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You're not in this alone
Let me break the awkward silence
Let me go, go on record,
be the first to say I'm sorry
Hear me out
Well, if you take me down,
or would you lay me out
And if the world needs something better
Let's give them one more reason now

We walk in single file
We light our rails and punch our time
Ride escalators colder than a cell

This broken city sky
like butane on my skin
and stolen from my eyes
Hello angel, tell me where are you?
Tell me where we go from here

And in this moment we can't close the lids on burning eyes
Our memories blanket us with friends we know, like fallout vapor
Steel corpses stretch out toward an ending sun, scorched and black
It reaches in and tears your flesh apart
As ice-cold hands rip into your heart

That's if you've still got one that's left inside that cave you call a chest
And after seeing what we saw, can we still reclaim our innocence?
And if the world needs something better, let's give them one more reason now

This broken city sky
like butane on my skin
and stolen from my eyes
Hello angel, tell me where are you?
Tell me where we go from here

-- "Skylines and Turnstiles," My Chemical Romance

And the most absurd journalism award goes to...

... The AP writer who wrote this passage (which I edited heavily before it went into print):

"The first blast caught a subway train near the Liverpool Street station, which is between the Moorgate and Aldgate stations on the eastern fringe of London's financial district. Seven died, police said. Moorgate is named for one of the gates in the city walls of London, of which few traces remain. Some people caught in the blast emerged from the Aldgate Station, near Jack the Ripper's old haunts in Whitechapel.

The second bombing came five minutes later, on a second train deep underground between the King's Cross and Russell Square stations. Police said 21 died. King's Cross station, in one of the seediest parts of London, is the film setting for Platform 9 3/4 in the Harry Potter films. Russell Square station serves Bloomsbury, the early 20th-century literary hotbed where Virginia Woolf and luminaries lived.

At 9:17 a.m., there was an explosion involving two or perhaps three trains around Edgware Road station. Seven people were killed, police said. Edgware Road is the heart of a thriving Arab community, and convenient to Hyde Park, scene of last weekend's Live 8 concert.

The bus explosion, which killed at least two people, took place near Russell Square, an area of many modestly priced hotels popular with tourists. Also nearby is the home where Charles Dickens lived from 1837 to 1839."

Hey, is this a news story about horrific deaths, or a tourism brochure from London Transport? Seriously. I don't care how much interesting trivia this guy knows about tube stations -- it doesn't belong, especially when you're jumping back and forth between "death, destruction" and "hey, kids, here's where they filmed Harry Potter!" so abruptly that I actually laughed reading it. C'mon, seriously -- which AP editor let this writer get away with this? They should be slapped.

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Hm.

Apparently, Finch is gonna be at Saratoga Winners in August. On a Sunday. Cheap tickets.

I hear they're pretty good. (Though I also heard that their lead singer badmouthed Gerard, and that's not cool.)

I'm half-entertaining the notion of going.

Probably not, though. I've got enough concert tickets already.