Archive for June 2007
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
June 29, 2007, 11:53 pmMay 29 - June 6, Flagstaff Arizona
Lounging around at my parents house, decompressing, recovering from jet lag, acclimating myself to 7,000 feet and 0 humidity, waking up with dry white crackhead lips and smearing lip balm until I could peel it off, getting little sunburns…
I spent about a week mostly hanging out with my brothers at every available moment (both have jobs, which is too bad for all of us). My younger brother has his band and social circle, so I spent lots of time hanging out with his (more…)
—Greg | no comments
(posted in the livin' category)
Bucketeers One-man at Smokin’ Boogie
June 29, 2007, 11:16 pm
Of course, as usual, as you would expect, like always, the Bucketeers were great. It had been quite a while since I’d seen them, actually I was wondering if they were still playing but too lazy to ask anybody, so it was cool to see a “one-man” (means: one band) show where they played 2 sets and I didn’t have to sit through anybody else.
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A Run-In With Johnny Law
June 27, 2007, 11:45 pmIronic; I survived a month among the creeping meatball of Americanism without one run-in with “authority” (with the exception to some long phone calls to the DMV) only to be stopped in Japan by a pair of Narita Airport keystone cops. Gotta admit, though, they were pretty polite about it.
I was standing against a wall writing an email to somebody on my phone while my wife was in the bathroom. I heard somebody say something to me. They said, “Can you speak Japanese?” I looked up, and it was a pair of guys in blue uniforms with distinctive hats and spangles and badges and things. A universal look. I thought for a moment; maybe I’d be better off pulling the whole “no spika Japanese” routine. But, if you wanna go that route, you gotta see it through all the way, and that can be tricky when you actually do understand people. So, I said “yes.” (more…)
—Greg | no comments
(posted in the livin' category)
Road Notes - What We Ate
June 16, 2007, 7:01 pmWednesday, lunch - Denny’s in Gallup, sprightly gay Zuni waiter, watery flavorless grey gravy, squishy cardboard psuedo-food, people making inane loud phonecalls, still a headache from last night’s beer, wind that would peel paint off a car, throwing dust and grit into your teeth and bodily crevasses.
supper - pictures of supernachos at D’s made me crave Mexican, stopped at Rosa’s in Amarillo, big plates of authentic tex-mex, beans cheese sourcream extra tortillas, 2 men - one with his belly pressed against the table, the other bald, old, stubbly and crotchety; the fat one comments on the food… ‘it’s the real thing here, ain’t it?’ … ‘HUH?’ … ‘I said it’s the real thing here, ain’t it?’ … ‘wha was that?’ (he’s hard of hearing or something) … (screaming now, but still smiling and applying taco sauce to his burrito) ‘SAID IT’S THE REAL THING HERE’ … (grudgingly, like it’s something he hates to admit, he nods and chews furiously)
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Road Notes - Texas
June 14, 2007, 11:41 pmAt Mitchell’s Family Restaurant in Shamrock, Texas, you can get chicken fried bacon. That doesn’t mean you should.
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