Not All Hope Is Lost!

As a card carrying member of The Grumpy Old Men’s Club, I’m required to carry a certain amount of hidden disdain and blatant lack of patience for today’s youth.

But below is a photo of 4 young men who might have actually single-handedly restored my hope for America’s future.


This year’s cycling season had its official start today at the Moritz Ride for Heroes. I did 45 miles in 2 hours, 30 minutes. Not bad – the fun part came when I topped out at 35 mph down a country road!

Weeeeeee!

Afterwards, we were able to take in hamburgers from the Aledo Fire Department and live music from a local garage band. Being the hooligan-looking types that they were, you would have thought they would have only played current (mind-numbing) stuff like Fall Out Boy, Maroon 5 or Good Charlotte.

But much to my surprise they actually played mostly Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin or The Beatles. In fact, the closest they got to today’s current Top 40 was some GNR and old school Van Halen. And what was even more surprising . . . it actually sounded pretty good! They’re playing Hey Joe in this picture.

The guy playing the white guitar was throwing down some screamin’ licks! In case you don’t know, that’s cool garage band talk for ‘really good guitar playing!’

It’s good to see that the youngin’s can still appreciate good music. It would be even better if they would get decent haircuts!

I guess kids these days first learn music appreciation before they're taught personal hygiene!