choogling

Yet here I sit, on a front-row seat in the second car of a kiddie train, choogling through a vast semi-industrial landscape in which steel conveyor belts tower over mountains of crystalline powder, and irrigation channels and dusty gravel roads carve up dry lake beds.

The Salt of the Earth Craig Winneker 2011

Yet here I sit, on a front-row seat in the second car of a kiddie train, choogling through a vast semi-industrial landscape in which steel conveyor belts tower over mountains of crystalline powder, and irrigation channels and dusty gravel roads carve up dry lake beds.

The Salt of the Earth Craig Winneker 2011

And in fascinating rehearsal pics released last week, choogling merrily behind the pleasantly emaciated Roth and his own terrifyingly emaciated father, Wolfgang looks well-fed, looks content, looks beatific, looks like Peppermint Patty.

Van Halen Reunites | Disinformation 2007

Norm Stockwell, who keeps WORT-FM, the Voice of Madison's Voiceless, choogling, picks me up at the Greyhound depot, a furniture-less warehouse that resembles an immigrant detention center on the outskirts of town, and drives me over to the once-a-month Socialist Pot-luck but only scraps and few stained paper plates are left.

CounterPunch 2010

Can we get back to our choogling historic heartthrobs now?

WFMU's Beware of the Blog 2009

But you're probably asking yourself, after all this opulence, "Isn't choogling reserved for the downtrodden?"

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For surely what the heart does, what we call beating, is also choogling.

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I would propose that if you did anything at all in response to hunger before you'd experienced feeding, in addition to whatever description you might supply of your physical movements, or the sounds you made, it would be reasonable to say that you were also choogling at the time -- striving for that for which you had no means to hope.

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I'll bet Fogie was doing loads of choogling in the years before the term itself emerged.

WFMU's Beware of the Blog 2009

Now that we've found ourselves in the company of a musician, let me introduce a couple of generally uncontroversial examples of musical choogling (we don't want you to lose the beat, after all):

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