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Ton Of Steel

Oh, for fuck’s sake.

“Buuummmm.”

Don’t do that.

“BUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMM!”

Stop it.

“BUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMM!”

Dude.

“BWAH-PAH!”

Last warning.

“Bum-pum bum-pum bum-pum.”

You done?

“Hey, suck my shine, muchacho. If you had a theme song that awesome, you wouldn’t go anywhere without playing it. I got, like, top-three theme music. Darth Vader, Shaft, and me.”

Whatever. Could you fuck off, please? We are all full up on crazy right now.

“Oh, sure. No problem. Sorry to be a bother. Could you just do one thing for me?”

What?

“Place your hand ‘pon my surface.”

I’m not falling for that again.

“Doesn’t have to be your hand. You can french me.”

I don’t wanna french you.

“Know my secrets! French me!”

You have no secrets. You are not an impossibly ancient alien artifact.

“Stargate, bro. Come lay your hands on me while thinking about your backstory.”

You were made by a guy with a weird sense of humor, access to a machine shop, and a truck.

“Nah.”

“Stargate.”

I hate this year so much.

What Is A “Ute?”

Hey, Bill Walton. Is that–

“It’s Brent.”

–Brent in the…yeah, I figured.

“Sporting events are his jam. That and theme parks. Very easy for a 27-years-dead guy to walk around in those venues.”

Sure.

“Nudist colonies, not so much.”

Do you frequent nudist colonies, Bill Walton?

“Oh, yeah. I love to dangle.”

Ew.

“Many people don’t know that the testicles absorb vitamin D more efficiently than any other part of the body. Couple hours of sun on your balls, and you feel like a new man.”

Let’s move on. Are you in Utah? The background does not look like Utah.

“The Beehive State is fascinatingly diverse. And by that, I mean the landscape and climate. Not the people.”

It’s a homogeneous place.

“I thought I saw a black guy yesterday, but it was a Mormon’s shadow. Incredible history, the Mormons. Do you know they believe that Jesus was resurrected in Missouri?”

Yes, I’ve heard that.

“I nearly resurrected in Missouri. Almost signed with the St. Louis Spirit of ’76.”

The ABA team?

“Yeah. They wanted me, man. Sent Marvin ‘Bad News’ Barnes up to Portland to talk to me. At least, they tried to: Marvin missed five straight planes and then punched a police horse.”

Sounds like him.

“Uh-oh.”

What?

“Lost track of Brent. Darn.”

Is that bad?

“He tends to affect the attributes of the animal he’s wearing.”

Oh, no.

“Yeah, he’s been leaping at sunbathers from second-floor windows.”

You should find him.

“Conference of Champions!”

The Promised Land

In keeping with local tradition, Bobby took multiple stone-cold foxes back to his room that evening.

Also: that’s Robert Vaughn on the balcony. Honest.

(This pic is from 9/4/83 at the Park West Ski Resort in Park City, Utah. The Dead played there once again in ’87 and then three shows at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City in ’95. When you think Utah, you think the Grateful Dead.)