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April 9, 2007
The Trip Out West Part XII: Westward Ho!
If you are just coming in to the story, you should really start at The Beginning. I'm not kidding. Some of you have been cheating and reading things out of order. You don't think I know, but I do. As an artist I must insist that this behavior stop. Would you just slap the needle down anywhere on Dark Side of The Moon? No! Because you know Pink Floyd had something in mind when they put that masterpiece together.
Is What's a Delmer Look Like any less a masterpiece?
I'm glad you're on board.
Anyway, when we last left off, Tom had sprung me from jail and we were headed out of Missouri.
And right into Kansas.
Kansas looks to be about 250 miles wide which should be about 4 hours of driving. I have no memory of it at all and I'm thinking we probably drove through it at night. When I was in France in 1976 there was a group of kids from Emporia, Kansas who were part of our tour. Dodge City's in Kansas and I think that's where Gunsmoke supposedly took place.
That's all I got. I'm sure Kansas is very nice. I didn't get arrested there but, then again, I'm not sure I got out of the car.
But let's move on.
Just on the other side of Kansas is Colorado and that's where we were heading. We'll arrive there tomorrow but I'd like to leave you with a song our buddy Kent wrote about the trip Tom and I were on.
Delmer and Tom didn't get too far
When they lost the wheel off their car,
They spun out, almost hit the rail,
Next thing you know ol' D's in jail,
Oh, oh, Colorado
Something something that rhymes with whit
Next thing they needed was a starter kit,
Ordinary white boys would have quit,
But these two boys gonna drive all night
Gonna buy another case of IC Light.
Oh, oh Colorado
We need to make note of two things in the song. First, the only thing I remember about the missing lyric is that it comes up in the song out of sequence with the way things happened. It came to me as I was typing that last line and has been added.
So we're left with this: Back when I was drinking Iron City Light Beer it came in a manlier looking bottle. That graphic makes it look like Zima. I'm sure it's still a manly beer — the words Iron and City, especially when used that close together reek of manliness.
Posted by delmer at April 9, 2007 3:27 PM
Comments
In my younger years my family went to Pittsburgh every July fourth to see my moms side of the family. They were die hard IC drinkers, even IC Light. Ah the memories....
Posted by: Mikeo at April 10, 2007 7:53 PM
