September 30, 2004

Forgiveness is Possible

Maybe. I felt a small flutter of affection today, a slight stirring of a spark that I thought was cold and dead. Hold onto your hats, because this involves saying something nice about CNN. Actually, it's probably just a cheap thrill, but I'm going with it. Someone at CNN has a sense of humor. In today's Entertainment section, there was a blurb in the showbuzz section about Al Franken's proposal that he and Bill O'Reilly face each other as part of the Great American Bowl Off. Now, I could give two, uh, wait, uh, I could care less about Franken or O'Reilly, but the title, oh the title of the paragraph. C'mon, reach back into the 80s with me, you can do it. The title of the paragraph is "Take the Fox Man Bowling." If you can't figure out why this is funny, click on "continue reading."

Remember the tune? You can listen to a snip at Amazon if you can't.
Take the Skinheads Bowling - Camper Van Beethoven
Every day, I wake up and pray to Jah
And he increases the number of clocks by exactly one
Everybody's comin' home for lunch these days
Last night there were skinheads on my lawn
Take the skinheads bowling
Take them bowling
Take the skinheads bowling
Take them bowling
Some people say that bowling alleys got big lanes
Some people say that bowling alleys all look the same
There's not a line that goes here that rhymes with anything
I had a dream last night, but I forget what it was
I had a dream last night about you, my friend
I had a dream--I wanted to sleep next to plastic
I had a dream--I wanted to lick your knees
I had a dream--it was about nothing
So, now, thanks to CNN, I have "Take the Fox Man bowling, take him bowling" in my head, a la Camper Van Beethoven. Posted by binky at September 30, 2004 06:49 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Media


Comments

While this in no way makes up for the fact that they still employ Wolf and Judy - I'm afraid I must agree. I agree both b/c it's a classic song and b/c a CNN writer basically compares Bill O'R. to a skinhead and successfully got it on CNN. That takes more than a little bit of clever (or it would if CNN was even remotely competent - thanfully this shows that one or two good things come from their near constant incompetence).

Posted by: Armand at October 1, 2004 09:16 AM | PERMALINK
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