Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Persistent earworm alert LXXXVIII
For at least the last two months, I've been having sobering thoughts about the passage of time and how, at my age, life is probably more than half over for me. It'll hit home that I'm much closer to being 50 years old than 20 years old. I'll think about people and pets who are no longer in my life and how there's no way to make them appear on command. Then, in the middle of these melancholy thoughts, the "Chili's is back, baby back, baby back..." jingle will run through my mind for several minutes. I don't know if I should be irritated with Chili's for compromising such poignant thoughts or thankful that its jingle reminds me of how silly life sometimes is--and how it's possible to make a memorable jingle by twisting around the melody of "Draggin' The Line" by Tommy James.