tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post5718433745440244982..comments2024-02-20T17:40:21.618-05:00Comments on jeremy freese's weblog: there is perhaps no greater pleasure in this world than the feeling of being understoodjeremyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755662766163119607noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-54010205635854186922007-07-26T22:06:00.000-04:002007-07-26T22:06:00.000-04:00Even if you were, in reality, just born yesterdayi...Even if you were, in reality, just born yesterdayish and/or are totally illiterate where pop culture is concerned, wouldn't you still be more likely to have heard of The Beatles than Wings? Freaking Wings?Anghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07005514932002735616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-82690259691191863052007-07-26T15:30:00.000-04:002007-07-26T15:30:00.000-04:00And while I'm hogging the thread, I wonder how man...And while I'm hogging the thread, I wonder how many wannabe public sociologists are hoping for an Obama victory if only because his wife was a Soc major at Princeton.Kieranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10215049798276999808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-5457131324041553292007-07-26T15:28:00.000-04:002007-07-26T15:28:00.000-04:00So Obama, obviously, should be readying something ...So Obama, obviously, should be readying something similar --- "Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans who were in college before finding out that Paul McCartney used to be in a band besides <I>Wings</I>."Kieranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10215049798276999808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-71628386061818840372007-07-26T15:24:00.000-04:002007-07-26T15:24:00.000-04:00I remember years ago listening to a recording of K...I remember years ago listening to a recording of Kennedy's inauguration speech and realizing for the first time how one of its most famous lines might have sounded to many listeners: "Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace ... " The "born in this century" part is a real dig, but also really telling.Kieranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10215049798276999808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-48920133466607053602007-07-26T14:11:00.000-04:002007-07-26T14:11:00.000-04:00You know, in honor of Jeremy's jeremiad (Jeremyad?...You know, in honor of Jeremy's jeremiad (Jeremyad?) I'm putting Kinks Kontroversy on the record player and cranking it up.<BR/><BR/>For my quantitatively inclined brothers and sisters, what I'm trying to get across here is: Kinks > Beatles.Bradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11392485598731995230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-46874377542733326102007-07-26T13:45:00.000-04:002007-07-26T13:45:00.000-04:00After hearing about the "global listening event" t...After hearing about the "global listening event" that kicked off the Memory Almost Full total marketing blitz, I had no questions about the validity of your anti-anti-Starbucks rant and I hadn't even seen the poster that set you off, Jeremy. But holy crap -- that photo is absolutely Zoolander. Poor Paul. It would just be better for all of us if he let himself be seen as grizzled as does Bob Dylan.<BR/><BR/>Just for fun, here's an old Starbucks story from the Onion archives.<BR/><BR/>http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28657Mariettahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17325577561116778482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-78488540407792779162007-07-26T12:04:00.000-04:002007-07-26T12:04:00.000-04:00i don't know why no one seems to understand how mu...i don't know why no one seems to understand how much i hate the iTunes commercial featuring paul mccartney. i thought i posted a link to it when you first started your campaign against the poster. to me, the commercial is much, much, much more egregious.dorothahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11612428988803385580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-10884323843358513202007-07-26T11:59:00.000-04:002007-07-26T11:59:00.000-04:00Obama was a year behind me in college. Unless you...Obama was a year behind me in college. Unless you're cutting off baby boomers at "those who have to work until they are less than 67 years old to collect full SocSec," he's one of us, not one of you.<BR/><BR/>But he probably knows better than to listen to "Memory Almost Full" too.Ken Houghtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01440837287933536370noreply@blogger.com