I only wrote one of these, and they are best appreciated in sequence.
Ricky and Ashlee
Not an attractive couple
They’re gone. I’m not sad.
no one remembers
the leaves of last year’s autumn
or benji schwimmer
The footwork of Fred
The mug of Don O’Connor
Why’d he drop his pants???
Hot Tamale Train
Inside Mary Murphy’s Mind
Next Stop Crazy Town
Fanny Roborat
43 comments
tim
June 20, 2007 at 1:18 pm
1Why are you watching
“So You Think You Can Dance”? Did
you lose the remote?
dee
June 20, 2007 at 1:53 pm
2Too much unpacking!
Cardboard dust can kill brain cells.
Evidence above.
becca (and brian)
June 20, 2007 at 2:25 pm
3Lacey’s modern dance
Desperate leaping pathos
Benji who? he asks.
Hard to turn away:
Will a B-Girl learn to waltz?
Adam needs to know.
nato
June 20, 2007 at 2:29 pm
4It could have been worse
American Inventor
Is still on the air
nato
June 20, 2007 at 2:30 pm
5To these shows I say
Not enough beer in the world
For me to tune in
nato
June 20, 2007 at 2:32 pm
6Crap. World is two syllables, isn’t it? If so, just slur a bit . . .
piglet
June 20, 2007 at 2:52 pm
7So I have to watch
So you think you can dance now?
No energy left
I’m spent from watching
Apolo Anton Ohno
Delicious with ice
gillian
June 20, 2007 at 3:13 pm
8Twelve months not enough.
Bush says fifteen in Iraq.
Webb’s bill supports troops.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/06/20/army-considers-longer-combat- toursagain/
cooper
June 20, 2007 at 3:19 pm
9Chris Regan makes change.
Names “This Day in Mythstory”
“Mass Historia“
Adam Felber
June 20, 2007 at 3:32 pm
10As I believe I mentioned last year, “So You Think You Can Dance” is a fantastic television program.
Sort of like “American Idol,” I suppose, but the people competing are truly talented and from astoundingly diverse dance backgrounds. They are also not competing to become “superstars,” as dancers no longer ARE stars. Quick, name a dancer who’s become famous in the last decade.
No, sorry - Savion Glover rose to fame 11 years ago.
A trick question, I suppose. And Benji Schwimmer, mentioned above? Last year’s winner and probably the most famous young dancer in America right now. What I’m saying is that these people are not karaoke champions looking for fame - they are deeply, deeply devoted to what they’re doing.
My point is - if you like dance (and as a guy married to an actor/dancer/choreographer, I’ve developed some appreciation), the mere fact that this is a “reality show” on the dreaded “television” should not dissuade you from giving it a try.
But I guess that’s my point down here in the Comments. My point above is “Hey - a few haikus about a TV show! Written by me and some special guests!”
becca (and brian)
June 20, 2007 at 3:33 pm
11Gillian’s bleak link;
Frivolity pales compared
to reality.
Still it’s nice sometimes
To let silliness and fun
help us forget war.
siobhan
June 20, 2007 at 3:34 pm
12Bush pisses me off
Twice in one day; first the troops
Then Stem Cell veto.
He is unworthy
Of our artistic efforts
(He wants it to rhyme.)
becca (and brian)
June 20, 2007 at 3:41 pm
13Actually Adam, this has become a guilty pleasure of mine for exactly the reasons you mentioned. (guilty cuz I hate admitting I watch any “reality” show.) These folks do have tremendous talent and are devoted to being dancers and learning more about different dance styles has been interesting.
The Benji who? comment was actually a comment saying that Lacey’s first dance might have made folks forget her brother for awhile.
Looking forward to heckling from the balcony next week with the rest of the NW Felbernuts crew.
Dale
June 20, 2007 at 4:26 pm
14Maybe Bush began
Mispronouncing nuclear
While writing haiku
Jim (OJNTNJ)
June 20, 2007 at 4:56 pm
15Heard on the dance floor
Oh, so you think you can dance
Mean guys make me sad
What, were you all talking about something else? Then nevermind, I wasn’t here.
Jim (OJNTNJ)
June 20, 2007 at 4:59 pm
16Let’s try this again. I think Fanny ate my previous attempt:
He(a)rd on the dance floor
Oh, so you think you can dance
Mean guys make me sad
cooper
June 20, 2007 at 5:41 pm
17“Quick, name a dancer who’s become famous in the last decade.”
Kevin Federline … K-Fed … Fed Ex (As Keith Olbermann likes to call him) - Back-up stage dancer for Michael Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Gwen Stefani, etc. Married “up”, as they say, and into the headlines. He doesn’t have to be famous for his dancing talent, right?
So… Do I win anything?
