Shit and/or shinola

Grizzly Bear and Feist - “Service Bell” (from Dark Was The Night)

This afternoon at the bookstore, I was attempting to soothe the savage browsers with a calming playlist entitled “Xannie-do.” As this song was finishing up, a pair of impossibly unsweaty middle-aged women brought their Fern Michaels masterpieces to the register and one of them fluttered her hand across her pearl necklace, turned to the other, and said, in a sugary Southern bitch drawl, “My my, doesn’t this sound just like people chanting around campfires and worshipping Satan?”