KILLED BY DEATHCLOCK

Ever taken a meme and wished you hadn’t?



[Via Warren Ellis and bedsitter23]

So those of you who have been putting off a visit to HK to come see me, I suggest you start making plans soon.

Of course, memes are not known for their accuracy. I noticed that if you keep clicking the calculation button with the same criteria, the results vary dramatically. And of course it’s my own fault for selecting the “pessimistic” setting.

That said, it’s awfully close to the year I was expecting to go, which is 2019. No reason, except that it would put my death at age 54, which is when my dad bought the farm (as they say in Nashville). Which is silly, I know. But there you go.

Anyway, the only real downside of going two years earlier (other than the obvious bit about, you know, dying) is that I won’t get to see what Los Angeles looks like in 2019. I was kinda looking forward to that.

Luckily, there’s always the Innernets.

Time to die,

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DEF XMAS PLAYLIST #9: AIN’T GONNA DRINK AND DRIVE NO MORE

What makes a classic Christmas tune? One factor is timelessness – no matter what generation you are, no matter how many decades later you hear it, it carries as much meaning today as it did when the song was first released.

Exhibit A: “Christmas In Jail” by The Youngsters [via YesButNoButYes].

In fact, this song is probably more relevant today than it was in 1956 when it first came out, because these days drunk driving is even less acceptable than it was 51 years ago. Or at least there’s more awareness that it’s a problem, though this may be because more people than ever get busted for it.

Which is probably Bush’s fault somehow.

Anyway, you can get a copy on the same comp as the Sonics tune I posted yesterday.

FUN FACT: In Phoenix AZ, if you get a DUI conviction they put you on a chain gang, dress you in pink, and make you bury dead alcoholics.

I’m not kidding.



See? Don’t drive drunk or we’ll make yr friends think yr a gay flamingo gravedigger for two weeks.

Friends don’t let friends drive gay,

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DEF XMAS PLAYLIST #10: IT’S SNOWING MEN

If yr like me, when you think “Christmas”, you think, “the 80s” – partly because the decade was so blatantly fuelled by Reaganomics-powered material greed that we no longer had to feel guilty about Christmas commercialism, and partly because of George Michael and Andrew Ridgley.

Now, while it’s true that we’ve selected a few songs technically recorded in the 80s, they’re not what you would classify as “80s genre” – that is to say, songs associated with 80s pop culture in general (i.e. new wave, Miami Vice, big hair/mullets, aerobics videos, breakdancing, etc). And after eliminating stuff yr probably already aware of (i.e. Wham! and that one by The Waitresses), I found myself – as usual – having to decide between Max Headroom and The Weather Girls’ “Dear Santa (Bring Me A Man This Christmas)”.

In which case it’s a no-brainer.

Available here.

I’ve always had a kind of respect for The Weather Girls. Great voices, greater attitude. They didn’t call themselves Two Tons Of Fun for nothing, you know. And what truly captures the spirit of the season like large black gay icons? Sadly, this video isn’t as camp as “It’s Raining Men”, but the large-haired dancers are a nice touch.

Besides, I never really got Max Headroom, though this is probably because I only really knew about him from the New Coke commercials, so I thought the TV show was a cheap cash-in of a trendy ad character. Of course, it turned out to be the other way around. I still don’t like the Christmas song, though.

Honorable mention to Captain Sensible’s “One Christmas Catalogue”.

It was acceptable in the 80s,

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