Three Questions from a Saturday Night

The mind never shuts down.

There's a station here in LA that plays disco music every Saturday night. It's perfect and just enough for me to hear in this ultra-small dose---driving to and from a movie.

Okay, so last night, they play Donna Summer's rendition of McArthur Park. For one of the first times, I actually listen to the lyrics. Have you?

Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed,
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants
[Chorus] MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again Oh, no!
I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees
[Chorus] There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one.
I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky.
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why.
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again Oh, no! Oh, no No, no Oh NO!!

Clues? Anybody? This song was a big hit. Striped pants and melting cakes. What the h...?

And, now for Question #2, do you witness this as well? You're at a movie. It ends. You head out in the lobby and find at least two dozen people checking their cell phones and calling somebody. What the heck has happened in the last two hours that precipitates this mass reconnection? Was everybody checking for the Angels score?

I got home and checked my voicemail. Nobody called.

Query # 3: on my way to the movies, I passed another one of those anti-war demonstrations, this one outside of the Grove. There were about a dozen signs that read "Impeach Bush Now."

Do these people realize that, if you impeach Bush now, an even more dangerous idiot becomes President? Hello? Did anybody ever take Civics in school?

Dinner last night: Post "Hoax" supper at the Arclight---the chicken tenders again.