Night Moves
There’s a reason why the characters in the song never quite do it
Is America, also, fated to end in the middle, undone by the contradictions of adulthood?
Love doth fade, and so doth beauty. But there still ain’t nothin’ like a fine Segar.
In late 2019 I was feeling a bit bored with whatever was playing in the car, and my mind settled on Bob Seger. After a quick search on Apple Music, “Night Moves” filled the space in my gray Dodge Journey. The song wasn’t new to me, but after the fadeout, I played it again. And again. For weeks afterward, I listened to “Night Moves” over and over, an obsessive and mysterious journey down a rabbit hole I didn’t understand.
I’d known the chords of the song since I was a teenager. But my new obsession with “Night Moves” was far different than anything I’d ever encountered. If I had something to learn from Seger’s song, the message wasn’t at all clear, and I had no idea as to how I might articulate where it was taking me.
Seger begins his story with a clearly identified first-person narrator: “I was a little too tall, could’ve used a few pounds.” And later, the wistful singer tells the …
Demon Emu
Myrtle Beach seniors report bird-like robots the size of deer. Are they out of their minds?
Farmer Sam Morace belatedly reveals that giant birds fled his farm after killing three
She-mu, He-mu, it’s time to hunt the Emu! But don’t get too close.
Panic thrives when information is scarce. All last summer and fall in Horry County, South Carolina, the easternmost county in the state and home to countless sunbirds and retirees in communities such as Myrtle Beach, scattered sightings of gargantuan brown members of an avian species roiled and disturbed the public’s peace of mind. These birds — the size of full-grown deer, some said — were spotted on the ground, in fields and wetlands, and sometimes were seen to be running at high speeds estimated by observers as approaching thirty miles per hour. People were baffled. Were the creatures birds at all? Were they even creatures? Or might they be advanced machines of some kind — military robots perhaps, engaged in a highly classified mission — cleverly fashioned to resemble birds?
Until mid-November, the rumors spread unchecked, possibly fueled by the diminished eyesight of Horry County’s large …
Shorts and Stops From Wilson County (Texas) and Beyond
Residents of the Arrowhead subdivision in northwest Wilson County complain of “blood-brown” water that has plagued their neighborhood for nearly three years.
According to the residents, they have been dealing with this problem ever since Central States Water Resources-Texas took over the Arrowhead Water System in their small neighborhood. Since then, residents of Arrowhead have been consuming, bathing in, and cooking with discolored water.
In addition to being discolored, residents say that the water emits a strong chlorine odor, which they feel isn’t safe to drink. Customer service representatives are telling residents to flush and run the water first, but that doesn’t fix anything, one resident said. After recent rate increases, which residents say they protested, to no avail, many have seen a 100 percent increase in their bills.
Carrie Willcoxson said she stopped paying her water …
