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Margaret Carlson accuses Reagan Admin in Firestone Deaths
On Saturday's Capitol Gang, Margaret Carlson said Reagan and his
"cut government"
administration is directly responsible for relaxed safety and
relaxed recall proceedures
that led to the 88 deaths from bad Firestone quality on Ford
Explorers.
Carlson said Carter instituted safety measures and recall protocols
that were dismantled
by the get-government's-boot-off-our-necks Reagan administration.
She closed with, "Somebody should be charged with criminal negligence."
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Margaret Carlson for Senate?
Memo to the vulgar Pigboy...
Smirk didn't call Adam Clymer "an ass," and you fucking
know it.
He called him "an asshole," which
is a whole different, more vulgar term.
You know all about "more vulgar," don't you, Pigboy?
Funny, when it comes to turd-licking, masturbating cigars, oral-anal
sex or the
extremely vulgar Gore-incest remarks, which
"Christian" Papax7 fails to condemn
the vulgar Pigboy doesn't have any trouble saying those
words.
Noooooooooooooooooooooo.
But when his boy gets caught, Rush changes the vulgar
slur to "ass,"
to give the brain-deads who didn't hear it a whole new slant.
Lying, Nazi whore...
I'd like to take him hunting.
I really would.
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Koresh, we can all afford to go to Las Vegas.
Let's go for Thanksgiving.
It wouldn't hurt to Click Here
Catching up with Kevin Cunningham cartoons
By the way, Cunningham is all over the place.
Remember when he was a struggling young no-name
artist?
If you put "cunninghamstrikes" in a search engine,
you get
a really long list of people who publish his excellent
work.
Oh, yeah, then there's this:
From: Skewthat@aol.com
Subject: Cunningham printer winner
I won the printer at cunninghamstrikes.com
and I owe you thanks for leading me there.
Any way keep up the great work and Have
a very nice day!
Skewthat
How 'bout that?
He gave away a digital camera, too.
So, here's to catching up with Mr. Prolific!
Impeachment Whores Cancel
Starr Fellatiofest/Circle Jerk
By JONATHAN
D. SALANT
The political action committee raising money
for the House impeachment whores
has canceled next month's gumming of former
special prosecutor Kenneth Starr.
A notice on the House Managers PAC Web site Friday said:
"We wish to honor Judge Starr for his
leadership in our attempt to reverse
the sacred American election process
of democracy, but at this time we feel we
could make more money after we lose
the House. Once we lose the House,
we'll tell Pigboy's believe-anything
sheep that Hillary is forcing homosexuality on
our school children and we'll get Hardon
Kenny to do a fund-raiser in 2001."
The fund-raising salute was designed to
help fill the coffers of the House-whore-PAC,
which was formed to financially aid the
13 House sons-of-bitches who prosecuted
Clinton's cock in his Senate trial.
Through June 30, the PAC had raised just $76,787
and had only $37,230 in the bank.
Tickets for the salute began at $3.
No reason for the cancellation was given, and calls to PAC officials were not returned Friday.
The salute was scheduled for Oct. 4, however,
and that turned out to be the week that Congress
hoped to adjourn so lawmakers could go
home and campaign.
One of the 13 House managers, Rep. Jim Rogan,
(R-Smugprickbastard) is at the
top of the DNC congressional hit list this
fall. He is being challenged by state senator
and longtime Law & Order actor Adam
Schiff in the most expensive House race in history.
Rogan polled just below Jeffery Dahmer's
corpse in a recent poll in a district that
went for Clinton in both 1992 and 1996.
Starr, the most partisan, sticky scumbag
to ever claim to be "independent," was a solicitor general
under former President Smirk-Daddy, and
was appointed to take over the Clinton investigation
by a three-judge panel of Carolina tobacco-whores
in August 1994 after Republican Bob Fiske
was unable to fabricate any meaningful
charges against the best president we've ever seen.
In September 1998, he presented a voluminous
and sexually explicit report to Congress about
Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky,
that Larry Flynt offered him a job writing porn
for his goddamn stroke mag.
Hardon Kenneth argued that he had found
"possible substantial and perhaps credible information
...that could constitute grounds for impeachment"
under the terms outlined by passing-for-white
Bob Barr (R-Baby-Killer) who drew up impeachment
papers a year before Monica.
