I know what let’s do! For old times’ sake...

...let’s watch that video of Susan Boyle auditioning for Britain’s Got Talent (5:50) one more time....

It wasn’t all that long ago, actually. Her audition took place on April 11, 2009. So a little over four years ago, no one had ever heard of that little collection of villages in Scotland.

But since then, a lot of water has gone over the dam/under the bridge (pick one).

To take just one example, the phrase “Boston massacre” now has an entirely new meaning that has absolutely nothing to do with March 5, 1770.

To take another example, we have (and by “we have” I mean that David Letterman has) unearthed, finally, one of those dreaded Banjos of Mass Destruction (BMD) (4:24) and that starts with B and that rhymes with P and that stands for (let’s say it together, class):

POOL (4:58).

The common thread running through these videos should be obvious by now: Ways to make one’s parents proud.

Is the world in a downward spiral, or what?

To clear your head of that depressing prospect, why don’t you take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity and watch this video of a great deal of falling water that involves neither a dam nor a bridge, while (British, whilst) simultaneously brushing up on your French, listening to the strains of Richard Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries (some of that classical music that Hilltophomesteader hates so much), and ending with a lovely orchestral rendition of “Over the Rainbow” that includes an actual rainbow (4:09)?

Putz would have loved this post. Blogland misses him.

Grey hairs? Zits? Notches on the bedpost?

Jinksy has 158.
Snowbrush out in Oregon has 149.
Grumpy Old Ken has 98.
Carolina in Nederland has 72.
Jeannelle of Iowa has 60.
Pat, an Arkansas stamper, has 51.
Vonda on her little egg farm has 46.
Katherine in New Zealand has 44.

Daphne and Lord Pudding and Silverback in England, Putz in Utah, Reamus in southern California, Ruth Hull Chatlien in northern Illinois, and Tracie down in Florida don’t keep track.

Dr. John didn’t when he was alive. I’m not saying that he does now that he is dead. I don’t know what I’m saying exactly.

I have 35.

I’m talking about followers.

On his television program the other night David Letterman reported that Ashton Kucher has 14,000,000 of them on Twitter.

Talk about your wretched excess.

I would now like to give a shout out to readers of blogs everywhere (this means you), even if you are not an official “follower” of anybody. Without you, where would bloggers be? I’ll tell you where we would be: sitting in front of our computer screens with egg on our faces, that’s where.

So to all of you readers, lurkers, and blog junkies of the world, click here to hear a song that will inspire you to even greater heights.