Trooper York: Garage Mahal's Road Kill Korner

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Garage Mahal's Road Kill Korner

Garage got started young. In fact this is where his obsession with road kill began.

27 comments:

TTBurnett said...: I think Troop gets a little uncomfortable when his comments sections break out in pre-Raphaelite art and alliteration jokes.

Just wait until people start posting Paradise Lost parodies and Latin send-ups of Martial.; June 27, 2013 at 8:15 PM
chickelit said...: I used to pay more attention to garage. Has he changed?; June 27, 2013 at 9:02 PM
chickelit said...: @TT:

It may be true, as somebody said, that while there is no highbrow in a lowbrow, there is some lowbrow in every highbrow. But what Troop seemed to know was that while there is very little grown-up in every child, there is a lot of child in every grown-up. To a child, this weary world is brand-new, gift wrapped. Troop tried to keep it that way for adults.

From a eulogy to Trooper York, delivered April 1, 2009.; June 27, 2013 at 9:06 PM
The Dude said...: His prospects are looking up.; June 27, 2013 at 9:08 PM
chickelit said...: I overlooked all of garage's comments today. But I haven't seen Althouse that smug since she last defended her 2008 Obama vote.; June 27, 2013 at 9:26 PM
TTBurnett said...: El Pollo: That's a fine eulogy, but he isn't dead yet, I hope. If that's 2009, Troop has held up pretty well as a Zombie.

That's more than you can say for Althouse.; June 27, 2013 at 9:45 PM
chickelit said...: I know Tim, and I wasn't mocking death. The eulogy was delivered that time that Troop faked his own blog death. Here's the complete eulogy: link; June 27, 2013 at 9:54 PM
chickelit said...: That link was supposed to go right to the comment. It had over 200 comment and was buried in the middle 200's.; June 27, 2013 at 9:56 PM
chickelit said...: That's more than you can say for Althouse.

An Althouse divided against itself cannot stand.; June 27, 2013 at 10:02 PM
blake said...: Wow, we were all so young back then...

I'd forgotten I'd claimed Darcy. I need to drive out to Michigan and pack her up.; June 27, 2013 at 11:05 PM
The Dude said...: And, as always, 珊珊李 got the last word.; June 28, 2013 at 3:40 AM
chickelit said...: Shanshan Li?; June 28, 2013 at 9:07 AM
The Dude said...: Sounds like the title of a Neil Diamond song.; June 28, 2013 at 9:27 AM
chickelit said...: I just submitted my resignation from TOP so you folks will have to deal with the occasional chirbit from time to time.

You've been warned.; June 28, 2013 at 9:56 AM
TTBurnett said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; June 28, 2013 at 2:58 PM
TTBurnett said...: Chirbits are welcome ornaments wherever they appear.; June 28, 2013 at 2:59 PM
MamaM said...: Chirbits are welcome ornaments wherever they appear.

They go well with bursts of pre-Raphaelite art, draped alliterations and pics of precocious children searching for cooter bones.

For Garage, I'm thinking something in the Baby you can drive my car category might fit.

Beep beep'm beep beep yeah
Beep beep'm beep beep yeah; June 28, 2013 at 7:51 PM
chickelit said...: For Garage, I'm thinking something in the Baby you can drive my car category might fit.

There's a whole genre called garage rock; most any would do. I'll give it some thought.; June 28, 2013 at 8:11 PM
MamaM said...: I live and learn, EP. Sound like you're on the right track.

The performances were often amateurish or naïve...The lyrics and delivery were notably more aggressive than was common at the time, often with growled or shouted vocals that dissolved into incoherent screaming. Instrumentation was often characterised by the use of guitars distorted through a fuzzbox; June 28, 2013 at 8:20 PM
The Dude said...: The band I was in in '65 and '66 was probably a garage band, but we practiced in a basement.

It's hard to believe nearly 50 years have passed since those days - very different times indeed. Drive My Car was brand new. The future looked bright indeed. What the heck happened?; June 28, 2013 at 8:30 PM
chickelit said...: What the heck happened?

Hibbing, MN exported more Woody than iron around that time and they changed. Nowadays, Zimmerman isn't even German or even Jewish.; June 28, 2013 at 8:47 PM
chickelit said...: Speaking of 1965 (when I was 5), I once had a discussion with Ron and vbspurs about Mad Men on Twitter. When the show was still back in 1965, I argued that Don Draper needed to move to California to catch the cultural shift of media advertising moving to California. They both thought poorly of that idea and wanted it to remain stuck in NYC forever, as if nothing at all ever left. Last week in the season finale, Don Draper almost decided to move to California three years late, but better than never.; June 28, 2013 at 8:58 PM
ricpic said...: chick, when did Carson move the Tonight Show to LA? That was huge in NY. Taken as hard as the Dodgers' move to LA back in, was it '56? Anyhow, I think it was in the mid-60's and was felt as a huge (I repeat myself) shift in the cultural center of gravity of the country. Is there a center of gravity now? Doesn't feel like there is to me.; June 28, 2013 at 10:03 PM
chickelit said...: Troop would know the Carson answer off the top of his head. I'd have to look it up.

Is there a center of gravity now? Doesn't feel like there is to me.

The center has moved towards DC for awhile now, haven't you felt it?; June 28, 2013 at 10:12 PM
ricpic said...: Now that you mention it I have felt it but have suppressed the knowledge. Can I get off the couch now, Herr Professor? Freud not She Who Must Be Obeyed!; June 28, 2013 at 10:34 PM
chickelit said...: Oh, ricpic, mock me at will. I still like you.; June 28, 2013 at 11:02 PM
ricpic said...: Mocking? Genius is always misunderstood har har har.

There's a doomsday vibe on the financial sites I visit. Of course there have always been doom and gloomers on such sites but it's thickening. Some great doomsday humor as well. ZeroHedge.com. You could die laughing. The only way to go. Who knows, maybe the Bernank will be able to keep the balls in the air indefinitely?; June 28, 2013 at 11:39 PM

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