The Hammock Papers: Chicken Nachos

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18 July 2026

Dwight Twilley, "I'm on Fire"

Order a carafe of Black Tower or Blue Nun ("... when you're not sure what you're having for dinner") and an extra side of ranch for your chicken nachos ...

15 June 2026

Cheap Trick, "I Can't Take It"

You'll want to order an extra side of ranch for the nachos ...

30 January 2026

Styx, "Borrowed Time"

Lowenbrau pitchers are the lunch special ...

29 January 2026

Hang.

'Tis Winter and the weekend begins now ...

"Hang care!" exclaimed he. "This is a delicious evening; the wine has a finer relish here than in the house, and the song is more exciting and melodious under the tranquil sky than in the close room, where the sound is stifled. Come, let us have a bacchanalian chant—let us, with old Sir Toby, make the welkin dance and rouse the night-owl with a catch! I am right merry. Pass the bottle, and tune your voices—a catch, a catch! The lights will be here anon."

Charles Ollier, from "The Haunted Manor-House of Paddington"

For best results, order an extra side of ranch for the chicken nachos and listen to Wings, "Hi, Hi, Hi' ...

The euphony transformed me and inundated my soul in a roguish countenance, the likes of which I had know well in younger days. Such impishness soon drove out the complaints of the day.

Umberto Limongiello

Phony Beatlemania is still way overrated.

Thanks to Steve for the inspiration.

21 September 2025

Last.

A soundtrack for the last Happy Hour of the Summer ...

Schooners of Wiedemann and carafes of Black Tower are on special.

23 April 2025

01 December 2024

Released.

Styx released Equinox on this day in 1975.

"Light Up"...

Order an extra side of ranch with your chicken nachos.

15 November 2024

Realize.

Donald Fagen on yacht rock.

Stick to the nachos, kids. The differences are subtle, but once you've tried it, you'll realize that an extra side of ranch'll never let you down.

Got any quarters?

14 November 2024

"Hang care!" exclaimed he. "This is a delicious evening; the wine has a finer relish here than in the house, and the song is more exciting and melodious under the tranquil sky than in the close room, where the sound is stifled. Come, let us have a bacchanalian chant—let us, with old Sir Toby, make the welkin dance and rouse the night-owl with a catch! I am right merry. Pass the bottle, and tune your voices—a catch, a catch! The lights will be here anon."

Charles Ollier, from "The Haunted Manor-House of Paddington"

For best results, order an extra side of ranch and listen to these ...

The euphony transformed me and inundated my soul in a roguish countenance, the likes of which I had know well in younger days. Such impishness soon drove out the complaints of the day.

Umberto Limongiello

17 August 2024

Charlie Dore, "Pilot of the Airwaves"

Schooners of Lowenbrau and carafes of Black Tower liebfraumilch are two-for-one. I recommend the chicken nachos with an extra side of ranch.

It's always five plays for a buck ...

29 June 2024

Climax Blues Band, "Couldn't Get it Right"

Order an extra side of ranch ...

Tonight.

24 June 2024

Released.

Jackson Browne released the Chicken Nachos classic, Hold Out, on this day in 1980. First-pressings came with an extra side of ranch.

Here's "Boulevard," where, sadly, Lindley makes his only appearance on a t-shirt ...

01 April 2024

Happy Birthday, Porcaro

Jeff Porcaro was born on this day in 1954.

Toto, live at the Agora in Cleveland, from 1979 (you'll need an extra side of ranch for these chicken nachos) ...

27 July 2023

Always.

Help yourself to the salad bar, the rye for the bar cheese is freshly toasted, carafes of Black Tower liebfraumilch are $3.00, and it's always five plays for a dollar on the jukebox ...

The Babys, "Looking for Love"

George Harrison, "Crackerbox Palace"

The Alan Parsons Project, "Turn of a Friendly Card" ...

ELO, "Twilight" ...

The Kinks, "Do It Again"

03 July 2023

Jackson Browne, "Call It a Loan"

Accompanied by the maestro, David Lindley ...

21 June 2023

Released.

Crosby, Stills, & Nash released Daylight Again on this day in 1982. It's an essential ingredient in any composition of chicken nachos.

"Southern Cross" ...

17 June 2023

Always.

Schooners of Black Label are half price, there's bar cheese on the salad bar ... and it's always five plays for a dollar.

The Babys, "Love Don't Prove I'm Right"

Eagles, "In the City"

John Cougar, "Hand To Hold On To"

Triumph, "Say Goodbye"

J. Geils Band, "Come Back"

28 May 2023

"Every 1's a Winner"

Hot Chocolate ...

Tina ...

Scotch Chocolate ...

27 May 2023

Elton John, "Philadelphia Freedom"

The salad bar is open (the plates chilled), the soup is French Onion, and schooners of Weidemann are two-for-one. Try the chicken nachos with an extra side of ranch ...

BARRY HINES

"That's why it makes me mad when I take her out and I'll hear somebody say, 'Look, there's Billy Casper there wi' his pet hawk. I could shout at 'em; it's not a pet, Sir, hawks are not pets. Or when folks stop me and say, 'Is it tame?' Is it heck tame, it's trained that's all. It's fierce, and it's wild, an' it's not bothered about anybody, not even about me, right. And that's why it's great.Look, there's Billy Casper there wi' his pet hawk.' I could shout at 'em. It's not a pet, Sir. Hawks are not pets. Or when folks stop me and say, 'Is it tame?' Is it heck tame, it's trained, that's all. It's fierce, and it's wild, an' it's not bothered about anybody, not even about me right. And that's why it's great." (A Kestrel for a Knave)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

"When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone and of good cheer – say travelling in a carriage or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep – it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence, and how, they come I know not ; nor can I force them. Those ideas that please me I retain in memory and am accustomed, as I have been told, to hum them to myself. If I continue in this way, it soon occurs to me how I may turn this dainty morsel to account, so as to make a good dish of it. That is to say, agreeable to the rules of counterpoint, to the peculiarities of various instruments etc. All this fires my soul, and, provided I am not disturbed, my subject enlarges itself, becomes methodised, and defined, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it like a fine picture or a beautiful statue at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What a delight this is, I cannot tell."

WALT WHITMAN

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow’d wilds, It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk. I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags. I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

MARCUS AURELIUS

"Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?' neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility."

VINCENT van GOGH

"What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity or an oddity or a disagreeable person — someone who has and will have no position in society, in short a little lower than the lowest. Very well — assuming that everything is indeed like that, then through my work I’d like to show what there is in the heart of such an oddity, such a nobody. This is my ambition, which is based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Even though I’m often in a mess, inside me there’s still a calm, pure harmony and music. In the poorest little house, in the filthiest corner, I see paintings or drawings. And my mind turns in that direction as if with an irresistible urge. As time passes, other things are increasingly excluded, and the more they are the faster my eyes see the picturesque. Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and unceasing observation."