Thanks for the superb song, and many many others, JoCo.

The song sorta reminds me of early REM–great versus, choruses that need work.

IMHO on both, natch.

Anyway, splendiferous work. Pluto and Charon are my new power couple, and I’ll surely be tossing and turning at night until I think of a “Brangelina”-esque portmanteau for them. “Chuto”? “Plaron”? Damn.

But because I don’t like the potentially confusing ambiguity, I think I would instead say “52 Things for 52 Weeks”, ala “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers”. But 52 TAWs works because it’s not 52 things a week, but 52 “Thing A Week”s.

Or we can just talk about this until we all get bored and fall asleep.

I just love Charon singing a love song to help to heal Pluto wounded pride. Personally I was holding out for Ceres to become a planet again. Impossible or improbable love songs are rapidly becoming my favourite kind of song, threatening bizarre Christmas songs like “Chiron Beta Prime”

I also provided a link so everyone could hear this great tune in its entirety.

I’d never thought I’d feeling like crying for a planet! (Well, except for ours maybe but that’s only because it’s immediate family).

Nicely done sir!

Holst was right!

(I like the song, too.)

You have a great ability to approach a subject from a unique perspective. All this talk about Pluto, nobody’s mentioned little, loyal Charon.

And all this talk about grammar… Well, it’s just kinda sad, isn’t it?

Imho, “planet” is a cultural word used to describe the brighter, coloured objects in the sky that are not stars. It’s not a scientific description, seeing as we were using it long before we realised that the rest of the universe isn’t actually orbiting us.

We do need a scientific word for things that have become rotund under their own gravity and (possibly) orbit another body (as Earth orbits the Sun and the Moon orbits the Earth). But we shouldn’t use planet. Planet is already taken, it already has a meaning. It was never going to be an accurate scientific description. You may as well start trying to co-opt the phrase “The Great God In The Sky” as a scientific term for the Sun.

Blerg. Adding that stuff about having to clear it’s own orbit just to exclude Pluto makes for a mean and cumbersome term.

I love this song. ^_^

@matt: Since when has an Internet petition ever accomplished ANYTHING? (Not that the sentiment is wrong…)

Among JoCo’s many gifts is the genuine artisitic ability to write meaningful songs that are about their content but simultaneously many other things at once. His “science and math” songs — and heck, most of his tunes — often resonate because of that duality. Is Your Moon a science song, or a love song that distills the essence of couplehood down to the fact it’s [you&me] vs. the world? If you didn’t know he who crushes everything was a squid, and even if you do, doesn’t everyone feel that way sometimes? Isn’t there a little Mr Spock and Bigfoot in all of us? . . . (”The answer…is no.”)

More troubling for me is where to put the “s” the first time one writes out 52 “Thing(s) a Week(s).” I believe the preferred choice might be to avoid sentence constructions that would require one to pluralize the phrase (avoiding the ambiquity the first responder to my query notes), but then I’m going to have some problems when I get to this past year in my memoirs. A related example: is it soup de jours or soups de jour?

PS JC YOUR ARE TEH ROCK!! OMG!!11!!

PPS Ploto?

BTW the apostrophe only shows ownership otherwise it is just an “s”.

Bring It Back!!!!

jpez, I believe you’re wrong. Even if you do put an “s” on the end, I’m pretty sure it shouldn’t be accompanied by an apostrophe.

Although many people use apostrophes when constructing the plural form of an acronym because it just looks right, this popular usage is, technically speaking, absolutely incorrect. Apostrophes are used to construct the possessive form of a noun and contractions — never plurals. The plural form of TAW is TAWs. However, like “irregardless”, so many people use apostrophes in this way that it has become common usage. There is definitely no rule that requires it, though.

But either way, great song, well worth “Charon” with all my friends.

Noch einmal Thema Pluto. Auf einer Konferenz treffen sich Eierköpfe und wissen nicht, was sie mit neu entdeckten Himmelskörpern anfangen sollen. Soll man diese zu Planeten ernennen? Dann hätten wir elf davon im Sonnensystem. Neee, lasst ma’. D…

Nicely done, you sonuvabitch,
Eric

Steve - I think “Thing a Weeks” is more correct, since there aren’t 52 things in one week. I tend to leave off the apostrophe before the s, since it’s not part of a conjunction (it’s not “Thing a Week is”), and so, TAWs would help you get your rest.

Don’t blame me. Blame the plain-clothes nun I had for an English teacher in high school.

But I digress - another great song. Hope to catch the book signing in Ann Arbor in October!

^_^

[Highly technical and extremely important postscript: I wrote "TAW's," but that's nto really right, is it? I mean, it's not 52 Thing a Weeks . . . I believe it's 52 Things a Week. Right? Great. Here comes another sleepless night.]