Spitball Army

Over the ensuing twleve months, that post has been seen enough times through Google searches and the like that it is the #9 most-viewed page on this labyrinthine website. And every single person who has seen it has moved on without having that secret yellow cake mix cookie recipe to put to use.

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If you’ve ever spent the Thanksgiving holiday away from family, spent the day travelling, or just plopped yourself down like a slug on the sofa all day, there is something for you to identify with in Ray Davies’ “Thanksgiving Day.”

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Abraham Lincoln’s successors as president followed his example of annually declaring the final Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving. But in 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt broke with this tradition.

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Bing doesn’t realize all the good fortune right under his nose. He’s finding it easier to mope around the inn, crooning and feeling sorry for himself. “You could melt her heart like butter…if you’d only turn on the heat,” says Mamie. You tell him, sister! At the very least, we – as viewers – get a great song out of the predicament.

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The Smothers Brothers were a blast, a blast back to the past. John Pizzarelli, while a talented musician and quite able entertainer, was apparently not who most of the people in attendance had come to see.

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Bet you didn’t know that you can have the daily Los Angeles weather announced to you by David Lynch, on camera and straight onto your computer screen, from his California home.

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This morning, friend Mae Robertson e-mailed me a link to a column authored by Mary Chapin Carpenter in The Washington Times. In her column, Chapin writes about the Liberty Mutual TV commercial that features Hem’s “Better Days,” and draws parallels between the subtle messages of the commercial and the ideology of the current political season, specifically Barack Obama’s oratory at the Democratic National Convention.

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By the time I pulled this video from YouTube, it had been viewed over a million times. And that’s not including the multipe versions of it that have probably been viewed as many times each. But, in case you haven’t seen it yet, this is an inteview that Governor Palin just gave at a turkey farm.

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I was left dangling at the end of a recent post, wanting to illustrate a musical description with an audio clip, but not being able to find it. Many thanks to the overactive online music community for this one.

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“All I’ve got is precious time,” W. Axl Rose sings in the title song of Guns N’ Roses’ new album, and he must be well aware of how that line sounds now. Mr. Rose, 46, the only remaining original member of Guns N’ Roses, needed 17 years, more than $13 million (as of 2005) and a battalion of musicians, producers and advisers to deliver “Chinese Democracy,” the first album of new Guns N’ Roses songs since 1991.

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