Disneyland is expanding the number of restaurants where alcohol is served. What’s also interesting is the number of blogs that will help you locate those beverages! So we won’t here. It’s seems most of Disneyland’s restaurants offer something alcoholic so your odds are good of finding a drink without any help. Walt wouldn’t be happy but a lot of Buzzed Boomers who visit will be happier.
Boomer ladies…..How can you tell if your husband is dead?
The sex is the same, but you get to use the remote.
Happy Friday!
Attention Buzzed Boomer hippies! How about a battery-powered VW bus shaggin’-wagon to revive the glory days of your past? Despite no production for 20 years, the VW bus has retained its cult status right up to the present day and soon an updated version will grace North American streets. Rock ’n roll !
– Jet Cannon
Photo: Motor Trend
Olives are naturally packed with healthy monounsaturated fats, as well as antioxidants like vitamin E, which help fight disease-causing free radical damage in the body. But, if you’re watching your sodium intake, don’t eat too many. Furthermore, health experts don’t recommend serving your olives with a martini. But we’re not a health expert.
– Jet Cannon
Pretend you are on a raft in the middle of the ocean surrounded by sharks. You only have a one-day supply of water and harpoons. What do you do?
Stop pretending.
And get back to the beach! Scientific studies are finding there are real health benefits to either living at the beach or even just visiting. It can improve all around well-being. It lowers stress and can lift your mood. How? Possibly it’s because waves produce negative ions which can produce positive vibes. The U.S. Navy uses negative ion generators in submarines and on the bridges of ships to keep crews positive and alert.
So grab the sun-block and your cooler and head to the beach!
– Jet Cannon
Mt. St. Helens erupted on this day in 1980. Tragically, fifty-seven people died, 200 homes were destroyed, and 185 miles of road were damaged. All told, the blast resulted in over a billion dollars in damage.
Much of the terrain has recovered after being basically leveled, though the volcano remains active. Thus we celebrate with a Mt. St. Helens cocktail. There are many variations but this one is our favorite. All one needs is a Rainier beer, named after another volcanic mountain in Washington State, and Fireball cinnamon whiskey. How appropriate.
There is more than one way to consume this drink; one can:
What a blast!
– Jet Cannon
Here’s a tip kids. Write it down. When visiting a party city like Nashville or New Orleans, consider starting with a pub crawl tour. The right guide will be a wealth of information noting where to eat and drink and what to avoid. Meanwhile, you’ll learn the lay of the land and maybe pick up some history and interesting facts. We found D.J. Hayes at Ghost Adventures and he packed an enormous amount of fascinating history and useful tips into a couple hours. A self-described New Orleans Tour Guru…. Well he is just that. A Guru. He does Ghost Tours, Swamp Tours, Cemetery Tours, Voodoo Tours, Historical Tours and most importantly for Buzzed Boomers, Pub Crawls. Want to know where the best drinks and bars are? He knows cocktails. If in New Orleans, contact him at [email protected]. You’ll be glad you did, regardless of which tour you select.
Another reason we were so impressed with DJ? Let us share a quote. “Vodka is gin for children.” Couldn’t agree more.
– Jet Cannon
They say that during sex you burn off as many calories as running eight miles. Who the hell runs eight miles in 30 seconds?
Happy Friday!
Buzzed Boomer Senior Contributor Old Man Wrong is back describing a new-found skill with his usual wit and… wisdom.
Sew What
Ever try a sewing machine? A 13 yr-old of mine begged for one so went to Joann’s, went for it (cheap!), watched a couple chippie YouTube videos and…that was kinda it. She can thread needles like a champ but the actual sewing involved an actual machine, parts, tools, maybe stapling your pinkie to a metal plate. Not really her bag right now, so the machine went into storage.
I have hand-sewed a little over the years, buttons mainly. Not that hard: You get somebody to thread your needle – ok there’s a little threader thing, which works – and poke through the little holes in the button and go around and around 192 times (stabbing your finger 7), tie it off, snip snip, wahlah. Button on.
My mom did not teach her sons how to sew, whose did? Now and then you’d find her in front of the black Singer with the gold lettering, heavy as an anvil, gas pedal under the table. She worked out of a black fold-top box filled with mysterious old-world items like thimbles, needles and pins, pin-cushions, scissors of various lengths and blade types (I dug the zigzaggers aka pinking shears – maybe from the Pinking Shears Corp.? https://www.waltergrutchfield.net/pinking.htm), even the machine itself was stored inside. It smelled like 1898 in there. She mended clothes sometimes, I assume for amusement. I know she sewed a dress or two from ‘patterns’ for my sister, who pretty much hated them. It was the early 70’s and tasteful dresses were decidedly out. I never paid much attention to any of it.
~50 yrs on and the shower curtain is too long. Essential books can be banned, Russia can re-Sovietize, baseball can have a clock but the shower – that sanctum of peace and refuge – is sacred space. Respect it. Unlike phone chargers, shower curtain sizes are standard. All 2 of ‘em. One size for wide/bath, one size for stall. Same length. If your curtain’s too long it sits in the wet tub/tile post-la douche, and stuff grows under there. No good. How to shorten it? You can’t run a shower curtain through a table saw and even if you could, table saws don’t hem (yes, the curtain’s gotta be cloth; a cloth liner is also nice). Cut and sew is the only way. Hand sewing would take 18-24 months. But The Machine! Alright, feeling like maybe learning something new for once this decade, I set up the machine.
It’s a Singer but it weighs less than the cat. A lot of plastic on the outside. But the works are stainless steel. Everything fits. I’m thinking the inner parts have been the same for a very long time, pre-Boom even. I’ll cut to it: with machine sewing, the thing either sews, or you get a pile of gnarled thread and everything is stuck. I swore in the presence of my children, rethreading the +&*X<>#$ thing for the 10th time. I used the wrong scissors. But I got a taste of what golfers say they get when they hit one right. Tack-a-tack-a-tack-a-tack-a-tack-a-tack-a-tack-a-tack-a-tack-a-tack-a-tack-a. A seam.
Here’s some evidence of the project. But I can’t show you the beautiful curtain hanging so comfortably now, right above the tiles – it’s sacred.
-Old Man Wrong
Happy Birthday William Shatner, born March 22, 1931 in Montreal Quebec.
Let’s raise a glass!
“Romulan ale? Why Bones, you know this is illegal.”
“I only use it for medicinal purposes.“
– James T. Kirk and Leonard McCoy, 2285 (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
Photo: Modern Drunkard Magazine
Leave it to Men’s Health to test mattresses best for sex. Once again, we weren’t asked to be a tester.
“Have you ever tried moving around on a memory foam mattress? It’s like quicksand.”
What we’re told we want will “provide support, a little bit of spring, and a whole lot of durability” (emphasis ours).
Read the article here.
– Jet Cannon
An elderly gentleman, smartly dressed, hair well-groomed, expensive-looking suit, smelling slightly of Montblanc cologne, presenting a suave image, walks into a fancy cocktail lounge. Seated at the bar is an elderly looking lady.
The gentleman walks over, sits beside her, orders a Martini, takes a sip, turns to her, and says, “So tell me, do I come here often?”
– Jet Cannon
