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The Internationale

Arise ye workers from your slumbers

Arise ye prisoners of want

For reason in revolt now thunders

And at last ends the age of cant.

Away with all your superstitions

Servile masses arise, arise

We’ll change henceforth the old tradition

And spurn the dust to win the prize.

So comrades, come rally

And the last fight let us face

The Internationale unites the human race.

No more deluded by reaction

On tyrants only we’ll make war

The soldiers too will take strike action

They’ll break ranks and fight no more

And if those cannibals keep trying

To sacrifice us to their pride

They soon shall hear the bullets flying

We’ll shoot the generals on our own side.

So comrades, come rally

And the last fight let us face

The Internationale unites the human race.

No saviour from on high delivers

No faith have we in prince or peer

Our own right hand the chains must shiver

Chains of hatred, greed and fear

E’er the thieves will out with their booty

And give to all a happier lot.

Each at the forge must do their duty

And we’ll strike while the iron is hot.

So comrades, come rally

And the last fight let us face

The Internationale unites the human race.

A DocuDharma tradition now found on The Stars Hollow Gazette.

Naturally Dyed Eggs

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College Throwball Bowl Mania!

First of all, Football is a game you play with your feet and a round ball.

Second, the whole Bowl Championship Series system is a ripoff and a joke.  Either you have a National Championship Playoff or you don’t.  This is don’t.

The thread is for rooting for your Alma or other teams you have an interest in.  Richard will be cheering for (Michigan) State (Alma) and UConn (not really a Division 1 Team and a huge waste of taxpayer money).

Your early games-

1 pm

  • ABC– College Throwball- Outback Bowl: Florida v. Penn State
  • ESPN– College Throwball, Capital One Bowl: Alabama v. Michigan State

1:30 pm

  • ESPN2– College Throwball, Gator Bowl: Michigan v. Mississippi State

Late games-

5 pm

  • ESPN– College Throwball, Rose Bowl: Texas Christian v. Wisconsin

8:30 pm

  • ESPN– College Throwball, Fiesta Bowl: Connecticut v. Oklahoma

Tournament of Roses Parade

Today is the 122nd edition of the Tournament of Roses Parade known for its plant and flower covered floats (most of which are animated) and equestrian units.

I’ll charitably posit that it’s the plant and flower coverings and not the manure that earns it a spot in the Home and Garden channel line up (it’s also being covered on ABC and NBC).  If I sound a little bitter it’s because I’ve marched in a band behind horses of which there are also plently.

Bands that is.  This year we’ll have the displeasure of being subjected to flower zombie Ronnie on the occasion of his centenary.  The part of him that wasn’t senile was shallow, narcissistic, vapid, and evil.

I’ll try and keep up as best I can.  I’m working to finish up today’s TV and put together a Bowl Game Mania Open Thread so I can ditch out to a party this evening.  I’m skipping Evening Edition but TheMomCat may decide to put something together, I’m leaving it up to her.

So grab your hangover flapjacks and coffee and settle in.

Happy New Year!

Well, if you’re looking for profound insight, thoughtful retrospection on a year that can only be described as horrible, farsighted prognostication of future trends, or stentorian calls to ACTION!, I think we can all agree that you’re reading in the wrong place.

But if you have some sentiment you’re aching to express or a passing observation of entropy’s arrow…

Brian Seacrest’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve.  Is this water hot or is it just me?

In case you forgot the words.  

Big Balloon Parade!

Last Sunday at noon, 18 Helium Balloons in the shape of familiar and popular cartoon characters stepped off at the intersection of Hoyt and Summers for their 17th annual appearance.

The tallest balloon, Popeye, stands a whopping 65 feet and this year 2 new balloons were added, Fred Flintstone and Scooby Doo.

Over 100 volunteers assist at the event as balloon handlers and Parade Marshals and it’s organized by a permanent steering committee of 3 and sponsored by UBS.  This year’s Grand Marshal was John Starks, formerly of the Knicks and the Master of Ceremonies Alan Kalter of Late Night with David Letterman.

It was quite a spectacular sight and I bet you’re sorry you missed it because there’s just no better way to feel that Master of the Universe consumerist buying spirit of the 4th Quarter than standing in the Hedge Funded Concrete Canyons of downtown Stamford Connecticut and…

You say there’s another Balloon Parade?  In New York City?  And it’s on TV?

Then why was I freezing my ass off… oh, never mind.

Coverage of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade starts at 9 am on CBS (which is a little up route so you see things first) and NBC (which covers the lame lip syncing at Herald Square).

Liveblogging below.

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