Okay, now it's playing this:
Saturday Night Chess Club
(Not sure why it is btw that Van the Man tends to have such crappy background vocals on some of his records.)
Hey, what the hell are these freakin things anyway? (it's like the Giant Eyeball Plant)...
Mods incognito.
Who let the pizza boy have a slice? Who does he think he is? We have got a party and a lot of mouths to feed...
Hey, welcome to the club, fellow Saturday night loosers! This week I thought we could make it John Milton Night...
...and share any stories we might have about him. I know ep's got a bundle that he wants to tell, so I'll just keep my prolegomena brief (I think btw that that's the sort of word choice of which Johnny woulda approved).
I've just been doing some research on a wiki or two and I've found out a little-known but fascinating fact about JM. Seems that late in his life he got tired of churning out all those sonnets and epoch-defining epics and all that...and apparently he became a pioneer in Yearbook Literature. Yes, this was centuries before there even were yearbooks, which just goes to show what a visionary our honoree truly was.
Some anonymous scholar has unearthed a journal, one that Milton kept in his final years, where you can actually see, in his own handwriting, the original version of what was to become a grade-school classic, "The bees kiss the morning skies." There is also an early draft of the "Wish You Luck" drawing, although apparently anatomical figuring has become rather more explicit since the days of the Restoration.
Fittingly enough, the dedication page contains the following thought, again in JM's hand: "To a great person...from an even greater one."
it's "losers," not loosers; at least you admit you are one, even if you can't spell it
Hey, that's on the album I'm listening to right now!...
(Amusingly enough, I'm listening to a Dead cut right now!..."Casey Jones")