Primus & My Car

My car died a couple weeks ago. I was driving home from Nicola's around 9:30 on I-94 & the engine just cut out. I paid $100 for the car a couple years ago so when I was then told it would be $2,000 to fix it, I had 2nd thoughts. I ended up selling it to a junk yard for $150, but I've since been carless. I've got a couple leads on cheap ones though, but in the mean time, Sara has been kind enough to share hers. What that means though is that I've been a driving fool lately. Yesterday, I took the kids to school, taught 2 classes, took Sara to work, taught another class, picked the kids up & took them to Stephanie's, taught another class, then took the car to Sara @ Nicola's. Every day has been like that recently. It's been crazy, but once I got to Nicola's it started raining AWESOME.

Pete picked me up & we headed to The Michigan Theater to see Primus. I have never been very familiar w/ their stuff, but I'd always been impressed by what I'd heard. Our seats were about 12 rows from the stage & almost dead center. They were amazing. Les Claypool is a badass! A mad, freak genius. My only concern is that I hadn't seen them before. Pete asked me last week if I was up for the show, & I need to take this time to thank him again for the ticket. We got there just in time to have a couple beers before the lights went down. They played for about an hour & 20 minutes before a short break which included 3 Popeye shorts. As the credits for the last one rolled, they came back on stage & played another hour & 20 minutes. After the encore, I walked over to Ashley's to meet up w/ Sara & enjoy a plate of nachos before home to bed. I'm kind of beat today, but the concert was amazing. I can't wait to see them again... as soon as possible.


Set 1
Southbound Pachyderm
Duchess and the Proverbial Mind Spread
Frizzle Fry
Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers
Over The Falls
Eleven
Bob
Jerry Was A Race Car Driver
Tommy the Cat

Set 2: Green Naugahyde
Prelude to a Crawl
Hennepin Crawler
Last Salmon Man
Eternal Consumption Engine
Tragedy's a' Comin'
Eyes of the Squirrel
Jilly's on Smack
Lee Van Cleef
Moron TV
Green Ranger
HOINFODAMAN
Extinction Burst
Salmon Men
Encore:
Harold of the Rocks
Wynona's Big Brown Beaver

Holy Sonnet 1138

As you know, I should be teaching a Sc/Fi course in the winter. I was talking about it w/ some students who asked what we'd be covering. To that, I rattled off a list of novels, but I couldn't come up w/ many Sci/Fi poems (other than Rush/Bowie/Floyd lyrics). One of the students then said that her high school English teacher had written a bunch of cheesy Sci/Fi poems that he read to her class. I was thus inspired to go one better than this rumored neo-Horalax. With that in mind, I created my first Star Wars inspired sonnet. Enjoy... and feel free to post your own in the comments section.

Comparing thee to suns of Tatooine
Thou art more lovely and more singular
Rough winds and sand doth make the Tusken mean
And little Jawas talk peculiar
Sometimes the Sarlacc on the native dines
And often its digestive tract is filled
And every moisture farm sometimes declines
And Hutt or Kryatt Dragons’ victims killed.
But thy eternal twins shall never dim
The dreaded Death Star shalln’t destroy your home.
Forever with the Dac-born Quarren swim
Forever under R2's blueish dome.

So long as Jedi live and droids can see
So lives the Force and that give life to thee.