Some Folks I’d Like to Thank for Their Service
Posted by TFG on November 6th, 2008
In no particular order:
Jim Treacher
Jeff Goldstein
Francis Poretto
Alan Sullivan
John Weidner
Iowahawk
Velociman
Big Dick Stanley
Diller, who should have a blog of his own
The R Man, who should ditto
But most especially Charles “Chuckles” Austin, who does a fine job managing my mercurial emotions without a molecule of knowledge that he does so, and causing so many firing neurons it’s not funny…in fact, it’s slightly aggravating, because I have to go research shit I can otherwise pretend like I already know.
Seriously, after six and a half years, I often can’t figure out why I sit down and do this* stupid hobby every night. Those cats up there keep it fun, invigorating, and worthwhile, and they’ve done awesome work in this horrifying election season. You would do well them to plug them into your Google Reader.
* Well, yeah…booze.
November 6th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Thank you sir, I’m humbly speechless at your suggestion.
The thing is, though, I’d run out of stuff about which to blog, I fear. I mean, seriously, I’d come up with some zany and maybe on-point stuff now and again and then end up rambling on about the Falklands ladies’ Methodist sewing circle or similar a lot of the rest of the time.
But, I can tell you that I need to get more politically-active. I know that John McCain wasn’t a perfect candidate, but with my life just kinda coasting along, I did get a real charge out of doing get-out-the-vote calling for the local GOP folks and having some really interesting conversations with mostly rural Ozarks folks who weren’t so much McCain fans as they were worried about what a B. Hussein O. presidency would mean for them, the assets they’d earned over a lifetime of hard work, and their progeny. I still think folks know what to expect out of the looming administration, and will be calling B.S. on same.
Thanks again, sir, and may God richly bless you.
The R Man
November 7th, 2008 at 7:51 am
Dude, I’m blogging about carb adapters - there’s always something on the agenda to virtually flap your gums about, even sewing circles (where the hell did that locution come from?)>
November 7th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Gosh. Me in the same breath as IowaHawk. I feel like a star.
November 7th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Thankee kindly, sir. I blush.
November 7th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Thanks,TFG,for giving a disgruntled old Fl. cracker,the opportunity to piss & moan & ramble around,on various subjects on your blog.Although I have’nt met you or any of the guys who regulary comment,seems like the type of folks I’d like to lean on the pickup,have a brew and shoot the shit with. Being able to do this,realy helps me get thru these trying times.
November 8th, 2008 at 11:46 am
You are too kind.
November 8th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
“Sewing circles?”-from the same place the Yogi Bear bottomless Hallowe’en costume idea came from, straight outta my (ample, Germanic/”Native American”) ass.
Carb adapters are real, though, Daddy-o (channeling Jack Kerouac there)- much of what gets me fired up doesn’t matter that much.
Not to get too obsequious here, but because of TFG, I have in my possession, “The Road,” by Cormac MacCarthy (sp?) which I need to read, grew a moustache for like three years (got rid of it a couple weeks back, which makes me look younger, though), and am, like that Pontiac Pilot feller from the Good Book, trying to make my way into NASCAR fan-dom. I surely hope the chaps up at Watkins Glen with welcome me with opening arms if I turn up in the old MGA, pipe clenched firmly in teeth, resplendent in my camel-hair coat and “you wear your X, I’ll wear mine” tee shirt underneath, as we prepare to come together as Americans and watch the stockers go ’round.
Sorry, y’all, that last bit was an attempt at Iowahawk humor, and it failed. But I’m sure Christopher Buckley would be happy to come with me on the junket, especially if there are numberous G & Ts involved. His Pappy would doubtless be looking down from heaven, smiling that a Missouri redneck might be able to talk some sense into him.
Like Diller, yeah, I bet TFG would be a lot of fun to shoot the fecal matter with, especially after a few brews and maybe even a “champagne supernova” or two-by the way, don’t bother with the latter, despite the Oasis connection, Mountain Dew Supernova and Andre don’t go down, or come up, very smoothly, just so you know.
Stay armed, informed, strong, and upbeat, gentlemen!!!
R