So, the political conventions are over, and the silly season is upon us in earnest. Everybody's talkin' at us, but it's hard to hear a word they're sayin', mostly 'cause they're not really saying much. Empty platitudes, hollow, base (in at least two senses)-pleasing rhetoric, and the implication, from all of that, that we're just too partisan or dumb to know the difference. Real issues, to which necessary attention must be paid, Mrs. Loman, will have to wait until the wet fingers dry and candidates can safely see which way they think the wind is blowing.
Obama's convention speech was inspiring, Kennedyesque in the best sense, trying to remind us all that it takes all of us pulling together to make this whole grandiose experiment work. I hope, if he manages to get re-elected, that he acts to back up the rhetoric. "Let's see action," I say. I've been sorry to see the ad Scott Brown, one of the few Repugs who seems genuinely willing to work in a bi-partisan fashion, as the Republic was designed, has been running, pandering to Massachusetts fishermen, complaining about government over-regulating the industry: there aren't enough goddam fish!! We have to have limits, except in the silly season, which, unfortunately, seems to be every season these days. Why can't we learn from the Brits, whose campaigns last about 4 weeks, and who can call for new elections when it becomes clear that the current administration is ineffective. Then again, that'd probably just lead to virtually perpetual elections here.
"Talk" songs this week, then, in honor of the hot air and impotent and condescending promises we'll be inundated by in the next two months. Tuesday, noon till two at the usual spot. And again, I hope to see lots of you on Saturday night at 33 Bridge St. in BF: 3 bands for five bucks, all you can drink (till your money runs out or I shut you off) and loads of fun, all in support of WOOL FM. Support Community Radio!
...but you're not sayin' anything."
Better run run run run run run run away.
You corrected my memory today -- ha! I was hoping you would play Talk Talk, but would have sworn it was recorded by the Blues Magoos, not the Music Machine.
ReplyDeleteBlues Magoos did "(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet," which you've probably already remembered by now....
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