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B Movie. So bad you can't stay away. [Posted Oct. 2005]
Billboards. Known in the media biz as "outdoor" (a noun). A light-hearted look at advertising for one of America's drugs of choice. Frankly tendentious, and possibly not for the queasy. [Posted Feb. 2001]
Chametz Tonight!. After eight days of the bread of our affliction, Passover is over!
The Fan Of The Rising Sun. A repentant otaku's confession. (Otaku: Japanese-animation fanboy.) [Posted March 2003]
The Fanboy. Otaku's-eye view of a con. [Posted March 2001]
Harley's Angels Adventure Theme. What if the Tiny Toons were a motorcycle gang?...
Secondhand Smoke. Death pushers. [Posted March 2008]
The Sound of .... What we can never get away from, it seems. [Posted July 2011]
Video Heroes (v2.0). Animation! Action! Adventure! "Daddy, daddy, let's get that one!" (Revised to be not too many years behind.) [Posted Feb. 2001]
The Waffle Song commemorates the Great American Electoral Mess of 2000. [Posted March 2001]
Wild Blue Gonzo.
The Mediocre Great One of the Muppet Show.
The Addict. Reading material... reading immaterial... reading, rereading, rereadinging readingreadingrereinigngginginggn... [Posted April 2006]
Admonition in Unseasonable Weather. Early December, 1998, brought some remarkable days to the Boston area, more like early fall than the grim damp cloudy chill we're used to around that time. But we knew it couldn't last. [Posted March 2001]
Blue Balls, or The Hedgehog Reimagined. What's wrong here? This song is absolutely G-rated! [Posted April 2009]
Blue Moon. Not actually daily life... [Posted Jan. 2010]
Cha-os. As if life weren't chaotic enough, we had to get the carpet taken out. That meant everything that was on the floor had to move. [Posted July 2001]
Chap Shtick. Now is the winter of our discontent ... [Posted April 2003]
A Chat With Your Teenager. In behalf of one of the most maligned minorities in today's society. [Posted March 2001]
Circle the Block. A city driver's lament. [Posted Dec. 2008]
Dark and Light. Not the Force, not even duct tape: it's laundry! Other people's laundry. My teenagers' laundry. I can run, but I can't hide. [Posted Feb. 2001]
The Darwin Awards are aperiodically awarded by popular acclaim to those who improve the human gene pool by removing themselves from it in ways that demonstrate that their removal constitutes an improvement. Rated R for gore, if you have a strong imagination.
Dolly Boxes. They're taking over, and they aren't even alive! ... are they? A familiar story from another kind of fandom. [Posted Aug. 2005]
Editors' Waltz. Do you ever see a misspelled sign or a badly written set of instructions and just seethe? ... You don't? Well, I sometimes do. And whether Dr. Whom corrects it or not, I sometimes take comfort in song. [Posted March 2001]
Every Wrong Turn In the Book Written for a friend. [Posted December 2004]
Father's Little Helper. How Daddy makes it through the day. (Not really. What, never? Well... hardly ever.) [Posted March 2001]
How Can I Keep from Screaming? (A Dilbertiad). The subtitle says it all about the point of view of this cri de coeur from cubicle-land. [Posted Sept. 2001]
Insomnia Suite. How Daddy makes it (or fails to make it) through the night. [Posted March 2001]
Junk Mail: threat or menace?.
Little Fuzzy Vegetables. The next time you hear something calling out to you from the fridge, it might not be that leftover cheesecake.
Low Tech. Bring back the good old days, before every step you take wasn't an invitation to Murphy. [Posted Jan. 2012]
Mister Sandman. Survival support services in winter. [Posted March 2003]
My Grandfathered Plot. My wife was telling me about a zoning issue in our town, and I started thinking about this. [New verse added Feb. 2001]
My Grandfather's Hat. Frank Hayes wrote a version of "My Grandfather's Clock" involving the old gentleman's cadaver and its obstinate container. Garrison Keillor wrote "My Grandmother's Cat". See what comes of thinking of two such things at the same time. [Posted April 2005]
Nobody's Handgun Now. I'm told that Leslie Fish heard this sung at a con and snorted, "Common sense!" Common sense should be part of daily life, so here it is.
No Safe Ground. September 11, 2001. Life is not the same. [Posted Oct. 2001]
An Odometer Toast. Watching the digits turn over at the end of the second millennium of the Gregorian Era. Chosen Best Humorous Song in the "Looking Forward, Looking Back" theme contest at Conterpoint Three.
The Real(?) World Temperance Union. Some topics you don't have to make up: South Korea's baseball authorities have banned a star pitcher from wearing frozen cabbage leaves in his cap to keep cool during games. --BBC
Road: A Hymn to the Highway, that great web of pavement tying our continent together... in knots.
