I’ve just emerged from a week in the Incredible College Simulator(*), first spending a week at DAMOP and then the weekend at my 20th college reunion at Williams, so while I have physics stuff I ought to write about, my brain has temporarily turned to goo. Also, I have a week’s worth of administrative crap to do that I refused to deal with while I was away. So instead of deep commentary about science, here’s some silly pop culture material, from a giant mailing-list thread that also exploded last week. (Hey to occasional commenter Dr. Pain…)<\/p>\n
The idea of the game is to stick together two song titles that overlap by one word (last word of the first title, first word of the second) so as to make an amusing combination of some sort. The post title is probably my best effort in this direction (also, the first one I thought of), combining The Band and the O Brother, Where Art Thous<\/cite> soundtrack. Here are some others (artists listed in parentheses when I think they’re obscure enough to need it; not all of these are songs that I own, or even like, but I know the titles):<\/p>\n And as an indication of how punchy I was getting as I thought about this nonsense during the car ride from Quebec to Niskayuna to Williamstown, two that involve mangling a song title for comedy value: “Bottle of Fur Elise” (Urge Overkill<\/a> and Beethoven), and “No Woman, No Cry for Me Argentina.” And that last one (including the fact that I find it funny) is probably as good an indicator as you’ll get of my mental state at the moment, so I’ll shut up now. You can almost certainly do better; leave your suggestions in the comments.<\/p>\n (*- I say this for two reasons: First, that it was a solid week spent in an intense environment (well, two of them) surrounded by really smart and interesting people, and second because last night was the first night in a week that I was asleep a) before midnight, and b) without drinking a bunch of beer first.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve just emerged from a week in the Incredible College Simulator(*), first spending a week at DAMOP and then the weekend at my 20th college reunion at Williams, so while I have physics stuff I ought to write about, my brain has temporarily turned to goo. Also, I have a week’s worth of administrative crap… Continue reading The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down to the River to Pray<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pop_culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n