Detective Crockett Tubbs not only sounds Zevonian but Pynchonian, like Josh Brolin's Lt. Detective "Bigfoot" Bjornsen in Inherent Vice. Wildly entertaining, my friend! For my money, "I Was in the House When the House Burned Down" is Warren in full-bore hilarious and heartbreaking mode. cheers MM
As a lawyer, I'm actually not terribly surprised that we rank second to guns on the list of Things Cashiers at Dive Bars with Shady Narcotics Officers Don't Like. It tracks. I mean, the most wild thing I do is approve matters and move forms in databases and that tracks.
To date, my favorite t-shirt is a flying monkey shirt. It is getting a little ratty around the neck, but still covers the important parts. I am a Warren Zevon fan, I been very nostalgic lately, so I will be adding Warren to my Spotify list. Dive bars make me anxious, my rule, never go in alone, go with someone dive bar smart, big and strong. My fictional cops are Longmire, Dirty Harry and Bosch. Dirty Harry is a Zevon fan, I'd bet my retirement check on that. Bosch is kicked back in his lounge chair, listening to Coltrane, and sipping an adult beverage wishing his daughter wasn't in law enforcement.
Michael, I have a burning desire to own a Warren Zevon t-shirt, now. You are such an influencer:)
My husband also loves t-shirts that are conversation starters! His current favorite says, “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds” in the Barbie movie font.
I have a mushroom t-shirt: about 24 or so different types on the front. No words, just (now quite faded) fungi. Here in England, I've had nothing - it's like it's blank. But in the States, all the 'heads come out and comment!
Wow! What a story! I didn't know that you had all this excitement before getting to Ye Old Rustic and facing yet another blackout! And I think I need to listen to some Warren Z.
There were some major power issues that night in Los Feliz. I think you'll really enjoy Warren Zevon. Happy birthday, Meryl, next year let's try to keep the lights on!
aww this is so great and i WiLL dig up my fav. line an re-stack because yeah u dont make shit from my dumbass comments and all ive ever done is buy your novel and get comped for this stuff so its least i can do even if jesus u and dobrenko crawlin all over my notes feeds anyways so must be doin good ha!
no clue about that off duty officer but if he were to limit his free time to bars that didnt deal in coke wudnt that put a certain limit on where he cozld go (and im not dissin LA here i mean fuck Anywhere USA we like our fuckin drugs!!! and the stuff we cant get at gummy store...
as for Warren Zevon several add-ons (im not gonna mention my warning about Diamond backs ok?):
your enthusiasm so genuine its cool his "Dirty Life and Times" and slide guitar on that last fateful album with all his buds on the "Knockin on heaven's door" cover has seeped into my dna over the years and not just as guitar player....when around 2000 i was workin near Barre Vt. i was aware his daughter (zepher i believe) had started a healthy sandwich produce type place on main st. and Barre is an old school sorta place but jackson browne waren's dear friend would put on a show as a benefit in that town once a year
as he is clise to his friend's daughter...anyways i went in to get a sandwich and there she was and god i wanted to blurt out every place id ever been when one if her dads songs came on that gave me a jolt of pure energy or joy...but she seemed busy and smiled so serenely and made me a great sandwich and i never had that awkward boring shit ie my fawning transferred admiration come between us
Friend, this comment warmed my heart and brought a smile to my face. Thank you! Zevon’s cover of Knocking on Heaven’s Door gives me chills. Don’t know if you watched that Letterman clip, but he and Dave talk about how he was always sorta writing about death without realizing it, but how in the end, his work really just made a lot more sense when you took it all together. Powerful stuff.
As for the D-backs, you called it. Maybe next year we get you a direct line to the Dodgers clubhouse.
better yet we can can meet up at Chavez and celebrate my Sox takin a Series game by takin an uber to Starbucks and eavesdroppin on peeples idiotic banter (my hearing may not be as good but way past "middle age" hmmmmm im ALOT MEANER!! ha)
Det. Crocket Tubbs was not a detective or even a cop. At best, he was a Boy Scout Explorer/Reserve who wants to be a cop but actually is a store dick at Walmart. He may have been a police reporter at the LA Daily News but failed the drug test (Note: Don't eat a poppyseed bagel until after the Daily News pee test). His saving grace is understanding Warren Zevon.
