I, for one, welcome our new Kinja overlords.

Mom, stop watching FoxNews.

When you hear somebody discuss the Deep State, it means that they’d like to replace our normal law enforcement agencies like the FBI or CIA with the KGB or SS.

Somebody put me in a lead-lined basement, Pope Francis just dropped a megaton of science!

Ahead of their time! (they actually used burning tires for this, according to Charlie’s autobiography)

Disney was worried that a movie about a holiday in Mexico that most non-Hispanics think is about face-painting wouldn’t bring in an audience, so they added some ‘crash commercialism’ to it, to appeal to a ‘wider’ audience.

I loved Hank Hill’s dog too!

The third verse is like the Star-Spangled Brother in reverse though, it contains the lyrics “Chains shall he break, for the slave is our brother, And in his name all oppression shall cease”. Also, my choir director, a baritone, used to sing this verse in falsetto, and just killed it.

Merry Xmas (War is over) should have had a shelf life of about six months. The rhyming of ‘year’ and ‘fear’ always annoys me for some reason. It sounds dated now. Knowing Lennon, it was probably just a way to add another fur coat to his collection (his condo in Central Park had a specially-made climate-controlled…

Little Drummer Boy is my favorite Christmas song. We have this baby boy who was just born, probably the most famous birth story in history. The parents were probably pretty tired, being in a manger and all, and needed a good rest. What better gift to the parents of a newborn than playing a drum loudly in his face?

Sock it to ME?

He did creepy crawl his own house.

Cruising with Ruben and the Jets is a great album! Do not get the remixed version, the one that’s on CD - I think they went back to the original mix at one point. That was so weird, where he destroyed a lot of his old albums with horrible remixes when they were re-released on CD (I think this was in the ‘80s or ‘90s).

Isn’t this the one that has “Billy the Mountain”, a side-long song about a guy who puts honey in his pants so flies will buzz around his crotch? It makes Joe’s Garage look classy. Not a big fan of the Flo and Eddie Zappa years, they’re like the Rosato/Duke SCTV years to me.

I am also ambivalent. He grew up near my home town, went to Chaffey College (I was an SBVC boy), and got busted in Cucamonga for a dirty audio tape frame-up, so he’s a local. And that bust cemented his anti-authoritarian tendencies. On the other hand, “getting over the idea that you’re listening to someone so…

You had me at Blueshammer. I hope there is some cheesy slide in there too. We used to call these Beer Chords, because of all the lousy domestic beer ads that would have these licks in it.

I always think of Eddie Gale, “San Jose’s ambassador of jazz”.

Some of the country songs during the Cold War were pretty good. There was one song, I think it was by Charlie Daniels, that rhymed Gorbachev with “turn him off”.

I’ve sang that last song after a nachos with extra jalapenos.

Andropov my souped-up Lada on the way!