the world has turned and left me here

slug

If you can actually tell that that's a slug then good for you. It was raining yesterday when I went to work, and the winding road approaching Siemens was covered with crawling slugs and snails. Not exactly a Yellow Brick Road on my way to see the Wizard.

Back in Junior High School my friends and I wanted to start a band. We called it Slug. I think that's all we ever got around to doing, calling it Slug that is, and even that took weeks of deliberation over a long list of candidate band names. Afterwards I made an iron-on design with a slug mired in goo. I still have the T-shirt somewhere. Maybe it's worth millions now. The fact that we never made a song shouldn't be an obstacle these days...all you need is a cool name like "Atomic Kitten" and some hype and you're a band.