BTW South Song of the Day
Thursday, April 19
Sugar Hill Gang, "Rapper's Delight" from The Best of Sugar Hill Gang (Mt. Love)

Commentary: All fourteen glorious minutes of it!

Most Songs of the Day are between two and four minutes long, your standard rock 'n' roll song. There seems little danger of a telephonic interruption (even were the phone not answered, the ring would still be disruptive) in such a limited window. For the odyssey of "Rapper's Delight," however, both the Mountain and I set our ringers to silent. Upon restoring the operational settings to normal what should I find but a missed call and accompanying message from Codename: PANDORA, which I promptly reciprocated.

The Endurance
In an illustration of yet another deficiency of mobile telphones compared to traditional telephones, moments ago, for the second time in as many conversations, a lovely discourse with Codename: PANDORA had to be curtailed because my mobile's battery was teetering on the brink of exhaustion. And with my well-documented distaste for the telphone, you lads and lasses know I don't use my mobile for much other business. Remember the resplendent past, when a man could talk on the phone for hours on end without the threat of an abrupt, yet not unexpected, end? Resplendent, I say!

On the other hand, we spoke until very nearly two o'clock her time, and that can't be bad. Unless she's tired and cranky at work tomorrow. And blames me. Curses!

The Winged Wheel: Res Ipsa Loquitur
The Detroit Red Wings sans the monster Bertuzzi: 2-0
The Detroit Red Wings avec the monster Bertuzzi: 0-2

Caution: Vulgarity ahead.

Mission: Unpossible Zwei - Tag Acht (Donnerstag)
When virtue fails, spite prevails. When virtue fails, spite prevails. When virtue fails, spite prevails....

Spooky!
Ghost Yacht.