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Flap harder, Hillary! You’ll make it!

A brief moment of amusement. Oh, c’mon — you didn’t expect me to let this one go. Me?

I went to the Rhode Island School of Design, which is built on the side of a steep hill. One morning on my way to class, I hit a rain-slicked manhole cover and went down.

I didn’t so much fall as come in for a landing. My left foot went out from under me, my drawings went airborne and I instinctively attempted the save — ran sideways for about twenty feet, gradually lower and lower, until I slid full length into Angell Street.

First class of the day, so hundreds and hundreds of my peers looked on. I had people coming up to me for weeks afterwards.

There. My moment of solidarity with Hillary Clinton is at an end.

Comments


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: January 13, 2011, 7:38 pm

Cool music vid. (Full-screen it if your machine will take it).


Comment from Mark Matis
Time: January 13, 2011, 8:02 pm

Oh God, NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s FedGov!!!!!!!!!!
}:-]


Comment from Mark Matis
Time: January 13, 2011, 9:08 pm

Hey, Stoatie!

Over at Castle Argghhh! they want:
‘… because that’s when *I* split.’
… which mean we will have two Bills.”

Well, then one of ’em ought to be able to finish and post a comic strip or three — can’t wait to see BCR in stompy-light shoes.
0>;~}

And methinks that “Bill” who was being discussed is your .000357% soon to be formerly from Iraq…


Comment from Can’t hark my cry
Time: January 14, 2011, 1:11 am

The Cool Music Video? Yeah. . .my favorite is the walking TVs, especially when they turned into the sun symbol. So I clicked on the “Star Guitar” link, and that’s pretty cool too. And I wish that this song had a YouTube video, because it does lose something when you read it rather than hearing it, but. . .stick with it for a few stanzas. . .it picks up in interest. Really.

BIRD BIRD BIRD
©2003 Lou & Peter Berryman

Bird, bird, bird, bird, cow, cow
Bird, bird, bird, bird, cow, cow
Silo, tractor, barn, plow
Bird, bird, bird, bird, cow, cow

Hay field, hay field, hay field
Hay field, hay field, hay field
Hay field, hay field, hay field
Hay field, hay field, hay field

Speed zone, thirty, Walmart
Walmart, Walmart, Walmart
Garden tractor, go cart
Asphalt asphalt, Kmart

Kmart, Kmart, gas pump
Gas pump, gas pump, gas pump
Wendy’s Drive Thru, speed bump
Ponderosa, gas pump

Duplex, duplex, driveway
Duplex, duplex, driveway
Duplex, duplex, driveway
Duplex, duplex, driveway

House, house, bar, cafe, church
Funeral parlor, school, church
Old Milwaukee, fried perch
Tavern, tavern, bar, church

Empty storefront, plywood
Plywood, plywood, plywood
Out of business for good
Relocated, plywood

Hotel, courthouse, dead shrub
Dead tree, dead grass, dead shrub
Discount liquor, strip club
Empty building, dead shrub

House, house, trailer, yard sale
Trailer, trailer, yard sale
Tavern, high school, bike trail
Gas pump, trailer, yard sale

Road construction, EAT NOW
Strip mall, pig farm, sow, sow
Silo, tractor, barn, plow
End construction, cow, cow

Bird, bird, bird, bird, cow, cow
Bird, bird, bird, bird, cow, cow
Silo, tractor, barn, plow
Bird, bird, bird, bird, cow, cow

Hay field, hay field, hay field
Hay field, hay field, hay field
Hay field, hay field, hay field
Hay field, hay field, hay field

[other Berryman lyrics at http://www.louandpeter.com/alllwlyr.pdf; they truly are very, um, surrealistic at times.]


Comment from Mark Matis
Time: January 14, 2011, 2:53 am

We Like The Moon:
http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song
-and-
Kittens In My Christmas Tree:
http://www.rathergood.com/christmas_kittens

THESE are safe for work (if your work doesn’t mind singing kittens) but OTHERS on the site ARE NOT…


Comment from Nina from GCP
Time: January 14, 2011, 3:11 am

I did something similar on a spot of water in front of my students last week…slo-mo all the way down to my butt on the floor.

So graceful.


Comment from Mark Matis
Time: January 14, 2011, 3:12 am

And the ORIGINAL Viking Kittens:
http://users.wolfcrews.com/toys/vikings/
although the Big Led probably made him remove it from its ORIGINAL site.


Comment from Can’t hark my cry
Time: January 14, 2011, 3:20 am

Oh, Nina, you have probably entered the legendary in your school! Not, of course, the way any of us would want to become legend. . .but in time it might be useful.

Um. You are OK, right? Nothing broken, nothing twisted, nothing. . .off. . .?


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: January 14, 2011, 6:00 am

All good entries, but NONE are like “Stuart” by the Dead Milkmen….. 😉

A friend of mine introduced me to that one when I was in the Navy. I almost died laughing…

(No, seriously. I was laughing so hard that I got distracted with some really nasty power tools and almost lost something I would have REALLY missed..)


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: January 14, 2011, 1:23 pm

I’m on the FDA’s mailing list. I just got one titled “Candy Dynamics Recalls Toxic Waste® brand Nuclear Sludge® Chew Bars.”

Ya don’t say. The email doesn’t explain the recall, except the product is made in Pakistan(!).


Comment from Ric Locke
Time: January 14, 2011, 2:10 pm

Heh. Those’d have to be recalled. If the label’s accurate the FDA would be on their case. If it’s not, it violates truth in advertising 🙂

Regards,
Ric


Comment from Truman North
Time: January 14, 2011, 5:04 pm

Hills like the one RISD is built on ought to be illegal.


Comment from Nina from GCP
Time: January 14, 2011, 5:07 pm

Nope, totally unharmed, save my dignity, but it was my honors class, so the sniggering was kept to a minimum.


Comment from David Gillies
Time: January 14, 2011, 6:21 pm

Hillary should be careful. Old lady like her could break a hip.


Comment from David Bain
Time: January 14, 2011, 7:41 pm

“My moment of solidarity with Hillary Clinton”

Maybe you should play down having those . . .


Comment from Can’t hark my cry
Time: January 15, 2011, 3:35 am

Um, OK. . .someone just pointed me at this one, and I thought of this thread. No reason, really. Just did. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7RAzUnrlQI&feature=player_embedded

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