Danny Doom’s Booze Cabinet

White House admits fault on “Mission Accomplished” banner. Wolfowitz admits they were “clueless” in Iraq. We all know about the “WMDs” that never were. We’re still not in the “last throes” of anything. Is there anything left for the architects of this unjustified and immoral war to concede?

The anti-war left was right; the neocon right was wrong. When John McCain finally loses, I will be convinced that we are past this and heading in the right direction, so to speak. Until then I still can only wonder how we allowed all of this to happen, right before our eyes, when it was all so obviously wrong.

On this day one year ago we were at the Cliffs of Moher, where I got engaged.

It is an injustice, a legacy of the racist threads of this nation’s history, but prominent African-Americans are regularly called upon to explain or repudiate what other black Americans have to say, while white public figures are rarely, if ever, handed that burden.

- NY Times Editorial

I have a sneaky feeling that there’s a lot of people who should be repudiatin’ their priest or minister or whatever. Yes, even you White people! Hell, I had a Father bail me out of jail in college, and he later had some sort of “incident” that put him in question, although I never heard how it ended up. Imagine how that’s gonna come back to haunt me when I run for President.

A year ago today we were here at Clonmacnoise. Who’s making what noise? Whatever, it was very gloomy and pretty.

We liked this bar a lot! This is in Athlone or thereabouts.

We met horses on this road, just hanging out and running free. To the right is the Atlantic Ocean.

We ended up here at this bar (I think it was called The American Bar?), where these guys were in the midst of a stag party. Turns out one of them is related to the owner of The Hidden Shamrock here in Chicago. We sat and drank with them for a bit until they all passed out.

It was exactly a year ago today that we rented bikes and rode around the Aran Islands.

A year ago we were traveling in Ireland, so it’s time to revisit a few of those scenes, like this one: on the road to Galway! Or, Gaillimh, as they say.

Photo by Denver Jim as he prepared for the Cubs-Rockies game that evening. It’s hard work!

Another beautiful day, another edition of Letters from Andrew:

Danny,

This just in from the research department: women with curly hair rock! Rock I tells ya, rock. Studies show girls (especially Mexican women) with curly hair are tops. A team of scientists have also found that Tommy Mottolla does not deserve Thalia. Therefore I will enter a Manhattan penthouse, hog tie Tommy, and leave with Thalia. She will thank me minutes after that. To recap, since the dawn of time curly hair has moved the continents and shaken our world. Let’s all gaze into the heavens and wonder where else there is curly hair besides earth.

Look for our next album in mid 2009. The Andyman and Thalia. We’ll be riding those boats in the park (you know, the park in Mexico city, the lake, the water and all that).

Track #1: How did I ever live without you?
Track #2: Is that you?
Track #3: Is this thing still on?
Track #4: Do I have to be in the union to perform this?
Track #5: I don’t have to show you my union card.
Track #6: You sing in Tagalog, I don’t even understand that.
Track #7: I pawned your Easter bonnet.
Track #8: When my mother in law speaks Spanish, I smile politely and pretend to understand.
Track #9: It’s just a flat tire, let the butler get that.
Track #10: You could have told me it was gin before your high school reunion.
Track #11: Keep it short.
Track #12: Besame a little bit.
Track #13: Always with the Mexican women.

Can I take payment from you now as a way to secure your preorder? I can’t guarantee a sale after it’s been released. Once you put Thalia’s face on something it sells. Once you put Thalia on your… don’t go there, Johnny, just don’t.

So we’re looking at about 290 days now. It seems like a long time, but considering it’s been 7 years of hell, we’re almost there. Why I think it’s less than 7,000 hours now. Get out your count down calendars!

Here’s a fun Danny website: http://www.philosophersguild.com/ Don’t you (yes you do) just love a website that sells Eleanor Roosevelt dolls? Yes, no, maybe? Of course yes! What about these finger puppets? Gots to jam on them. I think the only thing evil about Kim Jong Il is the fact that he CAN afford a good haircut, but he makes his mother cut his hair because he doesn’t want to spend the money. Crazy dictator not going to a barber or stylist. Now that’s what I call crazy. Crazy old Kim Johg Il with his mother’s haircuts.

Late night radio, frozen jars of mustard, a broken rear view mirror, and a recipe no one will ever use,

Andrew

P.S. A recently frozen jar of mayonnaise, and some clams close to your front door, but not close enough so you feel that you should clean it up.

Got today’s brushing taken care of and I’m ready for baseball’s top team to continue its streak. The Booze Cabinet’s D-Town correspondent, Denver Jim, phoned in from left field last night and will be somewhere on the first base line today. White teeth and a World Series–that’s the ultimate goal here. This is Serious Business!

It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election.

- NY Times Editorial

Cubs win again. Let’s be honest about this: ever since I got the Cubs toothbrush, the Cubs have gone undefeated. It is probably safe to say that if I continue to brush my teeth with the Cubs toothbrush, the Cubs may not lose again. And if they do, you can be pretty certain that I did not brush my teeth that day. Thanks for the wonderful gift, Kerry (yep, she spells it just like Kerry Wood).

This is exciting news:

There’s a chance that the world, maybe even the universe, could be swallowed by a black hole this summer.

Live it up, live in the now, live for today!