this happened weeks ago but I'm still upset about it

 I wasn't going to say anything about this because I thought it wasn't worth it but some time has passed and I still feel strongly about it so I'm going to say

don't you dare disrespect Randy Newman like that!

I came across this video where these two knuckleheads were like

huh huh have you heard Randy Newman's theme to A Bug's Life?

And the song starts, "Was a bug, little bug, hardly there" in the kind of casual understated way that has made Randy Newman an American Treasure.

And these imbeciles immediately go in on Randy, "Oh my gosh hehehe that's so dumb. Has he even watched the movie. What are you doing Randy?"

The clip ends and you're led to believe that it is just some silly lazy poop-poop song and oh wow these guys are so clever for calling out Randy Newman.

And if you fell for this cheap ploy then I truly pity you because, in Randy Newman fashion, the song opens up not a minute later into a beautiful sweeping celebration of the ephemerality of life. 

It made me so mad. Like, oh haha you got your dumb little laugh because something was a little silly and unexpected and you think you're so smart and you missed out on this message--this message that you desperately need to hear!

We only go around one time, as far as I can tell

It's the time of your life, so live it well

RANDY TRIED TO SAVE YOU! RANDY OFFERED YOU JOY AND COMPASSION AND YOU LIE PRONE IN YOUR OWN FILTH AND CLAIM TO KNOW THE SWEET SMELL OF SPRING FLOWERS!

I imagine at this point Randy would try to calm me down, Modern Saint that he is, but it just gets me so riled up.

if a dog walks around a tree one time

If a dog walks around a tree one time that's no cause for alarm. Dogs will do that from time to time. If a dog walks around a tree two times--hold on now I dropped my--wait a minute. 

gah dang

well now you get back here

I just--

oh my g--

if a dog--one minute now

Where was I? if--if a dog walks around the same tree two times well then he's really onto something. That's the thing about cats and dogs. One of em will just do the a thing over and over and that's how it is but the other is trying to get at something.

If a cat walks around a tree two times, it's serious. A dog could walk around a tree all day and not get bored. Cat and dog walk around a tree together two times, they're married. Cat and dog walk around the tree the other way three times, marriage annulled. 

I've studied animals. I know their ways. They walk around, get unmarried, remarried. I've got charts and tables I could show you. Rotations. Counter rotations. I'm the number one folk scientist. People say that's not real folk knowledge and science are fundamentally at odds I say, think of it this way, "The dirt makes up lies to tell itself about the dirt. And if you know that-"

Just demand to be impressed. I love people who demand to be impressed. Somebody impressed them once they said, only this from now on. I won't accept anything less. 

this is nothing

 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over the big lake they called Gitche Gumee

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of the lake, it is said, never gives up her dead

“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “When the skies of November turn gloomy

            Only this and nothing more.”

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak November;

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more

Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty

For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named the Edmund Fitzgerald—

That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed

Nameless here for evermore

there was almost something here but it's nothing

one thing about me is you can take me to run around in a field

 I have to take myself to run around in a field. And then the me that is watching me is like "yeah, this is good for you. why'd we ever stop doing this?"

Sometimes you're an animal that just needs to run around a field.

you ever wonder where the word 'churn' comes from?

 I'll tell you

It's from Old English

the word cyrin

and it relates to agitating milk or cream.

So churn just means churn. Like it hasn't changed that much.

But I was thinking about the carbon cycle and the water cycle and the nitrogen? cycle and all the cycles and how zoomed out to some degree our existence takes place in that churning turnover of material.

I like the idea, I've always liked the idea of being part of some big process and stuff is moving in and out of me and like, if there is some notion of a soul, it's that every person has a certain resonance and like I take in water and carbon and stuff and turn it into whatever I'm all about because that's how it sticks to me. You go out in the world and certain stuff flips switches for you and then you get to flip that switch for someone else and I think that's so cool.

Caroline Rose, Yip Yip Yow, that flipped my switch. A silly simple rock song about a nonsense phrase that represents the nature to which you must be true. What a banger

A Presidents of the United States of America song in 2026? Caroline Rose's 'Yip Yip Yow'

 For those who don't know, in my list of perfect albums when I can remember them

#1- Lorde Pure Heroine

#2- The Presidents of The United States of America- The Presidents of the United States of America

I'm sure there are more but those are the top two I can think of right now. 

The 1995 debut album by the Seattle-based alt rock band is PERFECTION. 

I won't waste time with a bunch of words listen to Kick Out The Jams: https://youtu.be/yLGeRBwtPEc?si=TDOC8xW60JhnBtno

Now listen to Yip Yip Yow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Gj3maiYT4

No wait wait. Listen to--um--listen to Meanwhile Back in the City after 40 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yOJY_m2rVk

So good. Soooooo good.

Soooooooooooooooooooooo good.

yip yip freaking yow.

just saw a commercial that said "ever since initial whisperings started trickling--"

 and then I hit skip ad.

But wow what a phrase

"initial whisperings started trickling"

One reason I like that phrase is because, depending on how you choose to pronounce them, two of the words could have two or three syllables.

whis-per-ings or whis-prings

tri-kuh-ling or -trick-ling

It's Shakespearean in that way.

It has internal rhyme too.

You also get the 'sh' in initial, the "spr" in whisperings, 'st' in started, and "tr" in trickling. That's called consonance I believe.

Initial whisperings started trickling.

It's good because it doesn't belong in an ad. 

It's like a horse in a Costco.