Wow.

The Explorers Club
No. LIV - The terrorist bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, the United Kingdom - an attempted assassination of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on 12 October 1984.






The Victors: The Undiscovered Country
I rarely find myself in agreement with Mitch Albom, but even a broken clock is right twice a day: good riddance to bad rubbishlink.

The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
Green Day, "Church on Sunday" from Warning (T.L.A.M.)

Samstag, 1 Dezember
They Might Be Giants, "Snowball in Hell" from Then: The Earlier Years (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: For twenty-four hours, the television screamed at us, spewing forth dire predictions of snowy doom and an icy demise. In the end, blades of grass poked up through the less than an inch of snow. The drive to Mass was free of black ice, though I had joked with my mom, "If you die on the way to Mass, that makes you a martyr, right? Saint Michael, I like the sound of that."

"Like Saint Michael the Archangel," she said with a smile.

"Way better than that guy."

Foul weather preparedness is one thing, but this was inexcusable fear-mongering. In the words of T.M.B.G., "If it wasn't for disappointment, I wouldn't have any appointments."

Freitag, 30 November
Steppenwulf, "Born to be Wild" from 16 Greatest Hits (T.L.A.M.)