husker du and mazie project update

For some reason, I popped in Husker Du’s Flip Your Wig last night for the first time in a year or more. Then came the lyrics of the opening track:
Sunday section gave us a mention
Grandma’s freaking out over the attention
…which I figured was strangely appropriate considering the attention the Mazie Project has gotten. (Except substitute Metafilter for the Sunday section. And she’s not freaking out — she’s just confused.)
As I mentioned on the project’s page, Mazie’s gotten three cards so far, and she’s very grateful. She sounded like she had a huge smile on her face when we talked about it earlier today.
Another thought I had when listening to Husker Du: for 1985, they had some prescient predictions about the future. “We’ll invent some new computers / Link up the global village / And get AP, UPI, and Reuters / To tell everybody the news.” Maybe Bob Mould got in on the ground floor of AOL. Maybe Bob Mould was alongside Vint Cerf in the Arpanet days. Maybe Bob Mould invented the Internet, not Al Gore. (And you have to admire anyone who rhymes “computers” with “Reuters.”)
A final thought I had while listening to Husker Du: I’m surprised Bob Mould has any vocal cords left at all. Mine wouldn’t survive a karaoke trip through Side 1. (Then again, neither would the eardrums of whoever was listening to me. Do they have Husker Du karaoke? They should.)