“This week is a cover of Baby Got Back by Sir Mix-a-Lot (note: he is not an actual knight). Had to activate the whole team for this one – guitar, mandolin, banjo and even some shakers and tambourines and other things lying around the house. I’ve wanted to cover this song for a long time, because it is excellent – there’s a wonderful message in there for those of you who have big butts. In the proud tradition of many white Americans who came before me I hereby steal and white-ify this thick and juicy piece of black culture. Watch for my album ‘Jonathan Coulton Sings Songs by Black People.’
“Here is the song: link”
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“CULPEPER, Va., Oct. 14 — There once was a time when Ray Tolson thought the sport of ‘Punkin Chunkin’ sounded as crazy as can be, when the notion of spending as much as $200,000 to build a 100-foot-long ‘gun’ designed to fire a pumpkin nearly a mile seemed silly.