Rude Awakening. Oh, our wired world. A case of felony music abuse. [Posted Aug. 2005]
Seldom In Chicago. Old Macintosh users remember how impressive the "Chicago" font was in comparison to the dot-matrix-y typewriter-y stuff that had been standard on most computers till then. [Posted April 2003]
A Small Snarky Voice. Those who have met me at cons or filksings have seen my familiar, Loiosh. This is not the first time he's been in my songs; see verse 3 of Con From Argo.
A Spell for the Millennium. A little mnemonic magic. [Posted Jan. 2011]
Swing. Everyday magic. [Posted Feb. 2006]
The Two Towers. Not what you're thinking. ... ... Not what you're thinking now, either. (Besides, this is the wrong section for one of them.) [Posted Aug. 2005]
The Uniform. Facing peer pressure in adolescence. Completely fictional, but inspired by a high school classmate's integrity. [Posted Nov. 2006]
Vuvuzela. "What's that I hear now, ringing in my ear..." ... and ringing ... and ringing... [July 2010]
Who Will Buy...?. My Chinese sister, selling her house, wrote me: I need a song to the tune of "Who Will Buy?" from "Oliver!"....pertaining to my current real estate situation....I stumble around aimlessly with it and am turning to you for professional assistance. ;) [Posted Aug. 2008]
Yielding to Temptation. Those little distractions that run through every day (and night) of our lives. [Posted Aug. 2005]
Zander's Little Filkbook. My life and house really are (almost) this chaotic. I bought Zander Nyrond's book of filksongs last year and promptly misplaced it. I still haven't found it. [Posted March 2001]
The Anti-Demagogue. This is as much "daily life" or "religion", but demagoguery is drawn to the possibilities of power. [Posted Nov. 2011]
The Campaign Volunteer's Lament.
My wife and I actually met in a political campaign long, long ago.
These days my involvement runs about like this:
Sometimes it's more than sign duty...
[Posted March 2001]
She:
I've volunteered you for sign duty in Chris's campaign. I:
Where, when, and how long?
Valse Macabre. In invading Iraq, the Bush II administration has whirled America into another dance of death and brought the word "quagmire" back into public discourse. [Posted September 2004]
The Waffle Song commemorates the Great American Electoral Mess of 2000. [Posted March 2001]
If it goes into your mouth, it'll fit here. (Not that!*)
Billboards. A light-hearted look at advertising for one of America's drugs of choice. Frankly tendentious, and possibly not for the queasy. [Posted Feb. 2001]
La Drogvendisto. Tom Lehrer's "Old Dope Peddler" in Esperanto. [Posted May 2005; page revised Aug. 2005]
Enrique's Lament. Poor Enrique Burgos. His butterbugs produce a perfect foodstuff, but nobody wants anything to do with them, let alone it. [Posted Feb. 2001]
Father's Little Helper. How Daddy makes it through the day. (Not really. What, never? Well... hardly ever.) [Posted March 2001]
Little Fuzzy Vegetables. Sentient chili isn't the only danger lurking at the back of the fridge. A nominee for the Pegasus Award in 2000 in the category "Food and Drink".
Mark's Jingle. Dendarii maple mead has been called "the most disgusting, gut-destroying, guerilla attack-beverage ever brewed by man". But once Mark Vorkosigan starts thinking about what he can do with it, we might get a distillery and an ad campaign such as this. (See Lois McMaster Bujold's A Civil Campaign, Epilogue.) [Posted Feb. 2001]
Mongol Burger Dirge. Wage slaves of the fast food industry. [Posted Feb. 2006]
Scumble. A potent beverage in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. [Posted Feb. 2001]
Secondhand Smoke. A furi-ose apostrophe to the pushers of one of America's drugs of choice. [Posted March 2008]
Seventeen Nights Drunk In Adrilankha. A Dragaeran version of an old song (Child #274) called "Five Nights Drunk", or "Seven Drunken Nights", or ....
* A toothbrush. Why, what were you thinking of?
Animals real, imaginary, and complex.
An die Minze (Ode to Catnip). Fred and Louie are spinning in their graves. [Posted June 2010]
Beauty is a Beast. After throwing her off the kitchen counter twice and flinging a potholder to get her away from the platter of turkey.
Feeding the Cat. A reminder.
An Ista insta. After feeding the cat.
Flat on Yer Ass. Various pratfalls, the first of which... [Posted July 2011]mostly from our genre
Morning Has Splattered. The cat
ownerownee has a bad early morning. [Posted Feb. 2008]Pousse-Café. When the Feline Fantastical Fellowship meets down Archetype Cafe at midnight. [Posted Aug. 2008]
Somebody's Moggy's Clone. You just can't get away from 'em... those damn humans, that is. [Posted Aug. 2005]
Under the Bed. Self-explanatory.
