{"id":1817,"date":"2009-10-06T15:36:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T15:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2009-10-06T15:36:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T15:36:39","slug":"and_now_with_their_number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/06\/and_now_with_their_number-one\/","title":{"rendered":"And Now, With Their Number-One Hit…"},"content":{"rendered":"

In one of those weird moments of Internet synchronicity, I spotted the following video over on Boing Boing<\/a> just as I was finishing up the previous entry. Actually, it’s just audio without any more video than what you’re seeing right now, but whatever. The song is a “I’m a Boinger” by Billy and the Boingers, a fictional rock band that Berke Breathed cooked up for Bloom County<\/i> in response to the Congressional hearings on sex in popular music<\/a> that took place in the mid-80s. It and another song — “U Stink But I \u2665 U” — were released on one of those floppy record thingies<\/a> that used to come in magazines sometimes back in the pre-digital days, those square “discs” that you usually had to put a penny on to make them play properly. The Boingers disc was bound into the Bloom County<\/i> collection Billy and the Boingers Bootleg<\/i>… and yes, if you’re wondering, I still have my copy of both the book and the record down the Bennion Archives (i.e., my basement). This version is much more accessible, though; my thanks to whoever digitized this:<\/p>\n

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I haven’t heard that in probably 20 years. And you know… for a gag record that came as a free insert with a book of cartoons, it’s actually a pretty good song…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In one of those weird moments of Internet synchronicity, I spotted the following video over on Boing Boing just as I was finishing up the previous entry. Actually, it’s just audio without any more video than what you’re seeing right now, but whatever. The song is a “I’m a Boinger” by Billy and the Boingers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-and-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}