I’m feeling very excited for

I’m feeling very excited for some karaoke fun tonight for someone’s birthday. It is raining ice out today, so a little singing and drinking is sounding like a mighty good combatant to the violent dreariness out there. On the subway this morning I got to thinking about when a bunch of us went out karaoke singing and almost won the guitar. And I had one of those huh moments, where it was suddenly very clear to me that we didn’t almost win a guitar and that they probably just put one of us in the running to get our group to stay until 3 in the morning. No offense to Kelly’s air guitar skills, but c’mon, in the bright light of February, doesn’t this all look a little shady now?

It is funny what your mind doesn’t allow you to think about in the heat of the moment. I’m reading Blink right now, so this seems very relevant, but isn’t it possible my subconscious understood what was happening the whole time we were fruitlessly strumming away, but that it just didn’t have the heart to tell me until now that maybe—just maybe—the owner rigged the whole thing to give a guitar to his buddies? It’s very sweet of my subconscious, but honestly, it can grow some balls and tell me these things sooner. I can handle it. You hear that, subconscious? I'm alls grown up!

I have two standard karaoke songs: “Tainted Love,” and “I Think We’re Alone Now” (with dance moves). Once, I sang “Stay” by Lisa Loeb and I put on my dark-rimmed glasses for the song. But either no one got the joke or, more likely, the fact that dark-rimmed glasses are no longer the quirky things they were of the early 90s no one cared, but in either case, no one seemed particularly amused. Except me. I was very amused.

I need more song suggestions! Keep in mind I am a very mediocre singer, so catchy songs that people like to hear/sing along to anyway are the best bet for me. Help me out!

Some Friday linkities for you:
Sparring muffs
“He is testing a hand-held ion-particle gun, which he said is for levitating food.”
Mother F*cker polar bear undies (thanks Krista!)
I wonder whose book this is?

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