Saturday, February 22, 2003 ::: Winter Showdown Inferno
In the wake of the nightclub fire in Rhode Island, I was wondering about the band "Great White," the name sounded vaguely familiar and I looked them up on All Music Guide. Apparently they are your basic 1980's heavy-metal-hair-band. Looking through their discography, I see they did a Led Zeppelin tribute called Great Zeppelin. The album cover for that one really has to be seen to be believed. Its a combination of Spinal Tap and something me and my friends would've thought was really cool back in the eighth or ninth grade.
I usually watch CNN almost everyday, although there's been a few times in the last couple weeks I've had to employ a self-imposed news boycott because Bush/Rumsfeld/Cheney/Himmler/Ashcroft kept pissing me off. I was watching this afternoon after I got home from work, and it just kills me how they distill every ongoing story/tragedy to a punchy two-word title complete with a logo. This Rhode Island fire is constantly billed as "Nightclub Inferno." The snowstorm last week was "Winter Wallop" and of course there is that old standby "Showdown Iraq." I wonder what they'll call the deal in Iraq once the real shooting starts. Perhaps "Persian Gulf War II: the Reckoning."
Quotes of the Day: (Some amusing quotes about history and historians)
"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
--- Leo Tolstoy
"What is history but a fable agreed upon?"
--- Napoleon Bonaparte
"Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot."
