The Wine Commonsewer

Roadside Americana

Gentle Readers,

Coca Cola is a proud sponsor of The Wine Commonsewer.....

Coca Cola sign circa 1961, Seligman, Az, on Route 66

As Always,

TWC

How Do YOU Spell Zoloft?

Good Morning Gentle Readers,

Not much else to say, except that the picture isn't staged. Mrs TWC brought home some sustenance. It was stuffed with care into the first available box by the clerk at the local Big Box Membership Store.

Pretty sure Mrs TWC calls it insurance. Betty Ford probably has a different name. TWC calls it like it is.

Cabernet, take me away. Yes, that rhymes. No coincidence, neither.

Now a word from Calgon, proud sponsor of The Wine Commonsewer.

As Evoir,

TWC

Best Drill Ever

Good Morning Gentle Readers,

Last minute gift ideas for your dad are a dime a dozen but I'm throwing my two cents in. TWC has done a couple of projects in his day and, hands down, the best drill I've ever owned is this one:

Just finished installing new blinds in That Boy's room and I kept thinking: Man, this is one sweet drill. [hear that in a Tim Allen voice] Specs here.   

That keyless chuck thing is not that new fangled anymore but it makes you wonder why it took so long for somebody to figure it out. And these days driver bits for drill motors are as common as dry wall screws. But it wasn't always true.

In my forward-thinking yet vagrant yoot I bought Yankee Screwdriver bits to use in my drill. Not fooling neither, nobody else was doing that. Didn't connect the dots though and I missed out on making big bucks.

From Desert Center to the River was ninety plus scorching miles of two-lane blacktop bisecting a desolate desert valley. We'd sometimes stop at Rice for gas and a cold drink and I'd think: wouldn't it be the hot cigar if you could buy a six pack of cold water just like you could buy a sixer of Bud or Coke?

We all know where that ended up. Eco-fascists tag teaming with Old Guys to whine about these kids carting bottled water around in their backpacks because they're too good to drink out of a garden hose like when we was kids. Plus TWC didn't make no money on that neither.

Sidebar: My kids love hose water.

Former Union 76 Station & Store, Rice Ca

Treat your Old Man right, after all, when you were a kid you thought he owned stock in the electric company.

DeWalt is a proud sponsor of TWC.

As Always,

TWC

A Taxing Headache

More TWC after this word from our sponsor......

As Ever, TWC

Tip of the glass to The Man In Black

Here's A Phone Card, Call Somebody Who Cares

More TWC, after the break......

Proud Sponsor of The Wine Commonsewer.....

May I Be Struck By Lightning

Gentle Readers,

Get outta town, that was pretty funny.

As Ever,

TWC

I'm Senator Barack Obama and you damn straight I approved this message. Especially after that crap on YouTube about coke and the male hooker in the limo.

Meet The New Boss.....

Good Morning Gentle Readers,

Kellogg's Corn Flakes: Proud sponsor of TWC.

As Ever,

TWC

tip of the glass to Del Mar Dave

A Cough Sedative That Works

Good Morning Gentle Readers,

Updated:

This ad appeared on TWC a couple of years ago and ultimately was deleted for some reason by Typepad (TWC's blog host) at the request of, well, we don't really know.

This advertisement is in the public domain and appears here as parody within an educational context under § 107 of the US Copyright Law.

This time we'll leave out the part where (tongue-in-cheek) we say: And now........a word from Bayer, proud sponsor of The Wine Commonsewer, which is also parody.

I mean, come on Boys. Did Bayer invent and market Heroin or not? Spare me the histrionics, this is like asking if Ford built the Edsel.

Much as Bayer might be uncomfortable with the past, this is both an interesting and accurate historical snapshot of a bygone era where millions suffered from a persistent cough that was often debilitating in ways unimaginable in our modern world. Heroin helped......except for that darker side.

For the record, Bayer stopped marketing Heroin as a cough suppressant in 1910 when it became apparent that there were serious problems inherent with the drug. Mind you, that was back in the old days before the government stepped in to protect you from your own choices and corporations existed solely to sacrifice humanity on the altar of profits.

Real life is ever so more colorful and nuanced than the stark black-and-white fed to school kids.

As Ever,

TWC

The Bates Motel

Gentle Readers,

Proud sponsors of TWC.

Family owned for almost a half century.

As Always,

TWC

Nokia Urban Cell Phone

Good Morning Gentle Readers,

Nokia has long been a proud sponsor of The Wine Commonsewer.

Finally. A cell phone for those traveling through or (gasp) traveling to Newark, South Central Los Angeles, Camden, East St Louis, Much of Oakland (gonna be a boon for tail gunners on Budweiser trucks), Detroit, Miami, NOLA, DC, Compton, The City of Brotherly Shove, Berdoo, or Baltimore. Yes, there's more, some worse, some better.   

• Wi-Fi and Mobile Calling
• 2.0 Megapixel camera
• Bluetooth® enabled
• E-mail, text and IM
• Online browser

• Suggested Retail: $949.99
• Instant Discount: -$350.00
• Mail-in Rebate: -$350.00
• Final Price: $249.99

 

must be 21 years of age to purchase. other restrictions apply. in-store purchase only (not available online). see T-Mobile and ATT stores for details. sales tax calculated on full suggested retail price

As Ever,

TWC

tip of the glass to Charlie in Arizona for the photo that inspired this post