Pre-Debate Jitters

I’ve been happy that AAR got around to offering a Windows Media stream; I couldn’t listen to Real Audio at work and the alternative feed via KPOJ in Portland didn’t carry Randi Rhodes in the afternoon. Lately, I’ve been listening to Al Franken off and on (and watching his weekly highlights on Sundance) but had fallen out of the habit of listening to anyone else, including Randi.

Yeah, she’s abrasive, but sometimes you need that to scour the crud out of the old pipes, ya know? And every now and then, she plays that goofy “Bounce Your Boobies” song. Gotta love that.

Hard Work, or Workin’ Hard?

Heard at choir practice yesterday: my choir dominatrice brought in a CD she found in her yard after she put up a Kerry/Edwards sign. It had a little orange sticker that said, approximately (and somewhat incoherently):

MOSLEM’S FOR KERRY!

ALLAH DEMANDS IT!

he must be elected!

Weird, eh? It’s a teen-boy prank, of course. There’s been a rash of signs torn and burned on both sides of the political fence, all over the country, and it’s my opinion that it’s snot-nosed kids. I wonder if I’ll get a free CD if I put up a lawn sign?? I’ve been thinking about putting up an Obama sign, a Bean sign, and a Kerry one if available, but the local Dem office says they’ve only got the first two available.

Heard on the way in to work: WXRT played a great little song called “Hard Work,” which is available off of the Harry Shearer: Le Show website. Yep, political commentary, I bet they got a lot of calls.

Well, I thought it was funny. Catchy tune, and great chorus, not terribly danceable though. It made me chuckle because when Pop would get home from work, Mom would ask him “Work hard, or hardly workin?” so she could figure out if he was tuckered out, or willing to do some chore or other. He’d answer “Hardly workin,” and tackle whatever it was, or “Work hard,” and she’d send him to his recliner to relax for a while.