Snow
You have to love the news and the people who do weather. You would have thought that the snow storm that blew through the Chicago area was going to somehow kill every living being here. You would have thought that so much snow would fall that every building in the city would collapse, burying millions beneath the rubble.
Of course, the East Coast news people go exactly the opposite way. It only becomes news to them when it actually hits New York. Chicago COULD have been wiped out by a freak snow fall and they wouldn’t notice or acknowledge it until the giant snow balls were rolling down 5th Avenue.
It turned out that it did indeed snow. Then it rained. Then it was freezing rain. When I went to bed last night, it looked like everything outside was encased in plastic. Then, when I woke up, a freak warm front had gone through and much of the ice had melted and it rained all day. Then the weather people came on during the Bears game to scream that the melted ice w0uld re-freeze tonight.
People, we live in Chicago. We should all be used to this by now. Unless you just moved here from a life living on the equator, none of this should be a surprise to you. You should also all learn how to drive in this stuff or else get off the road so I can get past you in my Jeep.
Sorry, I realize this has nothing to do with jazz. As such, I suggest you go back to the top, and start reading it again with the Smooth Jazz song “New Snow” by Flim and the BBs playing. Yeah, sure, it may be hard to find that song and the song itself may be the audio equivalent of a marshmallow dipped in honey…
But when the tenuous connections get tough, the tough dig up the elevator music.
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