Staging Area

Alex and the DHS Marching Barbs staging area, right by where my band had its "staging area"

Jazz is Not Dog's Best Friend

No Water Cooler Fool

Took Tuesday off just to avoid water cooler talk

Dust Jacket Photo Gone Semi-Sideways

...dust jacket photo should I ever decide to write that book on the campy 60's Batman

4:15

4:15 Spanish Mass at St. Mary's always makes me feel like I'm in a Sam Pekinpah movie.

I, Me, Mylan

CEO of Mylan to face questions from Congress on spike in EpiPen prices

Actually it's just one question - "Why are you such asshats?"

"Seriously, can't you stop being asshats for one fucking minute? People need this medicine."

"Did you know you can still make money and not be asshats?"

CEO Heather Bresch, should she have any dignity will plead for a fifth.

Asshats

Dummy Grid

Wednesday made me grateful for our lack of a smart grid (in spite of some of the more thoughtful rhetoric of the 2016 campaign, yes that's out there but ain't nobody got time for that)

Brown out took out power at our little corner of the biomedical tech/cobbler economy...

No phones, no lights, no customer data base...

uh...not a single LED ?

...sorry

At some point in the morning there was nothing to do but to send us home (or in my case to the golf course)

Before going our separate ways my good buddy in the repair department and I had the following exchange.

SC: Can you give me a ride home?
Me: Sure. I love Brown Out Day!
SC: Oh, by the way Jewel has Jameson on sale for $19.99
Me: Hey you live not far from Jewel.
SC: Yup.
Me: Duly noted.
SC: Brown Out Day gonna become Black Out Day

Cookie Knows a Dog When She Sees One

Coming Soon?

Clearing Out Garbage for What is Next

The rock file clean out continues so I can make sure I discard stuff that is less distracting than what is coming next. Here are almost the final lyrics for what became "Live Wire City"

Liar and a thief are all that name suggest to me

A wire through the deep still brings the future by degrees

Magnets with their cache of that flashing light and heat

I think the best spot for these thoughts is somewhere underneath

That sky that’s always been above me

Half drunk, the other half - apathy

Left here, less than a memory

No one is ever coming back for me

Where the grass was warm and the water was cold

Our love was strong and the nights were slow

But that was when we understood

Our love was right and life was good

When life was good and we were young

It left a mark it made me numb
My eyes were red your eyes were green

Now they’re all closed crushed up into dreams

And those dreams are all over now

No way you and me are getting out

So grab your glass buck up and drink it down

And all I know’s the thing we chose was strong

But not a remedy

You and me are going down

Drinking in the underground