Yeah, "The Gift" is right. Hadn't listened to that in a long time.

Mr.Murder ayon kay ...

The Dirty Blvd.

JSE ayon kay ...

I can't name many bands about whom I'd say "as far as I know, they only recorded one really bad song," but the Velvet Underground is one, and "The Gift" is it.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

Love the new photo, Ann. It takes ten years off your age, easy. You almost look sort of...attractive. For an older woman, I mean.

steve simels ayon kay ...

Let's be even more obscure.

What Velvet Underground song mentions sex with vegetables?

steve simels ayon kay ...

You know, now that I think of it, Lou Reed could have written a great album about sex with carrot sticks and onion rings.

Wait -- that's "Metal Machine Music."

hdhouse ayon kay ...

I suppose its not a good thing to mention that I've never heard of the velvet underground.

I have heard of Wisconsin though.

Moe Szyslak ayon kay ...

How old are you again?

Moe Szyslak ayon kay ...

I mean, the Velvet Underground? Weren't they around in like the 1950s or something? Let's see, you must be, um [subtracting, borrow the one...] oh, like in you 60s, huh?

steve simels ayon kay ...

I guess Ann's sleeping it off.

Hell, we could post the complete works of Dickens in longhand before she starts a new thread.

Moe Szyslak ayon kay ...

A Sale of Two Titties.

Moe Szyslak ayon kay ...

The Wickdick Capers.

steve simels ayon kay ...

You know, there are only two things in the world that smell like tuna.

steve simels ayon kay ...

...and one of them is tuna.

Moe Szyslak ayon kay ...

Hard Times.

Moe Szyslak ayon kay ...

Great Expectations!

steve simels ayon kay ...

Did you ever see a jew
Jitsu?

Well, I did.

Moe Szyslak ayon kay ...

Our Mutual Friend

[[nudge, nudge]]

steve simels ayon kay ...

I don't know about you, Moe, but I'm cracking myself up.

Moe Szyslak ayon kay ...

This blog is like...

The Old Curiosity Shop.

steve simels ayon kay ...

Great Ann Althouse aliases:

The Miss Havisham of Wingnuttia.

The One Woman Non-sequitur Generator.

Debbie Schlussel With Warmth.

Moe Szyslak ayon kay ...

steve, I'm having a grand time. And Annie's gonna come back and get her panties in an

Olive Twist.

Moe Szyslak ayon kay ...

She'll need more of

Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions

steve simels ayon kay ...

Moe, I'm having a ball as well, but we probably should stop.

We're just driving her hits counter up....

steve simels ayon kay ...

I wonder if it's unconstitutional to be shallow, self-absorbed and and banal.

Moe Szyslak ayon kay ...

Okay, okay. I'll take off and leave Ann with her

Holiday Romance

Moe Szyslak ayon kay ...

And

Master Humphrey's Cock.

Moe Szyslak ayon kay ...

steve simels said...
I wonder if it's unconstitutional to be shallow, self-absorbed and and banal.


It's a Bleak House, to be sure.

rorschach ayon kay ...


It's a Bleak House, to be sure.


It's mighty mighty, just lettin' it all hang out.

steve simels ayon kay ...

I have a vision of Ann around eight this morning -- rousing herself from her pastoral torpor, pushing the chardonnay bottles off the futon, staggering to her computer and going "Whathefuck????? Dickens porn?"

steve simels ayon kay ...

A bloody fetus
On a marble slab
A toothless blowjob
In a taxicab
Syphylitic sailors
sucking slimy scabs

These foolish things
Remind me of you...

rorschach ayon kay ...

Screwged, by the ghost of XXXmas past.

steve simels ayon kay ...

A prophylactic
Bearing lipstick traces
A pubic hairline
Where your smiling face is
Gay boys in bondage
Tied with leather laces

These foolish things
Remind me of you....

steve simels ayon kay ...

A nude portrait
Of Liberace
A young chap saying
Suck my hachie
A plate of afterbirth
On your hibachi

These foolish things
Remind me of you....


Ooh wah.

steve simels ayon kay ...

Hey Ann -- screw the veggie porn.

It's fruit you need to worry about!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NkcoCQVJfQ

Moe Szyslak ayon kay ...

I think that hippy chick with the Banana is Ann! She'd be the right age, right?

steve simels ayon kay ...

Moe -- ohmigod!

She's busted!!!!

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

You think because you're liberals that you can't be sexist and homophobic, but you are. You're also not cute or funny or clever. You think you are somehow. Good luck.

steve simels ayon kay ...

You think because you're liberals that you can't be sexist and homophobic, but you are. You're also not cute or funny or clever. You think you are somehow. Good luck.

Wow -- that's the kind of riposte that could be mistaken for banter at the Algonquin Roundtable. Not.

Why don't you just go "nyah, nyah, nyah."

rorschach ayon kay ...

Wow -- that's the kind of riposte that could be mistaken for banter at the Algonquin Roundtable. Not.

Why don't you just go "nyah, nyah, nyah."


Now you're just plagiarizing. It was Virgiana Woolf who originally said "nyah, nyah, nyah," to Djuna Barnes.

Over tea.

steve simels ayon kay ...

Now you're just plagiarizing. It was Virgiana Woolf who originally said "nyah, nyah, nyah," to Djuna Barnes.

Damn -- I thought it was the brother/sister team of Radclyffe and Monty Hall.

steve simels ayon kay ...

Jessus, Ann, will you put up a new thread already and put us out of our misery?

Otherwise we can keep this up all day....

Common Sense Dancing ayon kay ...

Its "The Gift," isn't it?

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