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variations on a theme: The “an ordinary clock glimpsed in its moment of brief ‘netroots’ awakening” post (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)

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“TOCK, baby!  The new word is TOCK!  ‘Tic’ is through.  ‘Tic’ represents capitulation to the Man’s predominant narrative.  Whereas TOCK is the advent, brothers and sisters —the dawning of a new age of progressive political and social awakening that begins and ends with the power of the people powered people’s peopling and as such cannot be contained, constrained, or compartmentalized.  It just is.  Yes, TOCK is here to stay!  And those who refuse to heed TOCK will soon be relegated to the ash heap of –”

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67 Replies to “variations on a theme: The “an ordinary clock glimpsed in its moment of brief ‘netroots’ awakening” post (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)”

  1. Beck says:

    Fortunately, the operative word in the title was “brief.”

  2. “Four Months Later”

    Tic

    Tic

    Tic

    Remember when that Tock thing happened… yea that was wierd…

    Tic

    Tic..

  3. none says:

    This post is so three seconds ago.

  4. Matt, Esq. says:

    sorry, too busy laughing, no snark available..

  5. McGehee says:

    While the nutroots are all congratulating on ticking the tock, or tocking the wok, or whatever, the world has long since moved on to digital horography.

    I’m eagerly awaiting the introduction of Adobe Horoshop.

  6. Dan Collins says:

    Just one minor quibble: shouldn’t there be a YEAAAAAAAARGH! in there, somewhere?

  7. Tai Chi Wawa says:

    What’s all this TOCK talk about people powered people’s peopling?

  8. Pablo says:

    Who is the most equal nutbar now?

  9. SweepTheLegJohnny says:

    I thought the sound was just in my head……I need to cancel my appointment with the head shrinker then.

  10. Benedick says:

    Who will stand athwart history yelling “TIC”?

  11. Dan Collins says:

    McGehee,

    I bought the basic version: Little Shop of Houris.

    The ticocracy is finished.  Tockocracy will take its place, and create room for the emergence of hickoryocracy, dickoryocracy and dockoryocracy as well.  Sockpuppetry will be superceded by tockpuppetry.  Won’t O’Reilly cry when he has to give his Tocking Points memos on Focks?  Won’t Spock and Doc Ock wok the wok chocablock when the cuckoo clock with the cockringdoodledoo mocks the lox on the bagel box when they got the pox?  Won’t they wish they had a pint of bock when they nock the arrow that shoots through the marrow of the croc that slides over the rocks and they end up in the stocks?

    I’m just asking.

  12. N. O'Brain says:

    Besides which, TOCK rhymes with COCK.

  13. Benedick says:

    [Insert Count Tockula jab here]

  14. mojo says:

    “Teek tock – Hey, Paoulo! what’s he talking about, man?”

    — Firesign Theatre

    “I think We’re All Bozos on This Bus”

  15. me says:

    Nothing like Tic be Tock-slapped into submission.

  16. PattyAnn says:

    mojo, last time I tried to slip a Firesign Theatre reference in here I discovered that everybody here is younger than I am. Just warnin’ you.

  17. Meg Q says:

    Parfait, mon frere.

    I, for one, welcome our new nut, uh, Netroot overlords, right up until they all implode at the general election.

    (“PRIMARYIST!”)

    In the meantime, it’s pure comedy gold. I mean, really, this is win-win. Plus the whole any-grownups-in-the-Democrat-Party? thing.

    TW: foot, mouth, you know . . . it’s comin’, let them have their little party first cheese

  18. SarahW says:

    Now that’s HIPPIE CLOCK-CRAZY.

  19. Punted says:

    Shoot.  Because of the hippietockcracy?

  20. This one’s great.

  21. 6Gun says:

    Oh YEAH, baby, and we ain’t gonna take no more rigged elections either!  Let me HEAR you, baby!

    -Cynthia McKinney

  22. Bill D. Cat says:

    J`s been eating those `dillo droppings from behind the couch again.

    TW : “district”,as in, is is one of those damned

    Tockocrats gonna try runnin` in this staunchly ticocratic “district”.

  23. Rusty says:

    God damnit to hell!

    Fucking clocks.

    It’s me. Isn’t it.

  24. Bill D. Cat says:

    What do you call the Tockopian and Nutroot`s of America?

    T N A,of course. Now there`s a party to really get behind.

  25. WT says:

    Total rip of “Subvert the dominant paradigm” bumper sticker.

    But still funny.  And cute. Cockula Rules!

  26. syn says:

    It’s a pure Tock cleansed of all Others who might corrupt the essence of Progressive perfection.

