June 22

Do you put off cleaning up until someone says, “you had better clean this place up, it’s a death trap”? I am bad about housecleaning but I like to think that my place isn't all that bad. Honestly, my place could be a lot worse. In Ohio, a small state that borders Pennsylvania, fronts on that skinny little Great Lake, and is just across the border from Canada, things finally did get just that bad. On the 22nd in 1969, Ohio’s Cuyahoga River caught fire. It’s not all as bad as it seems tough. At the very least Randy Newman, Adam Again and R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe have all gotten decent songs out of the thing.