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In the year 2525, if academic scholars are still alive, WLBOTT predicts that the movie Office Space will be required viewing for all students studying the collapse of western civilization. Today we will limit our exploration of this movie to the sound track of the closing credits, “Shove This Jay-Oh-Bee”: Note that in this YouTube […]
Sally the Intern brought this to our attention. We offer, without additional context or comment, the Gipsy Kings singing Baila Me:
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Anthem
The Elders of WLBOTT have been engaged in a lively (and as yet, bloodless) search for the WLBOTT Anthem, as we anticipate our looming Sovereign Statehood. It didn’t take too many handshakes to zero in on the accordion, and from there to Those Darn Accordions (TDA). TDA was formed in 1989 by Linda “Big Lou” […]
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Coincidence
Bob Dylan’s It’s All Over Now Baby Blue has always fascinated me. I liked the seeming disjointed word-play and odd imagery. The line “take what you have gathered from coincidence” seems to pop into my head at odd times. I’d always thought it meant something like… It’s All Over Now Baby Blue by Bob Dylan […]
Kris Kristofferson / The Pilgrim: Chapter 33 Started writing this song about Chris Gantry, end of writing about Dennis Hopper, Johnny Cash, Norman Norbert, Funky Donnie Fritts, Billy Swan, Bobbie Neuwirth, Jerry Jeff Walker, Paul Siebel, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott had a lot to do with it.’ Time Shares I was chatting with Unindicted Co-conspirator #1 […]
So, a cool front blew through Austin yesterday. Not a blue northern. When a “cool” front blows thru Austin in August, it means: Weather Underground, Austin, Thursday, Aug 18th, 2023, 3:00pm. Note how the 0 mph (0 kph for our Canadian friends) wind is from the north. It’s pretty amazing how much water the air […]
I have just recently learned of the songwriters and performers Lou & Peter Berryman. Wow! Could they be part of our karass? They have a song called “Twine Boy“. Busy, busy, busy. When Did We Have Sauerkraut? – Peter Berryman , Lou Berryman Come on in and have a chairToday’s the day I clean the […]
We are honored (honoured) to award our first Twiny to Roy Zimmerman, who helped us all get thru the dark days of the pandemic with a smile, hope, and a bit of schadenfreude.
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Not Haiku
A Chat With Your Mother by Lou and Peter Berryman Oh, the pirates in their fetid galleons, daggers in their skivvies,With infected tattooed fingers on a blunderbuss or two;Signs of scurvy in their eyes, only mermaids on their minds;It’s from them I would expect to hear the F-word, not from you. Chorus (repeated after each […]