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ah, sweet, sweet schadenfreude, the nectar of the gods!

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I was thinking of a particular venereal disease, but I won't argue.

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Where did he start out? (What was Sonny Bono doing there?)

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How do you happen to be doing that? So interesting. But I hope you're not just looking for trouble. Couldn't this be some new Liberal degeneracy-- 'teaching avant garde 70' s rock 'n roll to elementary schoolers.'? Sounds bad to me.

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She fell in with some undesirables. Which reminds me, Matt Gaetz was reelected. Is he supposed to be just a regular person now? All his legal troubles disappeared?

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Popularly known as God's Waiting Room.

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You mean like a groomer?

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Dok got a really basic fact about The Who wrong, and that's why I had no choice but to vote Republican.

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The MLB put the FTX logo on the umps' uniforms. I hope they did not take their endorsement money and put it in crypto.

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I can’t tell. I have a hard time thinking it’s a straight vertical jump. Of course, he’s tall and has long legs.

There was an uncomfortable period where John Entwistle had a haircut somewhere between a Beatle and a Muppet, plus he was clean-shaven. The beard changed everything, and he metamorphosed from Sonny Bono to Thunderfingers.

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As we said when he announced his comeback bid, we thought he'd make a fine Florida Man, since he could probably have managed to eat someone's face without even being on bath salts. Fun fact: Guy that ate someone's face off wasn't on bath salts at all, that was just speculation by the PD that got treated as fact:

https://www.cbsnews.com/mia...

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It don't matter who in the Who screams, they do and always have, sucked.

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yeah i'm sure he was, until he was arrested as part of a child porn site scandal. He stupidly paid for access to the site and didn't download images.

https://ultimateclassicrock...

Course that arrest was how he found out he had bowel cancer apparently.

https://www.theguardian.com...

yeah he didn't mellow.

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Oh my.

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I'm covering for the elementary music teacher, who's out on maternity leave. There is absolutely no curriculum; I've had to make it up. I can read music, but I've never taught anyone to actually play an instrument (like the xylophones and drums the teacher has in the room), so I've stuck to rhythm sticks and egg shakers, but for grades 2-4, I figured I'd take the opportunity to teach them something they may never, ever learn in any other class, at least not for a long time. I started with the history of recorded sound, then jazz, segued into early rock, and gradually moved into the late '60s, early '70s. Next week is my last week with them and I'm going to jump into '80s. Wish me luck!

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No, that was the Jerky Boys. Or was it the Bowery Boys?

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