Hello, boys and girls. Yesterday I was summoned to work early for a meeting, and need to go in today, as well. On my scheduled day off… So, I guess what I’m saying is, sorry for missing yesterday’s update and I also wouldn’t expect too much from this one. Heh. I apologize, but real life gets in the way sometimes.
The shopping list to the right was supposedly found in a Wal-Mart somewhere. I can’t vouch for its authenticity, but it made me laugh and I thought I’d share. It also reminds me… I think I might also be running low on ass wash. I’ll have to check on that. I hate when I have to use shampoo; it makes everything slick and well-oiled. And I can’t have that.
Some people at work were trying to get a group together, to take skydiving lessons. And they asked if I’d like to join them. Yeah, I didn’t stop laughing for a solid two to seven minutes.
There is NO WAY. Why would a person do such a thing, from an airplane that’s not on fire? It’s simply out of the question. My genitalia would suction so far into my body cavity, doctors would have to use needle-nose pliers to bring it all back to sunlight. Just the notion of voluntarily jumping from a plane, for “fun,” makes me laugh from two to seven minutes.
Have you ever done it? Or seriously considered it? How about other “extreme” sports? We’ll need to know about it. Please use the comments section below.
I knew a guy in California who jumped out of airplanes and sang in a barbershop quartet. And it was very difficult for me, because I desperately wanted to mock the latter, but knew he’d bust out the former to shame me. I didn’t care for it. I experienced an advanced case of mocker’s frustration, and that’s not to be trifled with.
You know who really sucked? Foreigner. The band, I mean. I liked them when I was in school, and went to see them play live in Huntington. It was Foreigner, Wet Willie, and Nantucket. Wet Willie was a lot of fun, but Nantucket scared the hell out of me. I also saw some guy snort cocaine in the audience, off a tiny spoon on a chain.
In any case… I was a fan of those guys when I was 16 or 17, and am SHOCKED at how shitty they sound now. Just breathtaking shittiness… Almost as bad as Toto, and that’s saying something.
Some of that classic rock stuff holds up, but not Foreigner. Not for me, anyway. Do you have anything like that? Bands or singers you loved during high school, or whatever, that make you cringe now? I’m not talking about guilty pleasures, or stuff you still secretly enjoy but don’t want to talk about. I mean music that you really and truly loved back in the day, which sounds like a big basket of turds to you now.
I have a feeling I didn’t do a good job of explaining that… Oh well. We’ll see what happens. We can extend it to TV shows and movies, too. Hell, if we’re going to confuse the matter, let’s really confuse it.
Before I call it a day here, I wanted to let you guys know that I’m going to try something new next week. Every Monday I’m going to start sending out a special email from the bunker. Sometimes it might contain stuff I don’t feel comfortable posting to the website, like Nancy tidbits, and other times it could be more personal things, or simply a recap of the previous week. No rules or regulations… We’ll just see how it develops.
So, if you’re interested in receiving my weekly dispatch, be sure you’re subscribed. There’s a handy-dandy box in the sidebar. You’ll even receive a free ebook as a bonus! And if you’re not interested, that’s cool too. This is an all volunteer army.
I’ll see you guys again soon. Probably Monday.
Have a great weekend!
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Word!
This is not an all-volunteer army. I distinctly remember being drafted and trying to get out of it by explaining during my physical examination that I am not comfortable in a room full of naked men.
…or maybe I am remembering something that I read in Iggy pop’s book “I Need More”….
I still like “Feels Like the First Time” by Foreigner. And no – I won’t apologize for it.
Blue Morning, Blue Day
was my favorite.
“Well they weren’t gonna sound good FOREVER”
I’m with you on the sky diving, funk dat! I think the most “extreme” sport I’ve ever done is snow skiing. Hey I once skied at Heavenly after Sonny died there.
Got nothing on the music, like usual but I will add your summary of Foreigner is cold, cold as ice to me! I remember my mother thought those lyrics were unfit for a 13 year old boy.
“I knew a guy in California who jumped out of airplanes and sang in a barbershop quartet.”
Is it just me or did anyone else imagine this as a combined activity? Because a sky diving barbershop quartet would probably be an awesome thing to behold and/or possibly a sign of the apocalypse.
The only extreme sport I ever engaged in was middle school.
Not only did I imagine it as a combined activity, but I also visualized 4 guys in red and wite striped shirts, bow ties and with handlebar mustaches belting out “Barber of Seville.”