  27. The Monster says:

    Prediction:

    After the Ticks are completely purged, a schism develops between the Tocks and the Talks.

    TW:first they came for the Ticks, but I was not a blood-sucking insect….

  28. Nuke 'm Hill says:

    Speaking of sock puppets.  Wired caught a free-lancer faking it big time.  Pretty funny shit.

  29. guinsPen says:

    BECAUSE OF THE HOT STEAMING TOCK !!!

  30. a4g says:

    Tock needs to listen to Milo, get off his ass, and help find Rhyme and Reason.

    TW: …fifth grade reading list slowly coming back to me…

  31. JD says:

    Butthead: “Hehhhehheh…he just said ‘tock’…”

    TW:  long

  32. JD says:

    Look, gang:  We now have a challenge before us come November.

    We can all tic the talk, but can we tock the walk?

  33. PattyAnn, there are at least of few of us who get Firesign Theatre references.

    Damn rheumatiz makes it hard to type, though.

  34. wishbone says:

    Who will stand athwart history yelling “TIC”?

    Now that’s smart and funny.

    Unlike, as one of the rotating banners at upper left says, Michael Moore.

  35. Scott in OC says:

    Meet the new Tock

    Same as the old Tock

  36. Noel says:

    Tock-Puppet has already addressed this issue.

  37. Bill D. Cat says:

    A quick heads` up to all you pot smokin`,granola munchin`,VW van drivin` fucking tock straps, tics run this world.If you want to get wound up about this, do it on your own time.

    TW : if you don`t have to “work”,I guess smokin`

    pot is OK.

  38. piggybelly says:

    PattyAnn, there are at least of few of us who get Firesign Theatre references.

    Damn rheumatiz makes it hard to type, though.

    “That’s just a bag of Sh*t!!”

    “But it’s really GOOD Sh*t!!!”

    Ah, memories . . . .

  39. cynn says:

    Um, a baby’s arm holding an apple?  Anyone know that?  If you do I’ll be your own personal groupie.

  40. Dan Collins says:

    Mmmmm.  King Biscuit Flour Hour.

  41. Rusty, it’s OK; just skip the clock ones, friend. Sooner or later Jeff’ll get back to talking about semiotics or heuristics or some other discipline I never knew existed until I started hanging out here. This Tock is a bit – assertive, but it made me think of:

    [Ahem.] It’s the Age of Aquarius, Age of Aquariuuuuuus…. Aquariuuuuuuuuus…. A-qua-ri-us! Harmony and understanding, sympathy and trust abounding, no more falsehoods or derisions, golden living dreams of visions, mystic crystal revelations and the mind’s true liberation – Aquariuuuuussss….

    Contrasted with Wontcha marry me Bill? I love you so, I always will – from the same album. I always thought that was pretty funny.

    cynn – Goldmember, for one. I don’t know of what it was derivative.

  42. oseaghdha says:

    Mmmmm.  King Biscuit Flour Hour.

    Oh Good Grief!

    Get that man an AARP card, STAT!

  43. cynn says:

    oseawhatever, shaddup before I run you down wit’my golf cart.  Where’s my pills, dammit?!?

  44. oseaghdha says:

    Wait, I can’t find my fookin glasses……

  45. cynn says:

    No, my elderly friends.  Exactly whose lyrics are those, and google doesn’t remotely count!  Recall it if you dare.

  46. Tai Chi Wawa says:

    “Um, a baby’s arm holding an apple?  Anyone know that?  If you do I’ll be your own personal groupie.”

    Peter the Hermit?

  47. gahrie says:

    Clocks are so chrononormative anyway. There isd no time…merely duration. Throw away your artifical constructs and embrace the freedom of nature’s rhythms, and live in harmony with Mother Gaea…..

    TW leave. As in where did I leave that doobie….

  48. cynn says:

    tai chi wawa:  In the first place, is that legitimate actual Oriental nomenclature?  In the second place: Wha?  Is “Peter the Hermit” an ethnocentric biblical reference?  Sounds like it to me.  Or could it be about water?  Thirst?  For the truth?  Got it.  Well, you can’t have that….

  49. PattyAnn says:

    OMG! There are so many old geezers here after all! And cynn, why does everything get blamed on all these tubes on the internet?

  50. Tai Chi Wawa says:

    Cynn,

    See “I came through and I shall return.  On like, Thursday” comments of August 1.

    It’s no fun if you have to explain them.

  51. lee says:

    Recall it if you dare.

    If I recall, cynn, didn’t you get ascared and run away cuz you thought Jeff was going to find your personal info, and post it?

    Naw, I must be thinking of someone else…

    TW:brown stains in the pants.

