{"id":275,"date":"2000-11-07T09:42:18","date_gmt":"2000-11-07T09:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/11\/07\/cubicle_creep\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T20:31:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T04:31:32","slug":"cubicle_creep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/11\/07\/cubicle_creep\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubicle Creep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Please save me from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennyg.com\">Kenny G.<\/a><\/strong> And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginrecords.com\/artists\/VR.cgi?ARTIsT_NAME=Luther_Vandross\">Luther Vandross<\/a>. And whoever else is creeping over the cubicle wall from the radio tuned to some god-awful adult-contemporary or soft-hits or regurgitated-cud station. God, it can really suck to be a freelance contractor who can&#8217;t really getting away with telling someone to pipe down. Frankly, it&#8217;s better when she&#8217;s got the radio on than when she uses the headphones, because at least this way she doesn&#8217;t hum off-key to herself all day.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the horror of the music itself, the worst part is that it&#8217;s only the tinny upper register that really makes it into my cubicle. so all I get is the tenor sax or the keyboard fills or the <i>star search<\/i> wails. Oh, the agony.<\/p>\n<p>On a more encouraging musical topic, I picked up a great maxi-single from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci.fi\/~phinnweb\/links\/artists\/Cos\">Chicks on Speed<\/a> after hearing it playing while I was at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.othermusic.com\">Other Music<\/a> last saturday. (I was with friends who were on such a manic spending spree that I got caught up in the excitement and broke my long-running CD spending freeze.) The Chicks did these amazing deconstructed electronic covers of some of my favorite quirky songs from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theb52s.com\">B-52&#8217;s<\/a>: <i>Give Me Back My Man, strobelight,<\/i> and <i>song for a Future Generation.<\/i> Totally fun and brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>Just for kicks, <a href=\"mailto:Sparky@ultrasparky.org?subject=song for a Future Generation\">write me<\/a> and tell me what your capsule description would be if you had a part in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/members.nbci.com\/_XMCM\/stockup\/z\/index.html#albums\">song for a Future Generation<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Hi, I\u2019m Sparky and I\u2019m a Virgo. I love french fries and talking to cute guys!<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please save me from Kenny G. And Luther Vandross. And whoever else is creeping over the cubicle wall from the radio tuned to some god-awful adult-contemporary or soft-hits or regurgitated-cud station. God, it can really suck to be a freelance contractor who can&#8217;t really getting away with telling someone to pipe down. Frankly, it&#8217;s better &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/11\/07\/cubicle_creep\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cubicle Creep&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77447,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/77447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}