[ EPU Foyer ] [ Lab and Grill ] [ Bonus Theater!! ] [ Rhetorical Questions ] [ CSRANTronix ] [ GNDN ] [ Subterranean Vault ] [ Discussion Forum ] [ Gun of the Week ]

Eyrie Productions, Unlimited

Subject: "Car Adventures: Camaro"     Previous Topic | Next Topic
Printer-friendly copy    
Conferences eyrie.private-mail Topic #724
Reading Topic #724, reply 4
MuninsFire
Member since Mar-27-07
457 posts
Apr-01-19, 08:04 PM (EDT)
Click to EMail MuninsFire Click to send private message to MuninsFire Click to view user profileClick to add this user to your buddy list  
4. "RE: Car Adventures: Camaro"
In response to message #3
 
   >>What -does- exist in this valley are a large quantity of cattle
>>ranches, some solar and wind farms, some small settlements that might
>>be described as 'hardscrabble', and - well, mule deer.
>
>"Mojave, mo' problems, am I right, folks?"
> - Mr. New Vegas

So, fun fact: the town of Mojave, CA - just north of where this story takes place - has been burned to the ground three times and -literally blown away- once.

>>So there I was, bombing along at 57mph (because the cops along this
>>stretch are -bored- and love to hassle anyone who dares break 60) in
>>the full dark, singing "Hotel California" as one does to keep awake on
>>a dark desert highway after a very long day.
>
>Was the warm smell of colitas rising up through the air?
>
>(And what the hell are colitas, anyway?)

Sooo....there's what one might call a 'controversy' about the Eagles' best-known hit. Depending on which specific interpretation of the overall theme of the song is in favor, you could get a number of answers to that question.

IIRC the main camps form about whether it's about -prison-, the -mental hospital-, or -cocaine addiction-.

Two of those camps agree that colitas is a reference to marijuana - so, abiding by that majority vote, the answer is - no, I was doing the Fed Contractor schtick, so weed was right out.

>>And just as I'm dipping down between the bluffs, this deer erupts out
>>of the ditch by the side of the road, heading -right for me-, head
>>down, -charging- me. He proceeds to ram the driver's door -right by my
>>foot- before, incredibly, bouncing off, turning, and running back into
>>the ditch.
>
>Somewhere, on a deer forum, that deer is telling a story that starts,
>"So there I was in the dip by the aqueduct..."

I hope so. It would be only right.

>>So let that be a lesson if you drive in the desert scrub backlands of
>>California: the deer may be small here, but boy howdy are they -mean-
>
>"We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
>deer began to take hold."
>
>Also, that must have been amusing to explain to your insurance
>adjuster. "Well, there was this deer, see..."
>

I mean, it was just a dent, and I had a couple in the car when I got it, so I figured why bother with that? There'd be no way they'd believe -that- kind of a story.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea


  Alert | IP Printer-friendly page | Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
 Car Adventures: Camaro [View All] Gryphonadmin Mar-31-19 TOP
   RE: Car Adventures: Camaro jonathanlennox Apr-01-19 1
   RE: Car Adventures: Camaro MuninsFire Apr-01-19 2
      RE: Car Adventures: Camaro Gryphonadmin Apr-01-19 3
         RE: Car Adventures: Camaro MuninsFire Apr-01-19 4
          RE: Car Adventures: Camaro McFortner Apr-01-19 5
   RE: Car Adventures: Camaro Gryphonadmin Apr-08-19 6
      RE: Car Adventures: Camaro jonathanlennox Apr-08-19 7
          RE: Car Adventures: Camaro Gryphonadmin Apr-08-19 8
   RE: Car Adventures: Camaro Zemyla Apr-17-19 9


Conferences | Topics | Previous Topic | Next Topic

[ YUM ] [ BIG ] [ ??!? ] [ RANT ] [ GNDN ] [ STORE ] [ FORUM ] GOTW ] [ VAULT ]

version 3.3 © 2001
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited
Benjamin D. Hutchins
E P U (Colour)