Amused Cynic

I’m thinking of manufacturing and selling these glass GoGo cubes, to help support my family through the Great Obama/Pelosi Crash…. they really help you get out of the Obama funk, man. Particularly with a great band like The Sonics playing their classic song “Psycho”….

More later. I’m making dinner, and drinking moderately….fresh grouper on the grill, and a gewurtz blend in the glass. I’ll explain this all later in an update, I’m hungry. Yes, you heard me right. Tonight’s dinner theme is “Grouper-a-Go-Go.”

ROLLING WEEKEND UPDATE: Ok, while on my way down to buy the grouper (at the Philadelphia Lobster & Fish Company in Wynnewood, next to the Whole Foods Store—best place in the area, take my word), I was listening to my favorite non-Right Wing radio station, WXPN-FM. University of Pennsylvania station, they’re like family.

On weekends they have eccentric crazy stuff, which I love, and none such fits the bill as well as my former “neighbor,” Ben Vaughn. He grew up two towns away from me, in Collingswood, NJ, became a Philadelphia legend as a performer, and ended up in California, with a nation-wide show called “The Many Moods of Ben Vaughn.” There could be no other name for the show.

Anyway, as I was driving down Lancaster Ave to the fish store, he was playing all kinds of wild and crazy stuff (meaning really cool, eccentric stuff), from Dizzy Gillespie to Van Morrison to Joe Cocker. All very obscure tunes, though, nothing you’ve heard within the last 30 years unless you’re really different. And maybe not even then. Crazy stuff. He even played the original version of “Pamela Brown,” which is a hugely ironical song for anyone who has ever been associated with the music business. I like the Leo Kottke version best, but who else but Ben would play the original? Very cool.

When I came out of the fish store, he was spinning “Psycho,” by The Sonics. I was LOL, as they say, and drawing unwanted police attention. More later. I guess I owe it all to Pamela Brown! Said very ironically.

Note the respectful nod to the greatness of The Sonics during the broom solo….

UPDATE: The Obama presidency, reduced to its 30-second essence….