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Death and Taxes: May 2005
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Original parodies of lyrics to well-known songs; petty ramblings. Thursday, May 26, 2005. And some of the lines, particularly in the second release, come across (if at all) better when read than when sung. Ah, me. Pencil this one in, folks. The tune, incidentally, is Bricusse's and Newley's. A Wonderful Day Like Today. A link to 30 seconds of Cyril Ritchard singing it can be found by scrolling down the page here. On a pestilent day like today,. I expect to contract some contagious disease. The Importance...
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Death and Taxes: February 2005
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Original parodies of lyrics to well-known songs; petty ramblings. Monday, February 28, 2005. End of an Era. An old pen-pal who's been squatting at 850 Seventh Avenue, N.Y., N.Y., for the past forty years or so- and that's handsome squatting in any league- tells me he's absquatulating to the Iron Range region of Minnesota, of all places. Seems a remote spot, but he has a couple of friends with similar tastes in music who live in Michigan, and that's practically right next door, innit? This morning, after ...
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Death and Taxes: August 2005
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Original parodies of lyrics to well-known songs; petty ramblings. Wednesday, August 31, 2005. And It's Not Even an Election Year, Pogo. It reached the point where the wall becomes a chain-link fence and began to climb. I then saw that it was neither rat nor cat, but an. Incidentally, I wonder whatever made Walt Kelly think that he could draw a 'possum. Posted by npetrikov at 11:28 AM. Saturday, August 27, 2005. Now, You're Just Being Silly. Click on the little pair of eighth notes preceding the song titl...
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Death and Taxes: March 2005
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Original parodies of lyrics to well-known songs; petty ramblings. Thursday, March 31, 2005. Ist Das Nicht Ein Schindler Banc? Nein, Das Ist Ein Schiavo Banc! Just finished reading the concurring and dissenting opinions in the 11th Circuit's decision in the Schiavo matter to deny the Schindlers a rehearing en banc. Perhaps it's because I'm an English major, but I can't help reading into the exchanges between Judges Carnes and Hull, concurring, and Judges Tjoflat and Wilson, dissenting, a little subtext.
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Death and Taxes: September 2005
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Original parodies of lyrics to well-known songs; petty ramblings. Monday, September 26, 2005. Having penned a parody of. It's a Long Way to Tipperary. It seemed only fitting to follow it with a parody of. Pack up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag. Like its predecessor, it's but a finger exercise, an etude, a bagatelle:. Back up your tables and your mp3's. And save those files! Then, even if your drive is prone to freeze,. You'll still be all smiles. When the Cranes are Frasier-less,. And save those files!
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Death and Taxes: July 2005
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Original parodies of lyrics to well-known songs; petty ramblings. Sunday, July 31, 2005. Thus the Barrister Dreamed . . .". The strange world betwixt sleep and waking is one usually populated (in my case) by thoughts, at once intense and inexpressible, of my nearest and dearest. This morning, however, my brain composed a lyric something it's never done before in that weird state. I freely admit that the scansion and rhyme are faulty but what do you expect from a drowsing lyricist? The tune is Porter's.
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Death and Taxes: June 2005
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Original parodies of lyrics to well-known songs; petty ramblings. Thursday, June 30, 2005. New York City, or Boston, Jr? If New York City has a fault, it's a tendency to emulate the Hub of the Universe. Boston builds its Charlie, or T, or whatever they call it nowadays, so New York must have its Subway; Boston puts Art in its T-stops, so New York follows suit; Boston makes a mall of Quincy Market, so ditto the Fulton Fish Market; Boston evinces an insular attitude with that old joke. Sunday, June 26, 2005.
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Death and Taxes: November 2005
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Original parodies of lyrics to well-known songs; petty ramblings. Saturday, November 19, 2005. Marking Time Constructively (Sort Of). This afternoon, my feet being presently in a condition unfit for the purpose to which feet are commonly put, I whiled away the time between a much-too-modest lunch with my daughter and a much-too-modest rehearsal with my DAMP at the Barcelona Bar, near 55th and 8th. There, I worked out the dummy lyric for an idea I had yesterday to Kalmar and Ruby's. A better tempo is here.
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Death and Taxes: October 2005
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Original parodies of lyrics to well-known songs; petty ramblings. Saturday, October 29, 2005. What's Big and Green and Riant? Omigod, Elmer Dresslar, Jr., has died. The voice of the Jolly Green Giant. The obit does not mention whether he was any kin in real life to Little Sprout. As it happens, an old Jolson song,. And Then He'd Row, Row, Row. Has been running through my head (without parodic result, I might add), and the following occurred to me:. And when he'd "Ho! About his veggies,. We'd say, "No!
