—Can’t help you, I’m afraid. Woke up yesterday to a note from the little guy stuck to my monitor letting me know he’d lit out early for Port Arthur with a couple of militia dudes we met at the local shooting range. From what I can gather, all he took with him—besides his modified Romanian PSL sniper rifle—is a pocket GPS system, some Gortex socks, a couple of Power Bars, and the kayak he’d spent all week building out of empty Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper cans and forging with carnuba wax, ball bearings, and an old Zippo lighter.
His note mentions something about “putting down looters,” but in all honesty, his penmanship is so awful that it’s just as likely he’ll be spending the next few days helping the Texas National Guard “pinch brown hooters.” Though, to be fair, the latter doesn’t explain the kayak thing nearly so well.
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update: Wow. Prescient little fellow…
Gortex socks – an excellent idea. I see the ‘dillo is an old hand at this. BTW, the Hooters outside of NAS New Orleans reopened, maybe the ‘dillo could stop by?
Hmm… Methinks it was “ynching looters and pinching hooters,”brown is just a signifier. It seems the “Dillo” needs a few lessons in penmanship in order to become articulate or at least legible. Perhaps he’s hiding behind a facade of illiteracy in order not to be labelled you know…..RACIST!
TW “study” which I suppose speaks for itself.
Microsft AntiSpyware beta1 picked up …
Trojan.Downloader.adMSI on my computer during a 2am auto-scan, last night. Detail..
http://Anchorpin.redpin.com
I am sure glad to have downloaded this MS freebie from the MS downloads [security] site.
They scan me for everything every night and it’s free. How would you like to be *scanned* every night? ok, ok, it’s lame. 73 TG
Oh piss off I can too spell Lynching!! But then again the little bastard may be thinking of giving the big inch to looters. See why I said good penmanship is important.
If instead of a homemade kayak, he meant Salma Hayek it all makes sense. Of course, I would venture into the path of a hurricane for her too.
A homemade Salma Hayek would be a Celine Dion! On Larry King she said she didn’t understand why G. Bush didn’t send kayaks to rescue those poor people carry the 25 pair of jeans they just stole. That was after she “opened” her TV. Some days it is more embarrassing than others to be a Canadian!
Neat pic of the dudes with the rifles. I can see the rumors about barefoot soldiers invading the US starting.
So what the fuck is the little Xenarthric bastard doing in my living room?
You’ve got some serious discipline issues with your mammals, man.
Out of curiosity, why would we need a “fix” of the armadillo, per se?
You can’t need a fix until you’re an addict.
And you can’t become an addict until you actually get a little taste of the product.
TW “before”: Hell will freeze over before we get to see the armadillo actually dance.
Probably intends to paddle up the ship channel just ahead of the storm to avoid detection, then take up a high covering position near the downtown Hooters in order to interdict any prospective nocturnal boobie looters.
It’s a good move, but you’d have to get the timing just right.
Jeff,
I was at a fundraiser last Saturday with Jerry Jeff Walker, who was much better tempered and a singer for that matter when he was a drunk, when he lit into a watered-down version of “I wanna go home to the Armadillo.” Well, Austin was famous for “The Armadillo.” Basically an indoor building with a cool as hell outdoor pavilion, with the biggest Wisteria tree I have seen then or since, in the middle of downtown Austin in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. I loved that place. No air, hot a hell, but amazing music. Never saw Jerry Jeff there, but I saw Joni Mitchell, Frank Zappa, Leonard Cohen, Bonni Raitt, Jose Feliciano, Freddie King, Asleep at the Wheel, and well…..the list is endless. Then the City of Austin tore it down and put up a highrise office building for their electric utility – I do remember the protests! Basically, they “Paved Paradise and Put in a Parking Lot.” I had to do that, sorry! Just reminded me of that place and some pretty amazing memories of simpler times, being young, idealistic, and resilient as well as really amazing balladiers.
By the way, did you know Armadillos contract leprosy? eww!
Stop looters! Arm a ‘dillo!
Now, there’s a bumper sticker!
Sure beats armin’ a geddon.
Them damn geddons can’t shoot worth beans.
Had I only known that Diet Cherry-Vanilla Dr. Pepper cans could be used as flotation devices, I’d have forwarded mine to the little fella.
I drink enough of that stuff that he could have floated an oil platform to safety.
Bare-footed with a bolt-action? Looks like someone is trying to get himself killed.
So……what’s his lame excuse THIS week?
TW: county. As in, “..and don’t tell us he’s down investigating Ronnie Earle in Travis County”