One recent night at work, someone had looked up how to spell separate and left the dictionary entry up on the screen. That was all it took for a 1994 staple of KPNT's playlist, The Offspring's "Come Out And Play (Keep 'Em Separated)," to infiltrate my mind. That song about senseless violence starting at a younger age, with its recurring Egyptian-style riff and memorable hook, "You gotta keep 'em separated," is still on my mind right now.
For some reason, it feels like Christmas was a long time ago.