Question is
Which is the coward?
Almost as good as the Flyin’ Elvises or is it Elvis’ s or Elvi
I think that note has been around before – or at least, one like it.
I Need More – great book.
I still mostly listen to the music I listened to when I was a younger version of myself.
Did anyone ever go to the Galaxy 2000 in WV?
I think that is all that needs to be said about music that you didn’t know sucked until later.
To make it worse, I was part of the “Rockin” Rob (the DJ) “posse”.
Disco is the most embarrassing thing in my past. I sometimes have nightmares about it. If it weren’t for the beer and chick memories, I would probably be confined to a home somewhere.
Having lived just across the old Kanawha River from that place, yes I admit that I was seen in there on more than one occasion. Even during the Urban Cowboy-fad days, when they had the mechanical bull and the punching bag machine. But, yes the Galaxy 2000 was a part of my teen and early 20 years.
Was at a Police concert in the late 80s at the Charleston Civic Center and Sting mentioned the first time the Police ever played WV it had been at the Galaxy 2000 and they were traveling in a van. Wish I would have seen that !
Saw that. Saw their final tour when about 20 singers and musicians were on stage. The stripped down show was much better.
Best part of Galaxy 2000 was 3 dollar all you can drink beer Tuesdays.
Good Afternoon Surf Reporters….
I was a big fan of the Doors in high school. Now every time one of their songs comes on the radio, I switch the station.
I second that. I loved the Doors, and now I can’t stand them. Jim Morrison was a poet, like I’m a soloist in Riverdance.
Me too. And you can add Bob Dylan.
Me too, also. When I was 14, Morrison seemed to me like something akin to a great visionary. Now that I’m 42, he just seems like a petulant, entitled prick.
Yes! Thank you! I cringe whenever I hear some young hipster doucheperson trying to sound all musically enlightened by bringing up the alleged ‘genius’ of Bob Dylan or Van Morrisons ‘daring and insightful’ whatever. Yes I’ve actually heard this said. I visit Portland Oregon frequently and they broadcast it from big speakers mounted on the I-5 bridge.
Oregon girl here. Nobody take an attitude.
Kinda reminds me of when my oldest daughter was 12, and loved the Jonas Brothers. It was the early stage, and I got us two tickets for $15 apiece…but had to drive 300 miles each way to Cleveland. 100 prepubescent girls and 4 Jo-Bros.
Two years later, the Jonas Brothers were a past memory…except when my daughter had to log onto her school email account and forgot her password. My wife remembered it…JonasBrothers2005. Needless to say, my daughter was really red faced!
Used to like the Doobie Brothers. Now they just piss me off. Like Foreigner.
The only “extreme” thing I ever did was go up in a bi-plane and do loops and barrelrolls. That was fun, but I’d NEVER jump out of one…or bungee jump. Hell, I’m even scared of rollercoasters.
Ever since the Doobie Brothers appeared on the TV show “What’s Happening” I never had much respect for them after that. (when Rodge is caught secretly taping the concert).
Rerun was the one caught. He had that big ass tape recorder tucked in his jacket!
The Doobies wouldn’t piss you off if you didn’t remember throwing out Mike M’s ice cream at Kennedy Park the last time we had them on in your kitchen.
I fell asleep at their show at the Spectrum…during Pat Simmons 45 minute guitar solo.
In the army, according to my brother, they used to ask “do you know what an idiot is? answer: people who jump out of perfectly good airplanes.
I like scuba quite a bit but not that “exreme”.
Until you get stuck in an underwater cave after you can’t see red anymore.
Then it’s pretty fucking X-treme.
My boyfriend went sky diving years ago and absolutely loved it. Now he wants me to go with him. There’s an old saying in my family that has been handed down generations and it goes something like this: FAT FUCKING CHANCE. He says it’s the most exhilarating experience he’s ever had (until he met me, of course).
I wouldn’t mind trying white water rafting. We were talking about going to some place in WV for it. I think it was Summersville (?)
As far as bands go…I always loved ELO back in the day. I heard one of their songs on the radio the other day. It was nice to hear but just wasn’t the same.
Sounds like you guys are going to run the Gauley River, if you are going to Summersville. Some tough rapids in that one, especially in the fall when they are bringing Summersville Lake down to winter pool and release a lot of water. The New River at Fayetteville is a blast. You go underneath the New River Gorge Bridge and the scenery is awesome.
