like how the mud shark groupie story was originally about Vanilla Fudge (and turned into a song by Frank Zappa, in reference to Vanilla Fudge) but everyone now thinks of Led Zeppelin whenever it’s mentioned.

“Don’t ‘What?’ me, boy! You heard the question. You just don’t like the answer.” He paused just long enough to get a full chest of air. “I asked, ‘Have you ever served your country?’ The answer is, no, you have not. Have you ever killed another man? Huh? Have you ever taken another man’s life and then cashed the check your country gave you for doing >it? No, you have not. So shut the fuck up!” I could feel his body pulsing with anger next to me. “You don’t know what the hell you are talking about!”

To be fair, I looked up Kristofferson’s old yearbook photos and he definitely looked the part of the crew-cut all American 1950s military good son. He’s also damn near unrecognizable, of course.

Is that why women started wearing pantyhose, anyway? I didn’t know that.

I keep forgetting that Keith died.