Rants, Random Thoughts, and General Skullduggery

What is Rock n' Roll?




Guest Webmaster
Tim Smith



Rock and roll is seven grown men simultaneously urinating into a kettle drum.

Rock and roll is a young boy holding a baby seal and balancing on one foot on an empty Barenjager bottle.

Rock and roll is thirty-five midgets doing the wave in a public restroom stall.

Rock and roll is Liza Minelli standing in a phone both cooking a meatloaf.

Rock and roll is a weeping dog.

Rock and roll is that sensation you experience right before getting into a gruesome car crash.

Rock and roll is caressing the face of a nun who’s passed out from an overindulgence of glue sniffing.

Rock and roll is wearing a human diaphragm as a hat and smoking a roll of pennies.

Rock and roll is hiding under a broccoli plant.

Rock and roll is a tuba full of rum.

Rock and roll is a Hindu play troupe performing Hamlet in Abu Ghraib prison.

Rock and roll is Yanni in a thong.

Rock and roll is wearing a blond wig and spiking the punch at a high school prom when you’re forty-five.

Rock and roll is laying in the street whimpering in response to the closing of your local Planet Hollywood.

Rock and roll is Gene Simmons and Carmelo Anthony sponsoring a NASCAR team together.

Rock and roll is defecating into the coffee pot at a church sewing circle meeting while singing “America”.

Rock and roll is beating a rhinoceros with a thirty pound sack of celery.

Rock and roll is losing your place in an Agatha Christie novel.

Rock and roll is nine hundred Jews throwing pennies at a macaw parrot in a grocery store in Arizona.

Rock and roll is a light switch that turns a corn stalk on and off.

Rock and roll is a five gallon pail full of ninja feet.

Rock and roll is eating a leprechaun for Thanksgiving.

Rock and roll is hunting tundra swans.

Rock and roll is throwing a surprise party to celebrate hemorrhoids.

Rock and roll is joining a police officer slapping league.

Rock and roll is a skeleton styling King Kong’s back hair.




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Tim Smith is currently a music major at North Dakota State University. He is also the only white member of a household that includes an Asian, a Native American, and a Mexican. You can reach Tim at timothy.smith@ ndsu.edu.