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Sunday, October 05, 2008

trains


The above photo was taken from The Daily Kos. It made me think of this song by The Drive-By Truckers.....


The clouds started forming at five o'clock pm
The funnel clouds touched down
five miles north of Russellville
Sirens were blowing, clouds spat rain
and as the things came threw, it sounded like a train

"It came without no warning" said Bobbi Jo McLean
She and husband Nolen always loved to watch the rain
It sucked him out the window, he ain't come home again
All she can remember is "It sounded like a train"

Pieces of that truck stop, litter up the highway, I been told
And I hear that missing trucker ended up in Kansas
(or maybe it was Oz).

The Nightmare Tour ended for my band and me
the night all the shit went down
A homecoming concert, the night the tornadoes hit my hometown.
The few who braved the weather were sucked out of the auditorium
I can still remember the sound of their applause in the rain
as it echoed through them storm clouds, I swear, It sounded like a train.


Do you think that the reason Sarah Palin kept saying, "There you go again" in the VP debate is because Ronald Reagan said it in his debates? Are they trying to make some connection there?

Can you listen to Sarah Palin speak without thinking of the movie Fargo?

Does it bother anyone else that Palin frequently gets this look....a look that offends me as a woman....that is like she is trying to get out of a ticket??

Tina Fey.....gotta love her....