Wake up and smell the caffeine

 

Okay, at least National Coffee Day seems like it could be a real thing. You would think Starbucks would make a big deal over it. 

I'm half way expecting that Starbucks will send out their intellectual property police and have my over caffeinated mermaid pulled from teepublic.com. I thought it was genius though. I posted it on X and Instagram and people are going nuts over it. Okay not exactly nuts.  Okay not exactly paying any attention to it. But I'm okay with that. Being invisible has made me a bit more tolerant of being ignored.

On a totally different subject, Kris Kristofferson died today at aged 88. I was a bit blown away because I didn't know he was that old. Not to speak bad of the dead, but he always looked like he was 110 years old anyway. It was that leathery skin. Must have been from growing up in Texas. Though Kristofferson isn't your usual Texas name. And Kris Kristofferson just sounds made up. You would have expected him to have been called something like Bubba Burnside.

Weird thing is, I always though Kris Kristofferson looked like my Aunt Irma. She had (and still has) this classic country face. But then again, I thought Jimmy Dean looked like her too. He sounded like her when he talked. And since most of you probably don't know who Jimmy Dean was, he was a country music singer in the 1960s. He was also from Texas. He had his own television show. Later he became more famous for selling Jimmy Dean Sausage. Must be the Texas accent that reminds me of my aunt. Though none of my family are from Texas (thank god). There just seems to be an accent that poor white people take on no matter where they are from.

Anyway, I thought Kris "Bubba" Kristofferson was a pretty decent songwriter.  "Me and Bobby McGee" is a classic even though Janis Joplin made it famous. She was also from Texas. She didn't look like my Aunt Irma or sound like her. But she did have a better singing voice than Kris Kristofferson. I never thought he had much of a singing voice. He starred in the remake of "A Star is Born" with Barbara Streisand.  He played a pretty good washed out (and drugged out) rock start whose voice was shot. I don't think he was acting. I don't think Johnny Cash could sing worth shit either. He wasn't from Texas. He was from Arkansas, though, which isn't much better. The states share a boundary. So maybe there is a pattern here.

Sorry Kris Kristofferson. You were a pretty good actor in "Blade." And I remember you in "Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea." It was an odd roll and pretty close to being pornography. Odd on top of it being based on a novel by "Yukio Mishima." Mishima wasn't from Texas though. 

If there was coffee or caffeine in any of these songs or movies, it would have been a nice tie in to it being National Coffee Day. Instead I'll just end with:

But I digress.