look to your soul and open your mind

It’s been a pretty gross day today. Between the heat, the humidity, the high pollen count, and the hellish commute home, I’m fairly well wrecked.

Instead of trying and failing to come up with a coherent post for today, I’m just going to pop open a can of Dr. Pepper and join Marmy Marmelstein, the twenty-pound feral cat who hangs out around our house, on the patio and watch the sun set through the trees down back.

Feel free to join me in spirit, unless you feel like trying to find the house in the maze of streets that crisscross the hillside. It also doesn’t help that there’s an almost identically named street running two blocks parallel to ours. It makes getting pizza deliveries a blast. (By “blast,” I mean “an extended exercise in frustration and ice cold congealed fat and cheese.”)

Tommy James and the Shondells – Crystal Blue Persuasion (from a 1969 single, collected on The Very Best Of Tommy James & The Shondells, 1993) – It doesn’t hold a candle to “Crimson and Clover” (which I consider to be the pinnacle of 60’s pop perfection), but makes for some great warm weather lounging music.