butterfly dream

...other than watching the Republican ticket lurch from strawman to strawman hoping one'll keep them dry in the storm, that is.

Seriously. Wasn't their reaction to the Obama infomercial just too precious? To think, a candidate for President, raising lots of money to campaign on - and then to actually go and campaign with it. The elitist jerk had the nerve to try and give the public a coherent vision of what might be should they vote him into office.
Next thing you know, he'll be trying to convince the masses thet thar derned sci-en-mit-if-ical research has a purpose. Casting doubt on the idea that the Good Lord Above created the universe in seven days - and not a second more, d'y'hear? (I always picture Jesus, beside him, holding a stopwatch - "Hurry up, Dad, don't bother to fix the guy nipple thing! They'll work it out!").
Why, I bet that Barack Hussein fella didn't even notice when the soda-pop folks took the words 'Under God' off the Pledge of Allegiance cans awhile back. Godless commie terrorist heathen - uh, black guy!

...and oh, do I wish I was kidding, about the pop cans. But no.

Anyway, besides that. As it developed over the course of a few more threads on the CC, the person posting as 'Wally Ballou' there is also only in their mid-thirties! There are two of us! Reason for yay!

To celebrate, here's a short (15min) Bob & Ray spoof from their 1980 Carnegie Hall show: In-Depth News With David Chetley. Basically: If Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert had existed in 1975. (The specific reference is to NBC's iconic Huntley-Brinkley Report).

I have until now been a little chary of posting from my cache of bootleg Bob & Ray mp3s, primarily because

1) I'd rather not set myself up in direct opposition to www.bobandray.com, one of the most comprehensive and well-maintained official celebrity sites out there, which offers - via both CD and iTunes - pretty much their entire career neatly packaged in high-quality audio skits. If you don't want to pay for same, your local library probably has copies of at least a few cassette sets; and

2)After all, the free stuff is available to anybody with half a brain half able to work a search engine. It's awfully easy to be noble when even ruddy Wikipedia's doing the dirty work for you.

However. In the course of comments on my article, mention was made that I'd inspired others to go hunt up Bob & Ray material on their own...and, seeing as how same comments, not to say the reading that inspired them, were made at I'm sure great personal sacrifice of time and trouble...I kind of wanted to say thanks, and figured this might be the best way to do it. Besides which, as previously noted, I needed an excuse to relisten, badly.

After all, a small sampler selection of my favourites shouldn't cause any real harm....the skits are amazing in and of themselves, but the shows in their entirety - they're just special. Besides, as I informed the last sputterings of my conscience, once you've stomped all over the copyrights of Patrick McManus, you're pretty much on the bottom twist of the downward spiral anyway.

Thusly, I offer below my personal Best of the standard p2p collection of Bob & Ray downloads...