Summer of Iran

Alan Taylor's photo sets on boston.com are always good, sometimes staggeringly so. His two collections on the disputed election in Iran are magnificent.

• Iran's Disputed Election
• Iran's continued election turmoil

Impossible to pick one as best; so this is a random sample:



While scrolling down these evocative images, I listened to Jeffrey Dean Foster's Summer of the Son of Sam on Youtube.


Summer of the Son of Sam by Jeffrey Dean Foster at The Garage, Winston Salem, NC, May 15, 2009

Lyrics from his web site:

The Summer of the Son of Sam

I was still in school, in the summer of the son of sam
The nights were cool, and nothin’ could have brought us down
The nights were long and the band played on
One long song, just to keep the power on.

All the light that shines on you is from a dying star
The star’s been dead a billion years
Now it’s shining off your car
The city was dark, in the summer of the son of sam
The devil left his mark
And the freebird hit the ground
All the light that shines on you is from a dying star
The stars been dead a billion years
And now it’s shining off your car

Chorus
To light your way, I feel my troubles slipping away
I feel my troubles, I feel your troubles slippin away x2
All the light that shines on you is from a dying star
The stars been dead a billion years
And now it’s shining off your car
now it’s shining off your car
now it’s shining off your car
To light your way, I feel my troubles slipping away
slipping away.