May 9th: Singing and Randy

Good morning John, it's Wednesday, May 9th. We're gonna start with the good news and we're going to move to the bad news. The good news is that I have officially accepted your challenge. A friend of mine who you may all recognize as the other guy from Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone from Your Pants, has suggested that it would indeed be a good thing for me to write a song every two weeks. It's not Jonathan Coulton but it's as good as I can do. Every time it's my Wednesday I sing a song. The song I am about to perform is something I have written for a guy who worked really hard and got to see some of the results from his work, but not all of them because he has now passed his legacy on.
(sings)
The day that you died was a good day

hundreds of people wished you on your way

Neil Gaimen wrote about you on his blog

and you and your girl ate mini corn dogs 

oh goodbye 26 year old me 

you made a lot of money and got a master's degree 

and you married a girl we adore, 

but now I reap the rewards.
Oh thank you for all the hard work, Hank. 

Your bank account swelled a lot before it shrank, 

but you could have worked maybe a little bit harder, 

yeah I could have used a few more thousand dollars. 

Yeah goodbye 26 year old me. 

You made a lot of money and got a master's degree 

and you married a girl we adore, 

but now I reap the rewards.
You watched a lot of people get married. 

John and Sarah, John and Amy, 

Ethan and Sarah, Jason and Ashlee.

Holy crap, I bet they'll all have babies. 

Oh goodbye 26 year old me, 

you made a lot of money and got a master's degree 

and you married a girl we adore, 

but now I reap the rewards

but now I reap the rewards

yeah now I reap the rewards!
The day that you died was a good day

(speaking) I hope you all enjoyed that because now I have bad news. Today we introduce a new feature to Brotherhood 2.0 we're adding this feature under less than ideal circumstances. Brotherhood 2.0 viewer Travis Bond has created the Foundation to Decrease World Suck's World Suck Index, which you can also find on the left hand side bar. And unfortunately the World Suck Index is debuting at suck level red.  This is because Brotherhood 2.0 viewer Danny Chow has just loss his best friend. Danny's friend, Randy, recently beat cancer, but has now died of pneumonia, and I think that it's safe to say that this has increased suck levels pretty dramatically for Danny and for Randy's family. So, for the next two weeks, all donations to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck will be donated to Randy's family. John, I'll see you tomorrow.