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I don't feel thirty

To filibuster is to babble on and on. (It's actually a legislative term; Senators will filibuster, sometimes deep into the night , in order to kill a bill.) Thus, our blue canary is squawking endlessly (but tunefully) to the inanimate objects in the room. And filibuster sings well.*
Several They Might Be Giants fans have been analyzing that song that "always makes me happy" for about a year now. I'm sure they are not the first. And, certainly, not the last.

*Come to think of it, from a distance, the Capitol dome does look like a birdcage.

Posted by on December 17, 2003 2:50 PM |

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The link to the site the filibuster quote comes from seems to be missing.

Posted by: jjg | December 17, 2003 9:14 PM

jjg, scroll down the page to the discussion ("Hawk," Feb. 8, 2003).

Posted by: adriana | December 17, 2003 9:54 PM

We don't write age-specific music. [Our young listeners] could be anywhere from 2 to 10 years old. People in the business of making music for kids say we have to limit that range. But we just let our imaginations go wild and see what happens.

John Flansburgh in the Washington Post.

Posted by: nedlog | December 18, 2003 3:59 PM

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