Dark Dark Dark  Mar 3, 2009 - Daytrotter Studio, Rock Island, IL
Mar 3, 2009  Dark Dark Dark     1. 1 Welcome to Daytrotter   2.
2 A Cloud Story   3. 3 Winter Coat   4. 4 Flood   5. 5 The Hand
Cold Cold Cold…Warm   The entire day yesterday was two days at
least, if we can base anything at all on perception. And maybe
that had something to do with the way it hit me late in the
evening on the O'Hare airport tarmac. It began prior to 7 a.m.
in San Francisco, California, with a groggy wake-up call, some
European coffee and a cab ride through a rainy Bay Area, past
all of the moored sailboats and the quiet Sunday morning
harbors. It took us to Seattle for a couple of hours and some
Burger King, then on to Chicago and a delay and some lake effect
snow, creating a terminal full of pissy men and women. Finally,
two hours later than expected, is when we boarded a final plane
to bring us home. We took to a final flight of steps and then
out into weather that we'd forgotten for a good solid week. The
door opened and t