Dust in the Wind

Everyone in the band is sick with the flu but me. So this morning I took it upon myself to do a little research on my favourite bodily humour and yours: phlegm. My most important discovery was that clear or healthy phlegm (or what I would refer to as “snot”, ie. ‘Buddy, pipe down or I’m gonna kick the effin’ snot out a ya!’) can signify the most infectious period. This is important information considering the close quarters we share.

More on snot: according to Wikipedia it’s slang for nasal mucus and not phlegm. (Up for debate if you ask me, but I’m no immunologist.) Regardless, our snot got a real workout yesterday as we were in the midst of a dust storm here in El Paso, TX. Take a look at the skyline of Juarez, Mexico, obscured not by pollution, but dust:

Next stop on the Driving-Through-a-Country-and-Western-Song Tour 2008 takes us to Tucson, AZ tonight. And if Super Tuesday lives up to its name for a certain “conservative” candidate we might be partying well into the night with the locals.

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