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The dream is dead: No Roadrunner as official state rock song
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Yes, Dream On
I love the ZLX mentality on this. Local boy Jonathan Richman praising Massachusetts was blocked by a song about generic desperation written by a user from Yonkers performed by a band from Lake Sunapee.
If Joyce Linehan reads this, tell your neighbor in the State Senate to reintroduce this bill and I will work on my state rep, who has members of Aerosmith as constituents, to try to defray opposition. Radio On.
I love the mentality
that dictates that we even need an "official state rock song", let alone the fact we need an actual law to designate said song.
This is exactly the type of nonsense that the initiative petition process was created to resolve.
I'd watch out
Lest you get attacked by a flock of black-capped chickadees.
Meh
Roadrunner is just a big advertisement for Stop and Shop and Chrysler, anyway.
Now this is a song I can get behind!
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Thanks a bunch
Thanks a bunch, Steeve. I didn't even have to watch the video for the earworm to burrow in.
If I remember, there was a
If I remember, there was a story on NPR about the company that made this and there are versions of it for just about every state/city with the same tune and only slightly altered lyrics.
Since this is Massachusetts.....
I think "First I Look at The Purse" by the J. Geils Band would be a better choice anyhow...
Except that was written by
Except that was written by The Countours from Detroit.
oh boy, a cover
Oh boy, a cover of a Motown song by some white boys.
Time once again to submit
Time once again to submit AxCx - Everyone in Allston Should Be Killed.
Opera at Whole Foods
Opera at Whole Foods, at Market Basket, at Shaws. Local vocal talent pop up random acts of culture, turn on a flash mob with music.
Meep Meep
Chalk up one for Wily Coyote.
I thought the state's
official cartoon character was Elmer Fudd.
When I hear "roadrunner" and
When I hear "roadrunner" and "song" I think of this:
My thoughts as well.
+1,000 for you
Least # of bills passed
The outgoing US Congressional session is on record as having passed the fewest number of bills in history. I think our state Legislature does even less work. Thousands of bills see no action every year in Massachusetts.
I think
You can't count.
Congress passed 296 public laws, while the Great and General Court passed 422 Acts (both through available means as of the writing of this.)
Moreover, anyone can write a bill and ask a member of the General Court to submit it, while bills are all at least theoretically written by Congress itself. Therefore, the ratio of proposed to passed is meaningless, but then again you just mentioned bills passed.
Thanks for playing.
EDIT- I was pondering a response to Roadman and I remembered that I counted wrong. If you add the 196 Acts passed in 2013, that makes the total 618 to 296, or about 2 to 1.
Take a closer look
at those 422 Acts. Then ask yourself this question for each and every one of them - Was legislation REALLY necessary to address the issue posed by this act?
True, but
First, if you look at the Congressional Acts, its kind of the same thing. The General Court sets up a lot of sick leave banks and whatnot, while Congress names a lot of buildings and whatnot after people. At the end of the day, Markk said the General Court was less effective than Congress, while the numbers don't reflect it.
The GOP have been obstructionist, but if you ask them they would say that they want to repeal laws. However, it takes an Act of Congress (or a court decision, but we won't go there) to repeal an Act of Congress.
As for Beacon Hill, each of those laws were important to at least one person, and they convinced majorities in the House and Senate along with the Governor to agree with them. Who am I to say otherwise?
And while we're at it....
Can we have the old-school Pike logo back? The one with the arrow though the Pilgrim hat?
Ahem...
Check out the Mass State
That's a pretty mean looking sword coming down on the Wampanoag's head there, at the top. And that's the official seal of the Commonwealth. I think an arrow through the Pilgrim hat kind of evens things up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_of_Massachusetts
Massachusetts state songs.
Massachusetts state songs.
Arlo Guthrie:
The Bee Gees:
Linda Bowe & the Neighborhood Kids: https://app.box.com/shared/1lzu3m607j (MP3. Sorry, no YouTube version)
A Paen to Somerville, where a subshop graces every hill...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chaz4a0kxFY
You forgot one
Ylvis' pean to Massachusetts-
Better
NOOOOOOOO
NOOOOOOOO