I've learned in the past three years that I did many things solely to tell Daddy about them later. - Wright Thompson

...left to write Darkness and stew. To me it's a record about trying to protect a dream while confronted with a growing wall of reality that says the dream is dead — and worse: useless, pathetic, impossible.

Julian and his dad were men of different times. That's how it is with fathers and sons. The act of panning a generational divide is the single most important thing either person will do in their lifetime; the relationship depends on making that leap successfully.

I brought along a bottle of 1978 Old Fitzgerald and we drank it the whole way down. That's how we acknowledged the ghosts who'd be at the game with us. That's how we toasted them while we flew.