Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 14, 2016

Now, we can all have a good cry.

Those ladies were born to run… away from Goat.

That was quite a glory day.

What was the chaser, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”?

Born in the USSR?

“This is what it sounds like, when goats cry……”

So it was an oldies dance………………….why wasn’t I invited !

I can’t believe Pastis didn’t work this one into the strip:“It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to!”

Ah, Goat! Didn’t you listen to the music before throwing the party? Haven’t you heard about Starkweather and Fugate?Geesh. I don’t thing you could find more downer-music if you tried!

Sheriff when the man pulls that switch sir and snaps my poor head backYou make sure my pretty baby is sittin’ right there on my lap

Very…uplifting.

Perhaps his best overall recording. To me, it’s quite underrated.

Next time go for some Leonard Cohen.

maybe it was his playing one song all night long?

Didn’t know that song, Don’t care for Springsteen. Fortunate, am I.

I’ve never heard that song. It’s kind of people to post a link to it.xxx

Goat could have included these for a truly killer evening:

Peter, Paul&Mary: “And When I Die” orBob Dylan singing “See That My Grave Is Kept Clean”

Next affair, Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Party!!!!

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“Well, Rat, ‘Nebraska’ seemed like a perfectly good opening song at the time. Excuuuuuuuuuuse me for not knowing the first danged thing about music, or the way the world works in general! Oh, well. Back to the ol’ drawing board!”Aah, don’t feel too bad, Goat. All ideas seem good at the time; it’s really too bad that they only rarely get off the ground! On second thought, maybe it’s just as well anyway!

Actually, nearly any song played exclusively for a whole party would be pretty awful…

The Beatles had their “White Album.” I always thought of Nebraska as Springsteen’s “White Trash Album.” Of course he staked a great deal of his career on giving voice to the inarticulate, and what’s wrong with that?