BTW, Devo rocks.

Peace out!

Johnny Are You Queer was by Josie Cotton. Take it from someone who has watched Valley Girl within the last decade. Also, not that the Grammy’s ever meant much, but the GoGos were the first female rock band to ever win a Grammy. Going Down to Liverpool was a cover song? I never realized. You know they had Leonard Nemoy in the video, right?

I love the Bangle’s cover of “Hazy Shade of Winter”. I actually like it better than the original. It’s got such a gloomy, mysterious vibe.

I am quite fond of “ain’t”. I can take “y’all.” But that “all y’all” thing? That’s full of shudder.

Crack that whip!

a masterful and logical example to stymie the Bushit Chicken-hawk Delusion .

But , Mr. Smarty-pants , whatda I do to get all the exploded ‘n fetid Repiglican brain matter offa my seer-sucker suit , , ,

HMMmmmmmmM ?

They have an irony barrier that encircles the White House. Kind of like the Cone of Solitude from Get Smart.

And just as effective.

Interestingly, the usage of “you guys” in Utah is gender-neutral as well. The singular word “guy” is always masculine, as is the plural “guys” without the “you”, but I’ve witnessed “you guys” being used to address a group of women and nobody but me thought it was odd. Utonics is a strange dialect.

Hmf. These guys come from the same segment of the population that thinks “Tie a Yellow Ribbon ‘Round the Old Oak Tree” is somehow about the same concept as “The White Cliffs of Dover” or even “Leave the Dishes in the Sink, Ma” (as in, not a song about a stupid asshole begging his girl not to leave him while he’s in the clink) and adopted the central symbol from it wholesale (prices cheaper by the gross, Made in China). In other words, my money’s on “too clueless to know the difference and too entitled to care.”

Which goes about double for the confusion between Al Qaeda and their wannabe cover band in Iraq.

Bush in October of 2002:

Iraq could decide on any given day to provide a biological or chemical weapon to a terrorist group or individual terrorists.

More often, these days, I’m subverting my son’s dominant paradigm with Apples in Stereo, Little Man Tate and Richard Thompson’s phenomenal live acoustic rendition of the Britney Spears magnum opus “Oops…I Did It Again.”. Anything to wean him away from High School Musical.

I have heard people address an individual as “y’all” here in Texas. I’ve even called them on it, and they get just as huffy as if I’d corrected a split infinitive or cited the Supreme Court ruling on “Lie v. Lay” again.

And “all y’all” is claimed to be an “emphasis” phrase, but there’s not really a clear or obvious usage pattern I’ve been able to parse out.

Bottom line: Yes, we need a second person plural pronoun. Yes, “y’all” often serves that function. And yes, as soon as we make “y’all” official, one-third of the population will be found to be using it wrong in spoken English. cause we’re like that.

And, I have to ask, since this is apparantly destined to become a running gag:

Her Majesty was standing there with the tea-pot asking “Would you layke unnnh or hnnnh with your tay?” I had her repeat it — still couldn’t understand her. Then I had the wit to say, “What’s the difference?”

Am I the only one who has NO FUCKING CLUE what “unnnnh” or “hnnnnh” were supposed to be in that delightful WFB anecdote? I mean, how can I laugh at the poor enunciation of the undereducated underclass if I don’t know what their they are supposed to be saying?

Having said that, the whole DEVO 2.0 thing depresses me as it seems like a pointless degradation of the band’s legacy.

There is a point. Devo is the De-Evolutionary band. After Kent State, it appeared that we were all de-evolving back to apes.

Devo would show us the ways in which we were all de-evolving. Booji Boy and General Boy, Jocko Homo Heavenbound, a lot of the cliched lyrics that they use–it’s all to show de-evolution.

What better way to show de-evolution than to have a bunch of tweens sing cleaned-up versions of your song for Walt-freaking-Disney? Or a Swiffer ad? (that’s Mothersbaugh doing the revised vocals)

It occurred to me a while back that it is logically impossible for Devo to sell out, since selling out would prove their original point.

That’s not to say that I like listening to Devo 2.0. (I do listen to it in rare cases where I want to be traumatized)