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Superman | Diamond D + “No Drama Obama”

Diamond D: Superman (prod. DJ Scratch) (128kbps)
Single (?, 2010)

I am a '72 baby. I am fastidious and nonconforming.

I do not listen to the radio for music instead, only, for news (preferably NPR). The "radio ready" - "lollipop" machinations misnomered "music" are cause for antacid.

Diamond D's "Superman", by contrast, is refreshing - mellifluous and euphonically resplendent; further, the lyrical rhythmic exactitude is "right-on".

Good music is nourishing.

Yet, as Superma[e]n go Barack Obama is premier - Times Online rhetorically ask, Did “No Drama Obama” cool served him poorly as the Deepwater Horizon oil rig problem worsened? Most poignantly TO provides:

Suddenly Americans did not want an icy-cool leader, but a superman. A nation whose distrust of central government has reached a post-Civil War high wanted a huge and powerful government to jump in. Perhaps no one summed up that desire more succinctly than Mr Obama’s own daughter Malia, below, who peeked her head around the bathroom door last week to ask: “Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?”


+It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Obama! | NYT
*MP3 courtesy of RIK

Lost

I was forwarded the following earlier today and found "Lost" profound enough to post posthaste:

A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him,

"Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."

The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.

"She rolled her eyes and said, "You must be an Obama Democrat."

"I am,"replied the man. "How did you know?"

"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is technically correct. But I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help to me."

The man smiled and responded, "You must be a Republican."

"I am," replied the balloonist. "How did you know?"

"Well," said the man, "you don't know where you are or where you are going. You've risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but somehow, now it's my fault. "

*Cagle | i + ii