Time to cue up some Warren Zevon

[DoYouEverWonder]

Sounds like the shit is about to hit the fan in Baghdad tonight.

Lawyers, Guns and Money

Well, I went home with the waitress
The way I always do
How was I to know
She was with the Russians, too

I was gambling in Havana
I took a little risk
Send lawyers, guns and money
Dad, get me out of this

I'm the innocent bystander
Somehow I got stuck
Between the rock and the hard place
And I'm down on my luck
And I'm down on my luck
And I'm down on my luck

Now I'm hiding in Honduras
I'm a desperate man
Send lawyers, guns and money
The shit has hit the fan

Send lawyers, guns and money...

[Botany]

1. W.Z.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Foley's more an "excitable boy..."

Well, he went down to dinner in his Sunday best
Excitable boy, they all said
And he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest
Excitable boy, they all said

He took in the four a.m. show at the Clark
Excitable boy, they all said
And he bit the usherette's leg in the dark
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy

He took little Suzie to the Junior Prom
Excitable boy, they all said
And he raped her and killed her, then he took her home
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy
After ten long years they let him out of the home
Excitable boy, they all said
And he dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy

[Gabi Hayes]

3. sigh....saw him live/solo over 20 years ago

and what about Roland?

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Probably still working for Negroponte

Same shit, different decade.

I was lucky to have gotten to see Zevon live a couple of times too. So sad he's gone.

[driver8]

13. I did , too -- in Washington, DC. Just Warren, his guitar, and a

piano. It was an amazing show.

[johnfunk]

4. Warren Zevon's "Lawyers, Guns and Money": OFFICIAL 2006 GOP campaign theme

God knows, they're going to need all three to maintain even a respectable MINORITY standing in the House!

[MnFats]

6. Don't forget! "Roland, the Headless Thompson Gunner"

Roland was a warrior from the Land of the Midnight Sun
With a Thompson gun for hire, fighting to be done
The deal was made in Denmark on a dark and stormy day
So he set out for Biafra to join the bloody fray

Through sixty-six and seven they fought the Congo war
Fingers on their triggers, knee-deep in gore
For days and nights they battled the Bantu to their knees
They killed to earn their living and to help out the Congolese

Roland the Thompson gunner...

His comrades fought beside him - Van Owen and the rest
But of all the Thompson gunners Roland was the best
So the CIA decided they wanted Roland dead
That son-of-a-bitch Van Owen blew off Roland's head

Roland the headless Thompson gunner (Time, time, time
For another peaceful war
Norway's bravest son But time stands still for Roland
'Til he evens up the score)
They can still see his headless body stalking through the night
In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun
In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun

Roland searched the continent for the man who'd done him in
He found him in Mombassa in a barroom drinking gin
Roland aimed his Thompson gun - he didn't say a word
But he blew Van Owen's body from there to Johannesburg

Roland the headless Thompson gunner...

The eternal Thompson gunner, still wandering through the night
Now it's ten years later but he still keeps up the fight
In Ireland, in Lebanon, in Palestine and Berkeley
Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland's Thompson gun
And bought it

[graywarrior]

7. Werewolves of Washington

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. There is no way that Wolfowitz

isn't a werewolf.

[graywarrior]

9. Got that right.

[Jeanette in FL]

10. That is so funny that you brought up that song.

Just last weekend I was singing that song while I was cleaning the house. My husband said "God, I haven't heard that song in years". I said that song has been going through my head for weeks now.

Paranoid, no I don't think so.

[CBGLuthier]

11. sigh

Prove positive once again that only the good die young and evil, rotten bastards live forever.

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. It drives me crazy

to see Poppy and Babs still consuming valuable oxygen, when so many of the good ones like Zevon and Garcia and Hunter are gone.