Bear Flag Blog

My grandfather worked for the US Forest Service. He spent most summers of his working life tramping around the Sierra Nevada mountains, uprooting gooseberries or overseeing construction or surveying roads etc etc.

So one day he's out in the high Sierra and he walks into this little vale, and lo and behold there's a teepee. This was in the 1940s, and it was dilapidated and falling apart but it was an actual teepee. As he approached it, he found on the ground an obsidian spearhead, six inches long and beautifully worked, and he thought to himself "Good lord, what might be inside this thing?"

Well, it was full of beer cans and cigarette butts and all the crap left by the decades of people who had found it before him.

I listen to the radio, and now and then I hear a song I haven't heard before which I actually like. And about every six months I sit down at the Internet and discover which new artists have produced these new songs that I hadn't heard before.

Tonight it was "Radio Nowhere" and a song whose lyrics I recalled, and using those to search I found that it was titled "So Hott".

By the cool new artists Bruce Springsteen and Kid Rock, respectively.

At least the teepee was cool.