It’s Friday afternoon, the sun is finally visible after a week of April snow, and I’m having an awful time getting anything done. So I think I’ll treat you to one of my favorite rock tunes from the ’90s–”A Walk” by Bad Religion:

The video’s kinda cheesy in a mid-90s way, but the music makes me want to crank up the stereo and start wailing away on the trusty ol’ air guitar. One of the reasons I love this song so much is that it contains one of the best put-down lines in the history of rock:

I don’t need to live in your stinking zoo
you can’t even feed the animals donated to you
your storage sheds are ramshackle; flies decorate the walls
and you expect me to die here in this shit-filled tiny stall?

Next time somebody insults you, just fling the ramshackle state of their storage sheds back in their face! I think that verse makes more sense if you imagine that it’s being sung by an abused zoo animal, or something. Anyway, rock on, my religion-disliking friends. Rock on!

Oh, and the subject of Bad Religion comes up so infrequently here that I must take the opportunity to share a related link: a Christian college professor’s dialogue with the lead singer of Bad Religion.