In December, the House impeached Clinton
on two articles:
"Possessing a cock," and the more
serious "possessing a cock with intent to deliver."
The all-white Senate voted to acquit his
cock in February 1999.
The following October, Hardon Kenny resigned
his post, stating in a letter that his departure
was prompted by the "intense politicization"
of his work.
Translation: I'm the most hated ass-licker of the late 20th Century.
If Cheney didn't vote for Smirk, why should we?
Poor Smirk
He's making all these wild claims about the military that aren't
true.
For example, he's been whining about all the soldiers on food
stamps,
but there are fewer men on food stamps now than when his daddy
was president.
Cheney's been whining about the military being shrunk, but Wolf
the Whore
made him admit he lopped off the biggest chunk, 20 percent, while
he was
running the military for Smirk's daddy. You see, when the GOP
makes
huge cuts in the military, it's a "peace dividend." But if a
Democrats does it,
it's because he's on the payroll of the Chi-Coms and wants to
ruin America.
Do you get the feeling Scott Reed is running this campaign?
ha ha
http://www.negativespin.com/heart.htm
He deserves it.
In one hour Saturday, I heard Adam Clymer and Al Hunt both use
that line
on CNN that Cunningham wrote back waaaay on the fifth.
Kevin, if you want to sue them, I'll do it for you pro bono.
ha ha
BartCop's Emmy Predictions
From: MMCS911@aol.com
Subject: You're no better
As a Rush listener, I often disagree with
his viewpoints and feel as if he
focuses too much on the personal lives
of his rivals. However, while I know
you're trying to be humorous, what's with
the zinger on his weight and that
he's a nazi? Aren't you liberals supposed
to be "tolerant" and "compassionate?"
Being tolerant means to get along with something
or someone
of which you disagree. You do a poor job
of
that. How easy is it to be
tolerant of something of which you agree
with? Is that really tolerance?
And why the personal zinger?
Is that the compassion that liberals claim
to have for all living things?
In reality, you are no different from conservatives.
You have difficulty getting along with things
of which you disagree with and
are passionate about the things you agree
with. If your only arguments beyond
that are name calling, well, you haven't
made much of a contribution.
You've simply fed the diehard Rush people
more ammo.
Yeah, you nailed me.
I published 259 Issues of "Rush is fat."
I guess that's all we liberals have - name calling,
since you guys corner the market on truth and honesty.
So you're 26, and you can't get your mind off of that sexy little
number
that moved in the apartment right next door to yours.
Coming home one night, frustrated after your stupid blind date
stood you up,
you come around the corner to your apartment door and there she
is.
Your sexy new neighbor, and she look like this.
"Wow," you're thinking.
Check her out!
She invites you in for drinks.
She has the good tequila, too.
You sip a few shots, things are going well, then she invites you
into her bedroom
and she looks like this.
She gives you hours of hot, passionate monkey-sex.
She knows tricks that Paula Jones doesn't know.
Turns out she's the "F" of the century, and you can't believe your good luck.
Then, ...her mother shows up, ...calls the cops, ...and
has you arrested.
The next morning, you're at your bail hearing, and she looks
like this.
Yes, she's only seventeen, and you're going to prison for a long, long time.
Oldie but Goodie
BartCop in French?
Trip Report 9/2000
It had been 108 on Friday, and Mrs. BartCop wanted 
She must be made happy.
I tried to talk her into a Las Vegas trip, which would've been
lots cheaper,
but she checked the Vegas weather and it said Vegas was broiling
at 114 degrees.
Sounds like a joke from Blazing Saddles, but it was true.
We left super-early Saturday morning - headed west.
Thanks to the Republican Congress, the speed limit on Oklahoma
turnpikes is 75,
seems like Texas was 65 or 70, then New Mexico, who's governor
has admitted
to being a screaming coke monkey like Smirky, was back up to
75 MPH.
We made it to Santa Fe in no time.
We were told they were having some arts & crafts bullshit
deal in town,
so we panicked and pulled into the Motel 6 because their sign
said, "Vacancy."
Next time, we'll stay in those $37.50 motels with character
- places like:
The El Ray Inn
The Thunderbird
The Cottonwood Courts
The Desert Chateau
The Western Scene, which Mrs. BC liked the looks of.
