{"id":2293,"date":"2002-11-13T09:36:50","date_gmt":"2002-11-13T16:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2293"},"modified":"2002-11-13T09:36:50","modified_gmt":"2002-11-13T16:36:50","slug":"basted-in-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2002\/11\/13\/basted-in-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Basted in Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"

I look forward to Thanksgiving every year just so I have an excuse to listen to this song<\/a> (MP3 link).<\/p>\n

It was performed on Saturday Night Live by Sarah McLachlan and Anna Gasteyer (a.k.a. Cinder Calhoun). This was the set-up:<\/p>\n

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Cinder<\/b>: Thanks Norm, um as Sarah knows, I’m still not really comfortable with the term “standup comic”, I really consider myself more of a weaver of satiric truths in the tradition of the great Appalachain humorists.<\/p>\n
Norm<\/b>: Sarah, how did you discover Cinder, here?<\/p>\n
Sarah<\/b>: Actually, it’s a pretty funny story.<\/p>\n
Cinder<\/b>: Yeah, we were hanging out one night backstage with Alanis Morisette at the Follow your Bliss Tibetan freedom concert and everyone was in a real, like giddy slaphappy mood cause I was on a roll telling some pretty righteously funny Guatamalan animal riddles that I heard from a Latina friend. And Alanis was like totally stumped by the one about the trickster owl and the hungry bird and she goes “I don’t get it” and I looked at Sarah and I just go “Alanis…you you you oughta know!”<\/p>\n
Sarah<\/b>: …And I laughed so hard the baba ganoush I was eating came out of my nose!<\/p>\n
Cinder<\/b>: It was unbelieveable, it was unreal.<\/p>\n
Norm<\/b>: So you guys going to do some of your comedy for us tonight?<\/p>\n
Cinder<\/b>: Actually, Norm, Sarah and I feel that we’d be really remissed if we didn’t use this platform to address an issue tonight. We were at a Maya Angelou poetry reading last night with Fiona Apple. She is so wise. Yeah.<\/p>\n
Sarah<\/b>: We were discussing the ritual torture and senseless slaughters of turkeys in the name of the gluttonous, nationalistic, patriarchal holiday that we call Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n
Cinder<\/b>: Right, and the sickest thing that Fiona told us is apparently that one company has a 1-800 number that gives out cooking tips and recipes encouraging the mutilation and consumption of these beautiful birds!<\/p>\n
Sarah<\/b>: (puts hand on Cinder’s arm) Are you gonna be okay?<\/p>\n
Cinder<\/b>: Yeah… So, um, we wrote a song about it for all the turkeys out there who celebrate Thanksgiving. It’s called “Basted In Blood”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Stolen from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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