{"id":876,"date":"2008-11-14T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/14\/2008-11-14-talking-me-down-out-of-being-down-html\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:27:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:27:21","slug":"2008-11-14-talking-me-down-out-of-being-down-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/2008-11-14-talking-me-down-out-of-being-down-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Me Down Out Of Being Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>This economic bailout thing is bumming me out. Chrysler should file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection, but will most likely just fail instead. Who&#8217;ll make parts for my Jeeps? (<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omix-ada.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">these guys<\/a>. chrysler gave up on both of them a long time ago. &#8211; ed<\/i>) GM should file for Chapter 11, but will keep their management and fail in a few months instead (<i>haven&#8217;t they failed already? <a href=\"http:\/\/caps.fool.com\/Blogs\/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=108097&#038;t=01004034443672390362\" target=\"_blank\">they&#8217;re insolvent <\/a>, after all&#8230; &#8211; ed<\/i>). <\/p>\n<p>I can use a little relief. Naturally, I turned to <b>You Look Nice Today<\/b>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/youlooknicetoday.com\/episode\/selfish-express\" target=\"_blank\">latest episode<\/a> features John Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton and makes with the funny. I think we all need that, don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>  <script type=\"text\/javascript\"><br \/>    var so = new SWFObject('http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/flash\/player.swf','mpl','300','20','7');<br \/>    so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');<br \/>    so.addVariable('file','http:\/\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/themerlinshow\/ylnt_023.mp3');<br \/>    so.addVariable('backcolor','0xffffff');<br \/>    so.addVariable('autostart','false');<br \/>    so.write('flash-player-101');<br \/>  <\/script> <\/p>\n<p>They even name-checked Digital Underground and The Humpty Dance in this episode, so here&#8217;s some, um, background.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"325\" ><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2-jVU5Lqxx0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>Oh, I heard this &#8220;hateful little song&#8221; on the newly completely merged SiriusXM satellite machine today and laughed until I cried.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"325\" ><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xUbHA0m8i0w&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>No, I&#8217;m not sending a message. It&#8217;s just dark. Is that so wrong?<\/p>\n<p>The next song makes me smile too. It&#8217;s on the newish Decemberists EP. I&#8217;ll leave it to you to tell the kids who Valerie Plame is.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"325\" ><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vtbJtcuKMBg&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>Good luck with that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sigh,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, This economic bailout thing is bumming me out. Chrysler should file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection, but will most likely just fail instead. Who&#8217;ll make parts for my Jeeps? (these guys. chrysler gave up on both of them a long time ago. &#8211; ed) GM should file for Chapter 11, but will keep their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/2008-11-14-talking-me-down-out-of-being-down-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Talking Me Down Out Of Being Down&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,20],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music","tag-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}