{"id":1703,"date":"2013-03-04T11:41:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T19:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2013-03-04T14:20:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T22:20:22","slug":"1703","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/archives\/1703","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Like Mondays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I don&#8217;t like Mondays anymore than the Boomtown Rats do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8yteMugRAc0?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"420\" height=\"315\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8yteMugRAc0?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A modern listener may find some of the lyrics in this song disturbing, more so in context with the beady-eyed school children in the video, serving to further tighten collective nerves around school violence. To wit:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\"><em>The silicon chip inside her head<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Gets switched to overload<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And nobody\u2019s gonna go to school today<\/em><br \/>\n<em> She\u2019s gonna make them stay at home<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And daddy doesn\u2019t understand it<\/em><br \/>\n<em> He always said she was good as gold<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And he can see no reasons<\/em><br \/>\n<em> &#8216;Cos there are no reasons<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And further into the song:<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\"><em>And all the playing&#8217;s stopped in the playground now<br \/>\nShe wants to play with the toys a while<br \/>\nAnd school&#8217;s out early and soon we&#8217;ll be learning<br \/>\nAnd the lesson today is how to die<br \/>\nAnd then the bullhorn crackles<br \/>\nAnd the captain tackles<br \/>\n(With the problems of the how&#8217;s and why&#8217;s)<br \/>\nAnd he can see no reasons<br \/>\n&#8216;Cos there are no reasons<br \/>\nWhat reason do you need to die, die?<br \/>\nOh Oh Oh<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And yet the song was first released in 1979 &#8212; in an age of relative innocence, at least on school playgrounds &#8212; by a UK band. I was an impressionable nineteen year old then, fresh out of high school, clueless of my future path, and I remember driving aimlessly through the suburbs of Milwaukee in a thoroughly used car listening to that song blare over two speakers connected to an AM\/FM cassette player that together likely cost me more than the car did. Regular gas was south of a buck a gallon. Were some kids victims of bullying at school? Absolutely. Did any fear getting beat up? If you crossed the wrong person(s), yes. Being murdered? Never.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, I half expect that song would earn the album it appears on a Parental Advisory sticker, warning of explicit content, not for sex or profanity but rather over the concern the song could ignite the wickedness in an irrational listener, and stir them to commit an unspeakable act of school violence. I am dubious of any role suggestive music or violent video games have in causing modern spasms of murder, and even more dubious that a sticker on the label would do anything to curb said violence, but I never underestimate the need some people feel &#8212; &#8220;nanny staters&#8221; being the worst among them &#8212; to <em>do something<\/em> about it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anyhoo, turning to more frivolous matters of dubious interest &#8212; we have a house guest for the remainder of this month. Mel cared for Lucy while we were on Maui and she&#8217;s decided to accept our invitation to stay with us until her current term at work ends. Unlike the infamous house guests from the lower 48 that invade our state each summer, sporting jejune questions like &#8220;Where&#8217;s mount McKinley?&#8221; or, &#8220;How do you sleep when it&#8217;s always light out?&#8221; or, &#8220;Do you have salmon in your bathtub?&#8221;, Mel by\u00a0 contrast is a seasoned Alaskan, a real Sourdough, and I must say a pleasure to share dinner, wine, and conversation with at the end of a long workday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even Mondays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like Mondays anymore than the Boomtown Rats do. A modern listener may find some of the lyrics in this song disturbing, more so in context with the beady-eyed school children in the video, serving to further tighten collective nerves around school violence. 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