Barrytowners in Mao III or what was on the tube or in the morning papers (315)

[Robin Landseadel]

The sax riff that underscores this section is my favorite five seconds  
of Steely Dan.

On Dec 19, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Joe Allonby wrote:

> California tumbles into the sea, that'll be the day I go back to  
> Annandale...
>
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 7:39 PM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Barrytown "I can see by what you carry / That you come from  
>> Barrytown"
>> Song: Barrytown    Album: Pretzel Logic
>>
>> A town in upstate New York, close to Annandale-on-Hudson and Bard
>> College (Becker & Fagen's alma mater). Its biggest claim to fame  
>> would
>> be as the headquarters of The Unification Church, a.k.a. "The
>> Moonies", a religious cult who gained notoriety in the 70s from
>> reports of its mass weddings & alleged brainwashing of members. As a
>> fundraising measure, followers would often stand at street corners,
>> carrying small bouquets of flowers for sale (hence the lyric).