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SUNNYSIDE OF THE STREET

This is my current favorite commercial:



The song is "Sunnyside of the Street" by The Pogues. It's off the Hell's Ditch album, which you should own. The lyrics that can be heard in this here are:

Saw the carnival at Rome
Had the women
And I had the booze
All I can remember now
Is little kids they had no shoes
I saw a train and I got on it
With a heart full of hate
And a lust for vomit
Now I'm walking on
The sunny side of the street

To me this screams Cadillac. I don't know if the folks behind the music choice knew exactly what was being sung. I have to admit, I've loved this song for about ten years and I didn't know quite what the lyrics were until I pulled down my cd and looked at them after seeing the ad for the first time yesterday. (I thought Shane was singing "Lust for Fanny," which is also inappropriate in the context of the ad, but not quite as beautifully wrong as "Vomit.")

I believe that this may be the first time the word "vomit" has been used in an advertisement for a luxury car. Or anything.

For me, this tops Carnival Cruises using a song about heroin addiction in their ads, or that candy company in the 80s whose name I can't remember that put out little chocolate pellets called, you guessed it, "Dingleberries."

Tee-Hee.

MADDY & THE POE BOYS

So my friend Joe organized an outing to Baltimore this past weekend to see the graveyard where Edgar Allan Poe was buried twice. Dad and Emily came along, and it was a nice little touristy thing to do. And when I saw this crypt, I had to get a family picture:

Part of the trip was a tour of the catacombs under the church in the churchyard. At one point the tour guide mentioned to me that children have a tendency to not like being down in the underground where the dead people go, but Maddy seemed just fine. Though at one point, no lie, she pointed at nothing in particular and said "Ghosty, ghosty." Which was odd.

To my knowledge, Maddy's only experience with the word "ghost" is when Jamee points at our Disney Haunted Mansion poster and says "See the ghosties."

So, again, odd.

So here's me and Maddy in graveyard, where Mister Eddie used to be buried. We'll have to come up again and get another picture without the pacifier. Though it is a jack-o-lantern one...

And here's Maddy and Dad. It's a nice one...