Thursday, March 19, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
9) Hardly anyone drinks out of jugs anymore.
I’m talking straight-out-the-hollow, White Lightnin type jugs. The good stuff.
And here's an equally heinous assault on our culture: does anyone remember how the characters in The Sun Also Rises drank out of these amazing leather pouches with leather strands that strapped over your shoulder as they walked through the Basque country? (Or at least that's how I imagined them at the time). Whatever happened to those things? Wouldn't you rather see some yuppies walking around with those instead of the fruity eco-friendly metal things? Wouldn't we all be enriched?
(And by the way, I guess I'm technically one of those yuppies, but since when was it environmentally friendly to mine for iron ore?)
And here's an equally heinous assault on our culture: does anyone remember how the characters in The Sun Also Rises drank out of these amazing leather pouches with leather strands that strapped over your shoulder as they walked through the Basque country? (Or at least that's how I imagined them at the time). Whatever happened to those things? Wouldn't you rather see some yuppies walking around with those instead of the fruity eco-friendly metal things? Wouldn't we all be enriched?
(And by the way, I guess I'm technically one of those yuppies, but since when was it environmentally friendly to mine for iron ore?)
8) How Phil Collins is obsessed with the Alamo.
Singer Phil Collins' new passion: the Alamo
09:59 AM CST on Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO - Phil Collins says his new "main thing" is the Alamo.
The 58-year-old singer is in San Antonio this week for the anniversary of the March 1836 battle of the Alamo. Collins says he has "hundreds" of cannonballs, documents and other artifacts, including a receipt signed by Alamo commander William Barret Travis for 32 head of cattle used to feed the Alamo defenders. In an online story for the San Antonio Express-News, Collins said he's basically stopped being "Phil Collins the singer. This has become what I do." Collins narrated the introduction of a 13-minute "Alamo diorama light and sound show" at the History Shop by the Alamo. He's scheduled to speak to the Alamo Defenders Descendants Association on Saturday.
09:59 AM CST on Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO - Phil Collins says his new "main thing" is the Alamo.
The 58-year-old singer is in San Antonio this week for the anniversary of the March 1836 battle of the Alamo. Collins says he has "hundreds" of cannonballs, documents and other artifacts, including a receipt signed by Alamo commander William Barret Travis for 32 head of cattle used to feed the Alamo defenders. In an online story for the San Antonio Express-News, Collins said he's basically stopped being "Phil Collins the singer. This has become what I do." Collins narrated the introduction of a 13-minute "Alamo diorama light and sound show" at the History Shop by the Alamo. He's scheduled to speak to the Alamo Defenders Descendants Association on Saturday.
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