September 19, 2010

Five sirens

in fifteen minutes here in the back of beyond, and you begin to wonder what might be up.

comments

  1. Joel Bernstein on September 19th, 2010 at 3:46 pm

    I’m sure you saw this coming

  2. Sheila Ryan on September 19th, 2010 at 3:50 pm

    I did. And the sirens sounded like Freddie Mercury.

  3. Rick Neece on September 19th, 2010 at 4:49 pm

    I just wrote comments with vague references to Odysseus’s sirens, wax in my ears and Bobby Goldsboro (See the tree? How big it’s blown…) but they couldn’t bear up to the editing. I storked them.

  4. Sheila Ryan on September 19th, 2010 at 4:59 pm

    Stork.

    And as I was drifting past the Lorelei / I heard the slinky sirens wail – Whooo! / So look out, sailor, when you hear them croon /You’ll never be the same again — oh, no / Their crazy music drives you insane — This way!

  5. Cindy Scroggins on September 19th, 2010 at 5:58 pm

    Bobby Goldsboro!

    Honey, I miss you.

  6. Sheila Ryan on September 19th, 2010 at 6:07 pm

    Sirens still a-wailing. Every emergency vehicle in the dang county hunkering down by this smoldering house, flashers a-flaring.

    This is not helping my search for my wandering cat.

  7. Joel Bernstein on September 19th, 2010 at 6:11 pm

    Maybe it’s your county’s Lost Cat Emergency Warning System

  8. Sheila Ryan on September 19th, 2010 at 6:13 pm

    If it is, it’s the stupidest system anyone ever devised.

  9. walt on September 19th, 2010 at 7:23 pm

    what’s up? The jig, Sheila. The jig.

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