What, Never? No, Never!. No matter how tempted you may be...
You're A Kitty. The girl can't help it. [posted Nov. 2007]
Little Fuzzy Ancestors. Taking a long view of some short folks.
Piggie Chow. A Very Hungry Guinea Pig. [Posted April 2003]
Sevens. The unsuspecting who step into a pet store just "to look at" the guinea pigs may wind up with more than they bargained for, in more ways than one.
Under the Griping Beast. Note, that title has just one "p"; Cat Faber's title has two. The beast itself has plenty.
Beast Of My Kind. Encounter in the pasture. [Posted March 2004]
Enrique's Lament. His butterbugs produce a perfect foodstuff, but nobody wants anything to do with them, let alone it. [Posted Feb. 2001]
The Hedgehog Song. X-rated for bawdiness. See the Discworld section for more info and related stuff.
Little Fuzzy Lunatics. Not H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy (IMHO one of the sanest characters in SF) and his kin, but about another little fuzzy race, Poul Anderson & Gordon Dickson's Hokas. [Posted August 2005]
Ophidian Carol. A serpentine devotion.
The Roadkill Song. Waste not, want not. Be warned by the title. [Posted Feb. 2001]
Rocza's Song. An imagined look inside the mind of a character we seldom hear from. [Posted December 2004; added to "Critters" section Aug. 2005]
A Small Snarky Voice. Those who have met me at cons or filksings have seen my familiar, Loiosh. This is not the first time he's been in my songs; see verse 3 of Con From Argo.
Teddy Bears' Breakdown. ... and this one is dedicated to Loiosh. [posted December 2004]
Thinking-Brain Dog. The viewpoint of a character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld book Feet of Clay.
Each year as the Chri$tmas season approaches, I find the honest sentiments of many people, believers and otherwise, largely swamped by commercialism and, worst of all, too much Christmas music on the radio and in public places. For years I have immunized myself by writing contrarian carols, or "Christmas pickles". That describes many of these items; others are based on religion or mythology (which often means "somebody else's religion").
Body Art in Jewish Law. The halakhic take on tattoos, piercings, and similar adornments. [Posted March 2001]
Branches on the Lawn. A small suburban tragedy. [Posted March 2001]
Chametz Tonight!. After eight days of the bread of our affliction, Passover is over!
Christmas at the Mall. Only 364 shopping days left!
Count Vorvlaceslav. Lois McMaster Bujold's Barrayar transforms "Good King Wenceslas".
Deck the Aisles. You wouldn't believe what the supermarkets look like leading up to Christmas! Well, yes you would, but only because you've seen it too.
Don't Throw That Missile!. Loki and Baldur. [Posted Dec. 2007]
Frostbite the Goblin. What happens when snowmen go bad.
The Nerds' Wassail. My reconstruction/rewrite of Christy Tillman's "Nerd Carol".
One-ce. A Purim filk by Cantor William Sharlin, posted with his permission. You goyim who haven't heard of Purim, see the Book of Esther in the Bible.
Ophidian Carol. A serpentine devotion.
Rudolph the Red-Eyed Vampire. A Hallowe'en carol.
The Seven Days of Creation. An old, old story.
A Solstice Carol. You know the tune, but you don't have to be Christian (or Pagan, or anything else) to join in on this version. [Posted Jan. 2011]
When Cons Come To New England. When's that, you may ask. In January (Arisia) and February (Boskone). And any other time of year, as the song relates. [Posted Oct. 2001]
Wings In Flight. Lee Gold and I independently wrote followers to and ttto Cat Faber's "Wings" that fit together with the original to make a single larger story. Lee published both followers in Xenofilkia #84, August 2002. [Posted April 2003]
Xcess Carols. As I said above, too much Xma$ music.
Songs you wouldn't sing for your mother.
Blue Moon. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do, but sometimes he oughtta be careful about it.
Bound on Argo. What a difference changing just a couple of letters makes.
The Discworld/Dragaera Musical Miscegenation of Doom. See under Brust.
The Hedgehog Song. See the Discworld section for more info and related stuff.
_he _issing _etter. At cons, MASSFILC members often ornament their badges with a yellow ribbon bearing the club name and a dandelion graphic. You wouldn't want to accidentally cover up the first letter of the name... [Posted April 2003]
Seventeen Nights Drunk In Adrilankha. A Dragaeran version of an old song (Child #274) called "Five Nights Drunk", or "Seven Drunken Nights", or ....
The Wiggle-Waggle Chippendales. It wasn't the gypsies a-come to my door this time, and my lady didn't run away with them; quite the reverse.
Sets of songs grouped by some common theme.
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