The King's Best Court, made out of adobe.
I don't know if it was real adobe or Sears adobe, but
it looked real to me.
So we step out of her touring sedan in Santa Fe and it's 75 degrees
and windy.
I knew I was in for major bonus points with the boss.
The look of satisfaction on her face was money in the bank.
You married men know what I'm talking about.
Father Dan - you'll have to trust me.
ha ha
We made a run to Albertson's grocery store for supplies.
While she shopped, I cruised the Spirits Section - and
there it was...
Albertson's tequila!
It was, like, $6.95 for a gallon.
It was packaged in a goddamn Listerine bottle, you know - with
a grip -
and it had a giant orange label that said " T E Q U I L A. "
I thought I was going to fucking hurl - right there in the store!
OK, so we're all stocked, nothing to do now but start the party.
But before we could do that, she wanted to buy some fancy salsa,
and to get that,
we had to go to that super-snooty Coyote
Cafe.
You remember that place, right?
Yeah - that place.
They have two - one in Santa Fe and one in Las Vegas.
When we went to the one in Vegas it was f-ing closed,
because it was a Monday, and who'd ever want to eat or
drink on a Monday?
Siegfried and Roy were working Monday, but noooooooooooooo!
This is the same owner who produced the Rape
at Red Sage.
(Hey, I just noticed something.
I wrote that bit in 1998, and this year, Samuel Jackson
used my closing Red Sage
remarks, almost word-for-word, in the hit movie "Shaft."
It was the most memorable
line in the whole movie. Should I sue them?)
So, anyway, we go in their snooty store with the snooty prices
and she gets
a few jars of their salsa, which is pretty good, I must
admit.
But while we're there, she asks if I want to eat.
Sensing it was a mistake, I agreed to look at a menu, nothing
more.
We get upstairs (they are sooo snooty...) and the lady with the
$800 dress
and the $300 hairdo hands me two menus. I open it up and look
inside and
couldn't find any English words so I looked up to tell the lady,
"No, thanks,"
...and then,
...and then I saw ...them.
Mirrored shelves lined with dozens and dozens of
tequila bottles.
I said to Mrs. BartCop, "Aye Caramba! We're on vacation and I'm
thirsty!"
I told the snootress we were going to the bar.
Koresh, my heart was beating like I was that coward at rushonline.com
who worships Rush, but is too afraid to meet me in a friendly
debate.
Cowards and traitors make me sick.
We sat down at the bar and my eyes must've been bigger than Moesha's.
I said, "How many kinds of tequila you got?" and Cubby said,
"84."
I'm not sure, but I think I started to get an erection.
Cubby handed me a tequila list!
I knew right away there were two tequilas I had to try.
I ordered a shot of the Lapis
Anejo.
They sell this at my local spirits store, but it's got a $50 price
tag,
and if I can get Chinaco Anejo for
$32, there's no sense gambling with my $50
Cubby knew right away he wasn't dealing with Tommy Dimwit.
No Sirree, Bob!
Cubby knew right away I was a luxury tequila connisi..., uh...
a ....connesou,
Cubby knew right away he was dealing with someone who really
liked fine tequila!
Lapis Anejo Tequila 80
Proof
Bright gold.
Moderately full-bodied.
Flowers, dill, orange marmalade, vanilla.
Moderately rich texture, soft and delicate
with an unctuous palate.
Nice build up of succulent flavors interspersed
with lovely, sweet floral fragrances.
Well-knit and pretty.
You can tell I didn't write that.
I don't use adjectives like unctuous, lovely
or pretty to describe fine tequila.
To have something with which to compare, I ordered a shot of
Casa
Noble, too.
Mrs. BartCop wimped out, as usual, and got a margarita, this being
a rare chance
to enjoy her favorite, the Corralejo
Reposado.
The verdict?
First, I tried the Lapis.
Of course, I sipped just a few drops.
Very, very smooth, maybe smoother than the Chinaco
Anejo.
Jesus, it was smooth.
Then, a few drops of the Casa Noble.
Oh, Christ, it was smoother than the Lapis, and
smoother than the Chinaco.
