Another Jan. 6 has come and gone.
This time we managed to skip the armed-insurrection part of the program, so yay for us. Turns out that when they win, The System works.
Who knew?
Watching Vice President Kamala Harris preside over the certification of the 2024 election results this week sent me careening down Memory Lane, revisiting a night in the sneezer in 1977, a Louis C.K. dramedy from 2016, and the last three pestilential erections.
Somehow the Joker, Billy Joe Shaver, The Cars, Dana Carvey, Willie Nelson, and Bill Clinton snuck in there too.
Once you have a cast of characters like that assembled, for good or ill, you just know it’s time for — yes, yes, yes — the first episode of Radio Free Dogpatch in The Year of Our Lard 2025, Dog help us all.
Additional music not included, but which should replace “Hail to the Chief” for at least the next four years, is “Catch Us If You Can” by the Dave Clark Five.
• Technical notes: RFD favors the Ethos mic from Earthworks Audio; Audio-Technica ATH-M50X headphones; Zoom H5 Handy Recorder; Apple’s GarageBand, and Auphonic for a wash and brushup. Performing for us this week are Danny O’Keefe, AC/DC, The Cars, and Billy Joe Shaver, all from YouTube. The 2016 dramedy “Horace and Pete” remains available on Louis C.K.’s website. Audio of the 2024 election-results certification courtesy C-SPAN. Dana Carvey as Ross Perot on “SNL” was lifted from YouTube. Bill Clinton comes (har de har har) from the William J. Clinton Presidential Library. The Walk of Shame is from HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” The headline is a riff on Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited,” not incidentally in honor of RFD’s 61st episode. Finally, ask not for whom the clown horn honks; it honks for thee (from Freesound). All other evil racket is courtesy of Your Humble Narrator.
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666 was the road from Shiprock to the Colorado border, it was one of the nastiest pieces of pavement I have driven on, because NM did not do much maintenance, it is now NM 491.
I remember that. Not a popular designation, 666. U.S. 50 got to be The Loneliest Road, and 666 got to be the Highway To (or from) Hell.
People kept stealing the highway signs. Skinwalkers on the Devil’s highway. Bible thumpers shitting themselves when a white dress ghost appeared. Yea, of curse she was a white, white dressed ghost. Other states, along with Arizona, were in on the stupidity too. We gotta do something, and I didn’t get a hurumpf from that guy! So, we got US highway 191 which ain’t no relation to US Route 66. Like the sixth highway coming from Route 66 which gives you 666. Logical, heh?
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, they say. I prefer asphalt myself.
I voted for Perot myself. I wanted to see how a capable businessman would administer the country. I was hoping that Bloomberg would do better during his 2020 run because I thought he was (is) a capable administrator. But what do I know, I thought the tangerine mop would lose to Hillary and then to Harris. Obviously my psyche doesn’t pulse to the same beat as a whole lot of flushing toilets.
My working assumption was that the Donks and Repugs would look at each other, go all like “Mmm, hmm,” wink, and then sit on their hands for four years and watch hilm flail like a Chihuahua at the pound. Either that or impeach him. Maybe both.