Circle of Trust and the Rape of Nanjing
I guess I better get my ass in gear and start getting my shit ready for winter. Cover up my air conditioner and get all my storm windows closed. Then I should wash all my blankets and shit plus all my winter jackets. Change the oil in the car and buy a cover for the truck even though it’s under an awning. Ooh, maybe I’ll buy some new boots whilst I’m at it. I pulled out my big mack daddy robe last week but I think I need to find another one, maybe with a hood. And I guess I should go ahead and close off the two rooms I never use, cause it’ll keep the gas bill down which is supposed to be a muthafucker this winter. Now if I can just keep the ice storms to a minimum I should be as snug as tits in a fuzzy bra. After all that shit gets done it’ll be a waiting game to see when I turn the heat on. I always try to wait till my birthday in December before I turn it on but last year Cassie was living with me and I wasn’t going to put her thru all that. But this year it’s just me and my lonesome so I’ll see how long I can last. I actually slept last night, like a dead man I did. I stopped by the Hurricane before I went home to have a few and sitting at the bar was Brock, Lumpy and Chris; collectively know as Circle of Trust, the newest band to grace the Kansas City scene. They’re playin at the Hurricane next week and I plan to keep a late night just to hear em. And I really wanted to scan it, cause these muthafucker’s have gots to have the rudest band poster anyone’s ever seen. The boy’s are all about shock value and they went and scanned some photos from a website and book called the Rape of Nanjing. On December 13, 1937, Imperial Japan invaded the Chinese city of Nanjing, which was then the capital of Imperialist China. Over the next six-week period Japan committed what came to be know as the Nanjing Massacre, or the rape of Nanjing. During this six-week period over 300.000 Chinese were killed and over 20.000 women were raped. And if I remember right, to this day the Japanese government still refuses to acknowledge the incident. Just a little history to go with the band poster, Lumpy actually was impressed that when he showed me the poster I recognized the pictures right off the bat, which ain’t so unusual me being kind’a of a freak on shit like that. It ain’t what everybody knows that interests me, it’s the shit that tries to stay hidden that interests me. Did that make sense? It made sense to me.












