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Today’s retro A&J is more antediluvian tech humor from barely five years ago. Presumably today they would both have a smart phone and would both be entitled to their own set of facts. Speaking of smart phones, I’ve discovered a strange phenomenon. My new phone has about four times the square footage of my old flip phone, but I’ve noticed it’s easier to lose! Maybe because it looks like a dozen other gadgets lying around the house. I’ve give some thought to what we discussed yesterday, the future of our retro feature, and I think I have come up with some ideas. I hope you’ll find them rather painless once implemented. Maybe we’ll run some experiments next week.
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Driving get through Montana today this came on Sirius. I had not heard this in years but I was listening to Willie’s Roadhouse. Thought of Ghost so here is a song for you.
https://youtu.be/rVq0ONrSH-Q
Found this while looking for that previous one. This is hilarious but true, how Willie Nelson looked the first time I ever saw him perform. Total geek. I remember he sang these same songs which incidentally were not country songs then but pop chart hits.
https://youtu.be/yWloaxXWv0g
I remember one summer Saturday from the past when I rode my bike 300 miles roundtrip just to lunch eat at a particular BBQ joint. That version of “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before” was playing on the juke box while I was ordering my Q. Good times.
I almost got sidetracked from the Explorer, momentarily at least, by something in the dealer’s showroom. (No, not a sprinting saleslady in 3-inch heels and a short skirt. Be still, my beating heart.) It was a 2016 black-on-black-on black Shelby Cobra GT350 Mustang. But I immediately realized that would be in my ballpark only if I could get $30,000 for my trade-in and sadly walked away.
Heyyyy!
http://shelbyamericancollection.org/
The right sprinting big haired blonde might have offered a good deal on your trade but normally I had to insult customers on their trades. How many buttons were left unbottoned on some outfits often depended on how insulting I was. DID I mention I sold around 20 units a month of Lincoln Mercury?
Loved selling cars because I love cars. Fact I was a one and only at time made me like a talking dog.
So post a photo of what you bought. This gets into range of what I consider car porn. So does Trigger my truck which gets lots of admiring drools. Trigger is also Willies guitar.
Here is the version of Funny How Time Slips Away that was a huge pop hit. The singer Jimmy Eldredge used to play at a club I danced at in those days, the same club that booked Willie Nelson when ge was straight and looked like a chipmunk with a mouth full of acorns. Willie pretty much bombed.
https://youtu.be/lwarEIFY6K8
Good morning Villagers….
Hello, Simply Fargone, good to see you back in the Village.
Old Bear, thank you for the ‘hint’, will have to check that out, maybe tonight….if I can get someone to do that for me.
Ian’s off today and I am off tomorrow…we’re both working with ‘Skittles’….and they are stirring the pit and pumping it out and the hills of Southern Martin County, IN will smell like…..
gotta go, have to repair a belt before it splits on me…and it’s a bottom belt. Saw it yesterday and told myself….’fix’ it, so I’m going to cut and splice it.
Happy Caturday…..
GR 😉 ..it doesn’t get any better than this trio…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXqgAWXoiaE
🙂 http://cheezburger.com/8974477312
Jackie, I’ve never seen pictures of Willie like that! I thought he was born with a beard and looking at least 48!
Good to see Fargone here.
Jackie, I once knew a lady who claimed to have dated Nerd Willie when no one outside of the Houston C&W beer bar/club scene had ever heard of him. There was some evidence that was true. You may have seen or known her.
Smigz/Llee: How could I resist giving a pie recipe to two sweet ladies such as yourselves? I’ll dig it out.
In the meanwhile, even though it’s not quite that kind of weather yet, here’s my sister’s Pumpkin Bisque recipe.
