#hee-haw

[blemgoid]

guy who dies all alone because he only approaches women who remind him of cortana (white, a-line bob cut) because due to some inconceivable imperceptible minor brain disaster (dopaminergic pathways open for a full five minutes, transmitters operating at average of 1020 Hz) he animal-imprinted onto her the first time he played HALO 3 & the ambiguity of real connections that force him to not see the women as cortana anymore trigger avoidance/detachment & reinforces his own unreasonable standards/fantasy woman model & both lowers his tolerance for ambiguity + magnifies his negative reaction the next time hes inevitably disappointed & its gonna be even worse for everyone involved next time

[sleepyleftistdemon]

(via (90) You Were Gone - YouTube)

Today’s song going through my head (just the chorus)

[riggio037]

[paulftompkins]

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VARIETOPIY’ALL recorded live at The Elysian Theatre

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Mary Sohn

Tawny Newsome

Jana Schmieding

Sean & Sara Watkins

Andrew Daly

James Bladon

Matt Gourley

Mark McConville

Music by Jordan Katz

Original songs by Paul F. Tompkins & Jordan Katz

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[ahedderick]

Keep your chin up, folks. It keeps the gravy from dripping on your overalls.

[four-of-fish-and-finger-pies]

Lisa Todd

[thinkbolt]

10 HOURS OF EEFIN’

[rootsrockweirdo]

Remembering Roy Linwood Clark: April 15, 1933-Nov. 15, 2018

This by no means is my favorite Roy Clark song, but perhaps the most historically significant song he ever recorded. Hee-Haw aired in 1969 and ran for two seasons with "respectable ratings." But by the end of 1971, CBS began its "Rural Purge," canceling The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Mayberry R.F.D., The Jim Nabors Hour and the Johnny Cash Show among others. Many of these shows were considered "demographically skewed," some toward rural audiences or in the case of The Lawrence Welk Show (also canceled in '71), elderly audiences. A few of the big wigs at CBS believed that certain demographics — the ones in which Hee Haw and the others performed poorly — could draw more advertising dollars and eventually won what had become a heated dispute in the network’s corporate offices. Luckily, Hee-Haw’s producers put together a syndication deal for the show, and as Roy notes in the song, "They canceled all the singin' and the pickin', but that stubborn little donkey wouldn't leave, and that little fella's still alive and kickin' and Hee-Haw's laughin' up its sleeve." The producers were successful, and Hee-Haw lived on in syndication until 1993, and on The Nashville Network (TNN) from 1996-1997.