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Rambler Roundup: Cheesecake Edition

  • I spent both nights of this weekend at Townhouse Tavern, the second resulting in me getting tore up from the floor up.  I'm hoping the phrase "cheesecake shot" will leave my vocabulary as quickly as it entered.  I also want to issue a general apology to my neighbors for blasting Workingman's Dead at 4 am.  It had to be done.
  • Walter was finally placed in a permanent home on Friday.  I think he'll be very happy, and now that he's living in DuPont, I think he is actually more well off than I am.  He will be missed.  His absence has been disconcerting.  What I don't miss?  Walking the dog first thing in the morning.
  • The birds are back and I love it.  Finally, someone to tell me when to go to bed again.
  • Is it Friday yet?
  • If you were in Pharmacy last night and heard Journey and Chuck Brown's version of Day-O, my bad.  Sorry 'bout that.  Sometimes there's a lot of pressure when you're at the jukebox.  You want to play stuff that's out of the ordinary, but that people will really like.  Sometimes, you fail miserably.
Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 by Registered CommenterRCR | Comments17 Comments

Reader Comments (17)

Birds are a nice sign that spring is nearing...

...except for when they whistle outside my window at 5am after a night of drinking.
Mar 13, 2006 at 11:17AM | Unregistered CommenterI-66
Don't I know about the jukebox, kiddo. Don't I know...
Mar 13, 2006 at 11:19AM | Unregistered CommenterM.A.
You did right by Walter.

I may go buy lunch, even though I brought one, just so I can be outside.
Mar 13, 2006 at 11:39AM | Unregistered CommenterKathryn
Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, IMO, are the best two Dead albums. Hands down. 4 a.m. or not.
Mar 13, 2006 at 11:49AM | Unregistered Commentermass
I love the jukebox. I always love to throw in something that will make the older folks in the place slightly uncomfortable...for example, give me a jukebox with "Erotic City" on it, and it's going to get played.
Mar 13, 2006 at 12:35PM | Unregistered CommenterPhil
mass - when you're right, you're right. I never took you for a Dead fan.

Phil - well in this case playing Journey's "Smokin" made all the young people in the place uncomfortable. In trying to be funny, I broke one of the cardinal rules of the jukebox: Thou shalt not play any Journey, Kansas, Boston, Foreigner, Styx, or REO Speedwagon.*

*unless you drive a '78 Camaro or Trans Am
Mar 13, 2006 at 12:46PM | Registered CommenterRCR
I would love any of those selections. Then again, I'm 47 years old.
Mar 13, 2006 at 03:28PM | Unregistered CommenterPhil
And isn't "Smokin'" a Boston tune?
Mar 13, 2006 at 03:29PM | Unregistered CommenterPhil
"tore up from the floor up."

New goal for Monday.
Mar 13, 2006 at 03:50PM | Unregistered CommenterMegarita
Phil - you're right, actually, further proving my point that those bands are entirely interchangeable.
Mar 13, 2006 at 04:05PM | Registered CommenterRCR
NO WONDER. I remember, right after "Smokin," I asked you when your Journey selection was coming on. You looked at me like I was crazy and said it had just ended. I couldn't figure it out, but I was drunk, and just thought "meh."
Mar 13, 2006 at 04:39PM | Unregistered CommenterKathryn
I'm not joking about the interchangeability - I cannot distinguish among those bands.
Mar 13, 2006 at 04:46PM | Registered CommenterRCR
Hmmm... what's in a cheesecake shot?

(And I can't bear to hear these cracks on Journey... say what you will, but their stuff is catchy)
Mar 13, 2006 at 07:08PM | Unregistered Commentermysterygirl!
It remains a mystery.
Mar 13, 2006 at 07:15PM | Registered CommenterRCR
~~Come hear Uncle John's Band playing to the tide, come on along or go alone, he's come to take his children home~~
Mar 13, 2006 at 08:41PM | Unregistered CommenterWashington Cube
Workingman's Dead at 4:00 a.m. - yes. Never mind the neighbors.
Cheesecake shot? - no. never. never.
Mar 13, 2006 at 10:03PM | Unregistered CommenterReya Mellicker
In my youth I suppose I could be called a dead head. however, I gradually fell off while in college and eventually sold nearly all of my Dead music...big mistake...I could still kick myself for dumping my copy of Blues for Allah.
Mar 14, 2006 at 02:53PM | Unregistered Commentermass

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