(In retro, you can't say that without a side-by-side taste test.)
I insisted Mrs. BartCop try a sip.
She said, "No," as always, but I convinced her it was very smooth
and reminded her she could always chase it with her Corralejo
margarita.
She took a sip of each and said, "That's so smooth, it doesn't
taste like alcohol."
She has that ability.
I can go on and on about something for 5 minutes, then she'll
say,
"You mean X and Y."
She can take any subject and distill it into less than ten words.
And her point was true and well-taken.
I learned a lesson.
Tequila may get smoother than Chinaco, but is that
a good thing?
If the tequila is so well-made and filtered that there's no bite
at all - is that good?
Do you want straight liquor to taste like Mountain Dew?
Bottom line, tests were inconclusive, and would require
further
research.
Since they're both available in K-Drag, a follow-up isn't far
away.
I need to move on with the story, cause I could do another 1,000
words
on that half-hour we spent at the snooty-snooty restaurant.
As we were leaving, we walked by the "food's up" counter, and
I gotta say one thing:
The food at this place looks like a million damn dollars.
If this crap had English subtitles, I might try some, but I've
read those horror stories from
France where that "yummy dish" turned out to be smashed and home-fried
bird fetus.
Not me.
Here we are in goddamn Santa Fe and I can't find "beef enchiladas"
on the fancy menu
made of raw silk and caligraphy at the fancy-pants restaurant?
Oh - by the way - those goddamn shots were $13 each.
I asked Cubby if I could buy half-shots so I could try more varieties,
like in Vegas,
which is a reasonable request with 84 different brands of luxury
tequila.
Wait, I'm sorry.
They had 80 luxury tequilas and 4 kinds of Cuervo.
(I didn't see any Albertson's tequila.)
He asked, but his snooty boss gave him a Cheney-like snear and said, "No!"
So we went next door to the bourgeiose Mexican Restaurant,
The Blue Corn.
We each had a slight buzz.
Mrs. BC said her Corralejo margarita went right
to her head, and my twin shots
made themselves known, but it's not my first time on the merry-go-round.
We ordered some normal, familiar food and I asked to see their
tequila list.
Funny, Cubby turns the menu on it's back and there was the tequila
- 9 kinds.
None of them looked too good to me, so I ordered the most expensive
shot
which was the Centinela brand.
Pardon my French, but it was fucking turpentine.
How dare they serve that swill in a snooty town like Santa Fe?
Mrs. BartCop asked how it was, so I devilishly invited her to
take a sip.
She took a tiny sip.
The look she gave me was probably very similar to the one Hillary
gave Bill
when he explained to her what the meaning of the word "is" was.
If you ever get a chance to try Centinela tequila,
run away from it.
It says "100 percent agave" on the bottle, but it made me want
to blow chunks.
But,
I have a real 
for you.
I stumbled onto this accidentally, but it worked, and if you think
about it,
it'll work in just about every damn restaurant in America.
The service we were getting was slow-to-medium.
After I did the shot of turpentine, I jotted down a few thoughts
in my little
Santa Fe Hemp Shop
what's-that-called, wire-rimmed mini-memo notebook.
Sidebar:
We visited Santa Fe last
year in October, see Volume
150 - October
This sounds funny, but I
mentioned the Santa Fe Hemp Shop in Vol 150,
and a few days or weeks later,
the head dude there sent me e-mail saying
he appreciated the mention.
I mean, what are the odds that some small business
owner in Santa Fe would have
ever heard of the BartCop treehouse?
Anyway, as we walked in front
of his shop this year, I thought about going inside
and saying hello, but I didn't
want to come off like some bullshit celebrity.
I didn't remember the owner's
name because my harddrive crashed with all
my old e-mail. so I would've
had to walk in and say, "Hi, I'm BartCop,"
and if the counter dude had
looked up and me and said, "So, who gives a fuck?"
I'd be more crushed than
old Smirky's gonna be on November 8th.
Anyway, the waitress sees me writing in my lil' hemp notebook,
and she figured maybe I was some kind of restaurant
critic!
ha ha
All of a sudden it was, "Can I get you some more chips?"
And, "You need another shot of turpentine, Sir?"
ha ha
Trust me - do that.
