Asphyxiated rappers, unite!

Things I have reason to believe are true:

1) The Slap Happy Jesus Freaks is not a good name for a band.
2) Joan Didion probably had it right when she wrote, as the first line of the epochal "White Album," - we tell ourselves stories in order to live. The applicability of these stories, their relationship to truth, their genesis, their constituent parts - these may all vary but the survival element stays.
3) Ticks are invasive of body and soul. As a result of finding three on my person in the past hour (I went on a hike), I now have psychosomatic "bugs crawling all over my skin" syndrome. And I never did that yea-yo.