Tonight is BummerNacht
Zappadan
As all good Scissorheads know, the only festival that counts this time of the year is Zappadan, in which we celebrate all things Frank Zappa.
Zappadan runs from tonight (BummerNacht is the official start of Zappadan, commemorating the death of Frank Zappa) through Dec. 22, which is of course the birth of Zappa.
(Zappadan, by the way, is a time of Miracles. Look for pontificating poltroons to resign or be hounded from office, all the way to the miracle of an empty DMV line. Stuff happens during Zappadan.)
During the interval, Zappa tributes will appear at various sites of DFHs.
We here at Mock, Paper, Scissors appreciate Zappa mostly for his contributions to free speech and the First Amendment and so to commemorate Bummernacht, we start with the very famous Firing Line appearance wherein Zappa hands a swarm of rats their asses.
Yes, that is a young Novakula, now with Satan.
Let the Miracles Commence!
If nothing else, listen in starting at 10:00. Brilliant!
A great Zappadan to everyone! Can’t wait to read and hear it all!
So common how the ‘radical’ is the most calm, collected, and rational person in the debate. That was really inspiring. Loved it.
Heathen -
Welcome to MPS, it is good to have you with us.
FZ was just before my time, I really have no memory of him in context (as it were) and over the years of blogging, I’ve learned so much. It really makes me wish I had known him.
Rgds,
TG
Frank was an amazing man, a total “straight arrow” with no use for or tolerance of drugs. He also had no use for dim-wits who deigned to proscribe the parts of reality which made them uncomfortable.
I see nobody in the world today with the intellect and integrity to take up his torch. He was dead serious about Freedom, and funnier than shit in his way of getting his points across.
Thanks for commemorating BummerNacht with this historic slugfest!
It appears that neither the Republicans nor the Xian Reich have improved their debating skills.
Happy Zappadan to all.
“Your group is called Mothers of the Invention.”
“Mother OF Invention, you gotta get out more.”
These old men absolutely embarrassed themselves, big time. I think (I hope) they’d be mortified if they saw this today.
Ufotofu9 -
Welcome to MPS, it is good to have you with us.
I think that was done deliberately to make him look like he was above the riffraff. I don’t know that for a fact, but I do know that GOPers do that trick from time to time so that back home, the base thinks that they are such nice Xristian men and they don’t know the names of these heathen bands or how to say sado-masochism (As Jesse Helms stammered and mis-pronounced to great effect).
Rgds,
TG
I lived in Paris throughout the Reagan years and happily missed John Lofton, who is almost as dickish here as Sean Hannity. It is definitely interesting that 27 years later this nation is totally zombied out because of rock lyrics.
Phi Zappa Crappa! (You get nothing with your college degree.)