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On Beverage Choices

A man's beverage choices ...a rambling tour of the unseen and invisible. Mike Pearson 2024 Which beer brand is acceptable for the working class adventurer?...at the edge of possibilities, on the brink of self discovery. Beer divisions...beer types... sipping craft prototype inventions, or throwing empty Bud cans at stop signs? Which spirited booze with which beer...? working class choices. Those with feet planted and tense jaw muscles making a fuss about what someone else drinks...But...its not your tongue, not your mouth, not your belly. Not your call. Good try though...trying to make the world smaller and more tightly bound. Experiments with taste vs social safety Social safety ( the opinion of the group) Social status level vs freedom to choose a beverage. Don't make beverage choices outside of your social circle...unsafe. ridicule and exile for drinking the wrong beer.  It's so important to drink what the group approves of...to fit in...to be seen and invisible at the s...

The Glorious and very much gone...1970's

by Mike Pearson The 1970's man ..the game was on. The rules were flexible...lax or non existent.  The groove was on. We didn't know that of course..how could we?...it was just days going by. But..but.. as it turns out...in after thoughts and reflections...it was the unfiltered and straight cut ever loving 19 fucking 70's oh Lord yes it was. We burned fuel.... gas,diesel and jet fuel like it was candle wax on the alter of Jesus Christ himself. I'm pretty sure that sex and the pursuit of sex was the whole  point of the 19 fucking 70s thank you very much and please pass the prime rib special with mashed potatoes that the road diner is serving tonight..  and oh yes please please, pass the lemon meringue pie...  Cars still had carburetors, woman wore mini tight skirts, perfume and smoked gleefully. We drove motorized land yachts and loved every goddamned  minute of it and wished to God for more. Son of a magnificent bitch .we had Lynyrd Skynyrd and Carly Simon and Jo...