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now I'm thirsty

Fore?

Is $2 a good price?  Seems like highway robbery for that swill...

it's good, could always be better

the owner of the local bar is a friend of mine - wonder how that happened?  He's a K-state grad and fan.  Doesn't know SkiCat or the purple hayseed lawyer, but he's heard of the Chief Scouts.  the Busch corporation could probably afford to sell him beer cheap enough to only charge me a dollar, but doesn't seem to work like that....

one of the golf courses I'm a member is having happy hour tonight.  No golf obviously, just opening the clubhouse to sell beers for a buck each to clean them out before they expire.

come on up this weekend or next week

you can borrow my clubs

I'll be in the Dallas area the week of the 22nd, hoping youse Texans are having some fabulous weather that week!

There was a bar in Athens circa 1973 called the B&L Warehouse.  They had live music every night, and Tuesday was quarter beer night.  They had a stage on each end of this long warehouse, with two long bars going down the side, and some random chairs in the middle and a dance floor.  One band would set up while the other played on the opposite stage.

Music scene vets look back at pre-R.E.M. days - Lifestyle - Athens Banner-Herald - Athens, GA (onlineathens.com)

Random Athens Memories: Remember When XTC and R.E.M. Shared a Bill? | Flagpole

Local fans of both XTC and R.E.M. wish they could take a time machine back to Apr. 24, 1981 for their show at the B&L Warehouse in Athens. R.E.M. was a young band with a growing following. XTC was playing at the top of its game. Its sound lay somewhere near the intersection of punk and pop. Recently, I spoke with a few who were there. I also caught up with former XTC members Colin Moulding and Terry Chambers, who have just self-released an EP, Great Aspirations, with their new project, TC&I.
Here in Athens, the cavernous, dark room that was once the B&L Warehouse is long gone. Now a part of UGA’s Hodgson Oil Building on Oak Street, it has settled into a more pedestrian persona as an office complex. Brad Cahoon remembers walking to the XTC/R.E.M. show with some friends from his dorm across the railroad tracks. “The venue felt big compared to Tyrone’s O.C., which is what we were used to, but the same crowd seemed to be there.” Like so many Athenians in the early 1980s, he listened to WUOG, which had put XTC tunes “Life Begins at the Hop” and “Making Plans for Nigel” in heavy rotation. Cahoon thought it “was cool that our local heroes were opening for a big-time band.”

REM put me to sleep.