Next time you go to a fancy restaurant, stop at the Kum-and-Go
(Swear to Koresh, that's a convenience store in Leadville, Colorado)
and get a lil' spiral notebook, and when you see Cubby coming
your way,
whip it out and and scribble something mean about him in the
lil' book.
I've never seen anything this cheap work so well!
Whoops - I did it again.
I'll be 2,000 words into this story and still be on the first
hour of our trip,
so I'd better move on.
Oh, this means nothing, but Santa Fe is chock-full of SUVs.
I'm not talking about Blazers and Broncos, either.
I'm talking those massive Toyota Landcruiser monsters, and those
massive Navigators
and Mitsubishi whatevers. Koresh, these things are mobile
fucking homes.
And somehow, they snootiest cars had alllllllll the good parking
places.
Good thing the Leninist/Stalinist/Socialist parking lot was open.
Koresh, they only wanted two bucks for parking.
I would've paid ten or twelve, like when you're going to see
U2 or the Cardinals,
but all they wanted was two measely bucks.
I guess that's why the Berlin wall fell.
Went back to the Motel 6 and watched Random Hearts on HBO.
How in the world did Harrison Ford get rooked into this donkey?
I mean, you take away Kristin Scott Thomas's fantastic visual
and you've got nothing.
Meow!
You know I have this thing about smart women.
Not only was she smart, she was proper.
Well, except for the times she was tearing can't-act's clothes
off.
If it hadn't been for her, that channel would've been more switched
than Richard Pryor's kid's ass after he broke the lamp.
Look, I don't want to get a mountain of hate mail, because I already
have stalkers,
and I don't need any more enemies, but Harrison Ford can't act.
He can't act at all.
I like him - Indiana Jones, Air Force One, Star Wars - but
he can't act.
He can't even act a two on the scale.
He acts so bad, Tom Cruise can out-act him.
He was particularly unbelieveable in Random Hearts.
He's got the worst smirk in all of Hollywood.
Someone says something nice about him and his face goes blank
and he does this goofy smirk like a kid who just mowed your lawn.
Maybe that's his charm, that he acts so clumsily, that you assume
it's intentional
and he's playing a guy who clumsily smirks a lot.
It was a stupid movie, with an ever more stupid
ending.
Koresh, must be tens of millions more better writers than me,
but why aren't some of them in Hollywood writing Harrison Ford
movies?
Who are these Joe Esterhaus bullshit artists who get hired to
write shit?
Are they all the nephews of studio execs?
On the other hand, Harrison Ford is a helicopter pilot and recently
plucked
a sick lady off of the Teton Mountain Range where he lives -
seriously.
Since he flies his own chopper, he signed up with the Teton Rescue
dudes
and if they ever need a chopper and he's sober, they call him
and he flies the
damn thing and last month he pulled a sick lady and a friend
off the mountain.
I read several accounts of the story.
The lady was sick or it suddenly turned freezing or something
and this lady thinks
she may be about to die and here comes Hans Solo in his private
helicopter.
The lady said she threw up on his shoes, or something, and felt
bad that this
famous movie icon came to her rescue and she hurled chunks on
his shoes.
...but it was a really stupid movie.
Don't get me started, but we also rented It's the Rage
and The Florentino.
It's the Rage starred Gary Sinise, one of the best actors
in Hollywood history,
and 5 or 6 other real actors, and it was worse than Random
Hearts.
The Florentino starred Michael Masden and Chris Penn, both
from Reservior Dogs,
plus Rocky's brother Burt Young and Luke Perry and Mary Stewart
Masterson,
who looks f-ing awesome with red hair, but the movie totally
blew donkey!
And I was 30 minutes at the video store searching for something
good!
Sidebar:
When I went to rent the movie, Cubby asked,
"Is your card on file with us?"
Like most things in life, I said, "It depends
on the meaning of the word 'is.'"
I told him I rented movies from there years
ago, but I forget when.
He switched to the "old" computer and brought
up "BartCop."
He said I rented some movies on Sept 10,
1997.
I remember that - do you?
It was Volume 103 - Please, Please, Get Up Off Your Knees
That was the issue where Rush kept making
Mrs. BartCop sick by talking about
the yellow ooze that seeped from his goddamn
infected toes, and he asked listeners
to call in with their infected toe stories.
