What My Friends are Sayin’

one’s from Stacy — she links to a lyrics site where one of the

commenters says that the lyrics to the Pixies’ oddly Beatles-esque and poppiest tune is about Nagasaki.

Here are the lyrics:

outside there’s a box car waiting

outside the family stew

out by the fire breathing

outside we wait ’til face turns blue

i know the nervous walking

i know the dirty beard hangs

out by the box car waiting

take me away to nowhere plains

there is a wait so long

here comes your man

big shake on the box car moving

big shake to the land that’s falling down

is a wind makes a palm stop blowing

a big, big stone fall and break my crown

there is a wait so long

you’ll never wait so long

here comes your man

there is a wait so long

you’ll never wait so long

here comes your man

The commenter’s theory that the song is about Nagasaki is based on the fact that the delivery vehicle for the A-bomb — named Fat Man — was a B-29 bomber named the Bockscar, which will have flown the mission 60 years ago this August 9th. Given lead vocalist Black Francis‘

(a.k.a. Frank Black, a.k.a. Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV)

predilection for odd topics and science in his lyrics, I’d say that

this commenter could be right.

Lisa lives in Tel Aviv and writes very fascinating pieces about life there. In this entry, she talks to three men…

Nobody does the funny quite like Min Jung, who’s figured out and documented the lifecycle of bloggers:

1. “Start reading blogs.”
2. “You start a blog.”
3. “You become a stats whore.”
4. “You become really personal on your site as the online and real-life worlds start confusing you.”
5. “You faux “retire” from blogging.”
6. “You cave back into blogging in less than 72 hours.”
7. “You decide to “get serious” about blogging.”
8. “You have a pseudo flirty im/blogging/flickr flirting relationship with another blogger whom you have never met.”
9. “You decide that you must meet other bloggers.”
10. “You take a step back and metablog about blogging and what blogging has done about your blogging.”
11. “See step 5.”
12. “You

    decide that as a result of step 10 and having repeated step 5 more than

    3 times in the course of your lifecycle as a blogger, that you need to

    sanitize or reinvent your blog.”

13. “You

    either lose your job because of blogging, are afraid of losing your job

    for blogging, or join a company that builds blogging tools.”

14. “You decide to start an anonymous livejournal blog.”