Tossing Salt Presents:
This & That…
May 16, 2017

It’s a beautiful night and I can’t sleep, as always it seems. Strange that I didn’t have any kind of problems dozing off while sitting on the couch and watching Monday Night RAW earlier. I guess that my passion for the “King of Sports” isn’t quite what it once was. Or maybe it’s just the WWE that isn’t quite as exciting as it once was. Probably a little bit of both. I can read the reviews though and then go to YouTube and see what I missed though so sitting through five live hours of television on Monday and Tuesday nights isn’t quite as necessary as it once was. It’s still the best “entertainment” on television today and the best live entertainment a person can watch. Well. ghetto fights and the live Donkey Shows from Tijuana are pretty damn good too, but wrestling is and will always be my big thing.

I guess since I can’t sleep, I’ll just clean out my notebook, aka the dozens of scraps of paper that I’ve scattered all over my desk. When I’m at work or out and about, that’s when most of the ideas for blogs, short stories, wrestling columns and ways to take over and conquer the Universe generally come at me the strongest. So I write it down. All of it. I make lots and lots of notes and then bring them home, throw them on my desk, and then use roughly about 1/5 of the ideas. And the rest? They eventually get thrown away and forgotten. Well, that’s the way it used to work. Now I’ll just go through the lists and notes and just list what’s on each one and my thoughts about that topic. That’s what we’re getting here. Isn’t this fun? Don’t answer that. It also gives me a chance to just do some free-flowing rambling and get all of this crazy stuff out of my system.

I heard a rumor and I don’t know if it’s true or not, that one of the worst kept secrets in Scotland County has come out and been exposed. There’s a small restaurant here in Laurinburg that has been in operation for a long, long time. The owner of the Diner also rents out trailers and houses for people and their families. And often, instead of paying rent with cash, the tenants use their food stamps, aka “EBT”, as a means to pay the rent. And then, the owner uses the EBT cards to buy food for her restaurant. I wonder if it’s true? I know the part about using food stamp cards to pay for the rent is, but have the local law enforcement and the folks at Social Services also found out and taken action against this land-owner and her tenants yet? What will happen to the trailer park? What will happen to the restaurant? Did I just put all of their business out there on Social Media? Yeah, I guess I did. Luckily, no one reads this blog anyhow. But I’m curious and want to know what’s up. My bad!

All the kids at St. Andrews have gone home for the summer and that place is so damn quiet and deserted right now. There are a few teachers out there still mulling around and the Campus Security is still there, but without the students, it’s a creepy place indeed. Very beautiful to be sure and one of the nicest campuses I’ve ever been on, but just so damn quiet. The ducks are still there too. I think I may have to get up with my BFF and the mini-me and go out there later this week and feed them things. We don’t want them to starve, right?

I need to get on this computer one day soon and make a few new memes for my friends over at Clips Haircuts for Men, which is located in Scotland Crossing Shopping Center here in Laurinburg. Jennifer and Nicole do some great work in cutting hair and the service is great. The prices are good and I really like trying to help them expand their business and grow. The owner of the shop is one of my co-workers at the ABC and a really good guy too. I think I’ll go do that in a little while, make the memes that is. If you’re ever in Laurinburg, check them out. They’re the offical sponsors for my blogs and wrestling columns and that’s not an honor I share lightly. Clips Haircuts for Men – We Want To Cut Your Hair!

Nothing against David Lee Roth or Wolfie Van Halen, but the best version of the group Van Halen period was Eddie Van Halen on guitar, Alex Van Halen on drums, Michael Anthony on bass and Sammy Hagar with the vocals. More hits, more talent, better concerts and more money. Plus they totally rocked!

Speaking of totally rocking, the pick of former American Idol contestant James Durbin as the new lead singer for Quiet Riot was a great choice. That boy has a helluva voice and can rock like few others, plus he’s young so that extends the future and life of the band for as long as they decide to keep it going. He’s got many years ahead of him to be a big time rock star and fronting a bunch of veterans like the Quiet Riot guys is a great way to get the ball rolling.

