Ohio Eats: The 385th Greatest Song

 

There's an unsubstantiated rumor going around ... started when Rolling Stone printed it as if it were true ... that on May 4th, 1970, the National Guard killed four protesters at Kent State University in Ohio.  Well, that part is definitely a substantiated historical fact, but what I'm pretty sure the magazine made up is that Young wrote a fiery indictment of the shootings, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young went right into the studio and rush-released it, knocking its own "Teach Your Children" off the charts.

I'm pretty sure Young had written the song before the tragedy, but rewrote the lyric to make it about the Kent State shootings.

I'm pretty sure these are the original words:

LaRosa's and Graeter's ice cream

UDF if you're on the go

Fresh pasta with chili and cheese

To die for in Ohio

Gotta get down to Cincy

Or up to Clevelandtown

Where the Polish Boys are rad

But if you're wise, boy

You'll be Barberton-bound

For the best chicken you've ever had

LaRosa's and Graeter's ice cream

UDF if you're on the go

Fresh pasta with chili and cheese

To die for in Ohio

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There are times, when I haven't been reminded of some humorous incident from my childhood or when it's not a particular holiday or it's not time to write about the next song in Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time," when I just sit down at the keyboard and start typing...and hope that something worthwhile spills out through my fingertips.

Any post under the tag "improvisation" is created that way.

Often, I end up writing a poem. Even if it's not funny, the fact that it rhymes will impress enough people to get a few clicks. At least that's the idea.

But now, here I am, four paragraphs deep into a piece of prose with no prior planning or an inkling of an idea of what to say...and my hope that something worthwhile spills out through my fingertips seems to be absolutely groundless.

Like a bottomless pit.

Like a bag of roasted coffee beans.

Like the accusation that I'm independently wealthy and more handsome than Brad Pitt.

That's right, I'm a funny guy...

...but looks aren't everything.

Stuph That Has No Reason Being in My Head, Vol. VII

 

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The two main male characters of The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon and Leonard, were named in honor of the actor who played Nick the Bartender in It's a Wonderful Life.

According to a producer I know, Miley Cyrus can't carry a tune...at all.

The stories that say Karen Carpenter was on a popcorn-only diet are unsubstantiated rumors.

James Taylor's first single, "Carolina in My Mind," was released on The Beatles' Apple Records.

♫♪ Dewey Dewey Bo-Bewey, Banana Fanna Fo-Fooey, Fee Fi Mo-Mooey...Dewey! ♪♫

Before he was Gilligan, Bob Denver co-starred as a beatnik on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

On Sesame Street, Caroll Spinney was both Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.

When extended, a frog's tongue is about a third as long as the frog  -  as if our own tongues reached our belly buttons!

Chihuahua's are the world's smallest breed of dog...even though they look like rats.