
Being up here, up North, you tend to let little bits of information-- small samples of evidence, if you will-- slip away from your memory bank and float downstream towards the ocean of oblivion. Things like the Pope dying, the 4th of July, and Rafael Palmeiro's mustache are quickly forgotten or don't even register at all.
But, then again, sometimes this life of Arctic Sounds really tunes you
into the breath of the world-- lets you onto some queer rumbling before others get the buzz and start crawling about with it.
In this case, I'll take the latter. I've heard a few disturbing ruminations about the possible departure of the Lovely Ann KerIANfish from KWWL (Channel 7). Let me be frank here: Miss Ann KerIANfish is not only the best thing about W'loo, but she's pretty much the only straight, married woman who could tempt me back to that shithole when my leave comes due in 5 weeks. Tender desires of catching another 5pm dreamcast of her and that unreconstructed brute Ron Steele is
not the 24-hour sunshine talking either. No, indeed not.
"GIVE US OUR GODDAMNED ANN," we shout and scream from the Hammer Bros' apartment on South 4th Street.
If those bastards in East W'loo take away our Ann, I
promise to return, MacAurthur-like (sans corn cob pipe and humility), to the Cedar Valley in a drunken, slurring rampage that'll make my Summer of 01 with Locke and Gary seem like easy pickin's.
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