The only man buns I like are the ones on a sexy ass. The ones on the head, with few exceptions, look kind of dumb to me.

I need to remember to buy some molasses the next time I go to the store. I want to make some baked beans.

Does anyone remember the drink, “Brass Monkey”? The Beastie Boys sang about it and at one time, probably about twenty years ago or so, it was a very popular adult beverage. But in talking to my co-worker at the ABC, he said that it sold very well when they had it, but then North Carolina just up and pulled it from their stores one day and they never sold it again. He doesn’t know why. I wonder what happened? Let’s go to Wikipedia and find out…

This comes from Wikipedia under the topic header, “Brass Monkey (Cocktail)”

“Brass Monkey is a name given to a number of different cocktail recipes. As with many lesser-known cocktails that are named after colloquial expressions, there are widely differing recipes that share the same name.

The premixed cocktail labeled Brass Monkey was produced by the Heublein Company in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Heublein pre-mixed bottled cocktails were fairly inexpensive and provided a portable alternative to regular mixed drinks. Heublein was based in Stamford, Connecticut, and had production facilities in the Hartford, Connecticut area. The Brass Monkey cocktail was available in bottles from half pint up to 750 mL. At the time that the Brass Monkey cocktail was produced, liquor stores carried mostly beer, wine, and hard alcohol; there were very few premixed alternatives.

The drink was named by Steve Doniger, an advertising executive, after an alleged World War II spy, named H. E. Rasske. The ad campaign was created by Allan Kaufman, who crafted a series of stories about the alleged spy using an old photo of his father as the image of Rasske.[1]

Sales and popularity of Heublein’s Brass Monkey spirit cocktail increased in the 1980s after the release of the Beastie Boys’ song of the same name.[2] It was widely and incorrectly believed that the Beastie Boys were referring to a different drink made from a 40-ounce container of malt liquor mixed with orange juice.[3] However, Mike D has publicly confirmed that the premixed Heublein cocktail was their muse.[4]

In 1982, the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company acquired Heublein Inc. for $1.4 billion. RJR Nabisco sold the division to Grand Metropolitan in 1987. Grand Metropolitan merged with Guinness to form Diageo in 1997.

After several years of absence from the market the Brass Monkey premixed cocktail has recently been re-released as The Club Brass Monkey. Produced by The Club Distilling Company of Stamford Ct., Brass Monkey is currently sold in liquor stores along with other premixed alcoholic beverages under the name The Club Cocktails owned by Diageo.”

So it was here, then gone and now it’s coming back. All righty then.

I am really, really, really bored right now. Someone (guys), send me some naked pictures. I need something to look at and enjoy.

Doing my second podcast tomorrow night, along with an old and dear friend and one of his buddies. I’m kind of excited and anxious about doing this, but at the same time, it still scares the hell out of me. I’m a writer and not a talker and this is really stepping out of my comfort zone. I did the first one and it was fun though so I’m going to suck it up and do another (and probably many more in the future). It’s not my thing really, but anything to expand the brand, right? The topic for discussion will be current events. So far, I’ve found eight different topics to discuss and that’s not even including whatever Brent and Jon have planned. I’ve got a mixture of serious and funny / stupid. This should be a fun adventure. Just please shoot me now.

And this isn’t really clicking like I was hoping it would. I’m writing and providing content for the site, but it’s just words and not really going anywhere. I hate it when that happens. I think I’m going to give it up and go watch Netflix again for a while. I just started watching “One Upon A Time” and it’s really, really good so far. I’m on Episode 7 of Season One. It’s something to tid eme over until “The Defenders” debuts, as well as the “G.L.O.W.” series. That should be good.

I’m out of here for now, my friends. Have a great one and thanks for reading. I’ll catch you later.

Ubuntu!