C.T. Cooper

Years and years ago I started work on a book about totalitarianism. It had been provoked by reading Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism during my lunch breaks at AOL, around the time when they believed they had acquired Time-Warner. 🧵

Morning #earworm: "Ding! Dong! The Witch Is Dead". Unprovoked.

Morning #earworm: Men Without Hats, "Safety Dance". Caught it at the grocery store on Saturday.

Morning #earworm: The Magnetic Fields, "The One You Really Love". Played night before last.

Morning #earworm: Brazilian Girls, "Lazy Lover". Played last night.

Morning #earworm: T. Monk, "I'm Confessin'". Played night before last.

Morning #earworm: America, "Lonely People". Didn't I suffer this a few weeks ago? Still unprovoked.

>realizing how bad it truly is

Morning #earworm: He was born in the summer of his twenty-se He was born in the summer of his twenty-se He was born in the summer of his twenty-seBut the Colorado Rocky Mountain high He was born in the summer of his twenty-se Unprovoked.

Morning #earworm: Beatles, "A Hard Day's Night". Unprovoked.

Morning #earworm: I don't know; sounds like Rudy Vallee but I can't trace it.

Morning #earworm: L. Cohen, "Hallelujah". Eck. From watching Basquiat last night.

Got out for our rally. Smaller turnout than the early ones but still good. WAY more supportive honking and waving than previously (2x? 3x?) and in an hour I only saw four fingers.

Morning #earworm: D. Parton, "9 to 5", because of watching that last night.

Morning #earworm: no morning earworm.

Morning #earworm: The Temptations, "Treat Her Like a Lady". Unprovoked.

Morning #earworm: ABBA, "Take a Chance on Me". From a youtube short last week about neurons. Having an earworm.

Morning #earworm: Bob the Builder. Maybe because on Saturday I was talking to Mike the Neighbor, who can fix it.

Morning #earworm: Bread, "If". Unprovoked; unappreciated.

Morning #earworm: No morning earworm, although Beast Beloved has inadvertently gotten me going on "Boola Boola".

Morning #earworm: Weezer, "Beverly Hills". Caught it at the gym on Monday.

Morning #earworm: Ray Scott, "New Year's Eve in a Haunted House". Played last night.

Morning #earworm: Still stuck on the XTC medley, currently "Helicopter". Ready to be done with this.

Morning #earworm: XTC still, since 3am running most of English Settlement; settled on "Fly on the Wall".

Morning #earworm: XTC, "Senses Working Overtime". Played yesterday after misquoting "No Thugs in Our House".

Morning #earworm: G. Harrison, "Blow Away". Sheesh. Unprovoked. Too much Beatles et seq. going on here.

Morning #earworm: No morning earworm.

Morning #earworm: No morning earworm.

Morning #earworm: Orchestra Baobab, "Soldadi". Played Monday night.

Morning #earworm: "The Church in the Wildwood". Hm.

Morning #earworm: inexplicable chunk of Rachmaninoff; you know the one.

Morning #earworm: Prince, "When Doves Cry". Unprovoked.

When I was a blond, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a greyhair, I was still pretty immature.

Morning #earworm: M. Jackson, "The Way You Make Me Feel". Unprovoked.

Morning #earworm: No morning earworm.

Eyepatch.

Morning #earworm: The Beatles, "Good Night". Came to mock my insomnia; extremely insistent.

Morning #earworm: V.D. Parks, "G-Man Hoover". Emerged during a long sleeplessness. Not resented but very sticky.

Morning #earworm: "Suicide Is Painless". Unprovoked.

Morning #earworm: Started with some Ornette Colman (played in car) but was overtaken by Shonen Knife, "Butterfly Boy" (unprovoked).

Morning #earworm: wee hours melange; incoherent.

Undeserved midday #earworm: A LONG time AGO I HAD a LADY TO LO-O-O-OVE; She made me THINK of THINGS I never tho-O-OUGHT O-O-of. NOW SHE'S GONE and I'm on my ow-w-wn A love song has come into my mind A love song, it was THERE all the ti-i-ime. SO LADY... etc.

Morning #earworm: Paper Lace, "The Night Chicago Died". Self-inflicted; thought about it yesterday.

Morning #earworm: Wings, "Band on the Run". For Pete's sake.

Morning #earworm: Chicago, "Hard to Say I'm Sorry". So unprovoked! What's with all the '80s cheese this week?

Anything that works by inducing you to have feelings instead of thoughts is pornography.

They busted their butts to make a universal do-stuff engine and when it did stuff they said it was too scary.

Morning #earworm: "I'll Never Love This Way Again", probably Dionne Warwick. Surely unprovoked.

Morning #earworm: Kim Wilde, "Kids in America". No idea.