i'm walking through the summer nights

 Jukebox playing low

Yesterday everything was going too fast
Today, it’s moving too slow
I got no place left to turn
I got nothing left to burn (Dylan)

i have some explaining to do about yesterday's post. First off , sincere thanks for the concerns and kind words of all of you that reached out....i was caught off guard by how quickly i received reactions from the sweater nite universe.

Yesterday i was in the process of converting that last 10 years of this Blog into a hardcover book, and while i was editing (no spellchecks or grammar changes, i wanted my 5:00 a.m. train mistakes to remain in their original form)....i was choosing a cover photo and layout and of course a dedication when i realized that i needed a closing post.( so in 100 years from now when someone on saturn finds this book in an earthly relic Bin in their version of the Salvation Army and takes it back to the spaceship to read,  they will have a conclusion) so i typed the epilogue ending and warning of the govt censors and i fully intended to delete it after i moved it into the book version.....but the proverbial Kat was out of the Bag ...but rest assured i am not concluding the online version......so if it suddenly ends tomorrow it will be at the greasy palms of the FBI.

hey hey, whatta ya say....kick the ball the other way .......that's what i was chanting in the Redrock yesterday and sure enough ol team USA advanced the ball downfield and scored the only goal of the game in a thrillin 1-nil victory over iRAN........we pronounce it just like the Flock of Seagulls song of the same name...and now it's on to face the Netherlands and their Tennesee Orange Jerseys and bags of magic mushrooms no doubt.

one disturbing note about this team is the head coach....for the first 2 games of the tournament he wore a T-shirt with the word STATES printed on it.....as if we are just a collection of states...(yesterday he wore a black t-shirt with absolutely nothing printed on the front , and our flag ON THE BACK) ..no mention of the word UNITED.....no mention of the most important word AMERICA.....just states and of course the NIKE emblem ( i refuse to call it a swoosh).....i'm not 100% certain that he intended to make a statement with this bizarre shirt but i am dam sure that  some communist self-loathsome piece of feces at nike HQ was making a statement....these are the same scumbags that called the Betsy Ross flag racist....which i am glad they did because i went out and bought a dozen and have been flying them in front of my house ever since......so don't mind me if i temper my enthusiasm for this team entirely...alas my reservations will not prevent me from gathering in a barroom saturday morning with a USA Flag shirt and a healthy pouring of my favorite ale to root this country forward....my distaste for the liberal factions in this country will not outweigh my feverish patriotism....but long after they are gone (me too) Old Glory will still fly high God Willing...(.i stole the Flag photo below from Mr Mulligans facebook account)

I see nothing to be gained by any explanation
There are no words that need to be said
You left me standing in the doorway crying
Blues wrapped around my head