ONE-HIT WONDERS REVISITED

There’s no Internet music meme too stupid for me to jump on. McSweeney’s started it, and it’s been continued over at Blogcritics, but do you think I can leave well enough alone?

Can any blogger leave well enough alone?

Possible followup songs for one-hit wonders:

• Still Too Shy, But Displaying Occasional Flashes of Assertiveness
• Disempower-a You Neck
• Believe It Or Not, It’s Actually Andrew J. Cruffington
• When the Islets of Langerhans Rule the Plantar Fasciae
• On Second Thought, This Groove Is Highly Disturbable
• I Wanna Be Comfortably Well-Off
• Nnnn Nnnn Nnnn Nnnn
• Breakfast At Waffle House
• Are You Jimmy Ray? Because I’ve Got A Subpoena For Him
• Indiana Doesn’t Want Me As Badly As They Thought They Did, I Guess
• Fooled Around And Fell On The Sidewalk
• Now That You Mention It, I’m Not Overly Fond of Thursdays, Either

w00t.

We just hit 30,000 visitors here at TBP. Good luck with the Olds Bravada and the troubles you’re having with it, Mr-or-Ms. 30K.

Yeah, I know I said I wasn’t going to celebrate until I hit 25K. But as you’ll note, I didn’t do anything for that particular millstonemilestone even though I threatened to. I was half a time zone away when it happened.

I LOVE THE 90S, BUT . . .

Dean Esmay loved the 90s, and he’s happy to tell you why:

The ’90s were the first decade when all the music and fashion (except for Lenny Kravitz, who by the way was also mondo cool) wasn’t imitative of the ’60s. When suddenly popular music didn’t have to be overproduced and slick. When it was okay to be nasty again. When rap music went from cheap to mainstream. When the Martini made a comeback. When Squirrel Nut Zipper and Brian Setzer reminded us why the big bands were cool after all. When computers went from something spastic geeks loved to something that everyone wanted. When “nigga” went from a epithet to a term of endearment. When women discovered that it was okay to be powerful and self-assured and yet still be feminine and still like guys to be guys. When that the whole “gender difference” thing was something fun rather than something to be railed against. When the Internet became something that everyone wanted to be a part of. When investing in the stock market stopped being something for greedy slick-haired weasels and became (through 401ks) something that everyone could be a part of. When the President was a regular guy everyone could relate to–hell even if you hated him you still related to him.

Sgt. Stryker says the 90s were good to him, but the decade as a whole was pretty reprehensible:

When I think of the 90’s, the impression that immediately comes to mind is: Bitchfest. The decade seemed like one long whine. The first few notes from Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit were the birth cry of that decade, but little did we know that the anger-infused sound of ‘91 would give way to the pussies of Staind and Limp Bizkit at the end of the decade.

And Michele just throws the whole decade under the bus.

I say any decade which brought me my first requited love and my first taste of good bourbon can’t be all bad, but yes, there were some things about the 90s that I just couldn’t stand. Here they are, in the form of a ten-point list, which is one of the things many people can’t stand about this decade.
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YOU’RE NO GOOD, YOU’RE NO GOOD, YOU’RE NO GOOD . . .

So much for the comeback. Linda Ronstadt got fired from a Vegas casino gig for taking up a slightly-unpopular cause:

Singer Linda Ronstadt not only got booed, she got the boot after lauding filmmaker Michael Moore and his new movie “Fahrenheit 9/11″ during a performance at the Aladdin hotel-casino.

Before singing “Desperado” for an encore Saturday night, the 58-year-old rocker called Moore a “great American patriot” and “someone who is spreading the truth.” She also encouraged everybody to see the documentary about President Bush.

But before you go crying “censorship,” consider that this may have been a case of self-immolation:

In an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal before the show, Ronstadt said “I keep hoping that if I’m annoying enough to them, they won’t hire me back.”

As I’ve said before on this blog, decapitation will cure a headache, but there may be better treatment options.