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July 26, 2006

After the Music Died — It Got the Link Leak Virus

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 12:29 pm

Tueday Night Music Comment Night

Open Comments Last Night was held down in Nashville. Folks were singing and dancing. Songs were stuck in our heads. Some folks admitted a predilection for men in uniforms, especially those who had swords. We danced so hard we lost the server. Then, the nasty link leak virus played a tune on things as well. Link Leak Virus is a special strain of the indie virus with blogtipping mutations that occur in threes edged its way in.

Cool links were shared.

If you listen you can hear, Joe singing Crimson and Clover over and over.

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The following members of the class of 2006 were in attendance:
Trisha, Joe, Tracy, Doug, Christine, Susan, Rick, Shirley, Starbucker, Candice, Cat, Ben, HART, Tom, Gerard, Samuel, Meikah, Dwayne, Chris,

Here’s a quick peek at some things that were said.
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Susan Reynolds Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 7:16 pm e
Liz, do I hear you doing your Julie Andrews impression in the background?

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ME Strauss Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 7:16 pm e
How do you solve a problem like Maria?

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Susan Reynolds Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 7:17 pm e
Ask Arnold, Liz

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Joe Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 7:44 pm e
Oh NOOOooooo.
Another guy showed up (I hope he’s not a better dancer than me)…

Hey Starbucker, How ya doin’?

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Starbucker Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 7:56 pm e
OK everybody, you all mentally shout this out, and Liz and I will go for it - ready?

“Don’t know why
I’m survivin’ ev’ry lonely day
When there’s got to be no chance for me
My life would end
And it doesn’t matter how I cry
My tears, so far, are a waste of time
If I turn away
Am I strong enough to see it through
Go crazy is what I will do

If I can’t have you
I don’t want nobody baby
If I can’t have you, uh-huh, oh
If I can’t have you
I don’t want nobody baby
If I can’t have you, uh-ho”

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Rick Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 8:06 pm e
Hi everyone! My wife had me in the back yard going

Down, down, down
In a burning ring of fire.

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shirley buxton Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 8:14 pm e
I’m back. No, Joe, the words are: “Mares eat oats and does eat oats, and little lambs eat ivy. A kid’ll eat ivy too, wouldn’t you.”

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Joe Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 8:18 pm e
Shirley, I remember the words I used when I sang it as a “kid”‘ll eat ivy too, wouldn’t you.

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ME Strauss Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 8:20 pm e
I wouldn’t eat ivy, even if you paid me.

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shirley buxton Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 8:22 pm e
Liz, I believe the kids they are referring to are animals–goats or sheep or something like that. lol

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Joe Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 8:22 pm e
Liz,
That seems the only thing left to get rid of all the Ivy on my front lawn

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ME Strauss Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 8:22 pm e
I know that, Shirley, but I’m still not eating that ivy. No way!

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Susan Reynolds Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 8:24 pm e
Oh - and isn’t ivy poisonous or do I have my vines twisted?

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ME Strauss Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 8:24 pm e
Joe,
Plant some holly bushes and you can sing
“The Holly and the Ivy” this Christmas.

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Joe Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 8:25 pm e
Do kids eat clover too, I have plenty of that on the back lawn… ;-0

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Rick Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 8:26 pm e
Kids love clover! Just hire a couple of kids for the summer to take care of it for you!:)

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Christine Kane Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 8:28 pm e
Joe, After you sing “the holly and the ivy,” you could walk over to the clover, cut your own finger and sing “Crimson and Clover”…

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ME Strauss Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 8:31 pm e
Christine,
That was excellent!
In fact, he could get stuck and sing
Crimson and clover over and over.

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Ben Yoskovitz Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 9:00 pm e
Hey guys!

I’m on vacation! Just about to eat dinner and then relax for the evening. I probably won’t be back, but I couldn’t miss a bit of open mic!

Liz — you find Basil yet?

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Rick Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 9:02 pm e
London Bridge is Falling Down

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ME Strauss Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 9:02 pm e
BEN!!!!
No sign of Basil. I think he’s down on Rush Street trying to pick up ladies.

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Rick Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 9:03 pm e
Hey Ben, Basil probably took Donkey out to find some beer and waffles.

