Driving to work this morning, fumbling through the radio station presets, I ended up with an eclectic three-song set that really appealed to me. I suspect it reveals a lot about me, so I thought I'd let y'all in on it. It started with Kid Charlemagne, then drifted into The Boxer and finished with Crazy on You. If nothing else, I guess it reveals that some of my favorite music came out before I was even born. (If you didn't catch the reference in the title, click on "read more") There was a story I heard, when I was a kid, about the days when billboards were printed on paper wallpapered up to the board (I don't know if they still are). The story was that a guy drove through a stretch of highway after a big storm, and the layers of billboard had ripped off to reveal a funny story, to wit:

Smoke Coca-Cola Cigarettes
Chew Wrigley's Spearmint Beer
Ken-L-Ration dog food keeps
Your wife's complexion clear.

Simonize your baby
With a Hershey's candy bar
'cause Texaco's the beauty cream
That's used by every star.