Turn the transmitters off. We are not coming back.

Yesterday, Chico was kind enough to let me fill in for him at the Drunken Smartass Olympics.  Here's the audio round; all songs have whistling in them.  I was looking for each song's artist.

[trivia] audio round

Who is your favorite Muppet? Why?
QotD submitted by knitwitology.vox.com.

I always liked Sweetums (even though he strikes me as something of a Gossamer knockoff.)  And, for sheer Pythonesque lunacy, the Swedish Chef will always have a place in my heart --  that's the first time I've typed those words -- but I think the nod will have to go to Statler & Waldorf.  (After all, what is blogging, besides sitting comfortably in one's perch and making snarky remarks about the passing scene?)

Yeast Frieze!

(on the side of a bread truck in Astoria.)

Ken Nordine, yeah I know that guy, I heard his voice 1000 times, he’s the guy in the bus station that says “go ahead I’ll keep an eye on your stuff for you,” and you see him the next day walking around town wearing your clothes. He broadcasts from the boiler room of the Wilmont Hotel with 50,000 watts of power. I know that voice, he’s the guy with the pitchfork in your head saying go ahead and jump, and he’s the ambulance driver who tells you you’re going to pull thru. He’s the guy in the control tower who talked you down in a storm with a hole in your fuselage and both engines on fire. I heard him barking thru the Rose Alley Carnival strobe as samurai firemen were pulling hose. Yeah, he’s the dispatcher with the heart of gold, the only guy up this late on the suicide hotline. Ken Nordine is the real angel sitting on the wire in the tangled matrix of cobwebs that holds the whole attic together. Yeah, Ken Nordine, he’s the switchboard operator at the Taft Hotel, the only place in town you can get a drink at this hour. You know Ken Nordine, he’s the lite in the icebox, he’s the blacksmith on the anvil in your ear.

--Tom Waits

Holy shit -- Ken Nordine has a blog.  (And a podcast.)

The Best of Word Jazz, Vol. 1

Ken Nordine

um, welcome to my new Vox site. 

Most blogging will happen over here, and most photos will go here, but I may update this once in a while, just so I can hang with the cool kids.