On a lighter note, Anthrax, the band, is going through tough times because of their name. An article at RollingStone.com goes into the negative publicity the band is getting due to their name. Jokingly they began a statement
“In light of current events, we are changing the name of the band to something more friendly, Basket Full of Puppies…”
and went on to say
“In the twenty years we’ve been known as Anthrax, we never thought the day would come that our name would actually mean what it really means. Before the tragedy of September 11th the only thing scary about Anthrax was our bad hair in the Eighties and the Fistful of Metal album cover [in which a spiked fist plunges through a man’s face]. Most people associated the name ‘Anthrax’ with the band, not the germ. Now in the wake of those events, our name symbolizes fear, paranoia and death. Suddenly our name is not so cool.”
I also remember hearing somewhere that guitarist Scott Ian said he had plenty of Cipro on hand.
“I will not die an ironic death.”
, he said.