About twenty minutes ago I heard an odd rumble. I thought it was maybe a low airplane or someone with a snow-blower in a far off part of the neighbourhood cleaning up the wet snow a little late in the evening. But then a couple minutes later there was a louder rumble and then a louder one and then... click- the TV went off, the halogen light faded out, the computer screen went blank and then the dull hum of the CPU fan slowing and then nothing.
It took me a couple minutes to figure out what had happened.
Was that... was that thunder? In February?
I blindly felt my way along the walls upstairs where my mother assured me it was an electrical storm that knocked out the power in February. We fumbled for some matches in the kitchen, but by the time I had a candle lit and was back downstairs, the power came back on and here I am still perplexed.
Keep on Tranglin,
Anthony
11 comments:
how very odd.
It rained here recently and the thunder surprised me.
I have experienced a lot of rain here in Australia but it never got dark and cloudy. I somehow thought that the dark loud part of rain just never happened here.
You had thunder, Ottawa has freezing rain. Freezing rain and LOTS of snow. Damn Assprior and it's evil weather.
there was thunder and lightning in the hammer as well. i missed most of it as i was at the glorious moneen show.
Even I know that there are no aliens in Canada. Tuh.
As if that were an explanation. Anyway.
i don't have anything to say really, but i have been here for about 20 minutes listening to music so i thought i might as well comment.
we had a storm today too... but it's summer. so, not really so odd.
Somehow I feel compelled to believe that.
LMK- I'm really looking forward to summer storms. I love em. There was a string of big ones last summer and despite the tornado warnings and flash flooding all I really wanted to do was run around in the rain.
Nadia- It snowed heavily the night before ("Heavily" is relative to the amount of snow we've had here this year. It was about 5 centimeters.)
Melissa- I propose drunkness tonight.
Dia- I am forced to learn who or what this "Moneen" you refer to is.
Owl- There is a group of them. They're called the Government of Canada.
Lou Reed- Go away.
Loz- Did you like the music, or were you just unable to leave?
Lou- You invented nothing.
Nadia- Stop falling for his lies!
If it came from Lou Reed, it would have emitted a noxious gas cloud. And people would've begun crooning in a tuneless monotone and everyone's head would look like a weathered walnut shell with a bunch of greasy black pubic hair on top.
Also, everyone would be wearing black t-shirts and smell like sardine brine.
Anthony: the music is good, i kept playing Heart of Gold
Ubes: So you've been to Australia then?
Lou Reed- Again, go away.
Ubie- That is a bit harsh, but very true.
Loz- I'm glad you like it. I actually saw Neil Young live in Toronto a couple years ago. It was fantastic. Particularly because Toronto is where he spent his early hippie days and the show was super expensive and full of hippes turned executives. It was almost ironic. I'm actually far too drunk to figure out what is ironic and what isn't. Anywho I got a free ticket and it was for the restaurant at the Air Canada Centre where I had the pleaure of eating a $30 bison burger and breathing in lots of second hand pot.
Maybe it's not the drunk that is hindering you. Alanis Morissette never understood irony either, and she was Canadian.
She's not dead, she's just American now.
Don't ask why I know that.
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