Hello...Hello...You Might Have Heard Me On Your Radio Phone...
Impressions while driving into work

TIME WON'T CHANGE YOU
MONEY WON'T CHANGE YOU
I HAVEN'T GOT THE FAINTEST IDEA
EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE UP IN THE AIR AT THIS TIME

The thing that made Tony Bruno attractive as a broadcaster was that he was not the stereotypical sportscaster norm. Wright is.

DOWN EL PASO WAY THINGS GET PRETTY SPREAD OUT
PEOPLE GOT NO IDEA WHERE IN THE WORLD THEY ARE
THEY GO UP NORTH AND COME BACK SOUTH
STILL GOT NO IDEA WHERE IN THE WORLD THEY ARE

The lyrics above are an example of someone messing with the record-buyers mind. All of the lyrics in this post are taken from the printed insert to the Talking Heads album "Fear of Music." However, the lyrics above are not sung or spoken in any song on the album. They are printed as part of the lyrics for the song "Cities," but (at least on the studio album) are not sung.

GET YOUR INSTRUCTIONS, FOLLOW DIRECTIONS,
THEN YOU SHOULD CHANGE YOUR ADDRESS
MAYBE TOMORROW, MAYBE THE NEXT DAY,
WHATEVER YOU THINK IS BEST

The words above, along with some others, appear in either the studio nor the live versions of "Life During Wartime." (In the live version, the song goes from "YOU OUGHT TO GET SOME SLEEP" to "BURNED ALL MY NOTEBOOKS, WHAT GOOD ARE NOTEBOOKS?"

I realize that if you've never heard this song in any version, you're scratching your head right now. You probably feel like I felt when I read a TV Guide article about the great popularity of Michael J. Fox, and then asked myself, "Who is this Michael J. Fox they're talking about?" I figured it out later.

THEY PICK THE SOUND AND LET IT DROP

The problem with classical economics is in its assumptions - namely, assumptions such as perfect information and no barriers to entry. I passed an intersection with three gas stations, all selling gas at $2.199. As of today, this is a few cents higher than the normal gas price, which seems to be around $2.139. In the classical world, one station would lower its price, then the others would follow suit, then a price war would continue until one gas station goes out of business, and another one pops up in its place. The world doesn't work that way.