It’s Mother’s Day, and here on The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century, the traditional greeting comes from the baddest mother of them all:
It goes out to all you Moms out there, especially this one:
Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!
In case you’re not familiar with the classic 1971 blaxploitation film Shaft, here’s the original trailer:
Now let’s all enjoy the smooth stylings of the late Mr. Isaac Hayes:
Last week, while driving to Clearwater to talk to a prospective client (story later), I was listening to the ’90s alt-rock/grunge channel on satellite radio when The Offspring’s 1994 hit Come Out and Play came on. My immediate thoughts were “I wonder what they’re up to now” and “Did Dexter ever get his molecular biology degree?”
Both questions were answered by this Rolling Stone article that announced:
If you’re having trouble getting motivated to do something this fine Saturday, I recommend checking out Dexter’s Wikipedia entry, where you’ll discover that he’s done quite a bit in his 51 years on Earth:
Congratulations, Doctor Holland! I salute you with a filet mignon on a flaming sword.
I’ll close with this photo of Dexter’s jet:
After five years of toiling in the studio, geek-parody band Palette-Swap Ninja have released their masterpiece, Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans, which brings together the storyline of Star Wars: A New Hope (which has its 40th anniversary this year) and the songs from The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (released 50 years ago). For a guy like me — music aficionado, geek, and regular player of the Star Wars role-playing game, this is a tasty musical biscuit.
Even better, there are videos, one for each song on the album! Created by Katrin Auch and using footage from the movie, they are fantastic, and they’re on YouTube. Here are some screenshots from the first song, set to the tune of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band:
I was laughing my head off when With Illicit Help From Your Friends kicked in:
Here’s the video:
The attention to details in both the Sgt. Pepper album and the Star Wars storyline is nothing short of breathtaking.
Go — watch the videos, but be warned: you’ll never hear Sgt. Pepper the same way again.
Hey, I live in Florida. This suit is perfect.
“I was thinking of buying something immediately after landing a new job,” I told my wife.
“That sounds nice,” she said. “What are you going to buy?”
“A new suit.”
Not all of us (myself included) were schooled in the United States, so you may have heard Donald Trump’s reference to Andrew Jackson’s opinion on the U.S. Civil War and not considered it unusual (and hey, same goes for many people who were schooled in the U.S. and studied U.S. history). However, it is unusual for this simple reason:
Andrew Jackson, 7th president of the United States, died in 1845, a full 16 years before the Civil War, which started in 1861.
Here’s a CNN report featuring the recording of Trump’s statements, which were made during an interview with the Washington Examiner:
It’s one thing to make stuff up, and it’s another thing to make stuff up about things in an age where facts can easily be looked up. But it’s a completely bizarro thing to try and spin this mistake, as Republican communications strategist Paris Dennard did:
I don’t care about the original version of this comic — I’m going to simply accept the “chicken nuggets solve everything” adaptation as The One True Version.
Thanks to Gian for the find!
