Rubes by Leigh Rubin for September 27, 2023

Milking it for all it’s worth

As life goes pasteurize.

Fame pasture by!

From the herd but not of the herd.

A song of udder despair.

Udderly ridiculous.

Sounds like bull to me.

cue the dark ambient music with discordant overtones which, although broadly tonal, is inflected with chromatic and polytonal passages representing the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style without being interpreted as an overly heavy-handed metaphor within the context of the thematic material a bit on the frenetic and frantic side

This act is udderly sad!

Once homogenized, it’s almost impossible to separate the really good stuff (the cream) from all the rest.

moooove over Bono. I’m the next big deal

Don’t have a cow, man

Do like everybody else: be yourself!

Milk dud

I think I herd about that!

It was a mooooving song.

A lot harder when all your milk is homogenized — right, cow?

I was expecting someone to bring up “Cows with Guns.”

https://www.youtube.Com/watch?v=lyqDvojqxc8

Mad cows!

He used to be in a Cowsills cover band.

And after that, notes pondering the significance of short-person behavior in pedal-depressed panchromatic resonance and other highly ambient domains… (thanks Frank Z.)

Well, as long as it’s pasteurized…

He’s a veritable Cole Porterhouse

Homogenisation? Is she talking about her milk?