I’m listening to Warren Zevon’s My Ride’s Here (thx to Pat Vecchio at the Music desk for lending it to me, btw). It occurs to me that no society should be be asked to endure the loss of two such brilliant critics of its culture as Zevon and Hunter Thompson in such a short time.

She was a systems analyst
For a dot com company
She said, “You think because we’ve kissed
I’ll be yours eternally
I’ll sign another pre-nup
And we’ll merge our P.L.C.s
That’s why most girls go belly-up
In this economy

[sigh] I don’t know which I miss more…..