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October 20, 2007
Goodbye Yellow Brick Rhodes [Darleen Click]
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Comment by Jeffersonian on 10/20 @ 1:55 pm #
“Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, Randi.”
Comment by McGehee on 10/20 @ 1:57 pm #
Unfortunately only two of those conditions are curable.
Comment by Carin on 10/20 @ 2:23 pm #
Whenever I’ve had the misfortune to listen to her, she usually sounds three sheets to the wind already.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/20 @ 2:34 pm #
She looks like a fun girl.
Comment by BJTexs on 10/20 @ 2:38 pm #
What gave you that impression, feet? Ther beer stains on her shirt?
Comment by happyfeet on 10/20 @ 2:42 pm #
Not a clean girl, no. But fun-looking in a sort of low-maintenance way I think. This is not a sexual observation.
Comment by BJTexs on 10/20 @ 2:45 pm #
‘feets:
I can’t think of a more sexually provacative concept than a girl at a bar with beer stains. It suggest possibilities in a frat house, pigmale kind of way.
I understand that you are above these things.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/20 @ 3:03 pm #
She looks a lot like girls back home really, the ones that stayed there.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/20 @ 3:05 pm #
Sheesh. It’s only October and I just had my first god-I-so-bad-don’t-want-to-go-home-for-Christmas pang of the season. That’s a record I think.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/20 @ 3:08 pm #
Suck it up, Soldier.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/20 @ 3:15 pm #
Every year I do. It’s just such a gothic little town. Dark. Drums of Moria dark.
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 10/20 @ 3:20 pm #
Can we play “guess where?”
Erie, PA?
Scranton?
Key West?
Comment by B Moe on 10/20 @ 4:29 pm #
“She looks like a fun girl.”
Until she opens her mouth. Obviously ‘feets has never heard her.
Comment by Belvedere jones on 10/20 @ 4:30 pm #
Gordon’s? Ugh, I drank that when I was young and broke.
My moniker shows my loyalty.
Comment by daleyrocks on 10/20 @ 4:34 pm #
Happy -
She looks like a fun girl. – All the girls look like fun at last call. If they don’t, you’re not doing it right.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/20 @ 4:40 pm #
I haven’t heard her that’s true. And also she probably looks different now without teeth.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/20 @ 4:45 pm #
“guess where?†is south Texas and I am for sure the only happyfeet from there living in Studio City, so I prolly shouldn’t get all specific. It’s like a hellmouth there really except with margaritas and live oaks.
Comment by largenfirm on 10/20 @ 5:57 pm #
Who says those are beer stains?
Comment by Ric Locke on 10/20 @ 6:56 pm #
Feets, would the name of the county begin with “B”, by any chance?
When you come let me know. You can waste a little time in Weirdsville-on-the-Colorado with me and my brother. Enjoyable times can be had, even in an atmosphere containing margaritas and live oaks.
Perhaps we should invite Ms. Rhodes. A Ketel One drinker might well enjoy Herradura margaritas, the old-fashioned kind that are a mixed drink rather than an alcoholic sno-cone, and maybe scoot a boot. She ought to expand her horizons.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Great Mencken's Ghost on 10/20 @ 6:56 pm #
14 — You drive a Plymouth?
18 — they’re not crusty…
Comment by Scrapiron on 10/20 @ 7:02 pm #
The last time I heard of a test on spots on a dress they didn’t turn out to be beer stains….Monica anyone, could be drips from a different .container’.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/20 @ 7:14 pm #
close … couple hours or so south of you on the Guadalupe, getting more into chupacabra country, but a little north of the beautiful beaches of Port Lavaca … I will see how the trip plays out since I fly into Austin though.
Comment by CelticDragon on 10/20 @ 7:15 pm #
‘feet I LIVE in South Texas, about 7 miles from the Mexican border. It’s just sad sometimes…
Comment by Pablo on 10/20 @ 7:18 pm #
Violence? Trying to silence people who you don’t like? How about a little projection with your whine, lefties?
Violence breaks out in World Bank and IMF protest
Comment by Pablo on 10/20 @ 7:20 pm #
Oh, and while I can’t find a link for it at the moment, one of the people physically attacked at the mostly peaceful protest was Griff Jenkins of Fox News. Seems he was asking uncomfortable questions, which apparently cannot be tolerated.
The end justifies the means, no?
