Truckers For Jesus

This past week, on my way home from beautiful Ferrum, Virginia (near Ferrum, it's an absolute crazy drive along the Crooked Road), I had to make a necessary stop at "a little boys room" in a Travel Center near Staunton on I-64.

After finishing my business and buying some Giant Chewy Sweet Tarts, I headed for the door, a pound or two lighter and whistling a happy "almost home" song.  On my way out, I noticed a box filled with cassette tapes and labeled "free."  In spite of not owning a cassette player, I rummaged through the offerings to see what "free" bought you these days.  Here is what I came away with:

Apparently, eternal salvation can be found not only at a truck stop, but for free.  

Now if I only had a cassette player.....

Billy Drago needs to listen to those cassettes

The Gas Station

Gospel Sunrise, Inc.

The Worst Truck Driver Jokes Ever

Billy Drago Fan Club

A Video Tribute to Billy Drago

18 Wheels of Steel

Convoy: The Movie

Random Thoughts From Kidjite: Week of May 18th (plus a top-ten list!!)

• Not being much of a drinker, I rarely frequent liquor stores.  In fact, it took me until today to fully grasp the liquor laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia.  For 75 years, all liquor sales in Virginia have been made by the Virginia Bureau of Alcoholic Beverage Control, currently operating 300+ stores throughout the Commonwealth.  For those interested, ABC has a very informative website.  I am not exactly sure how I feel about the whole enterprise.  Next thing you know, the state will want to be involved in gambling.  Oh yeah, the lottery.....
  

• The Chicago Cubs are struggling, having lost 7 straight games, including an 0-6 road trip.  Milton Bradley, the poster child for a misguided Cubs off-season, is once again making an ass of himself.  Always an injury risk, often a hot-head, Milton is currently hitting an astounding .182.
  

• I am currently reading book #348 of 'The Executioner" series, a masterpiece called "Carnage Code."  Expect a review soon.
  

• A horror movie made for $70 grabbed a lot of attention at Cannes.  The trailer makes it look like a $70 movie, but you have to admire the makers of the film and their fulfilled ambition.  Check out the trailer for "Colin."
  

• Speaking of horror movies, here are my Top Ten favorites.  My apologies to the hundreds of horror movies that did not make the list.  It's like I said one time to Leon Newsome (although I think I said it about sci-fi movies), "even bad horror movies are better than most non-horror movies, 'cause at least they are 'horror'."
  

10.  "Nightmare on Elm Street"

9.  "Saw"

8.  "Scream"

7.  "Evil Dead 2"

6.  "Frankenstein"

5.  "Hellraiser"

4.  "Halloween"

3.  "Friday the 13th Part 2"

2.  "The Shining"

1.  "Psycho"

Good Pho in Williamsburg: Chez Trinh

One of my favorite foods in the world: a hot bowl of Pho.  Yum.  I haven't been partaking in this deliciousness very long, having first tried it at a place called "Just Pho" in Athens, GA less than a year ago.  I would pretty much drag Haley or co-workers to Just Pho once or twice a week.  

Since moving to Virginia, I have tried a couple of Vietnamese restaurants, tying to replace one of my favorite places to eat.  Unfortunately, after 3 attempts (2 in Richmond and one in Charlottesville), I was left thinking that maybe I was doomed to give-up one of my favorite foods.  I cannot confirm it, but I am fairly certain that the place in Charlottesville served me slices of Oprah's ass cheeks floating in toilet water.

Finally, all of my searching has been rewarded.  Being a "holiday Friday" as well as pay-day, Haley and I decided go out to eat tonight, which of course means leaving West Point (unless we want Hardee's or the local Scottish restaurant McDonald's).  I used the information superhighway to find that nearby Williamsburg had a decently reviewed Vietnamese place called Chez Trinh.

I am not a "foodie," I'll leave that to my better half, so I will let the pictures tell the story.  It's a good story, one that I call "Happy Belly."  I liked it so much, that I was overheard proclaiming "pho would have been the one good thing about being in the Vietnam War."  Nice.

Beef Pho

Pepper Lime Beef

Rice Paper Roll With Garlic Pork

I am going to feel this stuff in the morning

William Forsythe