Kevin weds Britney
threatens to air Spears drug use
Britney Jean shaves head (and other body parts, but I had to leave that part out because it would ruin the haiku.)
G.W.
June 20, 2007 at 5:53 pm
18Siobhan’s right. If’n it don’t rhyme, it aint’ poems.
dee
June 20, 2007 at 6:33 pm
19That reminds me — we haven’t heard the Reading List for this summer. Last year. as I recall, it included The Stranger and some Shakespeares (sic). I wouldn’t be surprised if “The Reagan Diaries” makes the cut this time around. Just to get him a bounce back to above 30% with the base.
Fran
June 20, 2007 at 8:13 pm
20Daughter of a friend
Danc’d well enough to make it
But she is too young.
SeattleDan
June 20, 2007 at 9:30 pm
21Isn’t haiku the
form favored by terrorists?
Oh, sorry wrong blog!
Beware the dancers!
They want to cut your heads off!
Fowler, take warning!
matt garthoff
June 21, 2007 at 12:13 am
22“Waterloo” Dubya’s legacy - the musical
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSuhuopoLiI
Boomer
June 21, 2007 at 2:49 am
23That was good fun. Thanks, Matt.
Jim Beam
June 21, 2007 at 4:44 am
24Aqua Vita
Then all to this dance,
Selves loosed to ecstasy, freed
Inebriately
Jim Beam
June 21, 2007 at 4:49 am
25Aqua Vita
Then all to this dance,
selves loosed to ecstasy, freed
inebriately.
Early Times
June 21, 2007 at 5:09 am
26One last attempt before I accede to Fanny’s whimisical powers.
Aqua Vita
Then all to this dance,
Selves loosed to ecstasy, freed
Inebriately
Ann
June 21, 2007 at 10:12 am
27On a totally unrelated topic, ID, which I’m positive we’ve discussed before:
http://www.gocomics.com/rallcom/
I especially like the line “A malevolent or FEMA-like creator…”
Maximum Bob
June 21, 2007 at 1:36 pm
28If show is so great
How come MC Rove lost? Damned
left-wing media!
Boomer
June 21, 2007 at 2:25 pm
29Sorry, gillian. I know that this is your turf, but you got me hooked on this guy.
Dale
June 21, 2007 at 2:48 pm
30Very funny, Ann. I can hear it now, ¨You´re doing a great job, Yahwie, heh heh, a great job.¨
As far as Bloomberg–this NYer gives him a thumbs up. I don´t know what his thoughts on national and international politics are, but I have a feeling we will all find out soon.
Boomer
June 21, 2007 at 3:52 pm
31This is just a little too hard to believe. Wait a minute…no, it’s not.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/06/21/missing-us-soldiers-wife-may- be-deported/
Vinnie
June 21, 2007 at 3:56 pm
32Yo! Adam Felber,
I never took ya’ for a
dancing fool, pisan.
Increase
June 21, 2007 at 4:44 pm
33Prithe, citizens. No celebration shouldst thou do in remembrance of the day of my birth. I doth not feel a day over 367 years. Alas, now I am.
It's Pat!
June 22, 2007 at 7:37 am
34Hummingbirds air dance
Hate each other for the sweet
Karl Rove is a crow
Is disingenuousness ok in a haiku?
I actually like crows, wanted to fit in grackles, but I could not.
Dale
June 22, 2007 at 8:10 am
35Haiku master say
Disingenuousness o-
kay, but very long
It's Pat!
June 22, 2007 at 8:48 am
36Disingenuous
Karl Rove is a Grackle bird
Dance fast as you can
This is fun, though I’m absolutely no good at it. Putting dance and Karl Rove together is impossible.
nato
June 22, 2007 at 9:28 am
37I need more sleeptime
My thought for Karl Rove is
Dancing on a rope
Gerhard Grackle
June 22, 2007 at 11:29 am
38Avian Karl ’snot,
But voter behavior smart
And slimey, for sure.
nato
June 22, 2007 at 12:55 pm
39Ravens nesting high
no match for dunces cleaning
killed chicks with water
Unfortunately, ravens get no respect up here.
Vinnie
June 22, 2007 at 2:49 pm
40Adam, ya’ need me?
I dislocate punk’s elbow
for ride to Big Sur.
Vinnie
June 22, 2007 at 3:10 pm
41Cool breeze, cold water
feed my dreams of Paradise.
Break heads, bask in sun.
Burned out, deserted
Mo’town bakes in summer sun.
I wait for A’s call.
Rodney Raven
June 23, 2007 at 5:58 am
42Tanks ta nato for
noticin’ da lack of re-
spect for da ravens.
What, ya never hyphunated a hackyou?
Momentary Ecstasy
July 3, 2007 at 7:33 pm
43“Bush resigns,” it said.
For twelve seconds ecstasy
On a tv screen.