{"id":1943,"date":"2010-12-06T04:26:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T09:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2012-01-01T11:03:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T16:03:35","slug":"because-i-am-cruel-and-have-crap-taste-in-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2010\/12\/06\/because-i-am-cruel-and-have-crap-taste-in-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Because I am Cruel and Have Crap Taste in Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" 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\/4HaAOCGb3bw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m breaking the seal on a new category, boys and girls. This is sort of a snapshot of an unkempt corner of my brain that probably resembles an episode of <em>Hoarders.<\/em> This is a category where I trot out the little ditties that get lodged in the forefront of my mind and run on an endless loop driving me to the very brink of sanity. In doing so, I am sort of <em>passing on the runes<\/em> and sharing the affliction.<\/p>\n<p>I am fascinated by the detritus of\u00c2\u00a0 the ghosts of hipsters past. For one brief shining moment, it all seemed like such a good idea, but it gets buried in the back of a closet hoping never to be seen again. Move along. Nothing to see here. I think a lot of people hoped\u00c2\u00a0 that this stuff was tossed down some fiery memory hole never to be seen again, but no such luck! It&#8217;s all on display somewhere on the internet like some enormous, labyrinthine thrift store from which there is no escape!\u00c2\u00a0 If an image or video has been digitized, it keeps coming back just like Christopher Lee in an umpteenth Dracula movie. This is a category where I go pop cultural dumpster diving and dump the contents on to your lawns!<\/p>\n<p>The sad thing is that I truly love a lot of this nonsense!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m breaking the seal on a new category, boys and girls. This is sort of a snapshot of an unkempt corner of my brain that probably resembles an episode of Hoarders. This is a category where I trot out the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2010\/12\/06\/because-i-am-cruel-and-have-crap-taste-in-music\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[190,26],"tags":[199,56,200],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musical-cruelty","category-stuff-joe-likes","tag-199","tag-music","tag-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-vl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4194,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/13\/truck-mascots\/","url_meta":{"origin":1943,"position":0},"title":"Truck Mascots","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"September 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a new category dedicated to the phenomena that I call Truck Mascots. 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Actually, I was curious to see how well the embed function from The Internet Archive works, and, as it turns out, it works very well! If you haven't checked out the Internet Archive, GO THERE NOW!!! It is a treasure trove\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blast from the Past&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blast from the Past","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/blast-from-the-past\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10702,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/12\/03\/the-truck-mascot-two-fer-or-halloween-aint-over\/","url_meta":{"origin":1943,"position":2},"title":"The Truck Mascot Two-Fer or Halloween Ain&#8217;t Over","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"December 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I haven't seen a proper example of a truck mascot (i.e., a discarded stuffed animal or toy lashed to the grill of a large truck) in quite a while. I've had to settle for stuffed animals attached to pickup trucks which I don't believe to be in the true spirit\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Halloween&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Halloween","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/halloween\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/truck-mascot-two-fer.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/truck-mascot-two-fer.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/truck-mascot-two-fer.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/truck-mascot-two-fer.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":23204,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/01\/30\/i-want-my-polka-music-tv\/","url_meta":{"origin":1943,"position":3},"title":"I Want My Polka Music TV!","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"January 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"When I purchased my first Roku about 8 years ago I quickly became convinced that it was the best $60 I had ever spent. 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