Showing posts with label Hurricane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hurricane. Show all posts

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

I remember watching this game live on TV. I laughed when I saw this then and I've laughed every time after... It is a proven fact that the categorization of hurricanes is controlled by Big Water and the bottled water industry. Every time inventories of bottled water get too high - Big Water sends the call goes out to Dick Cheney and his weather control machine... Seven successful people who survived bankruptcy... The Whale don't hesitate. You know what I'm talking about - right Coco?... "Ruptcy" is such an underused suffix. Everyone understands "bankruptcy" which is the state of being completely lacking in money. I think the words "Whiskeyruptcy" and "brownieruptcy" among others should get more play in everyday vernacular... I wasn't aware there was a food feud brewing at the Travel Channel. I was aware, however, how stupid it is to put daily nutritional value information on processed foods like Twinkies. Another example of society just being bereft of common sense... In my will I plan to leave half my worldly belongings to any person who deletes my browsing history before my family or the authorities have a chance to check it... The Great Moon Hoax of 1835. Great piece of American history... Checked Emma Stone's IMDB page and it doesn't mention that she's been cast to play lead in the Lindsay Lohan story yet. Must be an oversight... Cool - celebrity libraries... Who knew? Both Donald Rumsfeld and Ernest Hemingway liked to work standing up at chest high desks...


Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Top 5 Songs About Boxing

This post over at the Straight White Guy got me thinking. The Zevon song Boom Boom Mancini has always been mesmerizing to me but where does it stand in relation to the other songs about boxing? Here's my attempt at listing the top 5.

1. Hurricane by Bob Dylan
2. Boom Boom Mancini by Warren Zevon
3. Song for Sonny Liston by Mark Knopfler
4. The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel (ummm... maybe a bit of a stretch despite the title of the song)
5. Black Superman - Muhammad Ali by Johnny Wakelin & The Kinshasa Band

Geez - there's not a whole lot of quality songs about boxing. Maybe I'm missing some songs but I struggled to fill out the list. I almost had to go with Eye of the Tiger by Survivor to fill out the list.