A deep cut from the Caribou album, I bet few of us remember that Elton John and Bernie Taupin, in 1974, wrote a song about a massshooting. As a kid, ten years old, the song terrified me. Even thoughI may not have been able to singit to you, I remembered the lyricsto “Ticking” up toContinue reading “#535: Melt the Guns (Elton’s Version)”
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#534: Somewhere, An Explosion
Last night in the house there was some crazy popping, crashing, smashingsound that startled all of us, me in the study, my wife in the dining room,my son upstairs in his spacelikely with his door closed. We all came running outto see what it was. We looked everywhere for the fallen pot or frame, theContinue reading “#534: Somewhere, An Explosion”
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