Bill: That’s the one. When we drove past Summersville area on the way home from Hilton Head a few weeks ago, the lake was really low. Michael (my boyfriend) said the same thing about how they drain the lake for the rapids. Sounds like a ball. We want to take our camper and spend a week around there. The scenery was breathtaking. We drove through just the right time. The fall foliage was in full bloom. I could get used to looking at that every day.
The lake is actually lower than it normally would be at this time of the year. The Corp of Engineers is having to do some work on the flow intakes and they have to drop the level about 35 feet lower than normal winter pool. You should see the lake in the summer, just a nice aqua color, very nice. There are some great diving areas from the rocks too. Love it up there. You’ll have a blast.
I rafted the Upper Gauley back in 1996 and it was absolutely fantastic. If I remember correctly, it has 4 Class 5 rapids that are pretty intense and multiple other class 3’s and 4’s. The one I remember vividly was Pillow Rock where 6 guys who had never rafted before and our guide, Farmer Ted from Colorado, tried the “extreme” route to try to slap the rock with our paddles. We flew up the side of the rock and I still don’t know how we didn’t capsize. I keep a picture of that moment on my office wall. I would highly recommend it if you get the chance, but from what I remember, they only “open the tubes” to drain the lake and form the rapids for 4 weeks a year, two in April and two in October if I remember right through my beer addled brain.
I think today’s Bunker Cam is as “extreme” as it gets…
Anybody know what “white people bread is”? As a white man, I’d like to try it.
Also, along the lines of JCIII’s mention of the Doors, I can’t listen to Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd or Blue Oyster Cult anymore, I think “classic” rock stations ruined them by replaying their music ad nauseum.
Also, Rush, I used to love Rush but now it just seems silly.
I guess maybe I had something on music after all.
Wonder Bread is honky bread.
I was on the fence with this one.
Initially I imagined split-top wheat
Any bread described as ‘artisanal’.
I thought white people bread was biscuts?
Nah, I’m pretty sure black people like biscuits also, I’m going with First Nations and Citizen X, anything fancy might be considered white people bread and split top wheat could certainly be considered “fancy” if you grew up poor.
Bread of choice when I was little was Sunbeam. 10 loaves for a dollar.
Oh yeah. Like that pepperidge farm bread that comes in three goddamn bags. Shit!
Bikerchick –
The On Demand channel has a whole bunch of those cool biker films in the free movie section right now.
I love those movies.
Casey Kasem as a pimp. You can’t beat that.
I’ll check them out. Thanks!
I frequently drink Mountain Dew at work.
Does that make me and X-treme administrator? No?
Bob Seger.
Are “Dong Bags” slang for condoms?
I’m tired of Billy Joel. Not sick of him – just tired. Someone at work plays a lot of Billy Joel to the point where I want to show them my own scenes from an Italian Restaurant a la Bronx style (face first in a plate of pasta).
When I was younger I wanted to jump out of planes. Now I’d probably break both hips. Although (and don’t laugh) I often have fantatsies of joining a roller derby and/or taking ice skating lessons. I’m staring down the barrel of 50 years old so it will probably never happen but the ice skating is getting to be a festering blister I must douse.
What about Ice Derby?
You could break both hips with one event.
LMAO – I could wear a tutu with a helmet. One inline skate and one ice skate.
Oh JESUS! If you’re sportin’ a tutu and a helmet…photo’s are a MUST! You end up with two broken hips…you might as well throw the ol’ walker with tennis balls. But make sure they’re pink to match your tutu! LMAO!!!
I remember my sister watching Roller Derby when I was a kid! Always thought that would be fun as hell! Talk about a “bitch on wheels”!
madz, just feel lucky you don’t work with me! At work for me…Billy with Allentown, Downeaster Alexa, and Goodnight Saigon. For variety, Xanadu, Slipping through my fingers (Mama Mia), Some ELO, Elton John, Tesla (dated a girl in the video). and Rick Springfield. Okay, not as cool as Jeff Kay, but I save the trendy stuff for my radio show on Monday nights.
madz – Try hockey! It will scratch the ice skating and derby itch all at once. And yes, you can learn hockey at 50 🙂
My only extreme sport is marriage. I mean, in what other sport can you lose your nuts AND a house?
REO Speedwagon, Jane’s Addiction, Sammy Haggar, George Michael, Doobie Brothers and *sniff* Meatloaf all SUCK in big-screen-high-def-surround-sound on DirecTV’s Audience channel concert series. You just watch and wait for Kevin Cronin’s dentures to fall out.
