Like many Americans I can't hear the word "badlands" without immediately hearing Springsteen belting out the word at full volume. "Badlands, you gotta live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand, as the price you've gotta pay..."
But I didn't know what badlands meant until this
Earth Sci pic of the day. It turns out that badlands are any heavily eroded and arid region, although most people think of the Badlands National Monument which is in South Dakota. This one is in Ontario and is the result of farming erosion which continued after the farming ended.
Springsteen was talking about north Jersey shoreland so you know he is a poet who can make that kind of metaphor.
It looks cool, but really it's just a big useless area. I guess the north Jersey shore analogy sticks.
10-14-2003, 02:43 PM
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