2005-02-02 - 11:49 p.m.
We interrupt this journal for a dream…
I had a dream last night that my wife got religion. With the fire of Christ in her heart, she promptly came to the conclusion that as a Buddhist, I was a heathen so she kicked me out. I then found myself riding the rails with RRE’ soundman, Mike Partridge and ABC news anchor Peter Jennings. Out across the country we went riding atop a train car. I have no idea why - I mean come on, Peter Jennings and I are hobos - but the car was a tanker. Mike and I are sitting on pipe-like rails on the side of the car, while Peter stands straddling the tank at the front. He was dressed exactly like he would have been had he been behind the anchor desk at ABC. Soon we came into a train yard and a trainman started filling the tanker with what I thought was fuel. We got off the car and were met by a couple of scruffy looking fellas. The scruffiest one asked us if we had tickets. I said, “Come on man, we’re riding on top of a tanker car. Do we look like we have tickets? Besides, this guy here is Peter Jennings; famous news anchor.” No more questions were asked and then the scruffiest guy pulled out the biggest bong I’d ever seen. Just as I realized the part that was supposed to be filled with water was actually full of creamed corn, my cat woke me up. Too bad. I would love to have seen Peter Jennings take a big hit out of a bong filled with creamed corn!
Next: I fail to finish writing about the last tour only to write about my experiences playing with Phil Lesh…
