Happy Birthday Robert Hunter. Chief lyricist and cartographer of the Grateful Dead's long, strange trip. He built the bar that the Brown Eyed Women hang out in. He strung the river through the back of that Brokedown Palace. He's the one who stacked the deck and rigged the games and laid the flowers out so that those who felt a certain displacement in this world could be reminded of its exquisite, faulty joy. It's an honor to sing your words.
