MONDAY NIGHT OPEN THREAD
Tonight's theme is... (spins random theme generator)... places you want to go once we can start going places again.
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Tonight's theme is... (spins random theme generator)... places you want to go once we can start going places again.
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Posted by: Kindle | May 25, 2020 at 05:06 PM
I'm going to Disney World!
Posted by: nursecindy | May 25, 2020 at 05:10 PM
San Diego Zoo.
Posted by: klezmerphan | May 25, 2020 at 05:11 PM
Back to my favorite brewery's taproom. Which as of two days ago, we can now do. And I have.
Posted by: Rod Nunley | May 25, 2020 at 05:13 PM
With the new world order now carefully in place, back to work this Thurs, Fri and Sat.
Posted by: man tom | May 25, 2020 at 05:19 PM
...CLICK, ..CLICK!, CLICK! ...And the pointer stops on the space labeled 'HOME', Ooh!! Sorry, Another bankrupt, so please hand over those prize-cards, Thank-you, re-apply your mask, Thank-you, and go stand under the hand-sanitizer shower for 20 seconds, Thank-you!! ..Ohh, we're almost out of time, be sure & tune in for tomorrow's episode of "WHERE THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING?!?!?"
Posted by: cfjk | May 25, 2020 at 05:22 PM
Sunny Isles Beach, 1959, The Rascal House, for breakfast.
Posted by: cfjk | May 25, 2020 at 05:28 PM
I've never been to me. Wait, no .. that's the only place I have been for the past umpty-ump days. You mean there are still other places?
Posted by: MOTW | May 25, 2020 at 05:30 PM
To quote Liz Yellow-Sour-Fruit "I want to go to there!"
Posted by: cfjk | May 25, 2020 at 05:37 PM
I want to go to a restaurant with my friends
Posted by: Sam | May 25, 2020 at 06:15 PM
Roadtrip. Anywhere. To be able to go inside a restaurant and sit down and have something to eat before getting back on the road.
Posted by: wanderer2575 | May 25, 2020 at 06:17 PM
A bar, any bar, with my buddies.
Posted by: just some guy | May 25, 2020 at 06:19 PM
If I don’t get a haircut soon, a combover or a mullet is on the table
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | May 25, 2020 at 06:27 PM
I want to feel like Captain Kirk when he took the Enterprise out for the last time under his command:
"Where to, Captain?"
"Second star to the right and straight on until morning."
Posted by: Le Petomane | May 25, 2020 at 07:06 PM
I want to drive across the California desert, listening to The Eagles on the CD player, and arrive in Palm Springs just before sunset.
Posted by: PirateBoy | May 25, 2020 at 07:33 PM
The "Mucky Duck" in Houston, "Modern pub/concert venue featuring diverse acts (from rock to country), beer, wine & eclectic bites". Some great acts like The Austin Lounge Lizards playing songs like "Progenitorivox (The Drugs I Need)":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2OwmhnymdY
Or Hayes Carll - She Left Me For Jesus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhkHG-oKCEU&t=147s
Or Robbie Fulks: She Took A Lot Of Pills (And Died)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vscFdelmmo
Or the Red Elvises - I Wanna See You Belly Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PDdhDsX2QE
Todd Snider used to play there, but he's moved up to venues that seat more than a couple of hundred.
Posted by: Steve K. | May 25, 2020 at 07:56 PM
The only shopping I have missed, and perhaps I should be ashamed of this, is entirely based on thrift stores. I'm talking Salvation Army and the like. I just love the hunt: for clothes, for appliances, for all sorts of decorative crap I don't need. And the books! I have bought so many books, saving all sorts of cash that would otherwise go to exorbitantly wealthy wri ... er, I always buy Mister Barry's books brand new, and marked up for extra author's commission by my personal and adamant request.
Posted by: Craig magee | May 25, 2020 at 08:16 PM
@Craig magee - Good save!
(Thrift stores used to be my downfall, too. Now I have enough excess crap to stock five of them. "Spring cleaning" to commence immediately.)
Posted by: klezmerphan | May 25, 2020 at 08:20 PM
Amici's, on Santa Cruz Avenue, big plate of lemon chicken wings and all my buddies around me.
After that??
Anywhere but here!
Posted by: veee | May 25, 2020 at 08:23 PM
I'll go with all y'all who wanna go "with the radio blastin' and cruisin' just as fast as we can now..." to the used book store, then the bar to sip brews and shoot $hit. Maybe then a baseball game, then back to the bar.
Posted by: pogo | May 25, 2020 at 08:34 PM
I want to be able to safely visit my daughter in Florida who is having a baby (our first grandkid) later this summer.
Posted by: staticjoeage | May 25, 2020 at 09:05 PM
I'd like to go buy some (make that a lot of) real beer, take it to Dave's place and drink it!
Posted by: Mike Smith | May 25, 2020 at 09:13 PM
Flathead County. For real. It’s incredible.
Posted by: MikeinJersey | May 25, 2020 at 09:30 PM
Key West. So I can prove to my wife that I haven't turned into the craziest person in the country during the lockdown....
Posted by: Trent | May 25, 2020 at 09:32 PM
@MikeinJersey - I'm in, road trip! I nominate you to drive the Geezer bus for us.
Posted by: klezmerphan | May 25, 2020 at 09:33 PM
Out.
Posted by: Steve (The 24 Guy) | May 25, 2020 at 09:45 PM
Salty Dawg Bar on the Homer Spit in Alaska. I love talking to the fishermen and ask for their best fishing story. One fellow caught a red, white and blue Maine lobster on the 4th of July.
Posted by: Jane Linderman | May 25, 2020 at 10:29 PM
@PirateBoy--Thank you for bringing up The Eagles. One of our best memories was back when we made some money and the wife and I drove a Porsche 911 across California with the CD playing Hotel California with the smell of orange blossoms hanging in the air. Great memories for sure. We would love to go back and check into The Hotel California where you can check in, but you can never leave.
Posted by: Le Petomane | May 25, 2020 at 11:28 PM
@Jane Linderman--Is the Birdhouse Bar on the road to Skagway still there? I will always remember visiting that piece of history.
Posted by: Le Petomane | May 25, 2020 at 11:55 PM
To the Hershey's store in Times Square. Went there a year and a half ago, couldn't find my way out until I bought about $100 worth of chocolate, peanut butter cups, and a souvenir Hershey bowl to eat my breakfast cereal every morning.
Posted by: Chuck Merson | May 26, 2020 at 01:39 AM
Back to the same places we went in the past - Florida in the winter, New Orleans, and Vegas for my wife.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | May 26, 2020 at 07:44 AM
Out to the state or national parks. Yellowstone, for one.
Posted by: Ruthenium | May 26, 2020 at 07:51 AM
Soggy Dollar Bar, Jost van Dyke, BVI’s. Best beach bar on the planet and home of the Painkiller
Posted by: Bertman | May 26, 2020 at 11:04 AM
Alas, the Birdhouse Bar burned down. I hear it has relocated somewhere else. I too would like to visit there with my grandchildren.
Posted by: Uncle Timmy | May 26, 2020 at 01:57 PM
Uncle Timmy and Le Petomane. The Birdhouse Bar is now inside Chilkoot Charlie’s in Anchorage. The bartender that opened beer caps with her ample bosom has retired.
Posted by: Jane Linderman | May 26, 2020 at 02:02 PM
ANYPLACE! Just to get out of the house and see some other faces.
Posted by: n. n. | May 26, 2020 at 03:32 PM