Comment by happyfeet on 10/20 @ 7:28 pm #
Celtic – my last job in Texas took me into the Valley quite a bit – that’s a whole different world, but I always enjoyed going down there – when I bag on Texas it’s just the hometown – I never in my life want to be that enmeshed in a community like that ever again, it’s just too much information. And it’s a tapestry of darkness.
Comment by Pablo on 10/20 @ 7:30 pm #
‘feet,
You should listen to her interviewing Ralph Nader on the first day of Air America. That link is the whole clip, but you should also watch this one too because it has video of her doing it.
You could say she really set the tone for the whole enterprise. And Nader did the intelligent thing.
Comment by SarahW on 10/20 @ 7:33 pm #
She looks like a fun girl
From Mount Pilot.
Only, she’s a worse dresser and has a more annoying voice.
Comment by SarahW on 10/20 @ 7:34 pm #
Or maybe, it’s Otis I’m thinking of.
Comment by Ric Locke on 10/20 @ 7:40 pm #
Ah, so. I believe I’ve been there, feets, though not recently. I wouldn’t actually call it “Gothic” as such, but the word probably conjures up the right emotional context even if the specific images are a bit off. “Alambric”, perhaps? — no, that’s already taken for something else.
I’m sorry you don’t find it congenial. I don’t live in Austin — I’m ‘way north, on the distant fringes of the FW-D Metromess — but my brother does, and he’ll deserve a visit along about then. He and I love one another like brothers, but we aren’t really friends, and having somebody else to entertain would be a big help. BJ, where you at? :-)
Regards,
Ric
Comment by happyfeet on 10/20 @ 7:48 pm #
I will bookmark and watch later, Pablo – my firewall blocks YouTube and excluding it doesn’t seem to work very well, probably cause I don’t know the whole IP range. When Air America launched I had just found out what Pacifica was all about, and was listening to that until it became clear that it was just looping over and over. But I did hear Chomsky for the first time, and learned who Edward Said was – he was still all breathing and stuff then, and Arundhati Roy was a superstar there. Greg Palast too. But I pretty much left all that behind when Amy Goodman just stopped being funny one day.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/20 @ 8:04 pm #
I see, Ric – I thought you were hinting at Bastrop, which is a very nice place to be I think. I will post when I set the dates – we just hired a new person and thinks are screwed up so I think I won’t be there at actual Christmas, sometime earlier in December instead. I went to college up by where you are, and lived a summer in Dallas. I know most of that is much different now, but there were some really different kind of places if you got off the beaten path in Denton or Grayson, places I would definitely think of as gothic, really, with bonus dark racial history too. I don’t mind gothic at all, really – as long as it doesn’t pull me in like in a Clive Barker movie.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/20 @ 8:05 pm #
*things*
Comment by SarahW on 10/20 @ 8:09 pm #
Yep, Otis.
Comment by bour3 on 10/20 @ 8:14 pm #
I do not believe this story. Fourteen drinks of anything alcholic sounds like an exaggeration. It just does. Now I could be wrong about this, I realize some of ya’ll can really pack ‘em down, but the story would be more convincing at five or six drinks. I, myself, slur and stagger, and if it’s tequila become abusive, if not loud at two. I’m already crass.
Comment by Darleen on 10/20 @ 8:19 pm #
bour3
have you ever been in an Irish bar?
Or married to an Irish person?
Ms. Rhodes could have been there from opening to last call and downed 14 easily. Depending on how much she drinks on a daily basis, she may need to be a .1 just to get up and function during the day
or what passes for functioning for her
Comment by SarahW on 10/20 @ 8:24 pm #
bour3, of course it was not a literal account of her drinks, ( an exaggeration. though probably not a gross exaggeration) The meaning of it, the point of it, is to entertain while communicating that she that she had been drinking, drinking hard, and had imbibed enough to poison most people to death.
Randi drinks, she drinks a lot. She gets drunk after one drink, but unfortunately can’t remember if it’s the 13th or 14th.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/20 @ 8:29 pm #
I just wonder what happened to the dog.
Comment by Ric Locke on 10/20 @ 8:45 pm #
Perhaps Foul Ole Ron is no longer the only person in history with a Thinking Brain Dog…
Scene: the sidewalk outside a midtown Irish pub. A DRUNK leans against the wall. RANDI RHODES and her DOG walk by:
DRUNK: Tha’s a dam’ scruffy critter you got there.
DOG: sighs Yeah, I know, but she followed me home, and what can you do?
—
Feets, I do know what you mean. I’m originally from east Texas, off in the north end of the piney woods. Some of those towns along 82… well, I’m comfortable there, but I wouldn’t recommend them to just anybody.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by daleyrocks on 10/20 @ 9:09 pm #
I just wonder what happened to the sidewalk. Was there any damage? Can the city recover?
