"You could see the storm a comin',
The cloud looked deathlike black,
And through our mighty nation,
It left a dreadful track."

Lyrics from Dust Storm Disaster
as recorded by Woody Guthrie, RCA Studios, Camden, NJ, 26 April 1940.
Transcribed by Manfred Helfert © 1960, Ludlow Music, Inc., New York, NY

While ya'll are makin' bank spending your entire lives suckin from the system to write massive missives on intense local heating of air common in deserts and resulting instabilities of the air mass such as eolian turbidity currents, you know, dust devils. Cosmic dust devils, interstellar vortexes like the big one that sucked up the entire atmosphere of the planet Mars in 1971 (was a very good year for makin' bank), ya'll just can't see the big one comin'. Big Al loves Mars as much as the next person, but 1971? Come on y'all how relevant is that? How 'bout it took nine seconds to knock out power in the Northeastern United States last month, August 2003. WHY? 'Cause somebody turned on a portable pussy fan to cool it off in the one hundred plus degree heat and BLEW THE TOP OFF THE MOTHA F. Talk about a vortex. That pussy musta been HOT. It sucked everything there was to suck outta those grids. Yep, one too many hot pussies and there it all goes, the whole deal. And when the lights came back on everybody returned to the intriguing questions of eolian turbidy currents on Mars. YO, ya'll can't see the storm a comin,' it is a desert storm, and whadda waste of hot pussy.

Background photograph: Sky, East Beach, St. Simons Island, Georgia, with Orion Nebula and Closest Encounter: The red planet Mars photographed by Hubble as it made its closest approach to Earth in almost 60,000 years courtesy HUBBLESITE.org. Stained glass desert star by Lydia Valentine Farley. Download Background Graphic (116K). Graphics © STUDIOVALENTINE.com

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