They Did Say You Can Check Out

A friend in Taiwan laments discovering that even on the Internets, radio from all over (Micronesia in this case) returns to familiar ground.

Not a nice suprise, indeed, but it does give SJ a chance to air long simmering vexation at Don Henley howling at the end that "You can never leave." The end rang hollow and obvious, then, but more so now after years of thinking theoretically about closure. Even worse, we feel that he says it because he knows he is supposed to say it. That's the 70s from certain perspective: no stately pleasure dome without a taste of the whip.