Food!
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by Glyph · May 21, 2014
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Tags: foodMusicOh Crud We Didn't Do a Music Post
Glyph
Glyph is worse than some and better than others. He believes that life is just one damned thing after another, that only pop music can save us now, and that mercy is the mark of a great man (but he's just all right). Nothing he writes here should be taken as an indication that he knows anything about anything.
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In a landmark decision, a U.S. appeals court on Thursday rejected the 12-year quest of a Jeffrey Epstein survivor to hold the government accountable for giving the infamous child predator a clandestine deal that essentially allowed him to get out of jail after a minimal sentence, and, according to recent lawsuits, continue to abuse girls and women.
The 7-4 decision by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals was split mostly along gender lines, with four female judges issuing a scathing rebuke of the majority’s interpretation of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA). The decision, unless it is overturned on further appeal, could allow wealthy defendants to continue to arrange favorable plea deals from the government without any oversight or accountability, said an attorney who originally filed the challenge.
“The ruling is very disturbing. It sets up two systems of justice, one for wealthy defendants who can negotiate deals before charges are filed — and one for most criminal defendants, who don’t have the wealth and power to arrange those kinds of deals,’’ said the attorney, Paul Cassell.
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In her dissenting opinion, Senior Circuit Judge Frank Hull skewered the majority’s “sense of sorrow,’’ over not being able to give Epstein’s victims justice. Noting that the decision would have far-reaching impact in other cases involving wealthy defendants, she said the ruling “leaves federal prosecutors free to engage in the secret plea deals and deception’’ before criminal charges are ever made public, resulting in “the travesty” that happened in the Epstein case.
She also noted that “the Department of Justice’s failure to discipline its own prosecutors heightens the importance of the CVRA’s private right of action.’’
DOJ’s investigation found that prosecutors exercised “poor judgment,’’ but stopped short of recommending sanctions against prosecutors, including Alexander Acosta, the U.S. Attorney in Miami who approved the secret deal.
Acosta declined to comment on the ruling.
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Comment →Reporters pressed Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott and City Manager Curt Boganey about why the name of the officer who shot Daunte Wright has not been released.
Mayor Elliott said it was "privileged" information at the moment since the shooting is under investigation. He did express willingness to share additional information about the female officer in question.
Earlier in the news conference, Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said Wright was fatally shot during a traffic stop after a police officer shouted "Taser!" but fired a handgun instead of the non-lethal stun gun.
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Oh man, I’d forgotten about this, and now I will be listening to “Milkshake” over and over.Report
I didn’t realize until I posted this that the video version of that Freestyle Fellowship track was totally different than the one on the album. I swapped it out for the one I know.
Also, can’t believe I forgot
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and of course “ice cream” off of only built 4.
that and kelis are great, insanely sexist songs, that i now can’t listen to around my kid.Report
Waits had an “Ice Cream Man” too, when he was young and less raspy:
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When I think of “Ice Cream,” I think of the line about Spuds McKenzie, and I can’t help but think that you’re right not to listen to it around your kids.Report
@chris
“When I think of “Ice Cream,” I think of the line about Spuds McKenzie, and I can’t help but think that you’re right not to listen to it around your kids.”
also, “i love you like i love my dick size”.
my wife’s favorite* game is when i explain every single line to her e.g. “see, what he’s saying is that if he were naked, he’d ejaculate on her, because she’s so pretty”. or “they’re using ice cream flavors as a stand-in for women sorted into broadly defined racial categories”.
* by favorite i mean “least favorite”Report
I don’t really know much about Kelis aside from “Milkshake”, but I guess she’s actually a sauce chef and her new album is called ‘Food’.
Dang it, I also forgot MF Doom’s ‘Mm…Food’.Report
And there’s Mingus (singing ’bout Charlie Parker, supposedly getting a BJ in the back seat of a car while eating fried chicken. . .)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovaY1KlQRi4Report
Oh, “I don’t eat no eggs, ’cause they’re high in cholesterol!” Dunno how I forgot that one.Report
*ham and eggsReport
How about the Rutles?
Or the Flaming Lips?
Or (you knew it was coming) Bach?
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Galaxie 500 do a decent cover of that Rutles track.
And I HATE “Jelly”. It’s awful! The worst song on the album!
Weird Al could probably have been his own post.
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This is only very marginally about food, but I couldn’t help thinking about it after all those chicken songs you posted (mostly because back when MTV2 still played videos, they used to play it ALL THE TIME OH MY GOODNESS. Jaybird and I had it memorized and would randomly start reciting it to each other, say in the car, or at the laundromat, or like that.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvaExDwQ5cUReport
There should be more songs about buildings and food.Report
No buildings, but here’s some more food:
(What are: “Three songs I still kind of can’t believe exist”?)Report
No “Peaches”?
https://ordinary-times.com/blog/2014/03/11/stupid-tuesday-questions-del-monte-editionReport
Good point!
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The only “Peaches and Cream” that matters…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy2E16dSzAU
(I don’t know how to embed)Report
How’d I forget the JB’s?
(The OTHER J.B.)
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The interview at the end is kinda interesting too.Report
Wow. I just tripped out to another dimension.
Actually, I wonder which genre has more food references – psychedelia has a LOT of ‘forbidden fruit’ songs:
But your ‘soul’-related genres have a lot of ‘music as community/soul food’ metaphors (or just stories); if I had gotten around to writing text for this post, that would have been its main thrust:
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It’s not midnight yet:
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Jambalaya on the Bayou!Report
Can’t leave out beans & cornbread.
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It’s in the OP.Report