For further corroboration, independent of the New England folk tradition, please note that Charlie Daniels records the devil as going down (i.e., south) to Georgia.

Posted July 21, 2005 5:12 PM by fidelio

Love the blog linked. Yeah, made my day when I found out my lifestyle was responsible for the priest abuse scandal.

Posted July 21, 2005 5:12 PM by chance

I'd just like to take this moment to remind the world what Dan Savage (Sex advice columnist) is trying to do with Santorum's name.

http://www.nndb.com/people/478/000022412/
Note: There is some amount of sex-related content there.

Frothy discharge indeed!

Posted July 21, 2005 6:44 PM by Scott

I've started refering to him as "Senator Man On Dog".

Posted July 21, 2005 7:05 PM by Josh Jasper

Josh --
I just call him Sen. Dogf&cker. Shorter, clearer.

Posted July 21, 2005 11:43 PM by BSD

I think I saw the Black Man down at the crossroads. Or was that the queen of faerie?

Posted July 22, 2005 5:11 PM by Randolph Fritz

I think I saw the Black Man down at the crossroads.

And his hair was perfect.

Posted July 22, 2005 5:32 PM by John M. Ford

I think I saw the Black Man down at the crossroads.

And his hair was perfect.

He's the the werewolf of London?

Posted July 23, 2005 7:44 AM by Michelle

I saw the Old Nick Scratch with a prayerbook menu in his hands walking through the Commons in the rain
He was looking for a Church named Holy Fucks
For to get himsef an altar boy

If you hear him praying outside your chapel door
Better not let him in
Sweet young boy got buggered late last night
It was the Devils of Boston again

He's the frock coated gent who ran amuck at Tufts
Lately he's been overheard in Brookline
Better stay away from him
He'd like to bend you over, Jim
I'd like to meet his tailor

Posted July 23, 2005 10:39 AM by Josh Jasper

I really hope that Old Nick got a better lawyer after that whole fiasco.

Oh, wait--looks like he did!

Posted July 23, 2005 3:32 PM by mythago

Now I've got Laurie Anderson's "The day the Devil" stuck in my head.

Not that this is a bad thing.

"The day the devil comes to getcha
He's got a smile like a scar
He knows the way to your house
He's got the keys to your car
And when he sells you his sportcoat
You say: Funny! That's my size. . ."

Weird thing- I think New York and Boston are competing for Home of the Devil, as well as everything else. We think of Boston as home of the Blue Laws, the place where bars close at 1 AM or something silly. I have a half-remembered story, which I can't find a reference for, of Billy Graham coming to New York City and reading from the bible, replacing the words "Sodom and Gomorrah" with "New York City".

Is Boston as sinful as all that?

Posted July 25, 2005 12:53 PM by Sandy

"Not that this is a bad thing."

Give me back me innocence
Give me a brand new suit . . .

Great song, great album.

Posted July 25, 2005 3:15 PM by Stefan Jones

JvP: Didn't Hell irrupt in Death Valley, not Las Vegas?

Posted July 25, 2005 3:27 PM by cd

"If I owned Hell and Las Vegas, I'd live in Hell and rent out Vegas. 'Cause never mind what they tell you, even Mr. Adversary's gotta sleep once in a while."

Posted July 25, 2005 3:40 PM by John M. Ford

I had game AIs running on my Apple 2c that were smarter than this.

Posted July 26, 2005 3:14 AM by John M. Ford explores the limits of spammish imbecility

Wow. You're not kidding.

Posted July 26, 2005 12:36 PM by Stefan Jones

It's well known that I'm a sucker for a

Happy Ending

Devil: I feel the hot wind blowin'
From the West to the East
I feel the hot wind blowin'
Can't get no relief
I feel the hot wind blowin'
Ev'ry day and ev'ry night
I feel my confidence growin'
And I know I'm gonna be alright

I see the volcanoes
'Rupting and erupting
Red walls of fire

I got corruption
Seduction
Destruction
Reproduction
I got Las Vegas in my mind

Posted July 27, 2005 1:28 PM by adamsj