As I checked into my hotel tonight, I saw on the television screen that disco queen Donna Summer died of cancer Thursday May 17, at the age of 63. I've always hated myself for enjoying her music, because I like to think I'm too cool for disco. But I remember driving the streets of Bakersfield in the late 1970's, listening to Donna Summer on the radio and thinking that her music somehow lightened the pain of being in Bakersfield. I don't go to Bakersfield very often these days, but I think of her every time I drive down certain streets in Bakersfield.

May she rest in peace.

-Joe-