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Tuesday Aug 02, 2005

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I walked into my Boston apartment around eleven o'clock and went to sleep because I hadn't much better to do. I thought of finishing The Gunslinger before passing out, but my roommate turned the light off--and I don't relish trying to read by the light of an LCD monitor. Eh, I thought, and I climbed into the loft.

Not two hours later I was jolted awake a series of the loudest thunderclaps I've heard. Lightning lit-up the room and something on the street exploded.

The blast started my speakers making an unusual and incessant crackle, so I climbed down the ladder out of the loft and turned on our apartment's only light. It flickered and continued to.

"Dan, let's go see what just blew-up," said my roommate. Sure. Why not? I wasn't sleeping anymore.

Now, the most likely thing to explode during or after a violent lightning storm is a transformer, and transformers must be underground in Boston; so we walked down Symphony looking for a smoking crater. All of the lights were flickering and our neighbors were starting to come to their windows to ask us what the Hell was going on.

About half-a-block from my doorstep there was a white Eclipse Spyder with its hood bent across the middle. Smoke was drifting out from the wheelwell. What did I do? I got on the ground a few feet from the car and shined a flashlight so I could see beneath it. (Genius!) You see, when the transformer blew-up in the sewer tunnels, the explosion launched a manhole cover straight up and into the frame of the Mitsu. Hmm.... (I thought that only happened in movies.) Just then, I heard a second explosion and turned in time to see another manhole cover fly through the air and narrowly miss a couple walking down the sidewalk.

An hour and five fire engines later--on my short, one-way street--no one'd been injured and no additional manhole covers had left the ground. But the area beneath the Eclipse that I'd stupidly inspected with my face pressed to the ground some three feet away? It had gone up in a sudden fireball twice as the firefighters were spraying high-volumes of water in its general direction. My roommate turned to me and said, "Y'know, Da-"

"I know, Dave. I know."

VIEW 3 of 3 COMMENTS
null:
Good choices. "Plowed" and "Whiskey in the Jar" were on the first two CDs I burned to take out in the EVO.
Aug 4, 2005
velocity:
The new Shihad is awesome. It's so good to see the boys put out a really solid and energetic album, after what happened with the Pacifier album.
Aug 4, 2005

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