The above teaser trailer scared 8-year-old Uvular witless. The following movie poster did, in many ways, worse damage to the prepubescent psyche of your present OT header host. Twentieth Century Fox adapted it for a series of newspaper ads. That … Continue reading The Day Thread Does Magic (1978)
♫ Maybe tomorrow, maybe somedayMaybe tomorrow, maybe someday ♫— Skip this header if you must, but stream the video and find yourself floored anew by Chrissy Hynde’s mid-lyrics octave drops. December 26 usually means nothing to your workaday American. Your … Continue reading The Day Thread Observed On
♩ I like food, food tastes good!I like food, food tastes good!Juicy burgers, greasy friesTurkey legs and raw fish eyes ♩— Give a person steak, cornbread, or candy. No wrong choices. Now, we all know no one and nothing has … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Threads Gives as Good as It Gets
Most Americados will skip past this header on what, for them, is Thanksgiving morning. Yes, Canadacados and assorted other OT habitués set aside different days for national expressions of general and genteel gratitude. But Uvular gives thanks today, which makes … Continue reading The Night Thread of Thanks Singing
♪ Lido be runnin’, havin’ great big fun until he got the noteSaying, “Toe the line or blow it, ” and that was all she wrote ♪— No garden party lasts forever. Amen to that. ++++ Longtime endurers of Uvular’s … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Knows When to Fold ’Em
♪ In the ’51 flood the river got meanThe levee broke at a town downstreamUp on our levee where the county lines meetCaught a couple of their boys with some TNT ♪— Forty Days and 40 nights since the pernicious … Continue reading Après Weekend Politics Thread, le Déluge
♫ Right before the aftermathI saw where it would endYou said it was an accidentI guess that all dependsOn who you talk toAnd who you knowAnd where you come fromAnd where, where you go ♫— Looking back reveals a picture … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Decries a Scrying
♪ I love my dogAs much as I love youYou may fadeMy dog will always come through ♪— Who could question something on which Sublime, the Bottle Rockets and DMX all agree? With the Dog Days of August not over, … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Gives Every Dog Its Day
♪ Some walk like they own the placeWhilst others creep in fearTry if you can to walk like a manBut you don’t come nearYou’ve got to fly like an eagleProwl like a lion in AfricaLeap like a salmon home form … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Feels Its Felines
♫ There’s a ribbon in the willow and a tire swing ropeOh, and a briar patch of berries takin’ over the slopeThe cat’ll sleep in the mailbox and we’ll never go to town’Til we bury every dream in the cold, … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Cavils at a Mitzvah
♫ I left my home in Norfolk, VirginiaCalifornia on my mind ♫— This Mother’s Day, get them a gift you know they can use. Send them a Drinking Gourd. Your overly credentialed Weekend Politics Thread host wrote his undergraduate U.S. … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Pleads the 13th
♪ Dog police (bow wow), where are you coming from?Dog police, nobody knows who you are ♪— Mr. State Trooper of the Highway Patrol, please put down your radar gun. Never go with a U.S. Constitution originalist to a second … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Lays Down the Law
♬ She left me for JesusAnd that just ain’t fairShe says that he’s perfect.How could I compare?She says I should find himAnd I’ll know peace at lastBut if I ever find JesusI’m kickin’ his ass ♬— This Fourth of July, … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Expands Its Vocabulary
♪ It’s been the same for all the yearsThrough all your trials and your tearsHow long ’til it breaks?How long will it take?How long can it wait?How long will it take someone to reach you? ♪— Peter Case asked elsewhere … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Opines on Opinions Opinionatedly
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++++ ♪ ’Cause I don’t believe youI don’t believe you ♪— Polarizing, yet attractive Prevaricating police putrefy public policy. Examples of body camera footage, bystander recordings and eyewitness accounts directly contradicting official reports and court testimony extend to infinity. Two … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Obeys the Rule of Three
♫ Stick your hand in the fireAnd say you don’t feel the painBut pick your teeth out to feed the flamesYeah, they’ll give you your moneyBut it’s never quite enough ♫’Cause sometimes money just costs too much ♫— Downed lines? … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Comes to the Fore
♫ When she looks at me in that tone of voiceShe don’t need to make a noiseI can read her thoughts in capital letters ♫— Throwing things never helps when someone asks, “What gives, my son?” Like a pullulation of … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Rhapsodizes Similar as a Simile
♪ History repeats the old conceitsThe glib replies, the same defeats ♪— Drawing connections leads to drawing the line. A book Uvular will never read written by an author he knows nothing about features the following narrative verse: “This / … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Tells One Story
♪ And we’d sit together in DoubleHistory twice a weekAnd some days, we’d walk the same way homeAnd it’s surprising how quickA little rain can clear the streetsWe dreamed of her and compared our dreamsBut that was all that I … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Takes ‘Em to School
♫ All the people gather, fly to carry each his burden ♫— Who else believes that Little America deserves some pretty persuasion as wolves lower at a carnival, of sorts? Find those books of stamps, Politicados. Uvular has mailed in … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Feels Young Despite the Years