That’s just bizarre that you mention Foreigner. I just heard “Feels Like the First Time” on the oldies station (?!) the other day & thought, “I can’t believe I used to like this crap”. I’ve often thought I had some kind of ESP with Jeff Kay, because I’ll have been thinking about something & the next day, he’s writing about it. Just seems weird..
I remember how much people loved the band RUSH in high school and now I rather gouge my eardrums out than listen to them. I feel like the Mom of my best friend in high school..”That just sounds like screeching”, she used to say.
As for skydiving, I’ll planning to do just that for my 50th birthday in a cuppa two tree years. If I live through it, I think it’ll be an incredible rush. Maybe, I’ll listen to RUSH while I’m falling..
I told my 12 yr old daughter the other day that all the music she listens to sounds the same and that it doesn’t take any talent to make.
Then I heard my father laughing from his grave.
I second REO. Never liked them. And that REO album I have isn’t mine it belonged to my brother….
One more thing..any one of those items on the shopping list would make a great name for a band.
I’m kinda partial to “shit fo yo pitz” and/or “dong bags”.
What the heck is a dong bag??
^ (blushing)
Umm nevermind… Got it now.
All this extreme stuff can go to Hell. I don’t do any of it, never will. There’s lots of uncertainties in life, but I feel pretty sure in saying that I won’t ever get caught accidently hiking into Iran, and I’ll never have to cut my own arm off with a pocket knife because I’ve been caught in a crevice in the middle of nowhere.
We have this thing here called the “Big Spring Jam” where they basically close off downtown, set up about a dozen stages, and have shit tons of bands in for about 3 days. Some of them you’ve heard of, some of them you haven’t.
Last year (I think) I wandered over to see Chicago. They were the kind of bad you’re describing. I was stoked, then I was standing there looking at them thinking, “how the fuck did these guys ever make it?”
I think most movies we liked when we were young are shit, if for no other reason than the fact that we were young and stupid. I’ve seen movies years later. Movies I was excited about re-seeing. And I’ve always come away with aching balls. Terrible, terrible movies I used to like.
I dunno, Jason. Fast Times at Ridgemont High seems to ho;d up. Say Anything, still okay…except why use Ione Skye as the so called “hot girl”? Best lines of that movie was over at the detention center between Fairchild AFB and Spokane International.
Lloyd: to Dianne’s Dad) How are you doing Sir?
Diannes Dad: HOW DO YOU THINK I’M DOING. LLOYD? I’M INCARCERATED!
“Better Off Dead” is good. A real diamond in the rough is “Used Cars. Used Cars kinda phones it in at the end with the big car chase scene,,,but if you cut out the last ten minutes, it is classic comedy.
I just wish that Jim Morrison would have survived long enough to do a song with Michael Jackson and maybe also Bing Crosby
Maybe even appear on Duets III with Tony Bennett?
I fly a powered paraglider, which is a bit of an extreme air sport, but if you understand how it works and don’t fly in bad conditions it is a pretty safe sport. It is much more dangerous to drive my motorcycle on the streets than it is flying my PPG. Flying like a bird is the best fun I’ve ever had that didn’t include a woman.
Skydiving is a rush, but it’s over in a couple of minutes, whereas PPG you can stay in the air for up to three hours at a time and fly any altitude you like. And you don’t need a license.
Check out my vidoes if you like:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=shawnofthesky&aq=f
Videos are mostly of people I fly with, hard to take a video of myself flying. I’m known as Shawn IRL.
Very cool videos SC Scott!
Thanks! Let me know when you want to go up! 😉
My wife and I are novice (P2) paraglider pilots. We learned well into our 50’s. Unfortunately due to events beyond our control after getting certified as P2’s we haven’t had much time to get out and fly. I’d love to get the time and experience to move up to PPG. I don’t think skydiving could compare with paragliding, where the whole object is to go UP, instead of just spending a couple minutes plummeting down.
I started as a P2 but only because my trainer required it. Having the motor is so much more convenient as I don’t live close to a mountain. But I do miss the sound of the wind whistling thru the lines, and little other noise. Sometimes I climb high, cut the motor and glide close to the ground before restarting, just to get a few moments of that peacefullness.
Must be pretty cool to share this experience with your wife.
lynyrd skynrd
When I was preteeny the sun rose and set on Duran Duran. Now that whiny out of tune voice makes me want to pull my eardrums out.
