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Saturday Song Salute

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It's Saturday Song Salute and in keeping true to the spirit of the Oregon Garden Brewfest that I'll be attending tonight, I've chosen one of my favorite drinking songs. I think this song was originally performed by The Dubliners, but has since been revisited by many (if not all) bands with an Irish punk sheen to them. It's called 7 Drunken Nights and the version I play here is performed by a Chicago-based Celtic punk rock band called The Tossers. I first heard this song several years ago, it was being played by a live band in the corner of a dingy bar. There were many in the audience who knew the lyrics and it was a moment of pure pleasure watching them and the band sing along to this tale of a drunkard and his adulterous wife. So go grab your headphones and a big-ass beer, and maybe your girlfriend's butt, because this song is a lot of fun. Enjoy! Seven Drunken Nights As I went home on Monday night as drunk as drunk could be I saw a horse outside the doo

In My World

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in my world (a poem by Mick Tomlinson) last night the four of us wanted to experience life past midnight, life past last call, strife as it wrestled for life inside the jaws of a hungry fox. we sat around the table discussing holes: in education, inside our souls, in the universe. at one point I managed to slip away through the swinging saloon doors, out back where the cooks were getting high and counting bricks in the wall that was their prison. I listened to passing traffic, I listened to the sound of tires on rain-soaked pavement and realized it's the same sound my hole makes when running against the wind. we are all just barely hanging on at times- to our jobs, to our lovers, to our faith in the future. we are fox-jawed and fighting for our lives, we have stories to tell and piles of books we'll never read. this is life behind the blinds of a billion beings. later that night we joined hands while the three of you took a leap of faith with