Yes! It’s true! I watched Ryan Seacrest and company on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, 4 hours of tribute to boy bands and R&B/Hip-Hop, whose agents must be doing a happy dance, as well as Taylor Swift’s, unlike the agents whose groups are female. While watching, I had a Lucid Moment and joined Brave Tune and Chloe Cat on the floor, eating persimmons.
On August 8 last year, you might remember, I had a lucid moment. I titled my blog “Lucid Moments” (of course you remember!). You may also recall my spirit guide, Brave Tune, who wrote the song about Ted Nugent called “I’d like to stick my arrow in your nuggets, Nugent” after Teddy Boy called Native Americans vermin and less than human.
Brave Tune and I reconvened on New Year’s Eve, sitting on the cabin floor with Chloe Cat, waiting for the New Year to begin, and we started singing “All Along the Watchtower”and arguing about who did the best version, Hendrix or Dylan. There are only 27 lines in the entire 4-to-5 minute song. Of those 27 lines, all we could remember was something about a growling wildcat (no, sorry, actually that was Chloe Cat who remembered that one). I remembered something about a howling wind, and Brave Tune said something about two riders, so we ended up with a song that went like this:
All along the DC tower two riders did prowl.
As cougar Sarah Palin she began to growl,
I can see the Willard Hotel and Russia just as well.
At this her lungs began to swell.
And then a rider named Boehner said that life is but a joke.
And Chloe Cat chimed in with
I think you both might choke.
So we sat there in the middle of the room, eating persimmons, and waiting for the moon, which we could see from the floor. Chloe Cat then broke into Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” (that kitty can move!), and we ate more persimmons, but when Chloe Cat suggested singing Jessie J, Ariana Grande, and Nicki Minaj’s “Bang Bang,” she was cut off from eating any more persimmons.
Finally midnight arrived, and Ryan sank in midnight gloom, and Taylor sold out and didn’t need to moon—so much for New Year’s Eve. I hope your New Year is full of peace and lots of love.
There will be more on Seacrest and Swift in the podcast. Here’s the Snoop and its One Direction to the shores of Rambling Harbor. With a little “Wiggle” I hope you’ll join me there.
