in her eyes.
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And she accused those who mentioned her infamous gun sight ad of committing “blood libel.” A Jewish congresswoman is shot in the head, and her Jewish aide is murdered, and Sarah Palin invokes this. Who the hell writes this dingbat’s speeches?
Ok, we’re a few days late, but we have a new, um, song, so to speak.
We like the riff, we like the dig at Dick, and we like the ripping guitar solos, but we could probably do more with this idea.
Because we here at Dowdytalk care, we took time out of our busy day to answer a questionnaire for the Democratic party. We even used the Commoner’s “I.”
How would you describe the current political climate?
Toxic. Both political parties cater to economic elites at the expense of everyday working Americans. We can expect this from the Republicans, but the Democrats have been complicit too, as evidenced by the preliminary report issued by President Obama’s deficit commission.
What do you believe the Democratic party stands for?
Historically, it stood for everyday Americans. Now it stands — in practice, though not in word — for neoliberalism and the gradual dismantling of middle class entitlements, including social security, education, and health care.
Why are you a Democrat?
Because our political system does not make it practically feasible to vote third party. Someone has to stand up to the Republicans. Their ideas are dangerous to everyone but a small cadre of self-interested billionaires (and even they are so short-sighted they’re probably a danger to themselves). Despite the fierce urgency of our present moment, however, the Democratic Party, time and time again, backs down from Republicans. What’s the deal?
I refuse to buy into the stereotypical line that Democrats are wimps. The real reason, sadly, that Democrats refuse to defend the interests of working Americans has less to do with sexist notions of masculine assertiveness and more to do with the unfortunate fact that the American political system — in particular, its legislature — is fundamentally corrupt. It’s really starting to look to me like the fix is in. We need campaign reform, and we need it now.
We here at Dowdytalk introduce a new segment to our show — Song of the Week! Each week, we have to upload a new song written by us and us alone.
At first, this might seem easy. We can just reach back into the “catalog,” as it were, playing old songs and even old recordings. The trouble is, we have always found it difficult to complete anything. As a result, there are countless partially written songs and quite a few unfinished recordings. We cannot say what drives this resistance to closure. Perfectionism? Laziness? Self-loathing? All of the above? None of the above? Who knows. Let the Angry Yogi contemplate these questions. That’s his thing.
As for you, here is a song we wrote when were 17 years old called “Private Hell.” We just recorded this off of our Mac into Garageband. No fancy mics or anything ‘cuz we’re out of phantom power here at Dowdytalk. The lyrics are written by, well, a 17-year-old high school who loved the Smiths, and they’re pretty bad, the literary critic in us pronounces. The chords are nice, though. We were a bit of a jazzbo in those days. But it was just a phase.
Or was it?
Update: Our singing sucks on the version above. It was 8 a.m. and we didn’t want to serenade our neighbors first thing in the morning. This version sucks slightly less.
We here at Dowdytalk were beaten cruelly for our previous post. The Angry Yogi does not like to see us give in so easily to our ego and its desires.
Fucking Yogi.
We here at Dowdytalk have always feared success. Success is always knocking at your door. One day you just might let it in.
Then what you gonna do?
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results, then the good people who mindlessly repeat this saying — we’ve counted three or four instances in the past week — are fucking crazy.
We here at Dowdytalk are too poor to buy new music this month, but as soon as we can, we’ll be picking up a copy of this version of Sonic Youth’s “Diamond Sea” covered by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. While we’re on great Sonic Youth covers, this one by the Go! Team is pretty sweet, though we suspect our dear friend Fang will not agree.
Finally, we’ll be sure to purchase Neil Young’s Le Noise. This Daniel Lanois-produced album is the best Young album in ages. Insanely rocking.
Did the Giants really just win the World Series? That didn’t happen, did it? Is there really a parade today in the heart of America’s greatest city celebrating the most improbable of baseball champions?
This we find hard to believe.
That tax crackers and religious bigots were on a rampage last night, well, that was to be expected. But at least California held back the Tide of White Lameness. Mostly, at least.
The one vote that really irks us — no it wasn’t the defeat of 19 — was the defeat of 21. Seriously, mall crawlers, an $18 annual registration fee on your vehicle is too much? Really?
But at least 23 went down, as California voters told the Texas oil companies they can go fuck themselves and the hummers they rode in on.
And 25 passed. This means no more tax crackers holding the state budget hostage every year. You’ll have to check in with Congress for that mawkish brand of conservative pique.
But, really, it’s all about the Giants. The Giants fucking won. We realize that most of the country doesn’t care about baseball anymore, that it’d rather watch oversized men pile on top of one another, but this was a great day for the city of San Francisco, the Giants, and their fans, including all of us here at Dowdytalk.
If you make us break our vow of non-violence, we will kill you.
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