It's a brand-new dance/We're bringin' it back ([info]ms_xeno) wrote,
@ 2008-04-19 17:58:00
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"My Hand Is Steady And My Eye Is Cold..."
...except when I'm jumping up and down and shrieking like a deranged teenager over news like this:

Was (Not Was) has re-formed !! Eeeeee !!!!!!!!

...The roar of the greasepaint, though, was ultimately too enticing to resist, and so Don and Dave have gathered the old gang together again for Boo!, which picks up where they left off [with 1990's *Are You Okay* disc], shrinking the years away with its blend of muscular funk, sweet soul and sardonic lyrical smarts. The band's most potent weapon is its triple-pronged vocal attack, with Sweet Pea Atkinson's gruff bark supported, in classic gospel quartet manner, by the smoother, higher tones of Sir Harry Bowens and Donald Ray Mitchell. Together, they bring authenticity and emotional impact to even the weirdest of Was lyrics... --Andy Gill at *The Independent* 4/4/08


As for all of you, my so-called friends, how you WILL pay for having kept this amazing news from me for so long. I know you all did it on purpose. Don't give me that innocent look on this, the cusp of such a holy evening. I get in my forklift and leave a huge wooden crate of shame on every last one of your doorsteps. That mark you left on your door won't deter me, as I'm not the Angel of Death but rather something far, far worse.





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Tuxedoed dolphins bring me breakfast
[info]al_schumann
2008-04-22 12:40 am UTC (link)
I just wanted to say that I AM NOT one of those dreadful people who concealed this important news from you.

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Re: Tuxedoed dolphins bring me breakfast
[info]ms_xeno
2008-04-22 04:08 pm UTC (link)
Harumph.

If you're not out to get me, explain why all my recent SMBIVA posts have been eaten by squirrels ? :p

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Re: Tuxedoed dolphins bring me breakfast
[info]al_schumann
2008-04-22 04:51 pm UTC (link)
Those are not squirrels! They're CIA assassins, dressed up as squirrels for Mardi Gras, and they've been studying Sigma Six management techniques. Hence the disappearance of your posts. SMBIVA is not the only place they've hit. They're everywhere! It's all so appalling. None of us could be blamed if we failed to maintain cheerful chirpy chipperness. I myself, a known happiness scholar, have been reduced to stealing unattended drinks at nightclubs and sicking up in the back seats of the cars I park for the patrons. You might think people are out to get you, but what about me? It's far more likely they're out to get me.

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Re: Tuxedoed dolphins bring me breakfast
[info]ms_xeno
2008-04-24 06:38 pm UTC (link)
You know, you're the only happiness scholar in my address book who has everything Burroughs ever wrote in his library. That ought to tell you something.

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Re: Tuxedoed dolphins bring me breakfast
[info]al_schumann
2008-04-26 07:40 am UTC (link)
It tells me that you know how to recognize an, erm, authentic happiness scholar. There's no end of phonies and shills out there, here, wherever. All of whom promise a ghost of a shadow of an endorphin rush. But when push comes to shove, they're shoplifters and robo-jockey voices for muzak stations.

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