Posted on 03/30/2020 12:47:40 PM PDT by Twotone
Well, I've resisted the obvious for the last two or three weeks, mainly because, as with "Kung Flu Fighting", I had some previous history with it. In the case of "Kung Fu Fighting", I've been using it as a somewhat improbable free-speech anthem for a decade or so; in the case of this song, I managed to turn it into the sub-title to a bestseller on demographic doom:
It's The End Of The World As We Know It It's The End Of The World As We Know It It's The End Of The World As We Know It And I feel fine...
I didn't plan for that particular song to provide the subtitle of America Alone (personally autographed copies of which are exclusively available from the SteynOnline bookstore): As I wrote somewhere or other, I'd had in mind a book about "the end of the world", and a couple of years later somewhat late in a long telephone conversation with my editor at Regnery, he said, "How about this? We call it America Alone: The End Of The World As We Know It" – instead of some oblique, elliptical, obscure allusion I'd pitched to him. And I would have argued the point but we'd been on the phone about three hours and I was a little tuckered out. And about 90 minutes after the title was announced I was deluged with e-mails mocking me for channeling REM and accusing me of being an Eighties revival loser. Which makes a pleasant change from being accused of being a sad old showtune queen.
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As Lawrence Welk said “ Letsa getta downa and Getta Funky”. :)
Cute!
Grand Master Welk !
I think you were referring to ‘GrandFunkMaster’ Welk.
OMW! “One Toke Over the Line”! I would not have believed it if I had not watched the video.
Interesting what gets people’s creative juices flowing. :-)
I feel fine...
Somebody had to say it!
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I am, too. Aside from a little ‘canceled cruise’ depression. Oh well...
Bfl
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