I HAD TOO MUCH TO DREAM LAST NIGHT: BARACK OBAMA, ALIEN HUNTER

The overall premise: a young Barack Obama is abducted by a secret government organization and is warned that he must become President of the United States by 2008 in order to stop an alien invasion in 2012.

“We have seen the future, and yr it,” the commander says. “Aliens will infiltrate society in the 21st century and we need a man in the White House who can ferret them out, kill them and send the survivors to Gitmo without alerting the public.”

“But 2012 will be an election year,” Obama says. “I might lose before the invasion is stopped.”

“Then you better win, son,” the commander advises him.

Obama undergoes an intense training program along with other recruits, or which I am one (which is how I know all this in the dream). This involves things like marksmanship, martial arts and survival skills like how to escape from an alien building on fire (for example, if you are held captive and a fire breaks out – how do you turn it to yr advantage AND avoid getting burned to a crisp?). Another class teaches you how to put out such fires.

“It’s good all-purpose training,” the commander says. “It’ll get you elected and put hair on yr toes.”

And then I woke up.

The truth is out there,

This is dF

DEÄTHMÜFFIN UPDATE: THE BAND FORMERLY KNOWN AS THUNDERNUTS

We are Banäna Deäthmüffins. But as longtime fans know, we didn’t start out as Banäna Deäthmüffins.

Like a lot of bands, we went through several names before settling on the current one. Early favorites were Barefoot & Pregnant, Buckwheat & Radishes and Wet Riser.

Finally we settled on The Thundernuts – partly because hey, great name, and partly because we already had the theme song ready to go.

It didn’t start out as the theme song, of course. It was a song I wrote 15 years ago after coming across a package of Wah Yuen Thunder Nuts.

(I say I wrote it, but really the song more or less wrote itself. As you’ll gather if you bother to press Play.)

Unfortunately, as it turned out, Thundernuts was already taken as a band name. So we moved on, and eventually settled on Banäna Deäthmüffins.

But we still had the song.

And here it is.

No lyrics sheet required, really.

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Glory be.

HELPFUL LISTENING TIP: The song stands alone on its own, but for maximum pop-culture appreciation, it does help if yr familiar with the Thundercats.

FUN FACT: The end bit is a half-assed tribute to the MC5. As if you need me to tell you that.

Hoooooooooooooooooo,

This is dF

SING WITH ME: “YR SO BANE / I’LL BET YOU THINK THIS MOVIE’S ABOUT YOU …”

Yr Liberal Hollywood Obamaganda headline of the day:



[Via Def Agent jasonfranks and The Mary Sue]

This is the most awesome conspiracy theory ever.

Just listen to this:

RUSH: The villain in the Dark Knight Rises is named Bane. B-A-N-E. What is the name of the venture capital firm that Romney ran, and around which there's now this make-believe controversy? Bain. The movie has been in the works for a long time, the release date's been known, summer 2012 for a long time. Do you think that it is accidental, that the name of the really vicious, fire-breathing, four-eyed, whatever-it-is villain in this movie is named Bane?

Well of course it’s not. It couldn’t be more obvious. Granted, Bane was created as a character almost 20 years ago, and Christopher Nolan decided to use Bane for the third Batman film back around 2009-2010. But c’mon, of all the Batman villains they could have picked, they picked the one that just happens to sound like a company that Mitt Romney used to work for?

WHAT ARE THE ODDS?

Okay, I know, I’m giving this far more attention than it deserves. Limbaugh has long since demonstrated that his broadcasting style involves pretty much zero research in whatever topic he decides to riff on that day, and I remain convinced he does this mostly for the attention, and/or to fuck with people. Or possibly the SEO gains. I think he enjoys being flame bait. So really, I’m just playing into his hands here.

Still.

Incidentally, Rush’s “point” in bringing this up is that lots of people are going to see this film and associate Bane with Bain, and that Team Obama is somehow banking on this to work in his favor:

And there's now discussion out there as to whether or not this was purposeful, and whether or not it will influence voters.

Uh huh. I have five American dollars that says the “discussion” only existed in Limbaugh’s head before he mentioned it.

The Bane of yr existence,

This is dF