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Thursday, April 08, 2010
An Early Clue to the New Direction: Special Friedman Unit Edition
From 2003, please enjoy, if that's the word, the still doesn't know he's a bad joke Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and his infamous "Suck on This!" video.
As always, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded the first reader who gleans the clip's relevance to the theme of tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.
Songs about the sublimated sexual anxieties among our so-called leaders that result in a global acting-out that dooms thousands of innocents to a fiery death just so a handful of people can make obscene amounts of money and get their shriveled little winkies hard?
Best Madonna video?
ReplyDeleteSongs that attempt to explain the senseless deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people?
ReplyDeleteMadonna really should have done "Suck on This."
ReplyDelete:-)
Anti-war songs?
ReplyDeleteI got nothin!
Trey
Music that sucks ?
ReplyDeleteSongs about being OK? Or, doing what you want and having it be...OK
ReplyDeleteSongs about the sublimated sexual anxieties among our so-called leaders that result in a global acting-out that dooms thousands of innocents to a fiery death just so a handful of people can make obscene amounts of money and get their shriveled little winkies hard?
ReplyDeleteGood one Gummo!
ReplyDeleteSongs by guys with mustaches?
ReplyDeleteI like Gummo's too.
ReplyDelete:-)
Okay -- it's got nothing to do with politics.
ReplyDeleteBands on talk shows playing music, then being interviewed?
ReplyDeleteSex songs.
ReplyDeleteTrey
The flip side of last week's Listomania--bands or artists that suck but nonetheless made it big?
ReplyDeleteIgnorant creeps with moustaches?
ReplyDeleteI got it! I got it!
ReplyDeleteI don't got it.
Okay -- I gotta give a joint prize to Brooklyn Girl and MBowen, who both nailed it.
ReplyDeleteI know it looks like the fix was in, but swear to god, it wasn't.
in any event, MB, your coveted No-Prize is winging its way to you by carrier planaria as we speak. BG, I'll hand deliver yours later...
:-)
You keep your hands off that girl!!!!
ReplyDeleteROTP(lumber)