Some things don't change

My mother once, when I was, like, eleven, asked me what the repeated chant on the coda of this song was. I looked it up on the album liner notes, and told her it was "Mama se, mama sa, ma ma koo sa."

She then said she wished I hadn't told her that. She'd been hearing it as "I'm standing on the side of the mountainside," which (as I pointed out) doesn't even have the same number of syllables.

But why did she ask if she didn't want to know?

This sums up a great deal of my relationship with my mother.

Some things don't change

My mother once, when I was, like, eleven, asked me what the repeated chant on the coda of this song was. I looked it up on the album liner notes, and told her it was "Mama se, mama sa, ma ma koo sa."

She then said she wished I hadn't told her that. She'd been hearing it as "I'm standing on the side of the mountainside," which (as I pointed out) doesn't even have the same number of syllables.

But why did she ask if she didn't want to know?

This sums up a great deal of my relationship with my mother.

More Schadenfreude

Stolen from moontyger: No Sex, Please, We're Republicans. It's a bit out of date - written in August 2004, back when we could hope that the nightmare was ending soon. More importantly, it was written when Ashcroft was the attorney general, when the fundie wing of the Republican party was clearly ascendant.

Yeah, I said was. Not implying that they're not ascendant now, of course. But while they probably are, they're not clearly so anymore.

( Or, why having Capitalists, NeoCons, pseudo-Libertarians, and Authoritarians in the same party is a bad idea: )

More Schadenfreude

Stolen from moontyger: No Sex, Please, We're Republicans. It's a bit out of date - written in August 2004, back when we could hope that the nightmare was ending soon. More importantly, it was written when Ashcroft was the attorney general, when the fundie wing of the Republican party was clearly ascendant.

Yeah, I said was. Not implying that they're not ascendant now, of course. But while they probably are, they're not clearly so anymore.

( Or, why having Capitalists, NeoCons, pseudo-Libertarians, and Authoritarians in the same party is a bad idea: )