  52. MarkD says:

    I’ve died and gone to hell.  Two weeks ago a guy I work with started singing the Age of Aquarias.  Three decades had been sufficient to get it out of my mind.

    With the aid a few beers (I refuse to specify the brands or quantities), I had forgotten that song.

    Now, it’s back.

    TW: It keeps going through my mind. Where’s my Jethro Tull CD anyway?  Darn kids keep taking my stuff and leaving Spice Girls and Back Street Boys.

    Gotta be hell.

  53. sesame screeds says:

    tock tock tock… nothing but tock, that’s all we ever get from them

    TW: there should be only eight twinkies in a box – more than that would be tock-sick.

  54. National Lampoon Radio Hour says:

    OMG! There are so many old geezers here after all!

    Speak for yourself, sister.

  55. N. O'Brain says:

    Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening all at once.

  56. wishbone says:

    Try “One Bad Apple,” Mark.  I have no idea where it came from–just popped in there one day.

    I’m on the verge of climbing a tall building with a rifle strapped to my back.

  57. LoafingOaf says:

    Ha!  This was a really good one, Jeff!  All of your posts have been especially strong today. Makes me wanna click on some of your ads for a bit.  smile

  58. Okey-dokey, MarkD, lessee if I can get that 5th Dimension out of your head.

    Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel, never ending or beginning on an ever-spinning reel, like a – hey, what do you know? – clock whose hands are slipping past the minutes of its face, and the world is like an – there seems to be some kind of harmonic convergence going on here – apple spinning silently in space… like the circles that you find in the windmills of your miiiind…..

    I think maybe I’d better lay off the amaretto. (It’s too girly anyway.) Apologies for lyric screwups; I’m working from memory of my remarkably square parents’ remarkably odd collection of LPs.

  59. BornRed says:

    Awww… Wishbone…

    Now you’ve got my brain doing “In a little while from now… if I’m not feeling any less sour… I promise myself to treat myself and visit a nearby tower…”

    Sigh… one weekend on a campout in the MO Ozarks we heard that song EVERY time we jumped in Debi’s ‘65 Mustang.  Took me years to recover.

    And yes, you can add me to the Firesign/King Biscuit/Nat’l Lampoon Geezer Club.

    TW: nineteen seventy-three – when music really got good

  60. CP says:

    Doesn’t the University of Colorado have it’s own atomic clock? Do Cesium atoms actually “Tic” or “tock” What do the revolutions sound like? cool smile

    TW: It’s fun being social. With Bigfoot. And beer. He’s just misunderstood. Brother can’t take a shower with somebody from the MSM climbing trees to take blurry pics of him.

  61. Sean M. says:

    I can’t believe nobody’s thought of this one yet…

    8” CUT GAY PORN TOCK OF LIES!!!

  62. CraigC says:

    PattyAnn, we had a nice little Firesign Theater riff going just the other day. And Cynn, before I give you the answer, what do I win?

    That’s why I like Dennis Miller so much. Before I watch him, I get down in a catcher’s crouch and start yelling, “Come on, Mr. Pop Culture Reference! See if you can get one by me! SWING BATTAH!”

    “Antelope Freeway, one-half mile.”

    “Antelope Freeway, one-quarter mile.”

    “If you lived here, you’d be home now.”

    Jebus H. Chribist. Spamword, “drive.”

  63. me says:

    What do the revolutions sound like?

    Hmmm.

  64. BumperStickerist says:

    MyDD – your one stop shop for sensitive Joooooo Bashing, but in a good way.

    Quoth Matt.

    If you gave Michael Dukakis $4 billion, a massive ego, and made him Jewish, you’d have Michael Bloomberg.

    Bloomberg is a technocratic Democrat with strong streak of AIPAC in him, so it’s not surprising he endorsed Joe. 

    Now, I have a bit of a personal gripe here.  I absolutely HATE Bloomberg Democrats.  They are immoral, somewhat racist, and live in a bubble where a corrupt AIPAC lobby that sacrifices Israel to the far right in the name of making middle aged billionaires feel good about themselves is the definition of virtue.

    Well, so long as Matt Stoller isn’t being racist or anything.

    http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/8/9/183331/9471

  65. Rusty. With a nasty gravel rash. says:

    Rusty, it’s OK; just skip the clock ones, friend.

    Eventually it will come to me. I know it will.

    They’re all strung together. Is that it?

  66. McGehee says:

    Tock-a pasa.

  67. Meg Q says:

    HAR-MO-NEEEEE AND UNDER-STAND-IIIIIIIIING!!!

    (Mystic crystal revelations . . . and the mind’s true liberation . . .)

    MarkD, that one’s going out to you . . . cheese

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