How high’s the water, Mama?
N-Joy in Vreden was a most n-joyable evening. Midway through the first set, I interrupted “Johnny” to say I wanted to dedicate the next song, Five Feet High and Rising, to my Mom, Dad and everyone else in Nashville. That got some applause. Unfortunately, not too many folks here seem to have heard about the flood in Nashville (actually it was a girl off the coast of Africa who told me about it). This is understandable though; the oilslick’s devastating impact has eclipsed Nashville’s woes in world news, even though Nashville’s flood is probably no less extreme as our own 100-year flood back in 2002.
I like this illustration though:
And what’s more, it’s a goode cause.