I did the best I could, but I lack Mr. Walker’s amber restorative.
For our joint tribute to Hitchens, please be sure to email me your own photographic (or graphic, as in drawing) effort by this evening, and I’ll put them up tomorrow. I’ll use your real name unless asked otherwise. At present we have about a dozen and counting. . . .
Brilliant!
Just a typical evening at the Coyne residence…
I went out and bought a special bottle of JWB just for the occasion.
So did I, and remarkably, in front of me, at the liquor store, was a guy who was holding a bottle of JWB as well. I pointed and asked “Hitch?”, immediately regretting the stupid gesture and expecting a puzzled look.
But the guy smiled and nodded.
We weren’t the only ones I guess:
It would be interesting to see if there was a noticable sales bump for JWB yesterday. I lean toward Talisker and the other island single malts, but I can appreciate a good blend.
Sniff, sob…
Well, I don’t drink, but I’ll be there in spirit when all Hitch’s many friends, readers, and, yes, adversaries lift a glass of their preferred single-malt in celebration of his life. As for me, I’ll be celebrating him by rereading some of his words.
Hmmm…the way Jerry eats and now this…;)
It looks like “The Portable Atheist” and “god is not great”, now those are good for you!
I misread your comment as saying “The Potable Atheist” lol.
Both were sold out at Barnes and Noble yesterday.
Love it ! You have to work harder on ‘dishevelled’ though
I’m completely unhorsed by the Peter Rabbit ‘ashtray’ plate ~ I can’t Imagine the adult Hitchens as a fan of Beatrix Potter…
However I recalled that BP is mentioned in Hitch-22 & I wondered if that was the reference?
I don’t know what that screw-top jar is ~ some kind of fruit? What’s that all about?
And Tux the Linux penguin lurking evilly in the background…
It’s like analysing The “funeral procession” on the cover of Abbey Road for evidence that Paul was replaced by a Doppelgänger
Nice. My kids would kill me if I used their Wedgewood Peter Rabbit china as an ash tray!
Ah, thanks. I was wondering about the Peter Rabbit ref, but figured it must be significant.
Aww. I am so sad. You are such a good person Jerry.
I also picked up some Johnnie Walker Black and raised a glass to Hitch last night.
So ugly, but a beautiful tribute to a great human.
Thanks for the compliment. . . .
The first part of your comment is blasphemous, and not in a good way!
Au contraire! I’m wonderin’ how JAC managed to look about 25 here…(& cute! in a faux-dissolute way, of course).
This is excellent, Jerry!
The scowl is almost perfect Jerry. I had some scotch in Hitch’s honour last night as well. I’m paying for it a bit this morning…
I feel your pain.
(No really, I do: I went a bit overboard with the JWB myself: it’s MUCH better than I expected. But I’m not nearly as experienced with this stuff as the great man himself. For a nice anecdote about that, read Michael Shermer’s article: http://www.skepticblog.org/2010/07/20/dinner-with-christopher-hitchens/ )
Sure as god made little green apples, a knucklehead is going to use that picture as evidence of your wrongness.
Lovely tribute, though.
“Sure as god made little green apples”? Almost certainly not, then.
Heh. 🙂
I really want to go off the wagon again.
Perfect!
lol. that’s awesome.
Bloody Hell, Coyne, you look like a Teamster.
In what direction, I send my tribute?
Scary Jerry, looks like a baddie from a Dirty Harry film.
I love your makeover, Jerry!
Hitchens could write or speak a sentence that landed like a boxer’s punch, or punch combination. I’ll remember his rhythms as Miles Davis’s A Tribute to Jack Johnson, side one, “Right Off” —
What’s with the french press pot in the picture you posted? That looks like f’ing tea in the bottom! Make a proper pot of coffee. That liquid should be dark as the bottom of a Mississippi swamp at midnight during a lunar eclipse! Jeez…
Here it is, days out, and you, in that picture, look the way I still feel with Hitch gone…
Give up on the fags.
They are not a good thing.
Ever.
🙁
Or are they just for ecffect?
An interesting effect indeed, I’m wondering what poor Peter Cottontail did to deserve ash in his face. Interesting juxtaposition there 🙂
Following link: “A lesson from Hitch” by Daniel Dennett
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-faith/post/a-lesson-from-hitch-when-rudeness-is-called-for/2011/12/18/gIQAV6xz2O_blog.html