On Sunday, we went to Freeport to grab some sweet treats from Vivian’s Bakery and then headed to Kittanning for a walk. Remember a few weeks ago when we were going to do this but I threw a fit without even getting out of the car because Kittanning looked stupid and then I pouted the whole hour drive home even a little bit after Henry stopped at Yinz Coffee and got me a lovely spring-flavored drink*? Well, we actually got out of the car and walked this time and it was kind of lame but at least we were out in the sunshine walking off our devoured sweet treats.

*(I think it was the cherry blossom chai and fun fact for anyone compiling a list of things I like so that you’re not ever on the same shit list as Henry, Yinz Coffee is one of the only places in Pgh that makes chai the way I like it.)

On the way there though, we stopped at a Sheetz and this fucking cowboy was next door looming over a defunct restaurant called Cadet’s or something so I had to stroll into private property land and take some pictures because these are some of my favorite roadside attractions, the Muffler Man and the rest of his ilk. Many years ago, I took a picture of an actual Muffler Man out in Uniontown with one of my toy cameras and titled it “Coming Down to Cut You Open” which is a line from a song I loved at the time and for the life of me cannot remember – was it Matthew Good Band?! Ugh. My memory. Hold please while I investigate.

Wrong, I’m confusing it with “They’ve brought someone in to shut you up.”

It was Longwave:

Interestingly:

• I don’t remember ever listening to Longwave
• I don’t remember this song AT ALL
• it must be the one though because I found a blog post from 2008 where I posted the photo and I apparently named him Farfel Longwave and the “cut you open” part was in the description.

I can’t even remember my own shit anymore.

(comingdowntocutyouopen would have been a great crabcore band name in the 00s, honestly.)

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