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Harry Bellow-fonte

Rich Galen

Monday January 25, 2006



  • "� Banana Boat Song ...":
    Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
    Daylight come and me wan' go home
    Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
    Daylight come and me wan' go home

    Work all night on a drink of rum
    Daylight come and me wan' go home
    Stack banana till de morning come
    Daylight come and me wan' go home
    Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
    Daylight come and me wan' go home
    Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
    Daylight come and me wan' go home

    Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
    Daylight come and me wan' go home
    Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
    Daylight come and me wan' go home
    Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
    Daylight come and me wan' go home
    Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
    Daylight come and me wan' go home

    Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
    Daylight come and me wan' go home
    Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
    Daylight come and me wan' go home

    Beautiful bunch of ripe banana
    Daylight come and me wan' go home

    Hide the deadly black tarantula
    Daylight come and me wan' go home
    Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
    Daylight come and me wan' go home
    Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
    Daylight come and me wan' go home
    Day, me say day-ay-ay-o
    Day, me say day, me say day, me say day,
    Daylight come and me wan' go home

  • "�Amsterdam News ...": Here's the link to the reporting about Belafonte's visit to a Black New York Church.

  • "� Jerry Falwell ...": The e-mailed version of Mullings contains an error of fact. It was Pat Robertson, not Jerry Falwell who called for the hit on Chavez.

    Mullfoto of the Day

    Walking around Georgetown last weekend, I stopped to chat with a young man who was handing out bumperstickers thinking he was involved in something important. This was the approximate conversation:

    ME:     What's "zendik?"
    KID:     It's a Sanskrit word that means, like, out of the ordinary.
    ME:     I thought Sanskrit was a non-written language.
    KID:     It is.
    ME:     Isn't "zendik" written on that bumper strip?
    KID:     (Worried about what he has gotten into) Well, yeah.
    ME:     If Sanskrit is a non-written language, how can that word - written right there - be Sanskrit?
    KID:     I, uh, look ...
    ME:     Kind of an existential dilemma, isn't it?
    KID:     I guess so.
    ME:     Out of the ordinary, sort of?
    KID:     Uh huh.
    ME:     Zendik.

    I do not, as you may have noticed, have much of a life.


    Catchy Caption of the Day

    Actual Caption:

    Animal rights activists from PETA and AnimaNaturalis stage a naked protest curled up on the pavement outside Barcelona, Spain city hall to denounce the abuse and slaying of animals to make fur coats.

    See? This ... THIS is why I'm for global warming. Naked protests in January!

    (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

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