
You know how we love our Lone Star Beer around these parts - not really, but it somehow feels like you are not a true Texan if you don't pop the top on a Lone Star every once in a while. When I was in college, Lone Star was notoriously one of the "bitter" beers (Texans used to call it "horse piss in a can') but now it's not so bad. At least it compares respectably to your other "premium" beers ... like, ah, Busch, Keystone and Miller High Life. [...]

I gave AIV the train song idea and ended up not being to get my shit together and my head above water at work to do the post and I was a little disappointed by that. So I decided that this week I'd drop another classic country and western song genre on you guys and write the post before I told AIV the idea so I would get to post this time. This week is Truckin' Songs. My daddy was a trucker when I was born and somewhere there is a picture of me knee high to him standing beside [...]
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:: Columbine :: :: Roses For Mama :: C.W. McCall knows a hot topic when he sees one - he's the man we can thank for bringing us "Convoy" and lesser-known gems like "'Round the World with the Rubber Duck" and "Kidnap America," released during the Iran hostage [...]
This is it, folks. This is where the rubber meets the road-the mother of all trucker movies: Sam Peckinpah's Convoy. The recipe: take Kris Kristofferson (the Rubber Duck), a young Ali MacGraw (in a convertible) and a cranky, curmudgeon state trooper named "Dirty Lyle" (played by Ernest Borgnine) and place them in a hokey, genre-bending, [...]

Homercat turned around and not only was it November but the 11th month is almost over and I'll be damned if Christmas isn't but a month away. What I almost missed is Good Rockin's birthday. It was 5 years ago this month when Good Rockin' Tonight was born. Rockin' just started out as a hobby from a cat with too much time on his hands. Unable to work so I wanted to share my love of music with anyone that wanted to stop by. Over this 5 years I have seen many a site come and go. [...]

Zero hour is rapidly approaching. Tomorrow at noon I have a long-postponed meeting with my dentist, and it's even money whether a root canal or a very deep filling along the base of the bottom rightmost molar is an order – a real win-win situation. The prospect of either has cast a dark pall over what should have been a pretty groovy long weekend, and I couldn't even maintain my enthusiasm for a viewing of the modern cinematic masterpiece known as Convoy , Sam Peckinpah's most personal and heartfelt directorial effort, on one [...]

When I was a young boy, I dreamed that one day I would grow up and drive behind the wheel of a great 18-wheeled truck. Me and "The Bandit" would deliver ice cold beer to the thirsty people of America. I'd have a mustache and the chicks would dig me. And I'd have a little buddy chimpanzee riding along with me enjoying the freedom of the open road. Well, that dream never came true for me. And like many of my career [...]