Who Needs A Car? (or a 747)

Good Morning Gentle Readers,

Before I blew outta town last week on an old-fashioned road trip, it cost me a hundred bucks to fill the politically incorrect foreign pickup truck that's made in America. A hundred bucks. That's never happened, so I felt like I should open a bottle of Moet Chandon or something.

Funny thing about that too, once we crossed the Nevada border the gas prices dropped like a hot rock. Downtown Laughlin's Chevron Premo was selling for less than ARCO's Pingmaster regular down the hill from the Casa. The further southeast one travels in Arizona, the cheaper the gas gets. Twenty-five percent less in Tucson than in So Cal.

Course, like incest, gas prices are relative. $3.75 a gallon is still stiff. It's just relatively better than $4.85. Somebody emailed me that demand is finally falling and gas prices have eased a bit. Mrs TWC confirmed. Hadn't noticed, myself.

OTOH, high prices coupled with availability are preferable to cheap prices and long lines.

Been there. Done that. I'll pay.

Yes, that's 81.9 per gallon.

Why speculation doesn't necessarily affect oil prices.

Bonus: Well, no video bonus today, girls, because the video I planned to use has apparently been yanked. I've got A VERY COOL one myself but it isn't ready for YouTube quite yet. Well laid plans and all that.....But Wait! At the risk of burning through my entire bandwidth allocation for July, you can listen to it instead.   You'll need WinAmp, Itunes, or Quicktime to hear it. It's way cool.

Freddy Mercury on Moet Chandon here.

As Ever,

TWC

Comments

[Jeff]

Mrs TWC is right.

Gasoline consumption for the four weeks ending June 20 is down nearly 2.6% from the same time last year.

[smartass sob]

It's way cool.

Yes, it was! In fact, so cool that it inspired me to go listen to some old music on YouTube. For some reason I thought of "Harlem Nocturne," which has always been a favorite blues (jazz ?) tune of mine. And of course, after listening to several versions of it, including one on guitar, I had to see if I could find the Link Wrays' "Jack the Ripper." (Couldn't find it by them.) Listening to that old piece reminded me of a very similar one that was popular at the time, which for the life of me I do not recall. And that sent me off to look for "Green Onions" by Booker T. and The MGs. (Man, I'd forgotten how good-lookin' those dancers were on Shindig.) And now I'm off to see what old fifties or sixties music I can find by the Ventures or maybe the Surfaris. Does the Chantays' "Pipeline" ring a bell? Or the better version by the Ventures? (As you may have guessed, I like guitar music.) Yes, indeedy - very productive day I'm going to have today. But what the hey - it's too hot to stand over an anvil and beat hot iron this time of day anyhow.

And also for the life of me (a life that is probably of more value to me than I might sometimes think) the song that I was attempting to recall is Apache.

Have a good one.

sasob

[smartass sob]

I guess I put too many links in that last comment - your spam filter won't pass it. Oh well.

sasob

[smartass sob]

Oh, so it passed after all. Thanks. That one song I was trying to think of might have been "Misirlou". There were alot of similar pieces back then. It's odd how kids today like some of that old stuff.

sasob

[smartass sob]

Ahem...I forgot the dang drums. Let there be drums. ;-)

sasob

[Lone Chatelaine]

I'm at about 80 bucks or so, depending on if I'm in the city or out in the country. Cheaper in the country. Just a little.

Cool music. I love me some blues in a long hot summer. I like going to this place with my friends sometimes. Dude, you'd love it! It's a real hole in the wall, but it's revered.

[TWC]

Speaking of spam filters, you cannot believe how much comment spam I get every day. Way more comment spam than comments. Course I don't get many comments anyway. Lots of emails, but not too many comments. I think that's because my site began as an email newsletter that went 4-6 days a week. Like a floating blog. People got used to responding by email. Actually, I still have quite a few people who subscribe to the website via email using feedburner. But I digress.

Worse is trackback spam. At any given time I have hundreds of trackbacks that are nothing but spam. Viagra, Oxycodon, Hot chicks will do anything you want, and once in a while I get wine spam.

I don't get it. Nobody uses trackbacks anymore because of the spam problem. Everybody has filters. Why do they post the trackback spam? It cannot be effective.

[smartass sob]

Dear Ms. Chatelaine, pray tell might that be you dancing up there on the stage in the video you linked to, by any chance? Hmm? Cute chick - whoever she was.

I'm gonna cook a beef brisket this weekend (yes, in Texas BBQ is usually beef) and I'll be thinking of you the whole time - poor deprived thang - probably havin' to make-do with some ol' Tennesee hog meat this holiday. Tsk, tsk. ;-)

(Actually, truth be told, I myself prefer pork BBQ.)

sasob

[Lone Chatelaine]

Oh no, no, no...that wasn't me at all. I'd never post myself on the internet...uh-UH...no way. That sort of thing always comes back and bites a girl on the bum.

Besides, I'm much cuter than that chick :)

But yep, I'll be having some good old southern hog barbecue tomorrow. Ribs and pulled pork. I KNOW you're jealous ;-)

[smartass sob]

Country-style backribs? Slow-cooked over a pecan wood fire? Served with chilled apple sauce or pineapple? Yeah, I'd be jealous. ;-)

sasob

[smartass sob]

No wonder I couldn't find the Link Wrays - that was a single individual, not a group. Anyway, here's his version of "Jack the Ripper" and also something called "Rumble".

sasob

[twc]

Ribs and pulled pork. I KNOW you're jealous ;-)

I hope to shout! You bet your sweet Chatelaine he is.

I'm gonna tell you what......Ain't nothing better than pulled pork, no matter what name you call it by. I do mine over mesquite with an Eastern Carolina style sauce. Apple cider vinegar, brown sugar, red pepper, sea salt.....

[TWC]

No wonder I couldn't find the Link Wrays

I think NoStar knew that. I didn't. :-)

[TWC]

Many years ago, TWC could actually play sax. I could do a respectable, not great, version of Harlem Nocturne. I can't even make the thing squeak today.

[TWC]

Gary Moore and Albert Collins did a killer rendition of Too Tired at Montreaux a few years back. It, of course, has been pulled from YouTube. But, there is another, not the same one, but similar.

I want that song played at my funeral.

He was Too Tired. Matter of fact, engrave that on my tombstone.