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Convoy

Rustin — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:26:27 +0000

My wonderful wife is getting excited for her trip to WPPI in sunny and beautiful Las Vegas. Each day, as the event draws closer, I see various conversations and arrangements being swapped via Twitter. One such exchange about the upcoming drive down south prompted a little lunch-time conversation and I attempted to make a joke that fell flat on the kitchen floor as it left my lips.

It went something like this:

Her: They want to caravan down… what do you think?
Me: Sure, sounds good.
Her: What should I say?
Me: Just tell everybody “it looks like we got us a convoy”!
(in my best trucker radio voice)
Her: …
Me: …*eyebrows*
Her: …

It seems my wife has never been exposed to this integral piece of Americana. This must be remedied immediately.

Thankfully, she married a born-and-bred road trip lovin’, CB totin’, truck stop loiterin’ yokel who knows of such things.

And so, for you my dear wife. The origin of the phrase “Looks like we got us a convoy”.

Convoy by C. W. McCall

(Click to play with my fancy new inline player.)

Walk Like an Eqyptian

Rustin — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:29:30 +0000

A killer bluegrass cover of a great 80′s tune.

Band website.

(via Neatorama)

Best music video ever

Rustin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:22:32 +0000

As I mentioned in the about section of this site, there was a regularly updated blog in this space from 2004 until late 2007. All those nuggets of wonderfulness I created for the site are now archived, hidden away from the world.

I thought it might be fun to pull some of those bits out of the archive from time to time in a bit of a series I’m going to call… …wait for it… “From the Archive”

This little gem is from a post on June 17, 2006. I really think it stands on it’s own.

Please enjoy this wonderfully choreographed version of I wanna love you tender.