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[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by ms. naughty diplomat
i can hear casey casem now:

Actually, it was a dog named Snuggles.

"Now we're up to our long distance dedication, and this one is about kids and pets, and a situation we can all understand, whether we have kids or pets or neither. It comes from a man in Cincinnati, Ohio, and here's what he writes.

"'Dear Casey, This may seem to be a strange dedication request, but I am quite sincere and it will mean a lot if you play it. Recently there was a death in our family. He was a little dog named Snuggles, but he was most certainly a part of . . .'"

"Let's go . . . start again. Coming out of the record, play the record, okay? Please . . . ."

"That's the letter U and the numeral 2. The four-man band features Adam Clayton on bass, Larry Mullin on drums, Dave Evans, nicknamed The Edge on . . . this is bullshit! Nobody cares! These guys are from England, and who gives a shit! It's a lot of wasted names that don't mean diddly shit!"

"Emmm . . . too many . . . Come out of those goddamn up-tempo numbers, man, it's impossible to make those transitions. Then you gotta go into somebody dying! Goddamn it if we can't come out of slow records. I don't understand it, why aren't we doing these instrumentals, too? Do we got 'em? Will somebody find the goddamn answer? Okay? I want a goddamn concerted effort to come out of a record, that isn't a . . . a fucking up-tempo record, every time I do a goddamn . . . DEATH dedication! This is the last goddamn time. I want somebody to use his fucking brain to not come out of a goddamn record that is a . . . up-tempo, and I gotta talk about a fucking dog dying! What is this... this is fucking ponderous, man..."

"This is American Top 40, right here on the radio you grew up with, Music Radio 138... Oh Fuck!"

After the copyright battle with U2 forcing them to pull "U2" off the shelves, Negativland subsequently released fuck-you albums entitled "The Letter U and the Numeral 2" and "These Guys Are from England and Who Gives a Shit." I have my cassette of "U2" --- wish I'd thought to get it on CD before it got banned --- and it does my heart good to hear it. It's still not as funny as the stuff they did on KPFA, but it takes me back to bright college days.

A("Don't touch that dial --- it's got Dick on it!")G