It was the summer of 1973, and I had just gotten out of the Army...

 In '71, after I graduated high school, I was young 

and stupid and thought I wanted an adventure...  

 

The draft was still in force back then, and with my birthday being on October 20th, my draft number that came up was 352. That's right - it was so high, if the gooks had attacked Bayonne I probably still wouldn't have had to go, but that's not what I wanna talk about today...

 

Stone cold killers - all of us. The two guys with me in this photo 

both went to 'Nam. I never heard from them again

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This is what I started out wanting to mention. After I got out of the Army - literally like two days after I got home, a buddy of mine asked me if I wanted to join him on a slightly different adventure. 'Wanna go on the road with Marshall Tucker?' He wasn't bullshitting - his cousin was the road manager for the band and they were going on tour and needed a couple more roadies. 

I hopped on the chance and spent most of  the summer sleeping in the back of a U-Haul, getting high, geting laid, working my balls off and having the best time of my life up till then.

I left the band just before  they went to Nashville because my girlfriend that I'd left back in Jersey said she was 'in a condition' and I hadda go home and 'deal with it'. Anyway, that's not another story for another day. 

I had just spent the summer seeing almost every night what you're seeing here. Toy was a very special kinda guy.

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So says the leader of the free world.

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There's stories left and right these days about how the housing market is tanking, new construction of single-family homes is off the radar but the construction of new apartments is gangbusters. 

Joe's doing such a good job on the economy that almost no kids coming of age these days can even dream of home ownership. Fuck - a third of 'em are still living with their parents up 'till 30 years old. 

Jeez - I'da slept in a cardboard box in a parking lot when I was old enough just to be on my own. Kids these days are a little less independent I guess.

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This is/was an actual ad for a click-bait website I saw - on Brietbart 

of all places. I guess they don't screen their ad placements or something, 

'cause this kinda stretches credibilty, doesn't it? Juss' sayin'...

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There were still Stage Coaches with regular routes up and down on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in 1901. On one hand it seems like it was a long time ago, and conversely seems like it was just a little while ago. Then you realize it was 123 years ago.

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Biden's Department of the Interior announced on Friday that it will prohibit any new oil drilling project in the U.S. Arctic Ocean as well as on 11 million acres of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve and nearly 3 million acres of Alaska’s coastal waters.

Hug a tree while you're walking to work...

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Shucking oysters, Bivalve, New Jersey, 1938.

Yes - it is a real place...
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or anniversary coming up.

Buy her this - she'll love ya more for it.

Or buy it for yourself...

    

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Facebook has 'community standards'? 

Terrorists have Fakebook accounts ferfucksake... 

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