Quake Update
If you’re reading this I know you must all be concerned for our well being right now…
I’m just kidding, but it WAS a little scary to get shaken awake.
Karen, the California girl, thought: Earthquake, and went right back to sleep.
Dayton thought:
1. Plane crash in the neighborhood 2. Bulldozer crushing house 3. Tornado 4. Apocalypse 5. Earthquake 6. Factory exploding 7. Nuke in NYC 8. Obese intruder
Actually, I was dreaming, and I began to notice shaking that was pulling me out of my sleep… I remember thinking that Karen was shaking the bed in her sleep, and I was just about to tell her to stop, when suddenly I realized OH-MY-WORD-THE-ENTIRE-HOUSE-IS-SHAKING-BACK-AND-FORTH!!!! The house is old, so everything was creaking, and and the doors and appliances were shaking back and forth. It was noisy.
Karen is sleeping again. Although, the earthquake being near Louisville caused her to quip before going back to sleep about God’s judgement on the Presbyterian Church. She also thought about the apocalypse, but to her that was a scary thought. I was thinking “Apocalypse. Awesome!” And remembering the last verse of “It is well with my soul.”
This is actually my second earthquake, the first being while I was in Azusa, CA two years ago, but I was outside and didn’t feel a thing. I felt gypped. Well now I can say I’ve felt one.
I can truly say that the MOST interesting thing about this thing is how many people have called the TV station and mentioned that the first thing they thought was: Ghost. I’m not kidding. I did have the quick thought that maybe Haley Joel Osment was the one shaking the bed, though.
And what does this have to do with art? Well, take a guess what I just heard has to undergo inspection this morning… All of the cranes in downtown Chicago! Good thing, but there’s one structure that didn’t make it:
Mama Chianti wrote:
The first thing Pops said when you called about the quake was, “Well, Dayton’s crane will fit right in now!”
Posted on 18-Apr-08 at 7:38 am | Permalink
GIERSCHICK wrote:
If only you could have known about this, and placed your thesis object JUST SO, you might have less drywall to crush…just PLOP, there it is; project done.
Posted on 18-Apr-08 at 10:53 am | Permalink
Rob wrote:
Earthquake? What earthquake? If it happens west of me, I have no interest in it.
Posted on 19-Apr-08 at 11:36 am | Permalink
Gierschick wrote:
Hey Rob, does that include Broad Street? Cause that’s west of you, bro.
Posted on 19-Apr-08 at 9:12 pm | Permalink
Rob wrote:
Most definitely. West Philly might as well be in Japan to me.
Posted on 20-Apr-08 at 9:46 pm | Permalink