Category: Amusements

LOL. The headline has it right. Seen on Slashdot:

Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2’s Album On Their Devices

Apple may have succeeded at breaking two records at once with the free release of U2’s latest album, titled Songs of Innocence, via iTunes. But now, it looks like it’s also on track to become one of the worst music publicity stunts of all time.

Users who have opted to download new purchases to their iPhones automatically have found the new U2 album sitting on their phones. But even if iTunes users hadn’t chosen automatic downloads, Songs of Innocence will still be displayed as an “iTunes in the Cloud” purchase. That means it will still be shown as part of your music library, even if you delete all the tracks. The only way to make the U2 album go away is to go to your Mac or PC and hide all of your “iTunes in the Cloud” purchases, or to use iTunes to manually hide each track from your purchased items list.

Other reactions include rapper, Tyler, The Creator, saying that having the new U2 album automatically downloaded on his iPhone was like waking up with a STD.

Yes, some of Apple’s customers are just seething with rage at having an unwanted free U2 album added to their libraries or automatically downloaded to their phones. They are offended. They are *outraged*. They are ridiculously overreacting. It’s laughable. Really, if you know one of these people, make popcorn.

One of my FB friends was so outraged at Apple that he declared the company was in “deep trouble” and he was going to call the Federal government over it. I teased him, saying: let us know how that phone call goes, and he banished me from his FB friends list. The poor bubby. His pretty phone has turned into a case of ‪#‎firstworldproblems‬.

John Schultz and his brother Fr. Steve, co-founders of this blog, were kidding today about making a Christmas album together. It’s not too far-fetched an idea; after all, they were both music majors, and they have performed Christmas music together before. For example, here
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Certainly proper and dignified. But the song titles that their friends suggested ran in a different mode:

“Boar’s Head (Deli) Carol”
“I Saw Three Chips”
“Go Tell It In The Sin Bin”
“Children, Go Where I Send Thee (To The Overflow Hall)”
“Come, Thou Long Expected Full House”
“They Came Upon The 4 p.m. Clear”
“God Rest Ye Merry, Cookiepuss”
“Lo, How An Onion Blooming”
“Riu, riu, Cheeto”

Here are a couple of the lyrics I was inspired to offer:

In the bleak mid-winter
and on Easter day,
we see folks in pews who
never come this way.
Lilies, palms, and ashes
call them back to here;
would that God could reach them
more than thrice a year.

and

The first pizzell’
was vanilla, they say;
but to make them with anise
is just the best way.
And chocolate is good,
we can have that one too,
but a flavor of bubble-gum
makes us say ‘Ew!’
Pizzell’, pizzell’, pizzell’, pizzell’,
These weird fakey flavors should just go to hell.

It’s a work in progress.

The other day, “Curt Jester” Jeff Miller read Taylor Marshall’s account of how Saint Nicholas of Myra confronted the heretic Arius at the Council of Nicaea (and rearranged his dental work). Well, Jeff wished that there were a Christmas song about the event, so I obliged him:

I saw Santa punching Arius,
in Nicaea where the council met last night;
the bishops were aghast, and the bruise is gonna last:
he seized him with his left hand and then slapped him with the right;
Now the Emperor’s pursuing Nicholas,
and wants to put him in a prison cell;
Probably neither will repent ’til their wrath is fully spent
and the heresy’s condemned to hell.