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January 31, 2010

Big Mattress Song of the Week

WTF is Stefani Germanotta?? (Still not sure..?)


“She may turn out to be yet another fleeting pop novelty, but many other industry veterans see her as the real deal, and her ambitions and skill at navigating the turbulent industry may make her a durable star.”

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January 29, 2010

Don't Believe Everything You Read!!

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January 28, 2010

The New Apple iPad is Here!!

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Blonde Joke of the Month

A guy takes his girlfriend to her first football game. They have great seats right behind their team's bench. After the game, he asks her how she liked the experience.
'Oh, I really liked it,' she replied, 'especially the tight pants and all the big muscles, but I just couldn't understand why they were killing each other over a 25 cents.'

Dumbfounded, he asks her, 'What do you mean?'
'Well, they flipped a coin, one team won it and then for the rest of the game, all they kept screaming was: 'Get the quarterback! Get the quarterback!'
I'm like...“Helloooooo? It's only 25 cents!”

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January 27, 2010

Death of a "No-Nonsense" Leftist

The bane of B.U. President John Silbur's existence, Professor Howard Zinn dead at 87.
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"I think people are dazzled by Obama’s rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president — which means, in our time, a dangerous president — unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction"

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January 25, 2010

How Huge was This? The fallout is going to be more than you can imagine.

In one of the most significant decisions ever in American history- downplayed by most of the media- the United States Supreme Court has radically changed the course of elections of our lifetime; and in doing so, has radically changed the course of history.

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Big Mattress Song of the Week

Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart wrote a book criticizing the Christian rock and metal movements, entitled "Religious Rock n' Roll – A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" in 1987. The book criticized the scene for using heavy metal music to preach the gospel of Christianity, calling rock music the music of the devil. But in 1988, the fallout fell out: The back story... This song, I Call it Sin (using his actual radio apology) by The Panting Antics was a national hit on Underground Radio for a several months.
(You can always hear the song by clicking on the red button- top right corner of the main page- and browse as you listen.)

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Testosterone Tuesday

TSA Employment Opportunities • Apply now • Please Click here to sample latest airport screening technology. (Simply reverse direction of mouse to control subject matter.)

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It's probably too late for you, but..

Do it for your kids. Take 10 minutes out of your harried and hurried day and watch this.

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January 24, 2010

Mysterious Monday

The top ten places you can't go in the world.

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January 23, 2010

Bong Thoughts...(minus the moustache).

For a quick second, let's go back in time a few years... (click here for back story first...
So, now- here's my question: Doesn't Melissa Ethridge look exactly like David Crosby in this video?
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Inspirational Sunday

Why it helps to know the language: Reason #3

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January 22, 2010

Shameless Saturday

The whitest of the white get wicked funky down with it!

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January 21, 2010

Time to Go Over My List of Fave Blog Sites Again

We all have our secret, favorite links we visit every now and then. Just thought I'd share this little ditty with you. You really will love it- trust me! It's a sweet little page called the Mad Mom.

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Freaky Friday

I feel like I have been thrown into a Through the Looking Glass Chapter.
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Time to Cowboy Up

While the filibuster-proof margin is gone, the Democrats still have a 58 seats in the Senate — perhaps 59, depending on Joe Lieberman’s loyalty of the hour. This huge majority, as America’s most astute political observer, Jon Stewart, pointed out, is far more than George W. Bush ever had, and he used it to do whatever he wanted to with the country.

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January 20, 2010

Don't you DARE blame Conan!!!


Thanks to Tom Bergeron for posting.

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January 19, 2010

The New Champion of the Dark Side (Libs- Run for Your Life!)

Scott Brown Victory Celebration Video

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Mass Backwards: Jon Stewart vents on MA Dems

“Curt is a Yankees fan”? Dumbest campaign in Mass history.

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January 18, 2010

Testosterone Tuesday

Garçon? Sacre Bleu!!!

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Estrogen Wednesday

Ladies: Are you vagazzled yet?

