A thought on Finland's winning entry in the Eurovision contest

So, a Finnish GWAR-like heavy metal band won Eurovision, with their song "Hard Rock Hallelujah," which is the sort of song which kind of went out of fashion in the United States ten or twenty years ago.

But I was thinking about the message which their music video is sending. I think it's a message of hope sent out to all the disaffected kids who are effectively outcasts in their own high schools. It's a message telling them that they don't have to pull a Columbine and kill their tormentors. All they need to do is have a magical heavy metal band show up, slaughter the cheerleading squad and raise them as your zombie slaves, and use THEM to kill your tormentors.

Bartending stuff

I got a phone call at 8:45 this morning from Ed Schroter at APD Bartending services, telling me that one of his bartenders broke his leg, one was stuck in Philadelphia unexpectedly, one had been abducted by aliens, one was being held hostage by space ninja pirates, and, all in all, he was six bartenders down for a whole lot of big functions at Tufts today, and did I want to work, like, y'know, could I get to Tufts in fifteen minutes for a 9 AM call would be good. . . .

I couldn't make that, but I said I could show up at 2 pm, which was still helpful to him.
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