I hardly listen to music, so when I do, I hate
singers who fail to enunciate at all, although they are singing something very emotionally-laden and you gather that the words would explain what the hell the noise is all about. (Wow, I think I just aged 20 years with that sentence. What a Baba Yaga I'm becoming!) Or when it's rap, and supposedly the lyrics matter a lot more. For this reason, I really appreciate people like Chamillionaire -- whoever this is -- whose "Tryin to catch me ridin dirty" song has distinguishable and memorable lyrics. And Eminem, too, who seems to insist that you know what he's saying.

Hm. Rap. Even if it were a type of music I cared for, I don't think I'd have the patience to listen to(and try to understand) rap artists when they appear on TV. But it's happened sometimes, when I'm in the car and am switching around on the radio, I'll run across a rap song and it's so funny or clever or weird that I have to grab a piece of paper to write down the words. Usually this has happened at night, when the disembodied voice on the radio impresses you more strongly. Night is a good time for radio.
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Speaking of Baba Yaga, this year I actually hope kids come to my door on Halloween. I used to live on the second floor but had a separate entrance which meant every time the doorbell rang I had to run downstairs.

My new neighborhood is much friendlier and I have, ha ha, two doors. My house is sort of sideways. No one seems to know which is the front door and I will find their confusion amusing to watch.

I am thinking about taking an Army camouflage shirt and pants and stuffing them with newspaper, and attaching some shoes and some kind of head to make a fake me. I already have a cheap long platinum blonde wig for it. I will sit this dummy on a chair by one door. Gloves, a hat of some kind, and arrange the wig and hat so it looks like the head is bowed. She'll have a bowl of candy on her lap. And maybe a knife stuck in her chest.

Or maybe a rubber human heart in her hand. I don't know.


The neighborhood dogs will probably attack it.