{"id":525,"date":"2010-03-25T14:03:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T21:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/?p=525"},"modified":"2010-03-25T18:49:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T01:49:16","slug":"turn-off-the-bubble-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2010\/03\/turn-off-the-bubble-machine","title":{"rendered":"turn off the bubble machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Having slightly more free time [a whole week sort of off!] has meant more screwing around online. I enjoyed my BoingBoing time — their upcoming guest blogger<\/a> is John Cusack! — because I put a lot of “hey this is neat” stuff up online and people looked at it. So, my apologies dear readers, but I’m going to try to do that a little more with this space.<\/p>\n

So I was playing a word game which, trust me on this, required me to find an old Stan Freberg<\/a> track. When I was a kid this was on an album my folks had that I listened to a lot. The album was called Fly Buttons and the particular track was called Wun’erful! Wun’erful! but the part that I could remember was “Turn off the bubble machine” You can hear the whole bit here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So I Googled “turn off the bubble machine” and found not just the video, but the Wikipedia page on Freberg, who is still alive, but also people riffing off the phrase in magazines<\/a> [does it come from anywhere else?], the grave<\/a> of Lawrence Welk’s “Champagne Lady,” and a ton of fun to pore over patent applications<\/a> including the one pictured above<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And now, people will find this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having slightly more free time [a whole week sort of off!] has meant more screwing around online. I enjoyed my BoingBoing time — their upcoming guest blogger is John Cusack! — because I put a lot of “hey this is neat” stuff up online and people looked at it. So, my apologies dear readers, but […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[451,83,452,4],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-bubble-machine","tag-jessamyn","tag-lawrencewelk","tag-me","h-entry","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}