I spent the day trying to keep up with everything. The phone was ringing, things were tugging at my consciousness, I would remember that I needed to make some more iced tea, only to forget for several more hours while I tended to more stuff. It is good to be busy, but it is a bit nerve wracking at the same time. The numbers of windows I have open at any given time is a testament to not being able to immediately follow through. And the email just keeps coming. Today I decided that 7,000 were just too many, and I proceeded to carefully delete 1500. The minutia of life. But being in the thick of all this stuff is somehow comforting, not caring about the beginning, and not knowing of the end. Somewhere in the middle.

Jon Langford’s song today confronts the ‘exploding plastic inevitable,’ as Any Warhol put it in the 60s. The end. And will it be kind? Who knows. 9/11 a few days ago gave me pause to look back on this decade and see how much our lives have changed. Older, wiser, and maybe sadder too. Are we witnessing the decline of a great empire, or can we rally back, personally and as a nation? We hope you live long and prosper. Here is “Book Of Your Life” which Music Fog recorded with Jon Langford and Jim Elkington when they came to visit us at the Sheraton suite at the Americana Music Festival in Nashville last year about this time. It is a tune that can be found on last year's Old Devils album from Jon Langford & Skull Orchard. This year, there is a new Mekons project being released on September 27th, their 26th album! Jon Langford is BUSY.

- Jessie Scott