Unleash The Cat

Back when everybody I knew had a futon, my friend Jason DeBacker and I used to go flyfishing until dark in the North Georgia mountains on weekends...then head back to our little town of Athens, Georgia to enjoy the nightlife. We didn't exactly keep rolls of hundred-dollar bills next to our toilets in the bathroom back then, so when a local hippie bar called El Centro began selling 40-ounce beers for a dollar, we were 'bout it like Republicans at church.

Only one snag in the planny plan plan: all of the Icehouse and Bud Light 40s would always be sold out by the time we got in the door...leaving us with only one choice: some business called WildCat Brew Malt Liquor. Yep. This fine alcoholic beverage had a picture of a scarey-azz black panther on the label and an instruction on the cap telling us to 'unleash the cat.'

It was beautiful. http://www.40ozmaltliquor.com/wildcat.html

We had the ability to drink in a decent social setting- or at least watch a bunch of dudes with String Cheese Incident T-shirts and girls rocking Lily Pulitzer dresses- and have full command over 80 ounces of malt liquor for a total price of $3 with tip.

With The Cat as our armour we could then wash the 7-11 taste out of our mouths with some Pinot or Cab or whatnot... and enjoy a music change from Widespread Panic to Toto and Stankonia...by making a venue change to the wonderful Last Resort Grill. And when I write that, I mean "the girls were way hotter there."

In other Cat-related news, Chan Marshall aka Cat Power's song 'Maybe Not' floors me. Was happy to see her in Echo Park in the fall, and I'm glad she got over those "health issues" to tour this spring. Much love.