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Beslubbering beef-witted lout
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Gotta go to Chicago, tw*ts
Summer of shakin is over. Business travel begins. First opportunity for the new co-workers to witness shakin after hours. Dinner together (dammit) should be fine, I can nurse some brews and keep it together. But then I'm going to catch a cab and hit Buddy Guy's bar (Legends) like I was shot out of a cannon, soak up some awesome live blues and run some taps dry over there. Getting back to my room at 2:30 a.m. without running into anyone will be the challenge. Although in my state I'll probably end up loudly knocking on doors and waking people up to see who wants to hit the hotel bar for a nightcap.
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You spelled "Gata" wrong.
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Lying to the Smithsonian
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Only 8 episodes of Breaking Bad, and now the Summer of shankin is over.
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I see the 88 to 97 period all over again.
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I stay at the Renassaince and right across the river is a small blues bar. I go there at about 10pm after everyone goes to bed. |
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Glad Sparano is gone, on the fence about
Mornhinweg..
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Shakin's client dinner reminds me a little of GS Elevator blog ...
For those of you who have not read it here is an excerpt where he is traveling with clients on a private jet ... It's a long read but it's totally worth it ... " “Excuse me, where is the bathroom, because I don’t see a door?” I ask while still devoting considerable energy to fighting off what starts to feel like someone shook a seltzer bottle and shoved it up my ass. She looks at me, bemused, and says, “Well, we don’t really have one per se.” At this point she reads my mind, or just couldn’t miss the fact that I looked like Alec Baldwin after a 3-day coke binge. She continues, “Technically, we have one, but it’s really just for emergencies. Don’t worry, we’re landing shortly anyway.” “I’m pretty sure this qualifies as an emergency,” I manage to mutter through my grimace. I can see the fear in her face as she points nervously to the back seat. The turbulence outside is matched only by the cyclone that is ravaging my bowels. She points to the back of the plane and says, “There. The toilet is there.” For a brief instant, relief passes over my face. She continues, “If you pull away the leather cushion from that seat, it’s under there. There’s a small privacy screen that pulls up around it, but that’s it.” At this point, I was committed. She had just lit the dynamite and the mineshaft was set to blow. I turn to look where she is pointing and I get the urge to cry. I do cry, but my face is so tightly clenched it makes no difference. The “toilet” seat is occupied by the CFO, i.e. our ****ing client. Our ****ing female ****ing client! Up to this point, nobody has observed my struggle or my exchange with the flight attendant. “I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry.” That’s all I can say as I limp toward her like Quasimodo impersonating a penguin, and begin my explanation. Of course, as soon as my competitors see me talking to the CFO, they all perk up to find out what the hell I’m doing. Given my jovial nature and fun-loving attitude thus far on the roadshow, almost everybody thinks I’m joking. She, however, knows right away that I am anything but and jumps up, moving quickly to where I had been sitting. I now had to remove the seat top – no easy task when you can barely stand upright, are getting tossed around like a hoodrat at a block party, and are fighting against a gastrointestinal Mt. Vesuvius. I manage to peel back the leather seat top to find a rather luxurious looking commode, with a nice cherry or walnut frame. It had obviously never been used, ever. Why this moment of clarity came to me, I do not know. Perhaps it was the realization that I was going to take this toilet’s virginity with a fury and savagery that was an abomination to its delicate craftsmanship and quality. I imagined some poor Italian carpenter weeping over the violently soiled remains of his once beautiful creation. The lament lasted only a second as I was quickly back to concentrating on the tiny muscle that stood between me and molten hot lava. I reach down and pull up the privacy screens, with only seconds to spare before I erupt. It’s an alka-seltzer bomb, nothing but air and liquid spraying out in all directions – a Jackson Pollock masterpiece. The pressure is now reversed. I feel like I’m going to have a stroke, I push so hard to end the relief, the tormented sublime relief. “I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry.” My apologies do nothing to drown out the heinous noises that seem to carry on and reverberate throughout the small cabin indefinitely. If that’s not bad enough, I have one more major problem. The privacy screen stops right around shoulder level. I am sitting there, a disembodied head, in the back of the plane, on a bucking bronco for a toilet, all while looking my colleagues, competitors, and clients directly in the eyes. “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” briefly comes to mind. I literally could reach out with my left hand and rest it on the shoulder of the person adjacent to me. It was virtually impossible for him, or any of the others, and by others I mean high profile business partners and clients, to avert their eyes. They squirm and try not to look, inclined to do their best to carry on and pretend as if nothing out of the ordinary was happening, that they weren’t sharing a stall with some guy crapping his intestines out. Releasing smelly, sweaty, shame at 100 feet per second. “I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry” is all the ashamed disembodied head can say…over and over again. Not that it mattered." http://gselevator.wordpress.com/ |
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Go the The Gage for Mussells Vinadaloo.
Outstanding. Good looking womenz at night too. _ |
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being disappointed since January 13th, 1969
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Met Buddy Guy once - dude's a doosh
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BRACE YOURSELVES FOR 12...
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Pirates win 88 games this year. Mark it!
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Day by day, night after night... Blinded by the
neon light
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murse in training
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Glad Sparano is gone, on the fence about
Mornhinweg..
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I know you you have to read the dude's blog ... I included the link at the bottom ... fraggin hilarious ****, he swears it's all real experiences ... Alpha male on steroids ...
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BRACE YOURSELVES FOR 12...
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Balls.
Lick them! Sent from my Double-Wide using Semaphore... |
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Back in my day we had 9 planets
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That is freaking hilarious!
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