G Keillor on Rhode Island disaster

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― dave q, Saturday, 15 March 2003 10:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Thoughts on this?

― dave q, Saturday, 15 March 2003 10:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, for a start, didn't they say that The Station had once been an Italian restaurant prior to its incarnation as a rock club? Not exactly as poetic as 'an old dance hall,' now is it.

Secondly, no one really dances to the music of Great White.

Thirdly....isn't it just a wee bit soon after the event to be writing little cautionary limericks about it?

It sorta reminds me of ol' Andy Rooney's insensitive comments about Kurt Cobain following his demise. Go back to your little Lake Wobegone crap and stick with what you know, Garrison you mush-mouthed prick.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 15 March 2003 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

All the beautiful daughters
All the handsome mill hands
Inside of five minutes
They died at the dance.
Beautiful children in their 20s and teens
Killed by men with long hair
And their rock and roll dreams.

Well, there ya have it.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 15 March 2003 10:58 (twenty-three years ago)

The majority of the gathered throng that evening were invariably into their twenties and thirties. What teens went to see Great White?

Moreover, the majority of players in this diluted line-up of Great White were either shorn of scalp or significantly tonsorially challenged by this point (apart from the third-string rhythm guitarist who perished in the blaze.)

Regardless, it's still a tasteless and pompously derisive poem.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 15 March 2003 11:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I drove by The Station's old place the other day. I think it's sadder to see the dying flowers that people have left there than the smoldering rubble itself.

The sister of a girl I used to go to school with died in the fire, and two friends of my friend Hilary's were injured (one severely, one not.) God knows why they were there, though.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 15 March 2003 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

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