Whatever you plan to give your wife for the next occasion, double it. Wives who extricate husbands from dive bars during a blackout are to be feted.
What about a Situation Normal/Zevon mashup T-shirt? It hits all the right notes.
We're at point in apocalypse where original meaning of Zevon's words are lost kinda like how word Stan comes from Eminem song but nobody knows or remembers that. T-shirt is v cool, it's also gotta be the most gangster item in yr wardrobe. Try not to get pulled over by ornery cop while wearing it.
I am always so confused when I hear people use the word stan because the youngsters seem to use that word in a positive way and the Eminem was negative, or at least cautionary tale, so maybe not negative, but certainly nothing to aspire to. As for the cops, I'm not worried about being pulled over... they can't catch me. No wait. That's me flashing back to watching Smokey & the Bandit on beta. If I do get pulled over, I'm gonna play it cool and friendly, but if I get Warren Zevon vibes, I'm gonna shoot my shot... "sorry I was speeding officer, but I just lose track of everything when I'm listening to Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner... know what I mean?" Yeah, that probably won't work.
I worked for a music distributor for 10 years and many musicians would roll through, sometimes playing our lunch room. The best by far was when Warren Zevon came and signed CDs for us. This was a year before his diagnosis. To this day, I can't listen to The Wind unless I'm in a mood to get torn up.
In the spirit of the season, my “right now” favorite tee is a Nightmare Before Christmas with a western theme ... showing ... top panel ... Jack Skellington ...middle panel ... Lock, Shock, and Barrel ... and the bottom panel ... Mr. Oogie Boogie ... each panel captioned thusly ... The Good, The Bad, The Oogie.
Warren Zevon ... I’ve been a Zevon’s Greatest Hits level fan for decades ... it’s a situation I’ve recently been attempting to correct.
Living in a small town in a rural county ... I am or have been nodding acquaintances with two police officers ... on kibitzing in public status with another ... and go to dinner status with another.
Intoxicated Narcotics Officer Crockett Tubbs? He’s actually a method actor researching a role as a crooked undercover narcotics officer running drugs out of a midwestern dive bar. The power going out becomes a metaphor for the film being put into turnaround due to a shakeup at the studio.
I love your Crockett Tubbs backstory, Tim! It's both plausible and rich with metaphor. If you're looking to go deeper on Warren, check out the Excitable Boy album. Also, I'm gonna out on a total limb here and say that The Hula Hula Boys will tickle you, but that's just a guess on my part.
1) at this time, my favorite t-shirt I own is one with an image of Laika the Russian dog who gave her life to the space race. I love it for reasons similar to why you love your Zevon shirts: those who react to it are usually going to be interesting!!!!!
2) Yes I am a fan but also if you and Christina want to come over and kick it with some Zevon jams I am down any time!!!!! The man deserves our time and attention.
3) uggggh as a standup, I have spent WAY more time in dive bars than I would ever have chosen to otherwise! If not for standup I would never have entered another dive bar after college. My vibes are always: curiosity & wariness (true whether in dive bar or just in life generally.)
4) ACAB
5) Harry's going by the full Hieronymus now and he's making art and getting high. So, he's better than he's ever been, psychologically.
*bonus audio question response: Crockett Tubbs WAS the Coke Dealer!!!!! He was never a cop! He asked you which cops you know because he's keeping a list for himself!
Final note on this one: i truly am shocked that WZ was only 56 when he left Earth. I guess when it happened and i was like 30 i went "well, ok, that's sad" and now at 50 I go "that's so insane."
Is it possible to do comedy without entering a dive bar? I don't think so, right? As for you answer to the audio question, I like it because it makes me feel like a stepped into a gritty crime novel.
And if California slides into the ocean
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this motel will be standing
Until I pay my bill
Detective Crockett Tubbs not only sounds Zevonian but Pynchonian, like Josh Brolin's Lt. Detective "Bigfoot" Bjornsen in Inherent Vice. Wildly entertaining, my friend! For my money, "I Was in the House When the House Burned Down" is Warren in full-bore hilarious and heartbreaking mode. cheers MM
So much heart, Warren. You are missed! Thank you, Michael, and I really want a t-shirt!
As a lawyer, I'm actually not terribly surprised that we rank second to guns on the list of Things Cashiers at Dive Bars with Shady Narcotics Officers Don't Like. It tracks. I mean, the most wild thing I do is approve matters and move forms in databases and that tracks.
