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Friday, Feb. 21, 2003 - 5:36 p.m. What a weird week it has been for clubs, panic, and large death tolls! Early Monday morning, 21 young people in Chicago died in a crush caused by a panicked crowd. The use of pepper gas inside of a packed club on a pair of women fighting caused a portion of a crowd of over 3000 to rush for the exit down a small stairway. Most of the deaths were attributed to cardiac arrest. Many of the other patrons of the club had no idea the tragedy had happened when it was taking place. Then, last night in a small club (if you see the video, the place looks like the inside of any Moose or Elks club you have ever been inside of) in West Warwick, Rhode Island, pyrotechnics from the washed-up 80�s hair band Great White caught the walls and ceiling on fire, filling the room with black smoke. Of the estimated 300 people in attendance, at least 95 have died from burns and smoke inhalation. The reports also list 155 people being admitted fro treatment. When I first viewed the short video (shot by a local camera crew for a TV station), it looked like a bad outtake from the movie �This is Spinal Tap!�. The band starts their set, flash pots shooting flames high enough o almost kiss the ceiling. Seconds later, the wall is totally engulfed in flames. The ceiling catches on fire, and then the room fills with black smoke. All this takes place in about 10 seconds! How anyone survived this inferno, I�ll never understand. One minute you are clutching a longneck Bud, making you best concert yell. The next? You�re toast. Someone at work today said tragedies come in threes. I hope he is wrong. Just in case, I won�t be hitting the local rock scene this weekend. As if Mohall has one�. I didn�t comment on the Chicago tragedy, mainly because it quickly turned into a typical Chicago story: race and clout. Jesse Jackson was at the front steps of the club only hours after the bodies began piling up in the stairwell. He was in Europe the day before, but he knows how to find the television cameras and made it there by 8am. I guess it won�t surprise you to learn that he is a friend with one of the two club owners, will it? And that a court had ordered the club closed last summer due to numerous safety violations? And that Jesse warned people to remain calm and to not blame the owners for the deaths? And that by Tuesday, he was ready to blame the CITY OF CHICAGO for NOT MAKING SURE THAT THE CLUB WAS CLOSED??? Good old Jesse! At least he is consistent- no individual is ever to blame for their own actions. Make sure you blame the government. Do you remember the gang members in Illinois who fought at a high school football game a couple of years ago? To Jesse, they were the victims, not the people in the stands who were trampled by them. I think a couple of these fine young men are serving time in prison for other, later offences right now. But it wasn�t THEIR FAULT that they fought in the stands, right? They didn�t deserve to be expelled from school for mob action. The rules that applied to every other student didn�t apply to these gangbangers, because he could use them for publicity. Also during this time, Jesse told the public that up was down, and that the sky was a pretty shade of lime green and burgundy. Johnny Cochrane (yes, O.J.�s savior) has already signed up several family members of the dead, hoping to get them their share of the taxpayers� money from any lawsuit filed in this case. Not from the club owners. It�s not their fault that they were still open 6 months after a judge ordered them closed, is it? Surprisingly, Jesse wasn�t to be seen at the Rhode Island disaster today. I am sure it has nothing to do with the dead not being of the right skin color���. Damn, what depressing subject matter! We are also under another �winter weather advisory� (2-5� of wet snow tomorrow, more snow Sunday night). Like we need more snow. I will stop whining now�. I�ll leave you with this little story from work today: All morning, we heard a sound coming from outside that sounded like a large dog barking. Whenever went outside to find where the sound was coming from, the noise stopped. Finally, Eric figured it out. He came into the toolroom and told me there wasn�t a dog. We have an old ice cooler that sits outside of our wash bay. And the noise was coming from the compressor on top of it. If you didn�t walk right up to it, it sounded just like a barking dog. We called our ice vendor at noon, but nobody had shown up by late in the day. By the time we left tonight, the noise had become more frequent, and much louder. The area around the compressor was very warm, and the ice inside of the cooler had begun melting (even though the air temperature was only 40�). So I did the humane thing: I put it out of its misery. I pulled its power plug out of the outlet��
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