Trail Mix

Haven’t posted for a while, so here’s a quick roundup of what’s happened in the last week.

I saw Rambo First Blood for the first time on Friday night.


Verdict: It far exceeded my expectations, giving me a few unforgettable quotes that I have unsuccessfully been trying to use for the last three days.

Top Two Rambo First Blood Quotes:

1) Colonel Samuel Trautman (Richard Crenna) talking to Hope Sherrif Will Teasle (Brian Dennehy), explaining why Rambo is such a bada$$.

“You don’t seem to want to accept the fact that you’re dealing with an expert in Guerrilla Warfare – A man who’s the best, with guns, with knives, with his bare hands. A man who’s been taught to ignore pain, to ignore weather, to live off the land, to eat things that make Billy Goats puke.”


I've already had my best friend sign a contract that will require him to work that paragraph into my Eulogy.

2) Sherrif Teasle, full of Bravado, giving his take on John Rambo.

Teasle: He was just another drifter who broke the law!
Trautman: Vagrancy wasn't it? That's gonna look real good on his grave stone in Arlington: Here lies John Rambo, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, survivor of countless incursions behind enemy lines. Killed for vagrancy in Jerkwater, USA.

Jerkwater USA must have been used by every high school kid from 82' to 89'...I'm bringing it back.

(3:30 into this clip is where the Colonel drops his amazing "Billy Goat" line.)






Our do-it-all, moustache laden, executive of the year - Smoothie Mishkin - just moved into a mountain house about 25 minutes out of town. Here are some pictures of his first weekend (the morning after watching First Blood):

(Here's his Swiss Chalet, about 20 miles into the Colorado Rockies)



(About 100 yards west of Sammy's house...pretty cool)



(Sammy unveils his first chainsaw - THE FARM BOSS - and prepares not to cut off his fingers)


(My hand - and Sammy's inspiration for wearing safety glasses and not running with a chainsaw)


(I can still still kick the #@$% out of Sammy)



(In case Becket had any chance of escaping a Mountain Lion attack, Sammy tied him up to ensure a fatality)



(In NH we have an axe in each hand Smoothie)


(Sorry Buddy, guess you'll have to fatten up...maybe next time)


Moustache-Off comes to an anti-climactic finish:

In my opinion the last moustache of the bunch was the best. Unfortunately the guy who grew it could only wear if for a day before he shaved it off. Apparently the moustache didn’t fit his image of “not caring about an image”...the irony

So, reluctantly, here are the sorry staches of 2007:

(As a girl I know delicately put it, "It looks like a hairy donut around your mouth". It lasted about 10 minutes after that comment)


(Sammy's moustache...a staple in his repertoire, always immaculate)



(Should have been the runaway winner...with a clean shaven beard this was Selleckesque)



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