To date, my favorite t-shirt is a flying monkey shirt. It is getting a little ratty around the neck, but still covers the important parts. I am a Warren Zevon fan, I been very nostalgic lately, so I will be adding Warren to my Spotify list. Dive bars make me anxious, my rule, never go in alone, go with someone dive bar smart, big and strong. My fictional cops are Longmire, Dirty Harry and Bosch. Dirty Harry is a Zevon fan, I'd bet my retirement check on that. Bosch is kicked back in his lounge chair, listening to Coltrane, and sipping an adult beverage wishing his daughter wasn't in law enforcement.
Michael, I have a burning desire to own a Warren Zevon t-shirt, now. You are such an influencer:)
My husband also loves t-shirts that are conversation starters! His current favorite says, “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds” in the Barbie movie font.
OMG, that t-shirt is gold! I mean pink! I'll bet he gets into some fun conversations with that one.
Oh yeah.
I have a mushroom t-shirt: about 24 or so different types on the front. No words, just (now quite faded) fungi. Here in England, I've had nothing - it's like it's blank. But in the States, all the 'heads come out and comment!
What’s that saying about two nations divided by a common language? I guess we’re two nations divided by a common t-shirt.
Wow! What a story! I didn't know that you had all this excitement before getting to Ye Old Rustic and facing yet another blackout! And I think I need to listen to some Warren Z.
There were some major power issues that night in Los Feliz. I think you'll really enjoy Warren Zevon. Happy birthday, Meryl, next year let's try to keep the lights on!
aww this is so great and i WiLL dig up my fav. line an re-stack because yeah u dont make shit from my dumbass comments and all ive ever done is buy your novel and get comped for this stuff so its least i can do even if jesus u and dobrenko crawlin all over my notes feeds anyways so must be doin good ha!
no clue about that off duty officer but if he were to limit his free time to bars that didnt deal in coke wudnt that put a certain limit on where he cozld go (and im not dissin LA here i mean fuck Anywhere USA we like our fuckin drugs!!! and the stuff we cant get at gummy store...
as for Warren Zevon several add-ons (im not gonna mention my warning about Diamond backs ok?):
your enthusiasm so genuine its cool his "Dirty Life and Times" and slide guitar on that last fateful album with all his buds on the "Knockin on heaven's door" cover has seeped into my dna over the years and not just as guitar player....when around 2000 i was workin near Barre Vt. i was aware his daughter (zepher i believe) had started a healthy sandwich produce type place on main st. and Barre is an old school sorta place but jackson browne waren's dear friend would put on a show as a benefit in that town once a year
as he is clise to his friend's daughter...anyways i went in to get a sandwich and there she was and god i wanted to blurt out every place id ever been when one if her dads songs came on that gave me a jolt of pure energy or joy...but she seemed busy and smiled so serenely and made me a great sandwich and i never had that awkward boring shit ie my fawning transferred admiration come between us
thats all i got
great piece and ohh yes also
peace....😇🤞🙏💪
Friend, this comment warmed my heart and brought a smile to my face. Thank you! Zevon’s cover of Knocking on Heaven’s Door gives me chills. Don’t know if you watched that Letterman clip, but he and Dave talk about how he was always sorta writing about death without realizing it, but how in the end, his work really just made a lot more sense when you took it all together. Powerful stuff.
As for the D-backs, you called it. Maybe next year we get you a direct line to the Dodgers clubhouse.
better yet we can can meet up at Chavez and celebrate my Sox takin a Series game by takin an uber to Starbucks and eavesdroppin on peeples idiotic banter (my hearing may not be as good but way past "middle age" hmmmmm im ALOT MEANER!! ha)
Det. Crocket Tubbs was not a detective or even a cop. At best, he was a Boy Scout Explorer/Reserve who wants to be a cop but actually is a store dick at Walmart. He may have been a police reporter at the LA Daily News but failed the drug test (Note: Don't eat a poppyseed bagel until after the Daily News pee test). His saving grace is understanding Warren Zevon.
Whatever you plan to give your wife for the next occasion, double it. Wives who extricate husbands from dive bars during a blackout are to be feted.
What about a Situation Normal/Zevon mashup T-shirt? It hits all the right notes.
There is so much wisdom in this post, Betsy! I loved every word. I think legally I could get away with a “The Situation Has Hit The Fan” shirt.
