Well folks, tonight I embark upon my most epic concert-journey yet: I'm heading off to see Joan Jett and Heart in Dallas with Jungle Julia. And we're going to do acid at the show... And on the way up there (we're taking a bus). I'll give y'all the details when I return, on Friday. Until then, have fun, and don't do anything I wouldn't do.
Man, I always miss the fun shit. I was all set to have a great day off, but now I can't enjoy it because I only have one kitchen.
With the huge fire in California closing I-15 between Vegas and LA, Motel 6 decided to improve their profit margin. $300 a night, take it or leave it. That's pretty fucked up. Also the fire has elevated ground ozone levels here in town dramatically. I guess I'm finally getting old because I can feel it, it's like a bad chest cold and I'm miserable. I'm sure the ozone is just getting back at me for all that hair spray I used in the 80's.
Meanwhile LAX and John Wayne are seeing a dramatic increase in demand for flights to Vegas. Shutting down that corridor of the 15 is huge news though, very important portion of the freeway.
We saw that same shit here after Hurricane Sandy. House destroyed and you want to put a roof over your kids' heads? Fork over the cash. More than a few businesses were nailed for price gouging on things like generators and gasoline.
Yeah, I can understand doing it for an event or convention, but a natural disaster? C'mon now, that's just not right.
Disasters bring out both the best and worst in people. When Fort Mac burnt down, for every hero driving a flatbed full of generators and fridges stocked with food for those stranded on the road, there was a scumbag gouging people for basic necessities. It's very rare that I say this, but I appreciate social media in situations like this, because it allows a measure of accountability for one's actions.
For 5 years, garage night was men welding, drinking, lighting things on fire, drinking, fixing things, drinking, refurbishing/admiring/talking about guns, drinking, listening to music like Wheeler Walker Jr., Steel Panther, and Scuzz Twittly- and drinking. Every week. Then the host of these evenings went and got married. We have spent increasingly greater amounts of of time talking with the lovely bride about health issues, kids, etc. tonight we're watching videos of their wedding, and I'm posting here. All good times must come to an end.
I currently am dealing with the advent of everything being a couples event. Instead of the traditional baby showers and wedding showers being primarily for women and the guys doing their own thing, these events include the men now. The event itself hasn't changed. It's still a bunch of faggotry and girls making passive aggressive comments at each other. I just have to go now. So I went and planned a guys night for UFC 202 this Saturday. But I entered a world of shit for it being a guys night. God-for-fucking-bid that men want to hang out, drink beer and talk about tits without it being called toxic masculinity. Now it's a couples party.
That trend was starting back in my day. They were called Jack and Jill wedding showers or something like that.
Well shit, I never thought of it as a Jack and Jill wedding shower but we did celebrate it together. Does renting out a winery, everyone getting shitfaced and then going bar-hopping considered a bunch of faggotry? We did have our own bachelor/bachelorette weekends if that helps.
No your winery trip sounds awesome. My experience was a group outing to a restaurant and paying $200 for pasta for a wedding party dinner. And then a baby shower in which feminist baby gifts were handed out and where my jokes were NOT funny. I guess the idea of washing a baby in a dish washer is a bad idea. And most certainly NOT funny. And then me criticizing them for giving out girly baby gifts for the soon-to-be baby girl because they were assuming her gender. I don't belong at these things.
I had to go to an office baby shower once. I gave the soon to be born baby a hammer. I was never asked to another baby shower.