We talked about music with city names and names of people and tried to stick song in each others’ heads. Take a look at all of the titles that got mentioned. Until we crashed the server and it became the night that . . .

the music died, but that’s another song altogether.

the end

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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20 Comments to “After the Music Died — It Got the Link Leak Virus”

  1. July 26th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
    shirley buxton said

    Liz, thank you for the party last night, and for the link today.

    Blessings

    Shirley Buxton
    http://www.writenow.wordpress.com

  2. July 26th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hey Shirley,
    It was such fun to have you! Thank you for coming to visit us. I hope you’ll do it again soon. :)

  3. July 26th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
    Rick said

    Thanks for the good time last night. The songs were a good idea. I’m glad the server came back up in time for some other people in the world to get on.

    My favorite line from Shrek is Donkey saying I’m making waffles!

    Have a good day.

  4. July 26th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
    Christine Kane said

    Thanks to freakin’ Starbucker…. all morning long I walked around my house singing Yvonne Ellimon!!! but it was a fun night… our party just got broken up. like high school.

  5. July 26th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Rick!
    Yeah, songs was a good idea and so was pirates. I’m hoping someone will help me out with finding an idea for next week. I almost didn’t have this one. :)

  6. July 26th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hey Christine,
    Thanks to you, it’s now stuck in my head!!!

    Let’s go get Starbucker and make him dance for us.

  7. July 26th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
    Starbucker said

    I can’t get it out of my mind either! Actually, I just said the heck with it and played it on my I-pod 10 times here at work. I’ll dance anytime, anyplace - as long as you are my partner again Liz! Your friend, (now) freakin’ Starbucker :-)

  8. July 26th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hey Starbucker,
    That’s an invitation I just can’t pass up. It’s worth it have that stupid song in my head, I guess. If there’s a great story behind it!

  9. July 26th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
    ann michael said

    Liz - I love ‘ya - but the image of you singing Julie Andrews is just plain scary!

  10. July 26th, 2006 at 6:21 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Ann,
    I’m with you on that one. That’s what makes that so funny!

    I’m not Julie Andrews by any means.

  11. July 26th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
    Dan Smith said

    Liz, I gotta do a better job of keeping up with your Tuesday night Comment Nights. This looks like it was quite the wild time (in a fun way). Cheers!

  12. July 26th, 2006 at 6:52 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Dan,
    Thanks for stopping by to check it out.

    You’re right it was one of the best ones. Pirate night was great fun too!

  13. July 26th, 2006 at 10:25 pm
    HART (1-800-HART) said

    I forgot that I have been to Pandora before … it’s already packed with B-52’s and Black Eyed Peas… I’m listening to it now to try and build up my tastes ..see what pops up!

  14. July 26th, 2006 at 10:27 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi HART!

    I know it’s great, but your favorite song is still hard to beat!

    Now if only I could think of something nearly as fun as pirates and the songs were. . . .

  15. July 26th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
    candice said

    Hey Liz. I originally picked up the hype machine from Fred Wilson (avc.blogs.com) . He’s really plugged in.

  16. July 27th, 2006 at 6:09 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Candice,
    Thanks for letting us know. We’re always glad to be hooked up to new intelligent bloggers. Tell Fred to come by Tuesday, if he can and I’ll try to get over to see him too.

  17. July 27th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
    Starbucker said

    Hey Liz, did you get the Fawlty Towers DVD’s yesterday? Just wanted to make sure. Have fun with them!

  18. July 27th, 2006 at 5:07 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hey Starbucker,
    Basil showed up yesterday morning. He was awake, but somehow he was snoring. . . . I’m taking him with me tonight to the Vox party by Six Apart and sneaking him on an airplane to San Jose early tomorrow to attend Blogher.

    Yeah he’s here alright. He locked us out of the condo this morning and had a party already.

  19. July 28th, 2006 at 6:10 am
    Cat said

    Hi Liz,

    I’m not sure how I missed the round up of the Music night.

    So a belated ‘thank-you’ for a fab nite.

    cat

  20. July 28th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
    ME Strauss said

    No worries. You do so much. You’re the one who should be getting the thank yous.

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