Reading recommendation

[unixronin]

Those of you who have not yet stumbled across captoblivion should -- really, really, really should -- read this post recounting the saga of last weekend's trip to Virginia Beach for Digital racks.  Just be careful not to be drinking soda or anything hot when you read it, because spraying soda or hot coffee out of your nose is really not a good feeling.  The man could give Dave Barry a run for his money.

(And he has C.W. McCall's Wolf Creek Pass completely memorized, and can recite it at full speed.  But that's another story.)

Comments

[arasirsul.livejournal.com]

I don't know who did the original (I do know it's a "sequel" to Jimmy Dolan's "Hot Rod Race", but am pretty sure it wasn't Jimmy Dolan who did it), but of all the versions I've heard, I like the Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen version best, and I'm pretty sure if it's not the original it's the earliest recorded version I've heard. It also sounds truest to "Hot Rod Race". I've heard a couple other versions, the most common one seems to be the one Les Claypool (of Primus) did.

I used to think I had a nice collection of automobile-oriented music (being something of a gearhead), but some of the guys at local autocross events put me to shame...

-JDF

[captoblivion.livejournal.com]

Yes, they "took that top row of chickens off slicker'n the scum off a Looziana swamp". It's amazing thta I can still recite it from memory a full 20 years after I last heard it...

PHIL: I can't fucking believe that I forgot to mention your Vicious Guard Cows...