Thirteen deeply catchy nightmare songs straddling the line between the trenchant and insane, Elvis Costello’s ‘Armed Forces’ is the moment where his toxic romanticism and his political paranoia fully coalesce into a festering menace. Goon squads, party girls, and apocalypse soon.
@FlaKitties Thank you so much for your service. Sisu! The Finnish “phenoms” plus “Rat” Marchand and The Condor (dumping on Corey Perry)! 🇫🇮 Pellit Kiinni!!!!
@Steven_Hyden Largely excellent dissection of Shakey’s career, w/a few subjective quibbles (the Fillmore live version of “Cowgirl In The Sand” is definitive and should be ranked *MUCH* higher. And speaking of higher, no room for a shaggy version of “Roll Another Number For The Road”?)
Lot of great memories of the Lefthander. A fave: *Finally* winning the ACC tourney in ‘84 — thanks mostly to Len Bias. For years, Lefty said he was bringing a screwdriver & would mount the trophy to the hood of his car and drive through every town on Tobacco Road.
@omackson Time to re-up the “Gibby drilling Pete LaCock with the first pitch AT AN OLD-TIMERS GAME because LaCock hit a dinger off him at the end of his career” content
@omackson As I told a seamhead-ish friend, even if Rubenstein and Co. are lousy billionaire overlords, it’s still a “W” just to be rid of the accidentally competent but always cheap Angeloses. Good riddance. “Ain’t the beer cold, Hon”?
Here are some of our favorite collective names for animals:
a murder of crows
a tuxedo of penguins
a bask of crocodiles
a destruction of cats
a tower of giraffes
a parliament of owls
a cackle of hyenas
a smack of jellyfish
an ambush of tigers
a wisdom of wombats