From 1999 to 2004-ish, I was one of the contributing writers for Garrison Keillor's renowned radio show "A Prairie Home Companion." I learned a lot of things there, mostly how to spell 'prairie." It was a solid gig and I'm proud of my work there. But, like any other job, there were...things...
Back in 2006, Bush Jr. proposed a budget where "New York City would get $6.7 million less from the State Homeland Security Grant Program than in 2006." There was a lot of pushback on this because, you know, New York had actually been attacked on 9/11 and not any of the areas where they were looking to increase the security grants. The only way to address that would be with a song parody to the tune of "New York, New York, A Wonderful Town."
New York, New York
New York, New York, a terror-free town.
No landmarks up or icons around
that Bush would know from a hole in the groun'
New York, New York, it's a landmark free town!
New York, New York, don't need any funds!
Got nothing for 'em to target their guns
So routing millions to downtown Houston
New pork, New pork, that's how it's done!
No landmarks up or icons around
that Bush would know from a hole in the groun'
New York, New York, it's a landmark free town!
New York, New York, don't need any funds!
Got nothing for 'em to target their guns
So routing millions to downtown Houston
New pork, New pork, that's how it's done!
Just for the heck of it, I ran the lyrics through an AI song generator to create an actual song. Is it really a song parody if the original tune gets changed?
