Roses and Devo and the Recession

Ahhh mission accomplished.  I was feeling a little down earlier so I went out and entertained myself.  I spent 30 dollars and hired a few local homeless guys for a few hours.  One threw paper flower pedals in front of me while I marched downtown from the big new library and through downtown and back to the indian resturant.  He carried a sign I hade that said "Duty now: for the future!"  I had 2 of the others follow behind me and yell "I'm shouting!" whenever I gave them a hand signal and "SHOUT" when I did another (they got it well on their own later).  I then yelled a song repeatedly during all 45 minutes of this operation.  Here are the lyrics for Devo - Shout.  I made sure my body language was as threatening as I could be, but making sure to sing only in a monotone robot voice.  Some fled me, some kinda hid on the other side of a tree.  The guys really appreciated such an easy 10 dollars.

Shout shout

i'm shoutin' about the world outside
i'm shoutin' because you just can't hide
i'm shoutin' from the plain honest truth
i'm shoutin' there's so much we could do

Shout i'm shoutin' shoutin' shoutin'

I'm shoutin' because it's hard to believe
i'm shoutin' it's so easy to see
i'm shoutin' we're waitin' for a reply
i'm shoutin' for the very last time

shout well baby this one's for you
shout for everything that you do
shout until the battle is won
shout we'll live to fight on and on

and when you add it all together
and when you roll it in a ball
and when you watch another pyramid
as it's about to fall
remember you were there
remember if you care
all those who held their ground
when it all came down
said shout shout

shout it out

 Though I'm having trouble raising rent this month, I still think it was a fine investment. Next time we will use kazoos.