I am a big fan of the “classic” rock bands but they all get very tiresome after extended listening. I find I don’t listen to Foreigner, Styx or Skynard anymore.
Don’t you come back here with none of that bullshit mayo either, get the good mayo!
Hall & Oats! (except I never liked them)
Hall & Oats is good if you’re just looking for some jacking off music. Otherwise, no.
I like to do something I call “extreme day trading”. I decide what stocks to buy based on pure chance. I buy them and pre-decide to sell within a certain number of seconds (between 30 and 500). When the time is up I sell – no matter what. I’ve lost millions of dollars using this method. Not my money though, only other people’s money from our investment firm. Watching some guy’s retirement disappear because you’re committed to sell at 300 seconds, well, I don’t have to tell you, that’s the thrill of a lifetime.
ELO is cringeworthy these days, but I still like *most* of the soundtrack of my youth. I’m proud to say that I have always thought disco sucked. As for movies, I just watched The Shining again for the first time in decades, and it’s actually still a very good film.
I have jumped out of airplanes, but only when they were stationary on the ground, and even then nothing bigger than a Cherokee Six. Yes, I know you can’t really jump out of a Cherokee – you know what I mean. The extreme-est I’ve gotten is mogul skiing and autocross (not at the same time).
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Never went skydiving, but some of my friends enjoyed “jumping out of perfectly good airplanes.” I’ve always wanted to go scuba diving though, and may do it someday. I was also into caving on a regular basis, but always did it in a non-organized guerrilla fashion because organized caving groups seem to be one step above serial killers or beanie baby collectors.
Foreigner, ELO, REO, most of those type bands never did anything for me. All the Doors’ good stuff was written by Robbie Kreiger, not Morrison. Listen to his “poetry” today and I wish he was still alive so I could punch him in the mouth. I still listen to a lot of stuff from my young, drunk and disorderly days. Early Allman Brothers, New Riders, Commander Cody, drug era Clapton, and a bunch of other stuff most of ya’ll don’t care to here about. I was in Las Vegas for a conference a couple weeks ago and went up to look at the deal on the Stratosphere where they hook you to a cable and you step off a ledge 900 feet in the air hooked to a giant fishing reel. I would have done it, but not for $100. I could gamble the best part of a day on that. I decided I’d stick to paragliding and let unwinding on a fishing reel wait for another day.
That’s “hear” not “here”.
Wow, Commander Cody… Trivia factoid, which any fan already knows: John Tichy, guitar player for CC, ended up as a professor, and chairman of the department of Mechanical Engineering. I had heard of him as a prof before I ever knew he had been in a band.
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I now need to hear “Hot Rod Lincoln”
Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette!
This looks like a good thread to shout
I NEVER LIKED ELO !! “
For shame.
Happy Friday Surf Reporters!
I’m going to get me a Bog Loofah and some Dong bags and hunker down for the weekend.
What are your plans?
Sounds like you’re gonna be good and wollard out come Monday.
Wooooo surf report! I’m rockin’ it out in St. Louis this weekend.
Ummm, possibly Bang Tango. F those guys.
Make sure you go to the Budweiser factory tour. It smells great and you get free beer at the end.
I used to like Kraftwerk and Van Halen when I was much younger, but have since stopped listening to either band. I am willing to check out any collaborations that they might do in the future. If there is ever a Van Kraftwerk album, I will be interested in checking it out.
Well, one good thing about all the old bands being on TV. I can turn on the closed captioning and finally figure out the lyrics after 40 years.
Turns out, the band I was the most mistaken about, lyric-wise, is RUSH.
Elton freaking John. I used to search out all the obscure Japanese and German releases and everything. Knew all the words. Went to the concerts. Of course, I was 13, but this behavior caused long term effects. I go to a group for it now.
He’s a homosexing Cowboy,
And he nevers knows what to do,
with his hands,
Should he stay here in Nevada,
Or go on over to California,
Where he can find a man that understands.
The voices in my head just placed an order from Rosetta Stone. This should be interesting.
sorrry…this wasnt supposed to be here. damn innernet.
Heh….my daughter took German through her online school through Rosetta Stone her first three years of High School. For her final year, she is taking Hebrew. Not sayin’ nothin’…but if the 4th Reich ever comes around, she will have a job waiting! LOL
Band I loved and now hate: The Dresden Dolls, saw them live at least twice, met the band, now if it comes up on my iPod (haven’t gotten around to deleting them yet) I can’t hit skip fast enough. Movie: Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Extreme activities: I used to play paintball, 85mph gel capsules filled with paint that leave a welt. Wicked fun. I was the only girl playing in my league so that got me some attention whenever I lit up some poor 14 year old boy from balls to goggles. 🙂 Fond memories.
