The Jake Fire in Santa Clarita wasn't as bad as it looked. Fire crews had everything contained within a day, but when it broke out, the Santa Clarita Valley shut down and closed I-5 near my job. For me, that meant working from home and getting all my writing done by 3 p.m.—plenty of time to beat the traffic heading north and meet my friend/drummer Harry. By sheer cunning and programming acumen, Harry found an error on a radio station's website after they announced a giveaway for RATT concert tickets. While other hopeful winners were stopped by 404 errors from a bad web address, Harry correctly guessed the URL and won the giveaway. After his wife said she couldn't go, the invitation passed on to me. You know RATT—they did the song "Round and Round" (which you may have confused for Van Halen's "Panama"), back when music videos regularly included Waspy dinner settings like this . The band was fortunate enough to score some of the primo 80s publici
Thoughts of Dallin Nelson