Walkin' Dude humming again in ol' DC

Once upon a time for lopez, Friday nites were fun and games, but now he reads the fun and games of others in the form of CDO's--collateral debt obligations--these are essentially little pieces of shit put together into a t--- and sold to the public with a high rate of interest--cities and counties and states and pension plans and all the people that really need high risk shit ---and from all the big names too----lovin' those fees----and if Rupert swings Dow from the present owners, well just like how wonderful the war in Iraq is on Fox nuz, well, with R owning Dow, there may never be a DOWN day on any market ever reported--and at the start of the weekend, let's hear it for dubya the great and his military boyz who are now saying that the Surge is looking so god damned good, they will probably need a bit more time than September to really make sure how sweet it is.....and as lopez watchfully strolls through DC, he can hear the choir boys warming up for Sunday: "Onward; Christian; Soldiers; play it again SAM and hey, pssssss--shhhhh---Any casualties today?

"Are You Alright?" a song by Lucinda Williams

Now lopez recognizes that many of the people he has known in his life are also doing or about to or just-have-done their 50th High School thing and looking around at his close circle of daily friends, lopez sees no one as that is and has been his choice. Wife and dog are enough and kids are East and South and West and between Bogart and Howard Hughes, lopez finds his comfort and his idols along with the awesome lyrics of Our Time from Bobby Zimmerman. However, it popped into the head of lopez that All of the 5oth Reunion Folks should have a song that is perfect in its reality and its sentimentality so Lopez says buy and listen very carefully and closely to the lyrics of "Are You Alright?" by the great Lucinda Williams---the words ring true for all of us now "getting" older while thinking-back---lopez in his garden, lapses for a moment