Goin' Crazy From The Heat

Here in Detroit, the expected high temperature today is 101 degrees. (Not a typo, I really did mean to put one hundred and one degrees.) If the temperature does reach that prediction, it will be the hottest day in Metro Detroit in a dozen years.

Now, I don't like to complain too much about the weather. It's summertime, it's supposed to be hot. Lord knows, it'll be chilly before you can blink your eyes. (Such is life in Michigan, where our unofficial State Motto is "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes, it'll change".) And I'll definitely take the heat of summer over winter's bone-chilling cold and several inches or feet of snow.

But man-oh-man, I'll be so glad when it cools off, even just a little. It was 80 degrees at 6 o'clock this morning. Something about that picture just does NOT seem right.

And another thing: When people talk about the heat in places like, say, Arizona, the phrase you always hear is "...but it's a DRY heat". Yeah, well, we ain't that lucky. This is a MOIST heat. Like being dunked in a vat of donkey sweat. (Now there's a sexy visual image for ya.)

Some other song lyrics dealing with the subject...

• The heat is on


• Man, it's a hot one/Like seven inches from the midday sun


• What a lovely way to burn


• It's like a heat wave


• Feeling hot, hot, hot

(Feel free to leave a comment and contribute your own.)