This tune was on many top lists including the Most Misheard Song Lyrics. How do a lot of folks hear Rock the cat box lyrics is beyond me!? I guess while I’m at it, it’s worth of mentioning Elton John’s ”Hold me closer Tony Danza”— number one in my books.

“Jimi Hendrix, born just a few months after Mayfield, may be the most notable of the many guitarists who studied Mayfield, though Eric Clapton also bears his mark. Hendrix had encountered Mayfield on the chitlin’ circuit in the segregated South in the early 1960s, sometimes even opening for the Impressions, and would…

The Jalopnik site Foxtrot Alpha is running stories this week for the 25th anniversary of Desert Storm. The first song played on Armed Forces Radio in the Persian Gulf was Rock the Casbah by The Clash. According to a few sites, Joe Strummer wasn’t happy about it being used as a rally cry.

What flag!?

Make the challenges last a little longer, longer with Big Red!

— Great Wall of Japan —

If I could march backward in time, I would hope to score in high school as well.

“Ah yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.”

Get some “Strange”

Don’t: Use “Trim” in this context, ever again.

DO: Go out and buy that fancy car to pick up new trim in.

Sorry, but if you willingly go on a date with someone with a high profile and then sell that story to the press - it’s you that’s the asshole in the situation.

He’s not “ into the wild” guy.

I love how Chris Christie cites President Obama as a “king,” a wanna-be “dictator,” and a “petulant three-year-old child” for taking advantage of what is part of the scope of his job to do something about gun control. But yet Christie admits that he will presumably be a “king,” a wanna-be “dictator,” and a “petulant…

Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug.

This crooked, myopic Republican congress has continuously *bragged* about blocking things, just to make Obama look bad.

Screw them.