Territorial Bloggings

A Cogent Mélange of Lutheran & Pop-Culture Punditry
March 31, 2008

Flowers are red

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : zeitgeist

Flowers are Red (Harry Chapin)
The little boy went first day of school
He got some crayons and started to draw
He put colors all over the paper
For colors was what he saw
And the teacher said.. What you doin’ young man
I’m paintin’ flowers he said
She said… It’s not the time for art young man
And anyway flowers are green [...]


March 3, 2008

Garfield - Garfield = Funny

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : zeitgeist

If’n you have a somewhat, shall we say, off sense of humor (like me), then I think you’ll like this.

Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. [...]


February 19, 2008

A little tidbit for you Van Halen and/or AI fans

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : popmedia

This is pretty interesting & funny stuff: The original DLR vocal track from Van Halen’s 1978 offering Running With The Devil, sans music. It just goes to prove that Diamond Dave was never a singer as much as he was a great rock front man…
Also pretty darned funny is this audio mashup (from the [...]


January 23, 2008

Motown 25: +25

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : popmedia

Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever was a watershed event back in early 1983. Not only did it offer a stunningly good slate of classic Motown talent, including a Temps vs. Tops “showdown”, a mini-reunion by Diana Ross & the Supremes, a powerful performance of What’s Goin’ On? by Marvin Gaye, and a performance by The [...]