Day: March 3, 2006

Once more from the top, the Friday Random Guess 10:

  1. He buys her diamond rings, you know
    “I Feel Fine” by the Beatles, guessed by Kim
  2. It’s a big dumb wax museum
    “Scared to Death” by Frankie Big Face
  3. I want to feel sunlight on my face
    “Where the Streets Have No Name” by U2, guessed by Kim
  4. Can analysis be worthwhile?
    “The Dangling Conversation” by Simon and Garfunkel, guessed by Eric
  5. So hang your hopes on rusted-out hinges
    “29” by Gin Blossoms
  6. There where the plot begins
    “Josie and the Pussycats” (theme song), guessed by Kim
  7. It’s hard to say you will when you won’t
    “Don’t Mean Anything” by Adam Coen
  8. You said you’d never compromise
    “Like a Rolling Stone” by Bob Dylan, guessed by Kim
  9. And in the midst of the laughter he cries
    “Pretty Paper” by Roy Orbison, guessed by Kim
  10. I keep my eyes wide open all the time
    “I Walk the Line” by Johnny Cash, guessed by John

The only one left from last week is #9, Heather Nova’s “Virus of the Mind.” As always, best of luck!

On the floor of the men’s room, there’s a newspaper (possibly AM New York) open to the headline “Meth spread causes Patriot Act changes.”

I don’t know. Have you seen the Patriot Act? I wouldn’t be half surprised if a contributing inspiration for it was crystal meth use amongst its writers.

Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose. From today’s Writer’s Almanac:

It was on this day in 1863 that Congress passed the Civil War Conscription Act, which required all men between the ages of twenty and forty-five to serve three years in the military. But one big loophole in the law allowed wealthy men to hire substitutes to serve in their place. Among the wealthy men who did hire substitutes were J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and the future President Grover Cleveland.

Does that sound like anyone we know?