Sweatman's

There's something about going to Sweatman's Barbeque I like. It's that true down home feeling you get when you walk into the front hall of this renovated farm house. It was like I expected to hear a favorite aunt or uncle telling me to "lite and come in" and "take off my shoes and stay awhile". The wall are sort of dark with old pictures and antique looking furniture. And then things change when you see the girl in the t-shirt at the cash register. The menu and prices are on the wall. $9.35 for all you can eat of b-b-q with all the fixin's. Throw in an extra $.71 for homemade banana pudding The pulled pork and ribs are very good with a variety of sauces. The banana pudding is to die for. So, if you got a hunger for real good barbecue served in an early twentieth century rural atmosphere take highway 176 west out of Charleston and turn right on 435 in Holly Hill and stop by Sweatman's. Oh, yes. Don't come on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday because they're closed then.

Current listening matter:

• Andrea Bocelli
• LeRoy Parnell
• Levon Helm
• Danielle Howle

007

Yesterday, I watched three James Bond movies back to back. And that was good. It had been a while since I had seen the original 007 in action. Call me a purist, but Sean Connery is the true James Bond. Dr. Mo, From Russia With Love, and Thunderball. It brought back memories when I first saw Dr. No. The buzzwords among me and my buds were "license to kill". Wow! The Bond movies were the summation of a young man's fancy. Danger, excitement, fast cars and beautiful women. They may look hokey now but at their point in time they were fantastic! Who knew that a martini could be either shaken or stirred? Seeing an old Bond is like revisiting youth. And it's sweet. Very sweet.

My sketch book was in hand and I made a few sketches during Thunderball".

movie for a rainy day

I guess it could be a good movie for any day. I'm speaking of the sci-fi pic Next. I'm not a big Nick Cage fan but this story carries him along. He plays a magician with a talent for seeing into the future for about two minutes. Julianne Moore one of my favorite readheads, plays the tough FBI agent who wants to use Cage's talents to thwart a nuclear attack. And then there is Jessica Biel. She's just hot! She seems to have changed a lot since her preacher's daughter role on television.It's a good film with good visual effects and a good action story.

Todays Music

• Pink
• CVB
• Tobey Kieth

Car Show

It's been along time since I've seen a exhibit of drag racing cars. Most of the cars at this show at the local K-Mart parking lot were drag racing cars. The sanctioning body was the Southern Drag Racing Association. The SDRA set the rules for competing as well specifications for the cars. I was surprised to find that none of the cars were fuel injected, four barrel carburetors were common. NOX was used on almost everything. I talked with a guy that raced a Baretta. It had a small block Chevy engine and turned 148 mph in the eighth mile. That's haulin' and on the bottle. There were other cars such as a bathtub Porshe kit car. It was immaculate powered by a flat four with dual down-draft Webers. The most interesting thing I saw were the junior dragsters. Designed for youngsters, they have one cylinder engines. It was a lot of fun and I would like to smell the rubber burn.

Homeward Bound

Who says you can's go home? I thought it would be a good idea to put together a little video of Bradley, SC. I pondered the format and look a bit. i finally decided that a slide show would do nicely. The use of black and white images would give at somewhat of a vintage effect. Initially, I was going to use handwritten captions but that did not work out. Actually, it would have been too time-consuming. I did not have enough close ups. A crude attempt at humor was made.