{"id":24282,"date":"2011-03-19T19:10:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T23:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/24282\/covering-friday-saturday-war\/"},"modified":"2011-03-19T19:10:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T23:10:19","slug":"covering-friday-saturday-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/24282\/covering-friday-saturday-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Covering &#8220;Friday&#8221; on the Saturday of Yet Another War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\">This is a follow up to the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/23981\/careful-for-rebecca-black-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">I wrote yesterday<\/a> about the Rebecca Black phenomenon.\u00a0 I got inspired this morning to cover her song on uke and make a video out of it.\u00a0 I thought this might be a novel idea.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Boy, was I wrong.\u00a0 I thought my ukulele cover of Rebecca Black&#8217;s Friday might be the first uke cover&#8230;When I uploaded it just now,\u00a0 I found out I was like the 791st person to cover her song on uke.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Still, I\u2019m kinda proud of my little video below. <\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<object><\/object><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">I just shake my head and wonder why.\u00a0 Do we need distraction from what is going on in Japan and Libya so badly that we long to latch onto this unsuspecting girl\u2019s song?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">I dunno.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s all about the SuperMoon. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/ea\/img\/-\/110317\/moon_1_16o3jlb-16o3jmt.jpg?x=400&amp;q=80&amp;n=1&amp;sig=kuAQPqbYc2iNEHkXpnJunw--\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\">Right now, the USS Barry, a US Navy destroyer in the Mediterranean, is launching missiles at the Libyan coastline.\u00a0 I\u2019m as confused about what we\u2019re doing in Libya as I am about Rebecca Black.\u00a0 I happened to have done my taxes today.\u00a0 That made me realize even more that some of my money paid for the Tomahawk missiles killing people thousands of miles away.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/file\/pic\/photo\/2011\/03\/Joko_Londo-ussbarry.jpg?t=4d852ca31f56f\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"534\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium\">Of that, I am not proud.\u00a0 Maybe, if it all works out and the Libyan people are liberated from Gaddafi\u2019s rule and someone in Tripoli sends Barry a can of tuna or something, I\u2019ll feel better about all this.\u00a0 For now, it seems like once Western powers (can you believe the French are actually fighting?) get involved in this whole Middle East uprising, we have crossed a line that cannot be undone. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium\"><br \/>\nAs you might have noticed in the video, Seattle has beautiful blue skies today.\u00a0 It\u2019s really starting to feel like Spring.\u00a0 It\u2019s my first full day of Spring Break and making this video felt like the first day of the video making season.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">Happy Springtime!\u00a0 My thoughts go out to families of the Libyan soldiers that my tax dollars are killing today.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a follow up to the blog I wrote yesterday about the Rebecca Black phenomenon.\u00a0 I got inspired this morning to cover her song on uke and make a video out of it.\u00a0 I thought this might be a novel idea. 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