I put in the wrong speed, that’s 85 feet per second** lol, they’re not bullets.
I used to “paintball”. Several of us grown men would dress in camo and go into the woods and shoot each other. You couldn’t be honest about what you were doing. I invested in a rifled barrel, a ball mover thing for my hopper, a laser site, etc. I hit this guy named Scott in the back of the neck, at the base of his skull. He passed out. They decided we should quit after that. I sold my stuff on ebay for more than I paid for it!
Lol! Poor Scott! I need to sell off my gear, it was all top of the line 3 years ago and now it’s collecting dust.
>Bands or singers you loved during high school, or whatever, that make you cringe now?
Hell, there’re bands I loved three years ago that make me cringe now. Topping the list: Metallica.
>Sometimes it might contain stuff I don’t feel comfortable posting to the website, like Nancy tidbits
Since we’re in the middle of an extended Eminem drought, it’s a relief to hear this. And Monday sounds like a perfect day for a secret update.
I was willing to give Metallica the benefit of the doubt, thinking they were just having a creative lapse lately, but this Godawful collaboration with Lou Reed that’s out now is an absolute abortion. Like hearing my grandfather speak the lyrics. Really, really, really bad.
Off-topic I know but WVU was humiliated by another unranked team. You’d think they were college players or something.
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Just wait until they join the Big 12 next year and they get their asses handed to them on a weekly basis.
The Ear Fans will yearn for the days of Bill Stewart and 9-3 seasons.
Oliver Luck is ruining your program….
GO HERD.
You know we won’t be in the top 25 after that! No seniors to speak of, not enough experience, and those things will plague us all season. There never should have been a turnover. Disappointing, to say the least. Next week we’re at Cincinnatti. That oughtta work out real well! Plus a countersuit from the Big East. Yea, I’m enjoyin’ THIS season!
A voulnteer army from the Group W bench.I’d say.
“And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W’s where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean ‘n’ ugly ‘n’ nasty ‘n’ horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me and said, “Kid, whad’ya get?” I said, “I didn’t get nothing, I had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage.” He said, “What were you arrested for, kid?”
And I said, “Littering.” And they all moved away from me on the bench there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till Isaid, “And creating a nuisance.” And they all came back, shook my hand,and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing,father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the
bench. And everything was fine, we was smoking cigarettes and all kinds othings, until the Sargeant came over, had some paper in his hand, held it up and said…….”
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“Kid this-piece-of-paper’s-got-47-words-37-sentences-58-words-we-wanna-
know-details-of-the-crime-time-of-the-crime-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-
you-gotta-say-pertaining-to-and-about-the-crime-I-want-to-know-arresting-
officer’s-name-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say”, and talked for
forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said…”
Or, as the sign on Arlo’s dad’s guitar said, “This machine kills fascists”.
You can get anything you want at Alices’ Restaurant.
…excepting Alice.
Ok…since it’s quiet…here goes. Skydiving I would do in a heartbeat without a chute. The shit I’ve been doing the past six weeks is totally fucked. Mind you I’m not a corporate world kinda guy and driving this here truck OTR is a blast and my worst nightmare at the same time. I can’t straighten out all the different asses I’ve been told to kiss. I really miss my little place in northern New Mexico and two weeks ago…I was just outside Barstow when the bad news took effect. Ginger, my little cat I aquired while in Cincy had her ninth life taken away. Where she spent her first eight in those ten short months I had her I can only guess. I feel pretty shitty about the whole deal and keep thinking had I not gone off to do this she’d still be around. So I’m done with this crap and should be back to NM by the weekend. Harriette (aka Poop-Doggie-Dog) and I will go for a good long walk in the snow insted of me doing a 10,000 ft. swan dive.
DTO, I’m sorry to hear about Ginger. It’s always tough losing a buddy like that. And no, it’s not your fault.
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Sorry about your cat, dto. Man. I remember as a kid finding my Collie laying out in the woods dying. I held her til she passed away in the middle of the night. Ever since then, I’ve tried to pretend I didn’t love animals. but I really do Again, sorry about Ginger..
Really sorry to hear about that DTO. Hang in there.