SONGS OF SUMMER

I'm not doing this weekend's journal assignment, for two reasons:  first, I'm too busy with political activities this weekend to do it, and second - because BelfastCowboy has done it for me. As he usually doesn't do these assignments, this one must have really caught his fancy.  His entry does indeed reference the definitive summer anthems, especially Janis Joplin's rendition of "Summertime."  If you don't know this journal yet, it's time to get in the groove of one of the best writers in JournalLand - read his series on Surviving Parochial School while you're there.  For those of us who've been there (I went to Catholic school all the way through my education, with the exception of second grade in Walpole, MA.) the recognition factor is large.  He's telling our lives, no doubt about it.  He's an English teacher, and it shows.  In a good way.