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Ugly Earth: The Talkin’ Headline Blues #158

The Talkin’ Headline Blues is a weekly series of recordings using unedited headlines from CNN.com written as a song. This week’s topic: Ugly Earth.

Ugly Earth: The Talkin' Headline Blues #158
Ugly, messy, destructive, vomiting, beautiful, terrifying Earth.

New meteorite parade escalates ugly
Earth at daily sledding reveal.
Ban controversy!
Mosquitoes sink duck ride.

Here are all the headlines used for the song. And links to read the articles, although for most of the articles you can just look quickly at the headline and get the idea of what happened. No need to read anything in depth at all.

Punxsutawney Barbie: The Talkin’ Headline Blues #157

Punxsutawney Barbie: The Talkin' Headline Blues #157
This is Punxsutawney Barbie making a super-classy, terrific duck face.

Back at the old Talkin’ Headline Blues for 2016. Remember those? They’re a weekly series of recordings using unedited headlines from CNN.com written as a song.  There’s even an extra special Chicago-related headline hidden in this one! Can you find it?

This year, I’m going to add a little summary topic to the title. No big deal. This week’s topic is Punxsutawney Barbie.

The topic will tie closely to the image I upload with the song and the short text summary of the song. Remember those? No? You have a bad memory, then. It’s only been like almost a year since I wrote the last one.

Anyway, I just use one word from each headline for the summary. They come across a little like a haiku. It’s NEWS POETRY.

Punxsutawney embryos made.
Heart fires Iowa’s worry truth.
Barbie drank ancient farm.
Sinks may breath free.

How does the image relate to Punxsutawney Barbie? I think you can figure that one out yourself.

Now, if you care to read all the articles (good luck), here they are:

Radioactive Men: The Talkin’ Headline Blues #156

The Talkin’ Headline Blues is a weekly series of recordings using unedited headlines from CNN.com written as a song. This week’s topic: Radioactive Men.

Radioactive Men: The Talkin' Headline Blues #156
A radioactive man pets an unsuspecting cow.

American men smart.
Pilot needs Chinese scene in legal military radioactive Russian bison.
Work stolen soon.

Bullet America: The Talkin’ Headline Blues #154

The Talkin’ Headline Blues is a weekly series of recordings using unedited headlines from CNN.com written as a song. This week’s topic: Bullet America.

Bullet America: The Talkin' Headline Blues #154
A photo of old ham sandwich left in the sun, Donald Trump.

Baltimore is a bullet, America.
Celebrate promises too!
Director hits star.
Allergic tiger gives testy abortion.