Question: How full is your car?
Answer: I don’t know, ask Elizabeth Edwards.
Mom always asks this, and it is always true. I over-pack. I am always prepared – one of two lessons I took from my days as a Boy Scout, that and on time is five minutes early.
The cooler is iced, directions are printed and bound, glasses are cleaned, iPod updated, Winkler has his seatbelt on* and that means that I am ready to go. My route takes me from Phoenix to El Paso to Dallas to Louisville to Kansas City to Denver and, sadly, back to Phoenix. I will update when I can, I will miss you very much, and I look forward to seeing you all in about a week. In mean time please stop reading or watching news that deals with Paris Hilton and feel free to ignore the presidential election, it is a year premature.
And Elizabeth Edwards, honey, you’re right. We need an exit strategy: your feet from your mouth and then your head from your ass. Thank you for elevating the political discourse by first using other people’s lesbian daughters, your dead son, your cancer, and your weight as campaign props but now you went and made Ann Coulter look like the reasonable adult. If you have any friends besides Bill O’Reilly at the end of the day I will be amazed. You and your husband are so slimy you make the Clintons (and the Bushes) look like acolytes. Thank you, with Michael Moore apparently sitting this one out (or is he stuck in that chair?) you have managed to sink the left before the election season has even begun.
*Winkler gets strapped in or Emily will insist on a car seat. When we abscond to Rotterdam we will insist he be listed on the plane’s manifest as a lap child.
That is quite a trip to do in a week...
Posted by: PhilosopherP | Thursday, 28 June 2007 at 06:31 AM
Wow Chris! You had two of the three lessons I took back from Boy Scouts.
1. Always Be Prepared.
2. To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late.
3. Don't share a tent with the Scout Master regardless of HOW rained out your tent was.
Posted by: Stan | Thursday, 28 June 2007 at 01:27 PM
Is Michael Moore stuck in a chair? BWAAAAHHHHHAAAAHHHHAAAAAHHHAAAA
:-D I roared at that one!
Posted by: liz | Thursday, 28 June 2007 at 08:02 PM
Not that we should make fun of fat people.
Posted by: liz | Thursday, 28 June 2007 at 08:03 PM
Have a wonderful trip!
Posted by: Yvonne | Friday, 29 June 2007 at 08:03 AM
Not really apropos of this blog entry, but the kind of thing you might blog about: First, there were the post boxes painted to look like R2D2, now, there are the Seven-Eleven stores made up to look like Kwik-E-Marts from the Simpsons. You realize what is next, don't you? Cash-strapped public schools remodeled to look like Hogwarts. I think you should send in your application now.
Posted by: Alex V | Monday, 02 July 2007 at 11:08 PM
It was so fun seeing you yesterday! Carl says your safe and if you need a place to crash...er wrong choice of words... SLEEP on your way back to Phoenix that you can stay at Hotel Kell :)
Posted by: Kellbell | Tuesday, 03 July 2007 at 08:00 AM
Alex V... Your suggestion for Hogwarts themed schools is f-ing brilliant.
Posted by: Stan | Tuesday, 03 July 2007 at 03:17 PM