Remember that?
The next morning, we headed north towards Rancho de Chimayo.
On the road, we saw this.
Well, we had to stop for some chilies!
I think they look cool - we hang them in the Withdrawing Room
at BartCop Manor.
I like the way the sun lights them thru the stained glass windows,
plus,
it seems to work like catnip for the kitties.
Ain't nothin' the kitties like better than making the chilies
swing.
Oh!
What's that sign say?
SWEET CORN?
What the hell, four ears of Colorado sweet corn for a buck?
Why not?
I threw the chilies and the corn in the back seat and we proceeded
to Rancho de Chimayo.
It's a Bed & Breakfast/Restaurant.
Timing-wise, we couldn't stay, but we thought we'd do lunch.
I checked their cantina and saw Herradura
tequila and a coupla others,
so we decided to punish them and continue our journey without
spending any money.
So we headed North to southern Colorado.
If you look very hard, you can see Mt. Lindsey.
By the way, my new toy worked great.
I mentioned this before, I bought a Walkman-type player that
plays CDR MP3s.
For weeks, I've been downloading old music and comedy stuff like
Bill Hicks
and Sam Kinison and even Dennis Miller has his "I Rant, Therefore
I Am" on audio,
so we had dozens of hours of fun to listen to while we did the
scenery.
Before I forget it, let me
say this:
If you consider me a comic,
I'm the cleanest damn comic this side of Bill Cosby.
Every comedy bit we heard
was loaded with much darker words than you read on bartcop.com.
I should be attacked by First-Amendment
enthusiasts for working too clean.
After a while, we came upon the Great Sand Dunes Natrional
Monument.
Have you heard about this place?
Near Alamosa, Colorado, they have miles of sand dunes.
So we continued driving north until the sun started going down.
We found ourselves in Buena Vista. Colorado.
Uh-Oh, the town was lousy with No Vacancy signs.
Luckily, we got a room at a rat-hole called "Mountain View Motel."
Yeah, it had a view of the mountains, all right.
In Central Colorado, the goddamn prison inmates have a mountain
view, OK?
This place was a hole, and they charged me $55.
(Usually you can get a rat-hole out west for $35)
Mrs. BartCop started to voice an objection to the rat-hole, but
I reminded her that
I wanted to put her in the fabulous Rio
Suites Resort and Casino for the week,
so that just proves that defense will always beat a good offense.
Next time we're here, we'll stay at the Win-Mar cabins, 20 miles
north.
Next morning, driving north, we hit Colorado 82, and hang a left.
Suddenly, we're in Twin Lakes, Colorado.
Check this out.
The water is bluer than the burn mark on Smirk's ass from the
Yale branding.
Y'know, this'd make a great place to burn a thin fattie.
Yeah, that would be reeeeal nice.
Staring at the lake, watching the clouds, the 70-degree wind
howling...
...but that would be wrong!!!
I was so close to Heaven, I thought I saw Betty Bowers.
But I had to keep my head, because we were heading for Independence
Pass.
Sidebar:
In 1978, when I was just a kid, my crazy,
crazy boss from India, Mukesh, took us to
Colorado for the very first time. We'd
never been on any real vacation before,
St. Louis and Dallas and stuff, but not
out west. But he was a world-traveler
and adventurer, and semi-wealthy, so he
suggested the three of us run to Colorado
for Christmas, 1978, and we did.
We drove thru Kansas to Colorado Springs,
then on towards Aspen.
(Use your head - you have the clues.
It's Christmas, December 25th, and we're
driving towards Independence Pass.
Sure, we saw the signs that said, "Road
Closed for winter," but I was even more
stupid then than I am now, and since I'd
been driving for ten hours, Crazy Mu
was at the wheel of Mrs. BartCop's touring
sedan.
Have you ever ridden in a car with a driver
from India?
O....My.....God!
It's all true, every - fucking - word.
I'd rather ride with Henri Paul in a Mercedes
owned by Dodi Fayed
than spend another minute in a car driven
by a native of India.
If that makes me a racist, then I'm racist.
But you ride in a car with Mukesh
or one of his brothers and see if you don't
become a racist, too.
We came around a curve and saw about 30
feet of snow piled up on the highway.
