Siannan flambe'

So I wake up early because hello, a bunch of firetrucks coming up my street. They park a couple houses over and the guys get out and kinda mill around. I try to go back to sleep but no dice (I am already grumpy because WOTK had some kind of kegger last night until fuck-all in the morning). So I bumble into the office and check my messages.

grundig666 wants to know why Long Island is on fire. I jump out of my skin.

CandiruLove 6:53 am
what
WHAT
HOW DID YOU KNOW

Mike 6:53 am
http://www.newsday.com/

CandiruLove 6:53 am
THERE ARE FIREGUCKS OUTSIDE MY HOUSE


Mike 6:53 am
Theres a huge wildfire spreading accross long island
they are actually evacuating certain areas

CandiruLove 6:54 am
shit piss fuck damn

Mike 6:55 am
check out news12 , they are probably all over it

I wake up J. J. puts on the teevee. News12 is having commercial break. I put on shoes and pad down the driveway and ask the big sexy bald fireman what's up. They were here for something else. And hello, there's an empty purse at the end of my driveway? What? Why? I look inside, find nothing but a few gum wrappers, and hang it on the fence post. I have no idea what's going on. Joanne next door has no idea what's going on.

My eyes already hurt. I need Visine. I have the beginnings of a throat tickle but that's probably psychosomatic.

*blech*

Yeah, it's not psychosomatic, I am coughing up a lung from the smoke drift. FML.

Histamines are a hell of a sopoforic

Moofey fed, Minnie fed, Lucy fed, Lucy inside, I'm going to go to bed ridiculously early tonight. Everything outside has that yellowed haze to it. I'm hoping for rain to at least clean the air a bit, if not extinguish the blaze altogether. Andy Cuomo is down here gladhanding the firefighters.

People in the area have all managed to evacuate their livestock, but the border of the evac zone is very close to the animal shelter that we donate to. I hope they're doing okay.

Whilst on the phone with J.:

J.: I think DFATS started the fire.
Me: Eh?
J.: Either him or WATC. Because we hate them both.
Me: Dude this is Long Island. You can blame anyone, except Billy Joel.
J.: Why not Billy Joel?
Me: Because as I said, this is Long Island, where he is revered as Joiseyans rever The Boss and Bon Jovi, and also because

J.: Fuck that, Billy definitely started the fire.
Me: Yeah, he doth protest too much. And who's this "we'? he got a frog in his pocket?
J.: It's Christie Brinkley.
Me: Dude. You are like, 15 years behind the times.

Dr. Oliver Sachs and the neurological power of music

This gave me a happy:

I want to give that man all the Cab Calloway in the world. :)