The creepiness of the clowns

It's hard to believe that it's already time for Mr. Malleable's weekly visit, kids. The make-of-it-what-you-will mid-point of this week dawned with light clouds across a rapidly bluing sky and promises a nice mild sunny day.

Top was still down from last night and this morning presented no reason to pull it back up, so the drive in was with full ears-flopping-in-the-breeze effect. Light traffic again.

Great soundtrack this morning, particularly the tune from Karl Denson. A very tasty bit of 70's style soul-jazz

Listening to the amazing music, ears flapping away, I was puzzling what the future of our society holds now that our political process is so dysfunctional that basic and necessary functions of governance cannot be carried out in the national interest. The corporations funding our political system wanted to distract the electorate while they raided the treasury, so they brought the circus to town and wound them up. Now the clowns have taken over, nobody seems to know how to get the circus out of town, and even the corporate overlords are going to pay a price (albeit nothing so intimately painful as much of our citizenry will experience). The kid on the eTrade commercial was right about clowns, we seriously underestimated the creepiness.

I didn't come up with the answer by the time I finished my short commute. But I did notice that when Dr. Dog sings about a creek that trickles bourbon they make the word creek rhyme with brick, as it should. Good stuff.

Today's full playlist:

- Dr. Dog: Oh Man
- Bruce Cockburn: Soul of a Man
- Karl Denson: Flute Down
- Fountains of Wayne: I-95 (live)


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