The band Phish is finally taking a break after touring almost continuously for 17 years. I can’t imagine doing anything almost continuously for 17 years, but I guess that’s just me. I was just talking about them tonight, describing how before the concert I saw several years ago, people were tailgating in the parking lots with their tanks of nitrous oxide (aka. laughing gas). Apparently there was a story in the news (which I missed but later found) about how some cops went “under cover” in a chat room to learn the drug slang of the Phish heads. I recounted how, at the show I attended, the police walked up to everyone with tanks and forced them to release the content directly into the air. (The common mehod for inhaling the nitrus oxide was to fill a balloon with it and inhale the gas from the balloon.)