March 22, 2003

• I have plans.  I’m not generally a good carrier-out of plans.  I’m distractable and most of the time I get more done spontaneously, but sometimes plans happen.

  
  

  Some people want readings, and the readings will start showing up here soon.  Some of those people are ones I said I’d read for months ago.  Sorry about that… like I said, I’m distractable.

  
  

  First I will do a blog full of disclaimers and general info for anyone wanting a reading.  That should be fun. (not)

  
  

  My kid couldn’t recall ever having heard Bob Dylan’s “With God on Our Side” and he took it on himself to find an MP3 “for Mom”.  I listened to it this morning, over and over, and edited those transcribed lyrics I’d copied off the web.  Now the transcription reads like the recording sounds.

  
  

  Now my headphones are rockin’ with a more upbeat (vaguely) anti-war ditty, Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

  
  

  We didn’t start the fire 
  It was always burning, 
  Since the world’s been turning. 
  We didn’t start the fire 
  Well we didn’t light it, 
  But we tried to fight it.

  
  

  If you know the song, you’ll recall the long strings of names of people, places and events:  Harry Truman… Dien Bien Phu… payola… Marilyn Monroe…  This English language class in Germany and their teacher (back row, right) transcribed the whole thing and linked every name, place, etc., to a brief bio or description.  It is at the song-title link above.

  
  

  

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