Comment by maggie katzen on 10/20 @ 9:46 pm #
oh yeah, I’m thinking a voice like that has some “help”.
don’t think I’ve lived in Texas long enough to really comment on it. though I can’t imagine small town OK is that different.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/20 @ 9:51 pm #
My people is okie stock on my pa’s side. Settled the Cherokee Strip. Names like Jebediah and Ezekial and other children of the corn names, so I’d believe there’s a healthy streak of the gothic in the small towns there. We had a farm until just recently in Amorita. You’d be way forgiven for not knowing where that is.
Comment by maggie katzen on 10/21 @ 12:14 am #
heh, had to look it up and of course it’s in the part I don’t know. my family is mostly from/still in the southern parts. Carnegie.
Comment by Rusty on 10/21 @ 9:40 am #
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Comment by bour3 on 10/20 @ 8:14 pm #
I do not believe this story. Fourteen drinks of anything alcholic sounds like an exaggeration. It just does. Now I could be wrong about this, I realize some of ya’ll can really pack ‘em down, but the story would be more convincing at five or six drinks. I, myself, slur and stagger, and if it’s tequila become abusive, if not loud at two. I’m already crass.
In my younger days (much younger) It would be nothing to down 15 – 20 cocktails in a 6 to 8 hour evening. especially if the joint had a 5 AM license.
Much later in life ( I rarely drink at all now) An acquaintance has been known to down a fifth of kettle in an extended lunch period.
Comment by Ric Locke on 10/21 @ 10:49 am #
happyfeet & maggie,
Every last one, route one, rural heart’s got a story to tell
Every grandma, in law, ex girlfriend
Maybe knows you just a little too well
Whether you’re late for church or you’re stuck in jail
Hey words gonna get around
Everybody dies famous in a small town — Miranda Lambert
Miranda was born in Longview and grew up in Lindale, according to Wikipedia. Them’s my old stompin’ grounds from half a century ago. I’d say she got it pretty well right.
My dad’s people were from south and southeast Oklahoma and northeast Texas, brush-poppers and squaw men selling whiskey and guns to the Indians. You can have a good time in, e.g., New Boston, but I’d advise you to have some appreciation of the culture and folkways before you start raising a ruckus there.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by happyfeet on 10/21 @ 11:06 am #
Miranda is a nice anodyne to that John Mellencamp treacle.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/21 @ 11:21 am #
bour3: it’s not uncommon for a hard-core alcoholic to consume a 750 ml bottle of hard liquor (equivalent of 25 drinks) or a case of beer over the course of a day.
Drinking that much in one gulp will kill you, of course. Over a full day, and with a good tolerance built up, yeah, it can be done.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/21 @ 11:26 am #
I done it.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 10/21 @ 1:09 pm #
Belvedere, you haven’t been broke until you drink Crystal Palace. At the end of the year we used the remains to clean the shower.
Causticaly scary stuff.
Comment by JD on 10/21 @ 6:22 pm #
Or McCormick’s. Or Picadilly. There are some truly horrific regional type “house” brands of liquors.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/22 @ 4:33 am #
Doesn’t Fleishchmann (the bread yeast guys) make a vodka? It’s a byproduct of their industrial yeast farm, as I recall. I haven’t had it, but it sounds nasty.
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Comment by TheManTheMyth on 10/22 @ 8:30 am #
But most of those big fat girls back home already have kids (some have grandkids and they’re only 30)
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Comment by avengingwatcher on 11/5 @ 4:12 pm #
Oh boy, another of the mindless conservative blogs choking up bandwidth on the internet. Glad to see if you disagree with someone politically you still act like kindergarten students and attack them personally. seriously conservatives the reason you guys lost steam and voters this election. Middle Americans are tired of the fighting ripping our country apart, it’s like an emotionally demanding ex that you can never get rid of. Get over yourselves an grow up. Before you attack my patriotism, commitment to country etc, et al I am a veteran and from a military family of veterans. Randi is also a veteran and it is shameful of you to claim you love the soldiers unless they disagree with you. Regardless of what you think politically our brave men and women fight to preserve the freedom of ALL Americans not just white, conservative christians.
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/5 @ 4:19 pm #
right. so was Tim McVeigh. but NO PATRIOTISM QUESTIONING WILL BE BROOKED!!!
next time, try commenting on a current post, not one that’s over a year old.
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