I expect this should be the last post about the blackout, but I figured I may as well try and get a song parody out of it.

"Blackin' Out" (to the tune of Billy Joel's "Movin' Out")

Anthony works in the grocery store
Throwing his meat in the garbage
But Mama Leone's serving sushi next door
And there's a line twenty-deep for her bathroom
They say a man in Cleveland coughed and we go black-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack
Or that is the theory now

First we just blame the Canadians
You know all they do is cause trouble
And it seems such a waste of food
That leftover crap I saved
Ice cream's heating up cause we're blackin’ out.

We're blackin' out, oh oh...

Sergeant O’Leary is walkin’ the beat
Arresting the looters at Denny's
They're stealing ninety-nine cent burgers
As the bank goes untouched
They're putting twenties aside to chase pennies
They say it's not another terrorist attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack
That's scheduled late this fall

And the subways stopped and the gas won't pump
At least we can still drink the water
And at Ohio's Cedar Point
They're stuck in a coaster loop
Hanging a hundred feet up 'cause we're blackin’ out.

We're blackin' out, oh oh...

No one's ever gonna visit Cleveland-land-land-land-land-land
Like they ever did before
But at least in a day we got power back
Before we were killed in a riot
And it seems such a waste of meat
It seems such a waste of cheese
Landfills will be filling up cause we're blackin’ out.

We're blackin' out, oh oh...