Report from Hell due Monday

[arkaycee]

Damn, I'm usually good about writing florid summary prose in my sleep ... but never before using Excel to make the 27 color glossy pie charts with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one.... I'm glad the deadline was extended from 4pm today to 4pm Monday, but I hope to GAWD I'm done with it before this evening

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"Walk right in, it's around the back / Just a half a mile from the railroad track"

[arkaycee]

Ah ... no, it's actually a cultural reference ... to this 19-minute song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_7C0QGkiVo

(this is a newer recording by the original artist -- he first did it in 1967).

If you don't have 19 minutes, the lyrics are here:

http://www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/alices.shtml

... and if you don't have that much time, the part I was sub-referencing is (where it occurs for the first time -- the phrase occurs a few times in the piece):

They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and
they took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each
one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach,
the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not to
mention the aerial photography.

And cool -- of course! -- the song has its own wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice's_Restaurant

Anyway, one of the classic 1960's American folk tunes. You simply HAVE to hear it!

Re: "Walk right in, it's around the back / Just a half a mile from the railroad track"

[slightlymadmom]

I only heard the first 8 minutes of this near Thanksgiving, my folks had the record album and we used to listen every year, but I never got a cassette copy for some reason...got to get myself a copy! Thanks for the links.