The Fredösphere

Thanks to visitor CGHill, who corrected a bizarre mistake I made in my post on the Kingston Trio.  Here's what I remember:  I found out the Trio's breakout hit was a song called Tom Dooley, and my first thought was that it might be the official title of the MTA song.  I selected the Tom Dooley track from the Kingston Trio CD I was listening to, and confirmed (as I remember) it was the MTA.

Well, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.  Could the tracks have been mislabeled?  It seems unlikely, especially since Tom Dooley is correctly identified in the sound clips at amazon.com.  Maybe I misread the track number.  Or maybe I just thought about checking it, then forgot to do it, then remembered my thinking about it as if I had really done it. 

My memory has played tricks on my before.  Once I was telling a friend about a report on NPR about a innovative civil engineering project in Edinburgh, where a causeway was being built across the bottom of the Firth of Forth, and the waters of the Firth would be pushed back by powerful electromagnets to allow vehicles to cross on dry land.  As I related this story, I realized I had no idea how the electromagnets could do this, and the whole thing started to seem very implausible, so I googled it.  And googled it, and googled it some more.  No such causeway exists.  I never heard any report on NPR.  Somehow I dreamed up the whole thing.

Right now, I have a Polaroid photo in my pocket of some guy I don't recognize.  I've written across the bottom:  "don't believe his lies."  I'm going to check myself in the bathroom mirror to find out if this person is me.