Robert Earl Keen...
I can't say that I relate to the lyrics in this song... when push comes to shove... but I've always identified with 'em, which is varying only by the smallest of degrees.
It's a brilliant day here on The High Plains o' New Mexico. You can't feel it, Gentle Reader, but this might give ya a clue:
So: it's danged near perfect, innit? We mixed up a batch o' Manhattans for this occasion which looked a lot like this:
Never mind the fact I cut off my head... I just need longer arms. That said...those Manhattans are done now, alas. We're just slightly too lazy to mix up another batch o' the same, especially when we can pour some Bulleit Rye on the rocks and be done with it. That makes us happy, too.
I can't say that I relate to the lyrics in this song... when push comes to shove... but I've always identified with 'em, which is varying only by the smallest of degrees.
It's a brilliant day here on The High Plains o' New Mexico. You can't feel it, Gentle Reader, but this might give ya a clue:
So: it's danged near perfect, innit? We mixed up a batch o' Manhattans for this occasion which looked a lot like this:
Never mind the fact I cut off my head... I just need longer arms. That said...those Manhattans are done now, alas. We're just slightly too lazy to mix up another batch o' the same, especially when we can pour some Bulleit Rye on the rocks and be done with it. That makes us happy, too.
It was overcast today and cool - not bad at all.
ReplyDeleteToday, I took a self-portrait with the new puppy. When I turned the camera around to see how it turned out, I laughed too hard to try again. I may post it. Or maybe I should just email it to you. It is bad, but so funny.
Post it!
DeleteI have a self-portrait I shot in Boston I won't post. It's interest lies in what is happening behind me.
ReplyDeleteWell, now that you've raised out curiosity...
DeleteLOL! That photo of our man Buck perfectly, TOTALLY encapsulates an attitude--a lifestyle--that stands in TOTAL very un-PC opposition to EVERYTHING the PC feministas represent...you need to post that pic on your match.com profile, Buck...will be sure to garner oodles of replies/marriage proposals...how very "domesticated" you look!
ReplyDeleteGo AHEAD Buck!! LOL!LOL!LOL!LOL!
I could make it better if I took the same shot in a car.
DeleteLove the photo Buck...just perfect. And we have that same Martini glass....good taste clearly runs among the cyber-friends.
ReplyDeleteThank ya, Ma'am.
Delete"I could make it better if I took the same shot in a car."
ReplyDelete---LOL, I've got a buddy in New Orleans a few years younger (but not much) who had his car as a teenager in the 50s fixed up with a keg in the trunk connected to a huge bar draft-handle as dispenser mounted in the dashboard so he could pour himself a cool one as he catted around town. LOL--In those days everybody in N.O. ascribed to the "drink & drive" lifestyle (and most of the rest of the nation too) aided by the fact that back then La. had an 18 yr-old age limit for drinking. Back then Sweigman's Grocery chain had a bar & sandwich place in every store and had cup-holders in the grocery cart for your beer or daiquiri. "Shop 'til you drop" lol. He told me a 'cycle cop stopped him once for some minor fraction and while the guy was writing him a ticket he offered the guy a draft, and the cop didn't bat an eye, casually said: "don't mind if I do" so you had the pic of this traffic cop standing beside the car, beer in hand, drinking and conversing by the street-curb. LOL! ONLY in New Orleans & So Louisiana in 50s/60s!!!
While I was stationed at Keesler back in '64 I got away to N'Awlins as often as time and finances permitted. I was only 18/19 at the time and was NEVER carded, ever. I ALWAYS had a great time when I went, especially once I learned to avoid the touristy stuff.
DeleteSubsequent tours at Keesler didn't see me goin' over to the Big Easy as much... wives tend to take a dim view of their husbands carousing to the wee hours in the company of bad influences and people of questionable character. Sigh.
"...the company of bad influence and people of questionable character."
DeleteWhy, that would probably have been ME, Buck. As I was @LSU Fall,'62 to Spring, '66 chances are you and I were in some low-rent dive bar in the back of the Quarter at the same time and didn't know it, lol.
Yup. I'd say the probability of that happening at least once was somewhere in the range of 0.8 ~ 1.0. ;-)
DeletePS: Hey Buck, as long as you're on the cocktail kick, you outta try the "SIDE-CAR"--a waaayy 'mo better drink! ('course w. Cognac, Grand Marnier/Contreau is ALSO waaayy 'mo 'spensive, lol.)
ReplyDeleteI think we've had this discussion before, no? The only cocktails I really like are Martinis and Manhattans, unless you consider margaritas a cocktail (I don't).
DeleteI'll order the occasional cocktail in a bar. Sometimes. So I'll file this for future reference.