The Goat Pen

I liked it. Solid B.

Thanks man..

Here are some pretty cool time lapse videos...

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3238/expl ... splacement

Anyone have a new favorite golfer? Tiger and Phil are the last of the Mohicans. I’m going to stop watching in a year or two if someone else doesn’t come along.

This gave me a boner this morning.

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Was that Sonny Liston's grandfather?

A friend is driving from NC to Montana, she stayed in Clarksville, TN last night, I suggested she drive up The Land b/w the Lakes, which she is doing now...

She's heading to Paducah to see the confluence of the Tennessee and Ohio rivers. Then to Cairo to see the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi...

Cairo has some stories

its a ghost town now essentially

to get there between LBL and Cairo, she'll drive by about mile from where I grew up, if she wants a lunch stop, she could try Leighs Bar B Q in Future City, KY. My dad built it.

Its nothing specially really, just a little 3 generation BBQ stand on the side of the road. The man running it now is a wannabe wrestler who goes by the name of the Manitoba Maniac



on second thought, she should probably just pass on by

She just went thru Possum Trot...

She just said "there sure are a lot of cops in Kentucky"...

She's fixin to drive thru Woodville Kevil...

Tell her they ain't all real ones.

She said you were right about Cairo being a ghost town. She did stop at Fort Defiance and got out to gaze at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers...

Cairo is featured in the Neil Gaiman novel American Gods.

Tybee is gonna be jumpin tonight

I had a cousin visiting us from California back around '75. He decided he wanted to see the area and unfortunately he started having chest pains around Cairo. He pulled into someone's driveway and asked for help, they took him to the hospital, the hospital called us and my dad had to go get him.

Why I don't know but Dad decided to take me along. I remember dad getting his .38 and a box of shells in the car. When we got outside of Cairo, he took the gun out and put it in his lap.

a few minutes later, I understood why - between that moment and the hospital, I saw two different gangs on the streets. One was in a circle surrounding a guy and beating him up, the second a few blocks away was chasing someone down the sidewalk intending to do the same. I remember watching out of the window of our car and Dad telling me not to look, but of course I did anyways.

Had they even come near the car, the old man would have shot as many of them as he could, I have no reservations about saying that.

By the mid 80's - the hospital and grocery stores were gone, by the 90's everything but a Ford dealership and a couple of auto shops had gone. The appeal of Cairo to us was that was the closest place that sold beer on Sundays, but you never had to drive into Cairo, as soon as you crossed the state line , there was a liquor store and fireworks stand. For a few months, there was also a nightclub that was well known for not checking IDs and selling whatever you wanted. A girl my friend was dating would go there with friends and that place was probably the start of her addiction issues. I think it was called King Tuts

Last time I went, which was about a year ago - I went there on purpose to see how bad it had become, there was a single bar-b-q- place and the Ford dealership

If only that wise and sageful common sense were passed down to you.