And I proceeded to tell Spice_Weasel the story of the Alice’s Restaurant Massacree with full orchestration and four-part harmony…
Good thing you’re not proud…or tired.
Yes, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie.
It’s an obscure reference to anyone who wasn’t a teenager or older in the 60s.
I’m only aware of the referenced work because my dad was a fan.
I was a pre-schooler in the 1960s and am well aware of it (heard it every Thanksgiving on the radio into the mid-80s) (my parents are likely too old to know of it, though).
I was four in 1960. I’m not sure when I first ran across it. When my kids were young, I had a cassette of the album. It was good for long car rides.
You can watch several versions on YouTube, if you’re curious. (The Motorcycle Song changed the most over the years.)
Macklemore says he won’t vote for Biden because of Gaza.
Well well well, Ben. And here I thought that 12 years ago when you were an underground rapper without a label writing a song about how your gay uncle deserves to marry his partner and you would fight for that right for everyone, that you meant it. Well, guess what - one of two men is going to be president next year, and one of them supports your uncle, and the other is a fascist whose cronies will put your uncle and people like him in concentration camps AND will give Israel free reign to wipe the Gazan people off the face of the Earth.
But I guess now that you’re rich you have the luxury of not having to worry about what’s going to happen to the plebs when the fascists take over and impose Christian Sharia on us, since you’ll be perfectly fine cashing their checks to sing “Thrift Shop” in stadiums packed with one-percenters who make their living by exploiting the people you used to care about.
I hope your moral purity is worth it.
Still played on the radio every Thanksgiving back when I was last still listening to the radio. Looks like the tradition isn’t dead yet:
https://coloradosound.org/how-arlo-guthries-alices-restaurant-became-a-thanksgiving-classic/
I was born in 1980 and was, by a margin of decades, the youngest person in the crowd when I went to see him at my college in 1999ish.
An American soldier goes to Russia to cheat on his wife. Three guesses about what happens next.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said the detention had nothing to do with politics, state news agency TASS reported.
Well, I guess that settles that then.
His mother told Fox that the “girlfriend” was trying to get money from her before the arrest.
The stupid is strong with SSG Black. Members of the US military need their commanding officer’s permission to travel to even allied countries.
I don’t get worked up about people sitting in front of me on commercial flights reclining their seat (it helps that I seldom fly these days).
But damn, this piece on CNN by a flight attendant is dumb and arrogant.
You see, “seasoned business travelers” know enough to shell out extra bucks to avoid having someone else’s seat back in their lap, so you sardines in economy should STFU and maybe we’ll bring you a Diet Coke.
Great p.r., ma’am.
I didn’t see anything there that wasn’t true, and she included background about airlines’ need to save and/or make more money. Whatever you think about that, passengers insisting on cheap seats that come with amenities for which other people pay extra are being unrealistic and need to check their assumptions. Airlines, like everything else, are devolving to the lowest possible level of comfort that they can achieve without actually driving passengers away.
After years of flying “Coach”, “Economy”, “Main Cabin”, or whatever the airline chooses to call “Cattle Class” I have finally decided that at my age I’d rather fly Business/First Class from now on. Being comfortable, getting a drink before the plane takes off, having a choice of snacks, and most importantly being able to get in and out of my seat without having my knees complain about having to shuffle sideways while I’m leaning backwards more than make it worth spending the extra money.
You seriously think that adequate seats and legroom are “amenities” for which airline passengers should pay a hefty bonus and be grateful?
Wow.
There’s also a safety issue with shrinking room, which the snotty flight attendant is overlooking.
I’d suggest that adequate seats and legroom are amenities that airline passengers are not willing to pay for. We, the flying public, have shown again and again that what we want is the lowest price. The airline that gives up 5 rows of seating and charges 10% more so they get the same revenue per flight will be driven out of business by us.