While most Americans fuel their Memorial Day with a bare essitentials such as High Life and Brats, go and thank a vet instead…then follow through with gorging yourself. Thanks to The Boat Lullabies for the brilliant picture.
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Memorial Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brats, High Life, Marines, Memorial Day, Sailors on May 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Skills for Today’s Man
Posted in Uncategorized on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
I had a good time reading this article from Esquire. Advice from another’s wisdom is priceless, and pieces such as this give just that.
27. Play gin with an old guy. Old men will try to crush you. They’ll drown you in meaningless chatter, tell stories about when they were kids this or in Korea [...]
Militaria
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Antique, Militaria on May 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Antiques and Militaria artifacts have been an obsession for quite awhile. However, the admiration is mainly from afar, where most ebay auctions can be astounding cost wise. For those with some of the same unhealthy passions, here’s two sites wth some decent prices that i’ve spent hours scouring. There’s hundreds more, but I found the [...]
Happy Cinco de Mayo!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cinco de Mayo, Cuervo, Mexico, Tequila on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Before you go out and swill the night away with a bottle of Cuervo, and wake up hurting the next morning…read up on the actual history of the Mexican holiday!
Remember the wise words of Mr. Adams - “The pain in the morning comes as easy as it goes”
Learning Through Family Heirlooms
Posted in Uncategorized on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »
1. Unfortunately, a lot is learned of family through their passing. Recently my grandmother passed after being widowed for 5 years. I never realized how much I didn’t know about that side of my family before. Going through their house and seeing all the old photographs from my dad’s family vacations, namely their trip abroad [...]
Allen v.s. Graham, Mister Lonely Score
Posted in Film, Music, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged billy graham, Harmony Korine, j.spaceman, Mister Lonely, spritualized, sun city girls, Woody Allen on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
1. Another great moment in Woody Allen’s career in making us laugh. Here he interviews the other side of the spectrum in Billy Graham.
2. Mister Lonely, by Harmony Korine, is a soundtrack done by J. Spaceman of Spiritualized in conjunction with Sun City Girls. Over at The Playlist, there’s a few tracks from the soundtrack [...]
Paging Dr. Adams, Skine’s
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
1. Along with making some of my favorite music, it seems as if something new was added to my favorites, Ryan Adams new venture is keeping me busy on his blog. I dig the video and all the Woody Allen esque piano scores that go with it. Besides that, it’s just hilarious.
“we’re all gonna [...]
99 Bottles of Beer on the Wool
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged woolrich on April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
1. Today, April 7th, celebrates the 75th anniversary of the modification of the Volstead Act on April 7, 1933. It’s the act that brought beer back to happy Americans everywhere. Finally, prohibition ended in December when the Prohibition Act fell, legalizing all Liquor beverages. Cheers to those that know what makes a man truely happy.
2. [...]
Zippos revisited
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Vietnam, Zippo on April 3, 2008 | No Comments »
1. Continuing the last post, I ran across some other Zippo lighters from Vietnam and they get better and better.
2. Today’s Album
CCR - Chronicle 1 - To keep with the Vietnam theme, here’s some CCR.
http://rapidshare.com/files/83886719/CCR-CV1.part1.rar
