{"id":49,"date":"2008-03-18T11:41:21","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T16:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/?p=49"},"modified":"2018-10-31T15:10:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T19:10:19","slug":"hookin-up-91-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Hookin&#8217; Up 91 Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o> <\/o><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o> <\/o><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o> <\/o><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Call me spoiled, but I like to take around six weeks off in a big block every year and just get my feet off of <st1 w:st=\"on\"><\/st1><st1 w:st=\"on\">America<\/st1>.<span>  <\/span>Typically I fly out and bedevil my friends in the <st1 w:st=\"on\"><\/st1><st1 w:st=\"on\">UK<\/st1>.<span>  <\/span>This summer, money and time just won\u2019t align for me, so travel looks to be impossible until the winter.<span>  <\/span>That leaves me with some big problems:<span>  <\/span>Can I survive at my hideous day job, and strangely pointless weekend job, all through the bright, sunshiny months and not, you know, blow up a bus in the name of Allah?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> I suppose I don\u2019t need any sort of Muslim affiliation if I want to blow up a bus, but it\u2019s just seems to be \u201cin.\u201d<span>  <\/span>Like those lists you see in your high school newspaper\u2026what\u2019s hot and what\u2019s not?<span>  <\/span>Incidentally, while cleaning out my long-forgotten storage units, I found many copies of my old school newspaper:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/uploads\/userfiles\/3\/cover500.jpg\" align=\"middle\" height=\"326\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/uploads\/userfiles\/3\/tattler500.jpg\" align=\"middle\" height=\"724\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\nHookin\u2019 up, eh?<span>  <\/span>I like how they use a sort of gender neutral name there.<span>  <\/span>Pat and Ryan are hookin\u2019 up\u2026for hours of really hardcore gay sex!<span>  <\/span>Ryan is buff, with new kicks and gear, and Pat\u2026well, he sure knows how to suck it up.<span>  <\/span>Oh, wait, I\u2019m using that one wrong.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">My current plan is to leave my apartment once a month and stay within range of DC, so I can take short little weekend hops and waste money at rural bars, seedy diners, and out of the way museums dedicated to corn husk art.<span>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A friend suggested that I try to get to every state within three hours drive of my place, which has helped to give me some focus.<span>  <\/span>Right now, I\u2019ve planned a romantic getaway with a bottle of rum and a case of cigars in <st1 w:st=\"on\"><\/st1><st1 w:st=\"on\">West Virginia<\/st1> for June, then I\u2019m looking into hitting the Jersey Pine Barrens where I intend to hunt the Jersey Devil with a truckload of homemade, over-sized mouse traps.<span>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Another possible stop is the <st1 w:st=\"on\">Eastern  Shore<\/st1>.<span>  <\/span>I\u2019ve always wanted to see those Assateague ponies\u2026 Mainly because I think it\u2019s funny to call them Ass Ponies, especially when all the Park Service propaganda shots are definitely leaning towards gay pony ass porn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/uploads\/userfiles\/3\/ASIS_2horsesgrooming.jpg\" align=\"middle\" height=\"180\" width=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There\u2019s something about travel that constantly calls to me.<span>  <\/span>Even on cold winter weekdays I think of hitting the road.<span>  <\/span>Just going and going till the car runs out of gas.<span>  <\/span>Which is much more romantic than reality because, as soon as you hit the road and try to get out of town, you fly into a rage at the DC traffic and \u2013 worse \u2013 the DC drivers.<span>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">But let\u2019s not talk about rage.<span>  <\/span>Let\u2019s talk about ass ponies hookin\u2019 up with some hot, hot grooming action.<span>  <\/span>And let\u2019s stop badmouthing my day job.<span>  <\/span>Hey, I may talk cheap, but I don\u2019t talk jive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call me spoiled, but I like to take around six weeks off in a big block every year and just get my feet off of America. Typically I fly out and bedevil my friends in the UK. This summer, money &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?p=49\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hookin&#8217; Up 91 Style<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","tag-nostalgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}