Welcome to the Team DFH Freaky Friday Music party.
Because Team DFH operates more or less like a herd of cats, this diary series doesn’t actually have a formal name but we’re here on Friday Nights, at roughly 9PM Eastern, to let our hair down, maybe light up a fattie, and get some groovy on.
Lady Libertine and I are teaming up tonight to bring you a special storm watch edition. Let's kick it off with a forecast from Al Sleet...
Now, getting back to business, Irene is coming for us here on the east coast and from all accounts she has some plans...
Here's one from that hippie LL:
triv: Looks like I'm about to be overjoyed!!!
LL: Ooh, I remember the early 80's, down here on the Gulf Coast with Hurricane Alicia...!
triv:Yeah, I wasn't gonna get that deep, but it works for me...
LL: sending you NE folks some Texas love... stay safe!
Blue Eyes Cryin' In The Rain
triv: Um...not a big REO fan, but it's not all about me, is it?
LL: not a song but in case you missed it, Irene’s got a middle name, and it’s Global Warming by Bill McKibben. Yup.
That’s why more than 300 of us have been arrested outside the White House in the last week, the largest civil disobedience demonstration in a generation for the environmental movement. They’re trying to get the president to see the danger of climate change. Irene will be a distraction in the short run from our efforts, but in the long run it underlines what the fight is all about. If the president goes for business as usual, we’re going to get planet weird.
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