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Titanic Tuesday

I was mentioning to my son how this MA election is arguably the most important election in MA history. His response was, “Why? It's just one seat...!” It was then that I realized that it's all over but the Fat Lady singing..
I don't want to sound dramatic here, but if we lose this deal-breaking seat to an ultra-conservative Republican at this crucial time, then it's all over for Obama, for the Democratic party, and for the millions of Americans who voted for him last November.
It's not local- it's national. It's a huge referendum on what direction this country is going to be going in for the next decade. Losing this seat will literally unravel all things Obama and all things Centrist and Left.
For liberals and moderates to ignore and/or insult those of us (who don't particularly like Coakley, but understand and see clearly what the alternative is going to be), they are either being ignorant, or have tunnel-vision- or are just plain malicious and insensitive.
I have no quarrel with either normal Conservatives or the Extreme Right, here. They have their beliefs and their principles, and they are only doing what they should be doing during election time. My problem is reading and listening to moderates and liberals who don't see the incredible significance of this election! The importance of tomorrow's vote is not lost on the Right- believe me. They are pulling out all the stops for this one!
Someone referred to me and others as "Uber-liberals"... Uber-liberals indeed! If Brown wins, you who chose to go after Martha Coakley will be making a really dumb choice. Coakley blew it big-time and is far from being the perfect candidate. (She ran one of the worst campaigns in history, and I won't say here what I think of her personally). But this is not about “putting Coakley in her place”. It's about making the huge mistake of ignoring and down-playing the alternative. You can vote for what you believe, but you should also understand that if you don't vote- or if you are in any way responsible for Scott Brown becoming the next Senator for Massachusetts- you will get what you deserve; and even those of us who may be thousands of miles away will pay dearly for this. Not a threat- a fact.
FYI PLEASE NOTE: I will be monitoring, editing and censoring all comments on this post when it auto-sends to Facebook. I will leave all comments on my blog, but I want to control the dialogue when it appears on Fb so it isn't just more of the same insults and bla bla bla. Those who want to bla bla bla can do so on my blog- http://bigmattress.com/weblog/ or they can do it all over the other Fb pages that are talking about this today and tomorrow. I want to try to get a discussion going from a less hysterical perspective and your posted comments may be deleted if I don't feel they address the points I am making here in an academic and non-emotional manner.
If you don't like the way I'm putting it, check this out: Click here.

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January 17, 2010

Geezer Monday

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Black Op? or Iranian Juke Op?

"[Masoud Mohammadi] was martyred this morning in a terrorist act by antirevolutionary and arrogant powers' elements."

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-Iranian state broadcaster IRIB, hinting at foreign involvement by Israel and the U.S. in the death of an Iranian nuclear physics professor in a bomb attack in Tehran
..but then, there's this! and now update.gif this just in:

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January 16, 2010

Inspirational Sunday

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Ouch, Babe!

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January 15, 2010

Big Mattress Song of the Week

Somewhere Down the Crazy River- Robbie Robertson
(You can always hear the song by clicking on the red button- top right corner of the main page- and browse as you listen.)


click below link for lyrics Yeah, I can see it now
The distant red neon shivered in the heat
I was feeling like a stranger in a strange land
You know where people play games with the night
God, it was too hot to sleep
I followed the sound of a jukebox coming from up the levee
All of a sudden I could hear somebody whistling
Fromright behind me
I turned around and she said
"Why do you always end up down at Nick's Cafe?"
I said "I don't know, the wind just kind of pushed me this way."
She said "Hang the rich."

Catch the blue train
To places never been before
Look for me
Somewhere down the crazy river
Somewhere down the crazy river
Catch the blue train
All the way to Kokomo
You can find me
Somewhere down the crazy river
Somewhere down the crazy river

Take a picture of this
The fields are empty, abandoned '59 Chevy
Laying in the back seat listening to Little Willie John
Yea, that's when time stood still
You know, I think I'm gonna go down to Madam X
And let her read my mind
She said "That Voodoo stuff don't do nothing for me."

I'm a man with a clear destination
I'm a man with a broad imagination
You fog the mind, you stir the soul
I can't find, ... no control

Catch the blue train
To places never been before
Look for me
Somewhere down the crazy river
Somewhere down the crazy river
Catch the blue train
All the way to Kokomo
You can find me
Somewhere down the crazy river
Somewhere down the crazy river

Wait, did you hear that
Oh this is sure stirring up some ghosts for me
She said "There's one thing you've got to learn
Is not to be afraid of it."
I said "No, I like it, I like it, it's good."
She said "You like it now
But you'll learn to love it later."

I been spellbound - falling in trances
I been spellbound - falling in trances
You give me shivers - chills and fever
I been spellbound - somewhere down the crazy river

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KARMA: Those who cannot learn from history are just plain doomed..

