Today is Star Wars Day, which returns every year on May 4. It is also the day that people say a certain phrase I refuse to utter let alone type out. I would rather take a brutal whacking from a plastic lightsaber – you know, like the one I had as a kid with a lightbulb in the handle – than say the dreaded thing people say on this day. It’s right up there with Live Long and Prosper, and I love Star Trek as much as the first three Star Wars movies – but it still bugs me when people say it.
It is also KY Derby Day if you are into that sort of thing like most Kentuckians (Phantom Track was robbed. Why wasn’t an inquiry called on the jockey riding the winner Mystik Dan?). There’s a saying around these parts that goes something like: “It doesn’t matter which horses you pick or which bourbon you drink… said no Kentuckian ever,” and that’s pretty much the truth. Folks here love horses as much as they love bourbon, especially Woodford Reserve, and if you prefer a different bourbon, we can’t be friends anymore. Okay, Blanton’s and Knob Creek are excellent as well, and so is Wild Turkey Rare Breed – and I can smell the Wild Turkey distillery on a good day when the wind blows just right – but Woodford Reserve is so damn smooth it’s sinful.
Presently, those living in the UK are enjoying a long weekend thanks to the Early May bank holiday on Monday. US folks will have to wait for the end of the month when Memorial Day rolls around. Come on end of May! We US folks need a three-day weekend too, ya know.
