want to move like this and that

It's clear that this gentleman never visited North Woburn in the early 1980's.

One memory that will always haunt my dreams is of the time my friends and I decided to walk to the Woburn Mall by cutting behind the industrial park and following the Boston & Maine railroad tracks beside the chemical plant. The tracks ran roughly parallel to the Aberjona River, which at that stretch of the not-even-close-to-mighty waterway devolved into a series of interconnected ponds and reed marshes.

It was the middle of winter, so we figured we could shave some time of the trip by walking across the frozen surface of one of the larger ponds. The water wasn't more than a couple feet deep at the center, and considerable less so at the edges, and the ice was exceptionally translucent. Beneath it was a Lovecraftean swirl of colors and vegetative shapes utterly alien to New England environs -- day-glo magenta and mustard fronds and kelp-like water foliage, which in hindsight were probably chemical accretions rather than actual living plants, but were still incredibly unsettling to behold.

Right, the purpose of this post was not to explain why my corpse will most likely need to be interred in a lead-lined concrete casque, but to indulge in another round of linkposting, the lazy blogger's ever-reliable friend.

Say it ain't so, Kylie! Parte deux! Both Blanka and Donna Summer were unavailable to comment.

In case you want to know where all the cool kids will be tomorrow night.

Always an excellent course of action. (Also, the weft and warp of the Apocalypse revealed!)

My wife's family came right off the boat, and they can't stand the damned song.

Feeling uptight on a Saturday night? Nine o'clock, the radio's the only light? Lacking caffeine and feeling blue? Dr. K visited a place that's ideal for you.

There is nothing I can add to the discussion that hasn't been said already.

Sparks & Jane Wiedlin - Cool Places (from In Outer Space, 1983) - Enthrallingly irritating yet catchy in the magnificent Sparks manner.