Amanda Miguel
El Gato y Yo, 1984

I usually don’t include these “fake” videos from YouTube, but I heard this song the other night on La Preciosa, and I really liked it in a “Nina Hagen on pop overload and in Spanish” kind of way. The only legitimate videos I could find were assorted live versions with crappy sound quality, so there you have it…

Since there obviously will be no gas anywhere on the planet by the end of the weekend, the lines have started to form here in the Triad. The Texaco station on Silas Creek Parkway where I bought gas on the way home last night for $3.59 was up to $4.19 by tonight. I think I’ll probably skip that little road trip tomorrow.

I just heard some guy on CNN say that “the Gulf of Mexico has become very agitated”, which struck me as a rather odd turn of phrase. By the way, Larry King’s is not really the voice I want to hear leading live team coverage of a crisis. And isn’t it time CNN got some new dramatic hurricane music? They’re using the same stuff they used during Katrina, and frankly I’m ready for a change.

Whatever shall I do? The “Consorcium” is after me…