A Recipe from Ghost’s Kitchen
Pumpkin Bisque
4 Tbsp (½ stick) butter or margarine
1 cup finely chopped sweet onion
½ tsp ground dried sage
½ tsp turmeric
¼ tsp salt
¼ tsp ground black pepper
1 Tbsp cider vinegar
1 (15-oz.) can solid-packed pumpkin puree
5 cups low-fat chicken broth
½ cup heavy cream
½ cup thinly sliced green onion
Melt butter over medium heat in a large Dutch oven or heavy saucepan. Add chopped onion and cook until golden brown, stirring occasionally. Stir in sage, turmeric, salt, pepper and vinegar; cook for 1 minute. Stir in pumpkin and add broth; bring to a slow boil. Reduce heat and simmer (uncovered) for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in cream and green onion. Adjust seasoning to taste with additional salt and pepper, if desired. Continue to simmer bisque for an additional 5 minutes over moderate heat. Serve warm. Yields 4 generous servings or serves 6 as a first course.
Recipe Note: Bisque is best if prepared ahead (1 to 2 days before serving). Cool completely, uncovered, then refrigerate in a covered container. Warm gently over moderate heat before serving. Freezes beautifully.
Jackie, this is a pretty good representation of Bullet.
http://imganuncios.mitula.net/2015_ford_explorer_limited_tuxedo_black_metallic_in_martinsburg_west_virginia_7070014465324926000.jpg
Car porn, indeed…I dreamed about it last night. 😉
Ummh hmmmh car porn indeed. My favorite kind. Black was always my favorite. I lusted for the black on black metallic Mark 8. Sold a few, couldn’t afford one then.
Thanks Ghost! This is a good tide-you-over recipe. I just happen to have most of this in the kitchen….and the farmer’s market is on the Square this morning for the onions. I may end up cooking today after all 🙂
And nice truck!
Saw Willie in Monroe, LA in a night club back between 1961 to 1963 in his clean cut nerd crooner days looked exactly like this except I remember hair as shorter. These were days when many people who could actually sing had recorded his songs and had big hits. Not Willie.
When Willie made it to Houston in my memories it was mid 70s to 80s and he hung around the ice houses and Mamacitas down in Clear Lake. Unfortunately I was a respectable semi-socialite by then and missed it mostly.
Jackie, GR6:
Playing? A “field full of deer or anteloupe” is what you get when you cross pronghorns with melons. Might not ripen in our shorter growing season.
Peace,
It is 41 outside, I just checked, and low of 27 tonight. I do not have a wardrobe for this along. I am layering! Dickens has a sweater I need to put on him. I need to get going. My sleeping habits are what put me on empty interstates last night with elk warnings. It is the mating season apparently and they cross the roads like the proverbial chickens.
Things you learn from the Village. Who knew Charles Kuralt had two families? Well, three if you count first wife and two daughters. When he died he had a second family here in Montana for over 30 years with three children he raised but not his, by her first marriage.
This story was attached to the Dave Barry column that Ruth Anne posted. I happen to be near where his Montana home was, is. Gives new meaning to On the Road.
eMb: “anteloupe” = “before [the era of] specialized viewing lenses” as used in such a sentence:
“I wore plain glasses in my anteloupe years.”
Oh, well, it is a slow day….
My favorite bad boys during their outlaw days. But Willie and Johnny never ever appealed to me. Now Waylon and Kris I’d have left Mike for. But loved their music. Kris wrote the best and Waylon sang it better. And they were music porn.
It is chilly outside, leaves have changed colors up here and I need to get in my six hours up here heading home.
I have a small duffel bag I carried in the trunk of the Crown Vic at all times, containing two shirts and two pairs of pants (one cold weather, one warm weather), a light water repellent jacket, one heavy jacket with hood,four sets of underwear and socks, a pair of walking shoes, a shemagh and two ball caps. That has come in handy on more than one occasion. Not sure where trunkless Bullet will carry it, but I will find a place.
Still not sure why chickens cross roads (except possibly to show armadillos it can be done), but if it’s mating season, I have a pretty good idea why elk do.