• They voted for Nixon in 1972 and they got what they deserved.
• They voted for Reagan in 1980 and they got what they deserved
• They voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and they got what they deserved.
On January 19, Massachusetts voters will choose between Scott Brown and Martha Coakley, and if they decide to sit this one out, or if they don't have time to vote, or if they vote for someone whose election would make Ted Kennedy turn over in his grave-
then they will get what they deserve.

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Message to All Facebook Users

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January 13, 2010

Thespian Thursday

This is the show should be on 11:30 on the Networks:

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January 12, 2010

Patriots Fans: It could be worse.. (much much worse.)

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Testosterone Tuesday

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Alas-and Fare Thee Well- Poor Spawn of Charlotte!

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Sony says "sayonara"

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January 11, 2010

There's ink and then.. there's ink

Lest we forget!

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My Very First Interview

I had just started my rock career as a DJ at KPPC-FM (now KROCK L.A.) in Pasadena, CA. It was November of 1968, and there I was at my first "record promotion" party at Capitol Records in Hollywood, to celebrate the release of the upcoming White Album by the Beatles. While standing in line to get some of the catered free food, I noticed I was right next to George Harrison. I took a deep breath and asked him if he would do an interview with us (KPPC-the little guys in the radio business) Underground FM.. He said yes! The next thing I knew, there we were- myself, a DJ named Don Hall and a salesman named Andy- in a room alone with George Harrison and a shitty tape recorder. I was a little stoned and a lot nervous, because I had never done an interview before (and my first interview had to be with this guy. Don was the pro of the group, so he did most of the talking. I mumbled slower and a lot "softer" then usual- maybe because I was so dumbstruck. Here's what it was like back then.

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January 10, 2010

Caption Needed

If you were the editor of a magazine or newspaper, and you saw fit to publish this photo what would the caption be? (One comment per person, please.)

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Geezer Monday

Stand by me and let's kick out some jams.

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Kids These Days

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Duel in the sun.

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January 8, 2010

Inspirational Sunday

Don't ever upset your neighbor if he owns a backhoe!!

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Big Mattress Song of the Week

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yikes- I'm taking the bus!

Let this load completely first:
There is always the parallactic option.

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January 7, 2010

Don't Always "Pay it Forward."

"Rumor once was spread by word of mouth.
Now, it's done on the Internet- much faster and more damaging.
It's a shame that we have come to the point that, before we can believe the best or the worst of anyone, we have to go to Google or Yahoo (or snopes.com) to see if there's a grain of truth in the report.
Too many of us don't go to the trouble to separate lies from legends before passing them on."
-- A.C. Snow, columnist

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Estrogen Wednesday

Look no further, ladies- Your knight is here:

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January 6, 2010

Freaky Friday

It's funny; it's bad; it's scary; it's sad.
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Is it simply mass hypnosis? or is it crowd mass mind-control? It is a pretty revealing and remarkable study on human nature.
These folks are not acting- and they are likely normal folk you see every day.
Every now and then I feel a bit concerned about the future. (ha ha)

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Estrogen Wednesday

Can you spot the Gräfenberg?
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January 4, 2010

Testosterone Tuesday

Terrorists have begun recruiting American women suicide bombers !
Warning: This is not family or work friendly!

(Whatever you do- do NOT pull the string !)

This update just in!

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Some of the many music makers we lost in 2009

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Finally!

A way to get your kid to like learning how to play the piano..

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Testosterone Tuesday • Estrogen Wednesday

A study worth sharing with friends both male and female:
A study conducted by UCLA's Department of Psychiatry has revealed that the kind of face a woman finds attractive on a man can differ depending on where she is in her menstrual cycle.
For example: If she is ovulating, she is attracted to men with rugged and masculine features.
However, if she is menstruating, or menopausal, she tends to be more attracted to a man with duct tape over his mouth and a spear lodged in his chest while he is on fire

(No further studies are expected.)

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January 3, 2010

Pushing the Envelope to the Ultimate

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Fenway Park in January

Even if you aren't into hockey- a historical moment in Boston sports history... 100102040s.JPG.jpeg

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Inspirational Sunday

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January 1, 2010

Airplane ClearSpeak

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Why don't they just say, “TOILET TISSUE ONLY PLEASE!”

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