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Back in Business!

Posted by Ampersand | May 29th, 2003

(From the movie Dick Tracy, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.)

Yesterday it seemed the world was about to end, didn’t it?
Looked as though it woudln’t last out the year.
Yesterday disaster waited around the bend.
Well, my friend.
Spring is here.

Back in business, and ain’t it grand?
Let the good times roll.
Yesterday things were out of hand.
Now they’re under control.

Bye-bye blues, so long adversity.
Happiness, hello! (Hello! Hello!)
Keep the status quo
Permanently so!

Back again like a boomarang,
Same old stand,
Same old gang.
Back in business with a bang!
Let the good times roll!

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10 Responses to “Back in Business!”

  1. --k. Writes:
    May 29th, 2003 at 12:37 pm

    You’ve been planning that one, haven’t you. Had the lyrics typed out in a text file and everything, just ready to go.

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  2. Ampersand Writes:
    May 29th, 2003 at 12:38 pm

    Honestly, no, I didn’t plan it. But when I read your email telling me Alas was back online, the song popped into my head on the instant. Clearly meant to be.

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  3. Amy S. Writes:
    May 29th, 2003 at 8:31 pm

    “Breathless Deutsche” ?

    “Ampersand Mahoney” ??

    It’s just NOT WORKING FOR ME !!! :p

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  4. Shakti Writes:
    May 29th, 2003 at 8:39 pm

    Yay!

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  5. ---k. Writes:
    May 29th, 2003 at 10:17 pm

    Geeze. Ampersand Mahoney is the best fuckin’ gangster name I’ve heard in a long time. Especially if we’re in a Chester-Gould-Dick-Tracy-verse; imagine what his head looks like!

    Breathless Deutsch is good. But not as good as Ampersand Mahoney. Damn.

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  6. Invisible Adjunct Writes:
    May 30th, 2003 at 10:18 am

    Yippee! Welcome back.

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  7. language hat Writes:
    May 30th, 2003 at 12:23 pm

    Whew. I was getting tired of holding my breath.

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  8. Amy S. Writes:
    May 30th, 2003 at 9:17 pm

    I think I need to see kip and Amp decked out in a coupla’ of those slinky, spangly numbers like LaVern Baker used to wear, singing a “D.T.” medley at the Ambassador Lounge’s karaoke bar next Saturday.

    Then, my life will at last be complete.

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  9. Troy Worman Writes:
    November 8th, 2004 at 7:42 pm

    Keep on bloggin!

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  10. We do this because « west north Writes:
    November 14th, 2009 at 11:03 pm

    [...] as willful disbelief. When those with libertarian tendencies parrot this, it amounts to (to quote Sondheim) “keep the status quo permanently so!” For instance, I recently had occasion to point [...]

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