Today's illustrious band:

Butterfly Rumble

Brought to you by the Chicken Step Lady, who witness a scuffle between two large butterflies who wanted to feed at the same thistle. You don't think of butterflies as being combative, but apparently they can be.

Yep, it's the little unexpected things that make life interesting. It could be the minute manipulations that make a jujutsu technique work, or the way a carpet looks different if you vacuum the fibers at a 90-degree angle to how they lay before. Maybe it's suddenly noticing a brief echo of harmony in a song you've heard a dozen times before or catching a whiff of Polo cologne and remembering all the frat boys who wore it in college, the legs of their Levis tucked and rolled constriction-tight to their ankles in a Midwestern stab at late-80s fashion.

Whenever I see Taco Flavored Doritos, I'm reminded of the candy store that used to occupy a corner a couple blocks from our house. My friend Ann and I would take our quarters inside and buy little bags of the chips, or we'd spend the money playing air hockey. Ann was partial to the two-tone pressed-powder suckers that rubbed the tongue raw; I liked $100,000 bars and Marathon bars.

Seen any butterfly rumbles lately?