Monday, June 16, 2003
np: drive-by truckers - southern rock opera
the new drive-by truckers album, decoration day, comes out this coming tuesday, june 17th. go support them by picking up a copy at gate city noise in greensboro, north carolina, or whatever your local, independent music retailer should happen to be called.
rather long, unruly thunder shook throughout the sky tonight. a bit unnatural from the thunder i am used to hearing. and being inside and unable to see the preceeding lightning flash made me wonder precisely what the sound was. after the possibility of thunder and a neighbor rolling a trashcan crossed my mind, option number three was nuclear holocaust. it actually seemed real for a second. and i then contemplated the fact that..i don't remember a time in my life where danger of war death seemed so plausable. i was too young to remember the cold war of the 80s with much detail (having been only 8 years old when the Berlin Wall came down, though I remember it very well) and the united states (with noteable exceptions) has been at relative peace since at least the beginning of the clinton administration. or at least, the idea of an attack upon our homeland didn't seem quite so plausable. and no, i didn't feel this way after september 11th either. that is not what has caused this (ir?)rational fear in me.
it's our president.
thank you, george w. bush. for scaring me. for making me, and assuredly many other americans, afraid in their own hometowns. welcome to your lasting presidential legacy.
