Wednesday, 6/12

Today might be the day.

After a fun pop-up fire tour last night the forecast for today—sunny & 80—makes me think that I should take the first of my vaunted half-days for the year. What will I do? Well, play in the sun. I may go for a walk on the beach, I may hop on a bike with a soccer ball and kick it around over at Kaufman for a bit. I may even work a little on my NEXT tour, scheduled for just a week from today.

But I WILL be out enjoying the sunshine.

It actually doesn't matter what I do. And that's the great thing about it. I can do whatever I want at any time I want. At least, up until 2 when I have to go to work. But before then, it doesn't matter what I do.

And I like that.

So those are my plans. But because this is a little short today, I have something to share. It may be one of the greatest lines in recent newspaper history, and it comes from NY Times writer Rob Tannenbaum in a fun & slightly tongue-in-cheek article talking about the ubiquity of the Santana song “Smooth” (which turns 25 this week). It's a good article, but there was a line in it that literally (I was eating breakfast at the time) made me do a spit take. That line?

“When the sun explodes and human life expires, only cockroaches will remain, and those roaches will build a radio station and keep “Smooth” in heavy rotation.”

Oh, if only I could write like that...

8-)

(jim@wmqt.com), off to play in the sun!