Category: Wisecracks
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one small letter, one big difference
I love the smell of geraniums in the morning… …and I love the sound of Germaniums at night!
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Other John Davises.1: My life as an 18th century batsman
It can be a bit strange having a ubiquitous name. But it can also be kinda fun. This post is the first in a series of characters I found on the net that have the same name as me. If you believe in previous lifetimes, you may even believe I could have lived some of…
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Dear IRS,
Please consider changing the name of the 1040 tax return form to WD40. I think the company would surely be willing to pay the government to name the form after their product, much as firms like Citibank currently pay for the naming rights for sports stadiums. I mean, what’s more visible, the standard annual tax…
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Subliminal Messages
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ods6wqVhDkQ Every once in a while I try and find something weird having to do with my past on the internet as a lark. This is a YouTube video some young women in Prague made of a shopping trip to Ikea, using Free to Go by the Folk Implosion as a soundtrack. Their conclusion at…
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“A good cognitive dissonance, like a man.” – Charles Ives
I told a friend of mine I was thinking of picking up a pair of Yosemite Sam mud flaps for my car on eBay. He said, “I don’t think you can put those on a Corolla.”
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Goldsboro Goldbugs
“The Goldsboro Goldbugs topped the Greenvielle Greenies and Ayden Aces in the standings, in the battle of alliteration. The Coastal Plain League was mired in controversy in 1938, due to several clubs’ use of ineligible players. Many games were forfeited.” The above quote and image come from the website of Ebbets Field Flannels of Seattle…
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It’s Only Right and Natural
Following up on the last post about Han Bennik and Peter Brötzmann: I mentioned that most animal sounds that appear on records are samples. We used multiple tracks from this disk on the Folk Implosion song Serge – they all have different characteristics. Both the tracks, and the frogs, I mean. They remind me of…
johnhdavis / inundation records 