Crazy Mu knows he has to turn around -
so he pulls off the road - in the snow.
The car sunk a foot right away. We were
stuck, and the more we tried to escape,
the deeper we went and we were sliding
even farther away from the road.
Here we were, stuck in the snow in the middle
of Koresh-knows-where
and we have to abandon the now-useless
touring sedan.
Maybe there is a God, because we walked
less than a mile and saw this:
We knocked on the door and said, "We're
stuck, is there anything you can do?"
The dude says, "No problem, I have a winch
on by Jeep."
He pulled the car onto the highway in minutes.
We asked him if he'd accept money, and
he said no, so we gave him a case of beer.
This time, I thought about knocking on
the door to say thanks again, but that was
22 years ago, and it just didn't seem like
a good idea.
Looking up as we drove past, we saw this sign on the property:
Kinda spooky, eh?
Mrs. BartCop is a big Twin Peak's fan.
She knows when the owls are watching...
More miles of climbing in altitude.
Pretty soon, the road a mile behind us looked like this:
Denver is the Mile High City, and we were waaaaay higher
than that.
And the road turned wimpy on us, too.
That drop-off to the left?
It's a mile to the valley below.
If you see guard rails on this road, you're probably voting for
Smirk,
Higher and higher we go.
You know, at this altitude, if someone was to, ...Oh, ...I dunno,
...let's say
snort a little cocaine back in the 80's, I'll bet your nose
would bleed,
but that's a hypothetical - so we'll move ahead.
Higher and higher we got, until the trees started to diappear.
One thing that was cool, tho...
These little chipmunks - I don't have a good picture - they're
about
six inches plus the tail, and they have these black and white
racing stripes.
They're so cute!
They were running in front of us, scampering across the road
in front of us,
but you'll never see one as roadkill - they're just too damn
fast.
As we got closer to the continental divide, trees could no longer exist.
Coming down, the trees returned, but they were different:
Aspens - nothing but - for miles and miles.
The aspen trees hadn't turned yet, but there were patches of
bursts of
bright-yellow aspen quakers. That's something you should see
before you die.
One aspen tree can have 10,000 quaking leaves.
There were so many aspen trees, I'm surprised they don't name a town after 'em.
Well, look here!
It's a town called "Aspen."
Geez, and I thought they were snooty in Santa Fe.
I asked Tour Boy where I could check my e-mail, and he said
"Go to Aspen Drugstore," so I did.
I went in and asked to use the computer.
They said I had to talk to the pharmacist.
OK - I can do that.
I walk back to the pharmacist and ask if I can log on and she
says to me,
"Sir, you'd need five dollars for a half hour."
Son-of-a-bitch!
This always happens to me - wherever I go.
This lady took one look at me and warned me that a whopping $5
charge
was heading straight for me, and I'd better watch out, or it
might hit me!
I told the snooty pharmacist I could, indeed, afford the five
dollars,
and I paid her with hundred just to prove my point.
Slut.
After I surfed a bit, (talked to Brainsmasher who was surfing
the BC guestbook)
we went searching for a restroom. You see, in Aspen, the beautiful
people don't
use bathrooms, but us dumb Okies don't have much choice.
Every shop had a sign that said, "No Public Restrooms - Asshole!"
We thought about getting a hotel, just to use a restroom.
We went back to the tourist kiosk and I talked to Cubby.
He said he could get us a room at the "Jerome" for only $125,
and a snappy-ass room for only $145.
He showed me their website.
http://www.hoteljerome.com/rooms.html
Christ, look at that golf course.
Oh, my heart!
Look at these goddamn prices!
$2200 for the fancy room?
ha ha
Their prices are so goddamn high, they call them, "tariffs."
That sounds like a Democratic trick, doesn't it?
For $2200 dollars a night you should get a room and oral
sex from Demi Moore.
(Her prices are dropping as she gets older...)
We almost agreed to pay the $125 to use the restroom, then I saw
it!
The Aspen Hard Rock Cafe!
Saved!
We walked in like Marc Perkel at the Susan McDougal fund-raiser.
I didn't want to eat there, but we had to buy something or they'd
figure we were
illegal gutterbums just escaped from the goddamn chain gang,
....and then I saw it!!
