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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 8/8/2023: August and Everything Laughter [1]

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Date: 2023-08-08

Theodor Severin Kittelsen: August (1890)

Good evening, Kibitzers!

There was a big wave of stormy weather last night, heading east toward the coast. It didn’t get up into Massachusetts, though, until the sun had gone down and it lost a lot of its oomph. Sure, there’s still heavy rain and some winds in the forecast for Tuesday, just not tornadoes and the newly-(un)popular “gorilla hail”. (Okay, correction: I see that Worcester is enjoying a “radar-indicated” tornado this morning as I update, but it’s not near the coast. We also have a flood warning today, but this is not a floody area either.)

I saw New York State was getting some active tornadoes Monday night. Still, they were staying out west between Cornell and the Baseball Hall of Fame, in fairly low-population-density areas, which we encourage.

Meanwhile, the heat is not budging from Texas, as well as other places it’s parked itself. I have to wonder whether this is getting the attention of anyone who didn’t already think climate change is a problem. Man, I hope so.

I’ve been gathering political parody songs for a few days now, but they’re short and seemed a little bit thin to hang a diary on. So since the year is down to August and everything after, I’m opening with a few live tracks from the 1993 debut Counting Crows album by that name.

Round Here, performed at the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, in May 2022. Adam Duritz is one of those singers who will NOT just be singing you the album track vocal in a live show. [8:01]

For instance, at Woodstock ‘99, Mr. Jones opens with a quote from an entirely different and much older song. [5:35]

This 2007 Rain King performance at Town Hall in New York is from the 2011-released live album/DVD August and Everything After: Live at Town Hall. In another good example of not sticking to the original album track, this song has swallowed the entirety of Thunder Road, but to its own tune. [8:30]

Okay, now I feel like I can slap a bunch of short and silly things in the rest of the diary. Except as otherwise noted, if lyrics aren’t on the screen, they’re on the YouTube page.

This Randy Rainbow track, Donald in the John with Boxes, is actually a month old, but he’s so good, I’m including it anyway. Plus, Beatles! [original: John & Lennon] [4:02]

Mangy Fetlocks (Bruce W. Nelson) turns out one of these little ditties almost daily. They’re extra-short, but to the point. This one is based on Pachelbel’s Canon in D. [0:48]

This one presents the 2024 Republican ticket! [1:31]

Founders Sing celebrate the most recent indictment with You’re Back, Jack, You Did It Again, as sung by a young and disturbingly-animated Donald Fagen. [original: Do It Again] [3:02]

Bad Lip Reading doesn’t really do songs, as you probably know, so there aren’t really lyrics. They just assemble some video footage, in this case of Ron DeSantis campaigning, and then substitute their own dialogue that more or less matches the lip movements. DeSantis’ new campaign slogan, they’ve determined, is “Wicka Wicka Puddin’ Pie”. [2:31]

The Parody Project has adapted the Commodores song Three Times a Lady for the occasion of the third indictment. [3:30]

Kind of back where we started, this James-Taylor-based effort by Rocky Mountain Mike closely followed the previous indictment, but it’s so good! [2:02]

Late addition: I just shamelessly stole this from annieli’s diary, because I thought it needed to be part of this collection. I have no idea who this guy is, and I can’t find it on YouTube, so, Xwitter it must be: Dark Brandon’s take on Alannah Myles’ Black Velvet. [1:30]

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