Good evening, Kibitzers! Material for this diary started to accrete during the recent World Series, but since we have some Houston partisans here, I didn’t want to do a Washington Nationals diary. This is not one, and yet, it would have come out that way.
If you missed the whole “WTF does Baby Shark have to do with the Washington Nationals?” thing, the Washington Post has your short explainer video here. If you missed the whole “WTF is Baby Shark?” thing, you can catch the original video here, and the WaPo piece can fill you in a bit too. Also, Ellen tells you more about it here. She doesn’t get an embed from me because I’m afraid the salty, salty tears cried by Republicans, about how mean liberals are being to her for “being civil” to W, will impact the salinity of the ocean here at KTK Beach and harm the baby sharks (always keeping in mind that “shark” is only one tiny little line segment away from “snark”).
Before the Series even started, we had this totally non-baseball news story, about the song as heard at a protest in Lebanon.
And then, the World-Series-related performances started turning up. The National Symphony Orchestra:
The organ at the National Cathedral:
The band at W.T. Woodson High School in Fairfax County, Virginia:
And in a late nod to Veterans’ Day (actually posted in April), this unidentified military unit:
James Corden and his guests got silly with it:
Then I started seeing it re-interpreted in different genres, starting with the trap music remix:
As long as you’re up dancing:
Then there’s metal:
Let’s bring it down a bit (this really is rather dark, fair warning):
And then, there are world music interpretations:
I saved the “soul remix” for the end because it’s my favorite.
Bonus: there’s a Christmas version. 🎄
We know that Hair Furor hates sharks, but it’s okay if you do too! If you’ve had to skip down this far, keep going and join us in the comments.
The fires finally outpaced my ability to add giant boxes of relief links to the bottom of every diary for every disaster. So instead, I posted
a separate diary, in the dead of night, that contains all the giant link boxes, and I will link to that diary here with some shorter descriptions.
🚒 🔥 CALIFORNIA FIRES 2019 🔥 🚒
This is a brand-new box, so additional suggestions for the links at the “links” diary would be especially welcome.
This piece from Wonkette is a pretty concise explainer about how climate change, overdevelopment, and greed are fueling the California fires. (Spoiler: failure to rake the forest doesn’t figure into it.) Even your dumbest FB friend can probably get something out of it.
Find links to help HERE.
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⛈️ 🌊 HURRICANE MARIA 🌊 ⛈️
783 days since Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico
on September 20, 2017.
Puerto Rico and USVI are still struggling to recover.
PLEASE FOLLOW Denise Oliver Velez and the SOS Puerto Rico group for the latest news about developments in Puerto Rico and the USVI. Denise continues to collect resonant tweets on the subject, and post them in comments daily in the Abbreviated Pundit Roundup (APR) and twice weekly in the Black Kos diaries, to make them easy to retweet. If you tweet or FB, please share something about Puerto Rico and USVI regularly.
» » ENHANCED MEDICAID FUNDING FOR PUERTO RICO, USVI, AND OTHER US TERRITORIES ENDS NOVEMBER 21! UNLESS CONGRESS ACTS QUICKLY TO PASS THE BILLS H.R.1354 & S.1773, ALMOST 1.5 MILLION US CITIZENS WILL LOSE THEIR HEALTHCARE. PLEASE CALL YOUR CONGRESSPERSON AND SENATORS. DETAILS HERE. « «
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⛈️ 🌊 HURRICANE DORIAN 🌊 ⛈️
Denise Oliver Velez posts what news there is on the Bahamas in the APR thread. This Black Kos thread has coverage of the scale of the damage.
Find links to help HERE.
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