At the Hard Rock bar, they had Corralejo.
The bottle's easy to spot in a bar - it's two feet tall!
"A shot for me and a margarita for the Mrs, and where's the restroom?"
ha ha
On a roll!
But the best was yet to come.
The heavily-tattooed bartendress asked me if I wanted my shot
of Corralejo
in a take-home Hard Rock Cafe shotglass.
I asked what that would run me, and she said,
"Well, the Corralejo is $3.50, but the shotglass is free."
Huh?
Corralejo is only $3.50 a shot?
The tattooed lady didn't know what she was pouring.
$3.50?
I'll bet tap water on ice costs $3.50 at the Aspen Hard Rock Cafe!
I wished we could've taken advantage of her stupidity, but I
had to negotiate
Independence Pass again, and that's not something you want to
do after making
a bar pay for pricing their luxury tequila like it was 1939.
Like idiots, we decided to eat there.
She got a leather-like French Dip sandwich, and I got the "hand-torn"
pig sandwich.
The only other thing we had to do before leaving town was to check out the Maroon Bells.
Ain't that something?
They say God was sober the day He made the Bells.
This little valley is smaller than Meteor Crater.
It's a tiny bowl with a crystal-clear lake.
It's gorgeous.
There's a horror story about the Maroon Bells.
In 1987, I found out the drummer for the best band that ever
played at the Hard Rock Island
was 18, and that would put Ol' BartCop in the K-Drag pokey if
a cop came in, so my staff
suggested I leave town to avoid prosecution, so me & Mrs
BartCop went to Aspen.
We went to the Bells ...and ...I was ...drinking ...Wild Turkey
101.
One thing led to another, and the wind blew my lucky swordfish
hat into the stream,
and when I dove for it - I fell in. Let me guarantee you
in all seriousness, Swear to Koresh,
nothing but liquid helium is colder than fast-moving liquid melted
snow.
I think the only other time I used those particular words was
on March 10th, 2000
when I kicked the goddamn chair and broke my little toe.
That bastard still hurts,
and it's been 6 months.
(Moment of silence for the pain)
Yeah, there are two horror stories to be
told about Wild Turkey 101.
The other one was Part II of my 1998 visit to the
White House that never got written.
I've heard the claim that the Maroon Bells are the
most photographed peaks in America
but you know Britney Spears' breasts are really using up more
film.
Then I had another great idea:
I wonder how well the liquor stores are stocked in Snoot Central?
We drove over to Grape and Grain Liquors.
Good name, isn't it?
We went in and saw they had a small selection of fine tequila.
The usual suspects, Herradura, Wabo Cabo,
and, to their credit, the Corralejo,
but nothing I needed to spend money on since I had a two-pack
of God's Nectar
in the back seat of the touring sedan.
As we were leaving the attendent wisely asked, "Find everything
OK?"
I told him I was searching for luxury tequila, so he motioned
me back.
He reached behind the counter and pulled this out.
It was called Tequila Romance.
I know you can't see it clearly, but there are two kinds of tequila
in this one bottle.
The Romance Reposado was on the "outside," and
the Romance Anejo is in those
little round darker balls you may or may not be able to see.
This bottle was $127.80.
But BartCop!
But BartCop!
If there are two kinds of $127 fine luxury tequila in that bottle, how do you pour it?
Two spouts, of course.
The rich will always find a way to spend more money.
So we gave Aspen a final wave goodbye.
Let me try an experiment:
The road we were on was so high, check this reverse-zoom out:
We were higher than Tommy Lee on his birthday.
Eventually, we got far enough north to hit I-70.
I-70 is known for it's tunnels.
Yeah, there's no reason to be nervous about being helpless and
trapped
under 45,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons of Rocky Mountain.
We come out, and see a damn steam train, chugging thru the douglas firs.
Check out the whistle on this bad boy!
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It was windier than a mother-effer.
It's 5:55 AM CDT.
I've been writing in the treehouse since Capitol Gang went off
twelve hours ago.
I better take a break.
There's a Part II to this story that'll be posted Sunday.
Tim the Whore and the others are about to come on,
but I don't have the strength to hit the VCR buttons
so I'll just catch the replay.
Part II isn't any better, it's just more of the same..
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