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Friday, April 20, 2007
Exercising my license to chill
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Warm weather and the approaching summer mean two things.
More cases of guys exposing themselves
The long time parrotthead Sandy Rose’s annual trek to Margarettaville.
Wednesday we’ll be tailgating at Philips Arena. Philips is not as good as the parking lot at Hi-Fi Buys parking lot with the exception of last year’s monsoon just before the concert. That was ugly. Hundreds of parrotthead items floated down the street to Metropolitan Avenue. The next night the hookers were wearing foam lime hats and grass skirts.
Tailgating at Philips isn’t quite as much fun. Something about being right smack in the city takes away from the Caribbean flavor. Maybe it’s homeless guys freaking out after wandering into the extreme tailgating areas full of drunken middle management types with hula skirts and coconut bras. Most likely it’s the lack of a lawn. You can’t beat the lawn show during Buffett.
We’re going to Houston today. Buffett plays there on Saturday. My brother, one of the nation’s great humorists, lives there with his family and various animals. He called and said he had a couple of extra tickets. I mentioned it to my wife who gave me a look of “I can kill you in your sleep if I want,” and said “Make it happen, now.”
Wanting only to live, I made the necessary arrangements under duress.
This will give me a chance to eat my brother’s food, drink his beer, and maybe tap into his sick mind.
This will also give me a chance to see my TSA friends at the airport while I am thoroughly checked after my titanium knee sets off buzzers, sirens, and red lights at the screening booth. What the hell, it’s all R and R.
I’m hoping that one day Sandy will get her photo op with Jimmy Buffett. I say this because she is a good person and a great fan. My credit card reflects this. The other reason is that what she keeps talking about as a quest is starting to look to me like stalking. I’ve got enough trouble.
