Release the Kraken!

My latest love affair is with rum, and as such, I have recently remembered an old line from a song. Written by the great Ray Davies, it was actually a rumble against taxation, and just what the British government was doing. And as he was moaning about needing to take exile and avoid the poisonous rates, he wrote this...
"Goodbye champagne and the caviar set, I wanna slum and drink all of the rum I can get, I'm away, I'm away in a foreign land"

I'd link to it, but I'm afraid it is a little too obscure for You Tube. A sample from Amazon, perhaps?

Anyway, if you care to download the song, it's only 99 cents, and is, if nothing else, a cheery finger poppin' tune. And you can enjoy it over a mojito, rum and coke, or god bless us all, a little egg nog with rum. Go about 50-50 for diet purposes, eh?

Something to smile about

Damon Gough, better known as 'Badly Drawn Boy' has to have the market cornered on whimsy. The tunes bounce, the words are playful, I mean, how brilliant is "Ipso facto, using up your oxygen, you know I'm shallow, calling out for extra help ,you've got to let me in or let me out" with the little 'dee doo dee dee" keyboard bits. If this song can't make you smile, you really are just a miserable so and so.
Something To Talk About


And as long as I'm enjoying that, I have to line up Paul Carrack doing "I Need You". One of the cleverest little choruses going..."I need you like a shark needs to shoot" Never fails to make me grin.

Hazy Shade Of Winter

Just in time for the winter weather, ladies and gentlemen, the bar is OPEN! It has been fully restocked, it now features the telescoping tv, the sound is great, the furniture comfy, and the fireplace inviting.
If I haven't seen you in awhile stop in for a drink, if I have seen you recently and you want to stop in anyway, bring something to eat will ya, I got the booze!

Egg noggily yours,
Me