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Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-First First-Person Edition
I’m back from Clown College rehab. Haven’t had much sleep, as the tortuous techniques inflicted upon me included aversion therapy right out of ‘A Clockwork Orange’. I am now officially totally averse to the ‘Old Ultra Third Person-ness’. I’ll tell my terrifying tale once I’ve gotten the proper perspective on it (I had no idea […]
More Tape From El Somnambulo’s Latest Session Leaked!!
Editor’s Note: It appears that the lovable luchadore is making significant progress in learning to love his inner first person. As this EXCLUSIVE TAPE shows, however, he still needs to find a happy ME-dium: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCayacFcCX4[/youtube]
Breaking! Tape Smuggled from Somnambulo Rehab!
From the Editor: We have received this anonymous tape smuggled out of the Homey D Clown Third Person Withdrawal Center purportedly by someone close to El Somnambulo, if indeed such a person exists. Some well-intended medic, Nurse Ratched perhaps, believes that this borderline (in more than one sense of the word) offensive tape will provide […]
JMY’s Media For the Masses: Obama School Daze Edition
First we RISE: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ95FaapL58[/youtube] Herb Alpert-Rise Perhaps we then LISTEN: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF2vKBjmAkI[/youtube] Doobie Brothers-Listen to the Music (Quote from Robert Christgau: “You can lead a Doobie Brother to the recording studio, but you can’t make him think.”) I mean REALLY LISTEN HARD: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM8GcPWyE2k[/youtube] Check It Out For Yourself If you don’t you may need Adult Education, and that would be […]
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-Labor Day Weekend Edition
LEAD STORY-The (UK) Observer: Former Brazilian PM Urges End to ‘Disaster’, AKA “The War On Drugs” Seriously, does ANYone ANYwhere on the political spectrum agree that this unmitigated disaster makes sense? The human toll in many of the countries in Latin America and South America has been incalculable: “After decades of overflights, interdictions, spraying and raids […]
‘Bulo & Nemski’s Music For the Masses-WXPN Desert Island Songs
The Beast Who Loves Non-Commercial Radio is a big fan of Philly’s WXPN (He’s a member!) and the U of D’s WVUD. Every year, ‘XPN does a countdown (from 885 to 1). This year’s countdown theme is Your Top 10 Desert Island songs. The Beast Who Overthinks Things ultimately chose the 10 songs that he would […]
El Somnambulo to Enter 3rd Person Withdrawal Rehab
Facing an intervention from his loved ones ostensibly concerned about saving him from terminal self-aggrandizement, El Somnambulo has reluctantly agreed to enter the Homey D. Clown Third Person Withdrawal Center in Iowa City, Iowa. You may remember Homey by his catchphrase of “Homey don’t play dat”: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QhuBIkPXn0[/youtube] For years, Homey coasted on that Third Person […]
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-August 30 Edition
LEAD STORY: Miami Herald: Florida Case Could Lead to End of Gay Adoption Ban It’s tough to support a ban when the State admits that the petitioner would make a great parent: MIAMI — As lawyers for a North Miami man seeking to adopt his two foster kids squared off with the state in an appellate […]
Meet Florida’s Next US Senator
Gov. Charlie Crist has reportedly appointed his former Chief-of-Staff George LeMieux to fill out Senator Mel Martinez’ unexpired term. Here’s a bio of the political operative turned US Senator. He appears to be nothing more than a corporate litigator-turned-Party aparatchik. In other words, a typical Rethug.
Daily News’ Stan Hochman Blisters NFL Over Sports Betting
Legendary Philadelphia Daily News sports columnist Stan Hochman (who is also a big Stephen Sondheim fan, a huge plus in the Beast Who Sings ‘Send In the Clown’s book) skewers the NFL over what he maintains was a counterproductive lawsuit against Delaware: The NFL says it’s worried about the integrity of the game, fans grumbling […]
With the Passing of Kennedy, Time for Obama to Emulate JFK
Though JFK inspired so many of ‘bulo’s generation with his appeal to youthful idealism, people forget that it was Lyndon Baines Johnson who succeeded in passing most of the landmark bills that JFK had proposed, but had not gotten moved through the Congress. Here’s what LBJ did: He resolved to complete Kennedy’s legislative agenda, and […]
Breaking: AG to Appoint Special Prosecutor to Investigate Torture
About bleeping time! From the Washington Post: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti-torture laws and other statutes when they allegedly threatened terrorism suspects, according to two sources familiar with the move. Holder is poised to […]
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