So, I'm reading Don DeLillo's 1985 novel "White Noise," and I get to the chapter about the cloud of deadly chemicals that DeLillo calls, mock-euphemistically, the "airborne toxic event."

Then I think, "Hmmm. That'd make for a pretty excellent band name."

And then, by uncanny coincidence, my Google Reader delivers me a post by L.A. Times "Buzz Bands" blogger Kevin Bronson about this band. Called Airborne Toxic Event.

Literary minds think alike?

Or am I just late to the scene?

- Scott Galupo