Friday, May 05, 2006

 
I might as well start to post stuff on this blog again rather than inflict it directly upon NRO staff. I blew about a half hour(some minor editing and one addition a couple of days later) on the following a few days ago soon after Jonah Goldberg and John Derbyshire mentioned the recently late Revel, author of the "Totalitarian Temptation." Sigh -neither apparently believed my claim that an Anglo/French pick-up band planned to crash the funeral. I later learned that the idea for "The Totalitarian Temptations" had been "done" earlier this year on a TNR website. http://www.tnr.com/blog/show_comments.mhtml?b=theplank&pid=6500
The following may suck less if the real Temptations site is pulled up with audio on in a separate window. Perhaps I was over confident having "Sympathy For The Foreign Devil" and passing on Steven Wright's "What is the synonym for 'Thesaurus'?" accepted on Radio Derb recently. Absent any positive feedback, I'll drop the project once again.
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Song List of The Totalitarian Temptations:

1. Can I Kill A Witness?

2. How Sweet It Is To Cut Sugar Cane For Fidel

3. Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Denounce The Other)

4. Ain't Nothing Like The Real "Truth" In Pravda

5. I Fear A Symphony(By Shostakovich Will Not Be Approved By The Party)

6. Ain't No Ural High Enough(To Stop That Radioactive Cloud)

7. Reflections(Of the way we used to be, In a one-way mirror, Blackmailed by the KGB)

8. Don't Leave Me This Way(Or That Way Or Go Near That Wall)

9. I Won't Be There('Cause I'll Be A Non-Person)

10. Never Can Say Goodbye Out Loud

11. This Old Heart Of Mine(Will Be Harvested In Peking)

12. Reach Out And Recall Someone To Moscow

13 Try It Baby(And Your State Daycare Rations Will Be Cut)

14. What Becomes Of The Brokehearted?(They Learn To Love Big Brother)

....Oh well, only shot about a half-hour to hell.

http://www.thetemptations.com/