Ray’s Blog

Between the shave, the weight-loss, my hair, and whatever the chemo does to my face, I look like death. Like how a funeral home makeup artist might do me. My hair looked like some of the guys I saw in a Lynyrd Skynyrd reunion performance, do they really need three guitarists? They had a “When they were young it looked good long, but not now” kind of look to them. Of course they were playing FreeBird and when the lead singer (brother of the original?) was singing, “this bird will never change,” he was raising his mic stand draped with a confederate flag while the crowd roared. Later, he threw the mic stand to someone dressed as Uncle Sam. Just another one of the things that scares me about the South of this country. Kentucky Fried Chicken is another. Here’s Dread Zeppelin’s rendition of Freebird.