my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "in this world, Barking, you must be" - she always called me Barking - "in this world, Barking, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." well, for years i was smart. i recommend pleasant. you may quote me

ruining the songs for you by revealing the actual truth, #7: "Closing Time" is about birth, not a bar. the closing is of the cervix

Today was different. Today was 14.2. Today was the first day the nag was low. I decided to have a nice lunch, where I could look out and see beautiful things. I set navigation for a little town off in the hills, 25 minutes away. A place I'd never been, where there were no big

ruining the songs for you by revealing the actual truth, #6: "The Way" by Fastball is about an elderly couple who went missing, and were later found dead in a ravine

ruining the songs for you by revealing the actual truth, #4: Meatloaf's "Bat Out of Hell" was produced by Todd Rundgren as a Springsteen parody because he hated Springsteen. he didn't believe it would be successful at all. he just wanted to make a Springsteen parody

ruining the songs for you by revealing the actual truth, #4: the "Marianne" in "More Than A Feeling" is named after Boston founder Tom Scholz's cousin, whom he had a crush on when he was 10

ruining the songs for you by revealing the actual truth, #3 Alanis Morissette knows the events in "Ironic" aren't ironic; the song is supposed to be poking fun at people who say everything is ironic ironically, the song did not clearly make that point

about 30% of people have family members who died in a traffic accident about 60% have family members who died or were seriously injured in a traffic accident

ruining the songs for you by revealing the actual truth, part 2 of x: In "Radar Love", the driver dies.

ruining the songs for you by revealing the actual truth, part 1 of x: Tears for Fears' "Shout" is actually about primal scream therapy. the guys were big proponents of it

i have three ex friends on Facebook who post anti-billionaire screeds and they all have houses with pools

every time Rick Beato moans about the state of modern pop music, and how terrible it is that AI is making hits now... i consider that "9 to 5" by Sheena Easton, also known as "My Baby Takes the Morning Train", was a number 1 hit for two weeks in 1981

It took me until today to realize that 10cc's album title "Sheet Music" (1975) is actually suggesting "Shit Music". They were all about humour and cleverness, and one of the songs on the album is "The Worst Band in the World", poking fun at themselves

i really want to start a furniture store called "Four Legs Good"

Tesla bears are in an odd position Elon's salary depends on FSD becoming a huge success bears claimed it was just stock pumping and would never really work now they can't criticize the salary unless they expect FSD will work brilliantly

"What light through yonder window - no dog! Get down! Down! Sit! Dinner is later! Honey can you come get this animal? No, I'm writing! Okay, uh yonder window breaks. Edit that out. Oh enough of this magick! Where is my damn quill?" - from the compleat works of W. Shakespeare

important advice for us all, offered by the Pogo comic strip (24 Jun 1950)