Do it!
We're at point in apocalypse where original meaning of Zevon's words are lost kinda like how word Stan comes from Eminem song but nobody knows or remembers that. T-shirt is v cool, it's also gotta be the most gangster item in yr wardrobe. Try not to get pulled over by ornery cop while wearing it.
I am always so confused when I hear people use the word stan because the youngsters seem to use that word in a positive way and the Eminem was negative, or at least cautionary tale, so maybe not negative, but certainly nothing to aspire to. As for the cops, I'm not worried about being pulled over... they can't catch me. No wait. That's me flashing back to watching Smokey & the Bandit on beta. If I do get pulled over, I'm gonna play it cool and friendly, but if I get Warren Zevon vibes, I'm gonna shoot my shot... "sorry I was speeding officer, but I just lose track of everything when I'm listening to Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner... know what I mean?" Yeah, that probably won't work.
I worked for a music distributor for 10 years and many musicians would roll through, sometimes playing our lunch room. The best by far was when Warren Zevon came and signed CDs for us. This was a year before his diagnosis. To this day, I can't listen to The Wind unless I'm in a mood to get torn up.
I'm with you on The Wind. It always guts me. It's so cool that you got to meet Warren. I am very envious of that, Joe.
He was too cool for school, in the right way
In the spirit of the season, my “right now” favorite tee is a Nightmare Before Christmas with a western theme ... showing ... top panel ... Jack Skellington ...middle panel ... Lock, Shock, and Barrel ... and the bottom panel ... Mr. Oogie Boogie ... each panel captioned thusly ... The Good, The Bad, The Oogie.
Warren Zevon ... I’ve been a Zevon’s Greatest Hits level fan for decades ... it’s a situation I’ve recently been attempting to correct.
Living in a small town in a rural county ... I am or have been nodding acquaintances with two police officers ... on kibitzing in public status with another ... and go to dinner status with another.
Intoxicated Narcotics Officer Crockett Tubbs? He’s actually a method actor researching a role as a crooked undercover narcotics officer running drugs out of a midwestern dive bar. The power going out becomes a metaphor for the film being put into turnaround due to a shakeup at the studio.
I love your Crockett Tubbs backstory, Tim! It's both plausible and rich with metaphor. If you're looking to go deeper on Warren, check out the Excitable Boy album. Also, I'm gonna out on a total limb here and say that The Hula Hula Boys will tickle you, but that's just a guess on my part.
Yes ... Excitable Boy is all that ... and I just checked out The Wind last week. That one is a lot.
Hula Hula Boys ... I will give ‘em a listen!
1) at this time, my favorite t-shirt I own is one with an image of Laika the Russian dog who gave her life to the space race. I love it for reasons similar to why you love your Zevon shirts: those who react to it are usually going to be interesting!!!!!
2) Yes I am a fan but also if you and Christina want to come over and kick it with some Zevon jams I am down any time!!!!! The man deserves our time and attention.
3) uggggh as a standup, I have spent WAY more time in dive bars than I would ever have chosen to otherwise! If not for standup I would never have entered another dive bar after college. My vibes are always: curiosity & wariness (true whether in dive bar or just in life generally.)
4) ACAB
5) Harry's going by the full Hieronymus now and he's making art and getting high. So, he's better than he's ever been, psychologically.
*bonus audio question response: Crockett Tubbs WAS the Coke Dealer!!!!! He was never a cop! He asked you which cops you know because he's keeping a list for himself!
Final note on this one: i truly am shocked that WZ was only 56 when he left Earth. I guess when it happened and i was like 30 i went "well, ok, that's sad" and now at 50 I go "that's so insane."
Is it possible to do comedy without entering a dive bar? I don't think so, right? As for you answer to the audio question, I like it because it makes me feel like a stepped into a gritty crime novel.
You are 💯 re: comedy hahaha "so many dive bars"
Love Warren Zevon!
Z best!
My old favoirite t-shirt said, "I love work . I could watch people do it all day."
My favorite Dead Musician is Steve Goodman. I never really listened to Zevon. So when are you coming by?
I don't know if my cousin the ex-cop likes Zevon, but one of my brothers who isn't a cop is a fan.
My general feeling in Dive Bars is confusion about what the hell I'm doing there.
That's a good t-shirt. Be sure to where it when I come by to play some Warren Zevon for you.