Counting Crows fan? Or Corrosion of Conformity fan?

(re: the song Wiseblood)

From todays Seattle Post intelligencer

FORT LEWIS -- Kaylee Sharp-Henderson had been silent much of the morning, and now she was avoiding, with all her 8-year-old might, directions to write down what made her feel sad. Or angry. Or scared.

Around the table, the other children in her group bent their heads over their construction paper and made furtive lists with colored markers.

When they were finished, Tina Saari, the group leader, handed each child a small tin of Play-Doh.

Kaylee wadded the clay into a ball.

"This is the Iraqi that killed my dad," she said, her voice rising as her fists pummeled the clay into a flat pancake. "I hate you, I hate you. I hate you."

The other children hammered at their own piles of clay, and in a flurry of pounding they smashed out feelings of grief only the smallest casualties of war could know.

I was unaware of both of those references. I take my name from the Flannery O'Connor novel. It is excellent. Highly recommended.

but the demo broke two of the major game "rules":

1) the enimies did not move down after each entire screen back and forth movement

2) the player could fire a second time before the first missle had terminated

and i was really hoping to see someone doing jumping jacks....