Archie Kobain

So, I recently did two things that I hadn’t done in a long time.
1. Went to an Irish Pub.  2. Went to a church service.

Of course, I’d forgotten how similar those two things were.

On each of these occasions, I walked in and there was music playing. Several people were looking around trying to find seats but there weren’t that many available.  I looked at the people who had chosen to spend their time here and it was quite a diverse crowd.  Some folks looked out of place, as if they’d never been here before.  Some folks looked like they’d been coming here way too much.  Some folks were slightly overdressed, while others were severely under-dressed. Each venue had a number of couples attending the festivities.  And in almost every case you could tell that one person wanted to be there and the other had been dragged there by their “significant other”.

Both places had a number of guys who were there just to check out girls.  Fortunately for them, each place had plenty. Each place had a girl with brownish hair wearing boots, a skirt and an over-sized sweater making her look exactly like Dana Brody, the daughter on Showtime’s original show, Homeland, played by 19 year-old, SAG AWard nominee, Morgan Saylor.

Morgan Saylor as Dana Brody

And I could tell by following their eyes and reading their smiles, every guy in the place watched her walk by and thought about how much fun it would be to give her a “thigh turkey”…

Thigh Turkey

Soon I noticed a guy behind the bar (or podium). He seemed to be in-charge of dispensing whatever it was that they were selling here.  Sooner or later he started talking to everyone, pouring wine, and offering bread (or snacks) to anyone who wanted it.

And speaking of wine, it was obvious that some people had been drinking before coming here today.

Music, of course, was a key component to the experience at both places.  Many people sang, some people didn’t even pretend to be singing.  Some people didn’t know the songs, while others knew every word.

As the whole thing was coming to an end, they expected some money from me.  And, although a few people had managed to get out early, pretty much everyone was there until last call. Then the main guy told us that we didn’t have to go home but we couldn’t stay here.  In one case, they had free baked goods outside and in the other case, they offered to call you a taxi cab if you thought you shouldn’t be driving.  I forget which was which.

The biggest difference between the church service and the Irish Pub was that, at one point during the church service, the main guy stopped everything that was going on and insisted that everyone greet everyone around them, particularly the people who you don’t know.  And this got me thinking… Why don’t they do this at Irish Pubs?

That’s my new thing! When drinking at an Irish Pub, at some point, I’m going to insist that everything stop and everyone greet everyone around them!  See…with the right attitude, even I can extract value from going to church.  🙂

Pink-Head of the Week…
I have to say that this whole redhead thing is getting out of control. Seriously, I appreciate your continued submissions but I’m just never going to get to all of them.  Plus, we need to start thinking outside the box.  I mean, YES, she was a contender…

And I like the thinking behind, “three redheads are better than one”…

Particularly when they are just wearing an iPhone.

Uh… Are we sure the girl in the middle has red hair?

Anyway, we need to get creative here.  So when someone suggested that we make the pink-haired version of Kato, from Steamgirl.com, the hot chick of the week, I said YES!  But doesn’t that make her the pink-head of the week?

Eh no matta…

Here she is…

Steamgirl – Pinkhead of the Week

Well, that’s about it for today.  Maybe next week I’ll tell you about my recent trip to Washington D.C., where I got to meet with numerous congressmen and congresswomen, even a senator.  

Here’s the preview…
Washington is so screwed up.  Both parties have been hijacked. One by the far right and the other by the far left, while all the lemmings closer to the middle walk aimlessly off their party-platform cliff. It is seriously sad and scary that so many of these people believe whatever it is that they believe and want it to be their way or the highway. It doesn’t even make sense.  The government “shut-down” may be over but the gridlock has just begun.

But that’s enough for now.
I gotta run.  Chao, babies…

– Arch