A food truck called Mi Taco Su Taco parked in front of our new office this morning. I thought it might be a regular thing. Being Tuesday and having a Taco Truck in front of the office, I texted Bruce to let him know there was a Taco Truck out front if he wanted to come into the office for “Taco Tuesday!” He came in and went out and got in line to discover that the food truck was there for a special occasion for the Humana insurance group. Bruce had to wait until all of “Humanaty” got their tacos so Mi Taco Su Taco could account for all the tacos Humana’s staff had eaten. Then Bruce was able to get some of the leftover tacos. He brought me a couple of leftover tacos. They weren’t bad after I picked all the cilantro out them. “¡No me gusta cilantro¡”
Seeing the food truck reminded me of a parody I wrote and recorded back in 2017 called “Brewpubs And Food Trucks” to Strawberry Alarm Clock’s Incense and Peppermints that I never posted. The parody was inspired by the boom of brewpubs in Albuquerque at that time and all the food trucks that parked by the brewpubs. Now that brewpubs are open again, I see a lot of the food trucks outside the brewpubs. The food trucks offer a good service for people to get food to go with their beer and wine without having to go into a building.
I thought about redoing the vocals, but I recorded it long before I started using PreSonus Studio One. I used MixPad in 2017, and now the latest version of MixPad can’t open the old files. Therefore, you can listen to the bloody awful original version or choose to skip it.
The song really illustrates the reason we moved out of downtown. Things were not good in 2017. “ART” in the song is “Albuquerque Rapid Transit” a total public transit boondoggle rammed down Burqueños’ throats that interrupted businesses and ruined Central Ave, (Old Route 66) from the westside of Albuquerque to “Nobhill” just east of the University of New Mexico. Downtown only got worse and continues its downhill slide. You can follow along with the Lyrics that can be found after the kitty photos and comments.
Brewpubs And Food Trucks
Music: Strawberry Alarm Clock. Parody Lyrics: Timothy Price
Sasha: “Are you kidding me? A taco truck and another BAP?”
Spunk: “What’s that you say? Another BAP about ‘brew huhbubs and taco trucks’?”
Tesla: “AAAaaarrrgh! NOOoooo! Not another bloooody aawfuulll parody!”
Brewpubs And Food Trucks
Parody Lyrics: Timothy Price
Music: Strawberry Alarm Clock
ART sense, nonsense, spare me a dime
Drama queens, silly things, undefinable crime
Fashion drinkers, homeless drunks, boggle your mind
Brewpubs, food trucks, signs of the time
Who cares for things we do
If there’s little for me and nothing for you
Brewpubs, food trucks, gurgling sound
Turn off, tune out, we need to look around
Look at the wealth, look at the wealth, yeah, yeah
Look at the wealth, look at the wealth, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Our polls have divided our world in two
Thrown us off to the side, middle finger screw you
Politicians choke their chickens, nothing is new
A house full of lunatics with a bad point-of-view
Who cares for things we do
If there’s little for me and nothing for you
ART sense, nonsense, spare me a dime
Drama queens, silly things, undefinable crime
Fashion drinkers, homeless drunks, boggle your mind
Brewpubs, food trucks, signs of the time
Who cares for things we do
If there’s little for me and nothing for you
Brewpubs and food trucks
Brewpubs and food trucks
Off Center & Not Even 
I remember that old song! Sounds like you had some real fun making this parody.
Some good toothy photos of those kitties!
Thanks, Lavinia.
A great parody song, Tim. How on earth did you manage to get your cat to do such interesting things? Mine do nothing but sleep on the bed all day.
Hi Robbie. Spunk became an model and actor because he had to do modeling and acting for my blog to pay off is debts for all the things, some rather expensive, he destroyed. Tesla is Lane’s cat, and he’s a character. Sasha just be’s cute.
Haha, Tim, I am glad Spunk is paying his way. Sasha is cute. Mine are both cute too, but we also have a destructive and naughty one.
Ahh! So your cats don’t just always lie around. A little destruction happens from time to time. So true to cat-like behavior.
Thanks for showing Harry the Headbanger
You’re welcome, Harry. Thanks, for dropping by.
Haha!! I loved it! Every line made me laugh, another great parody Tim, thank you for lighting up my day!
Your are welcome, Tiffany. I’m always happy to light up your day. We need a lot of lighting and lightening up these days.
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Great post and Lovely pictures
Thanks, Leyla. Do you do Taco Tuesday?
Spunk is going…where’s MINE.
Oh yes. That too. Spunk has been a bottomless kitty pit since he came back from the other side, wherever that was. Thanks, Shey.
LOL. U R Welcome. But he does have that look about him there.
He often stands by me, gives that look and says “Meow”, which usually means “Are you going to take notice that I am gracing you with my presence?”
Oh cats are ancient royalty .
The knowledge of it seems to have passed down through the kitty generations. Thanks, Shey.
Please send over a decent (cat) food truck for your cat family at home…
A cat food truck is a great idea. Thanks, Herman.
Me gusta cilantro!
You can have mine. Thanks, Teri. It’s one of the only plants I react to.
Unlike me who has reactions to multiple foods, animals and nature.
Sounds like this Taco Truck was more like “Mi Taco Mi Taco”!!!!! 😉
I’ll tell you this, after 8 hours of no internet connection [after months of digging our streets for drainage networks, they are now digging for fibers and one of the machines accidentally severed one of them!] reading your post was the first thing I did knowing that I am always in for a smile. And guess what, there was a cherry too… a song! Made up for all those hours I waited and couldn’t work! So double thank you! Oh, and Sasha, Spunk and Tesla: shhhh… mind your own business! We like it!
Hi Marina. I hate it when they cut the fiber. You can’t get much done without a connection these days. I’m happy I didn’t disappoint you after your ordeal and that I gave you something fun to start the new connection off with. I think the song addresses those severed connections to some extent.
It certainly does and I really enjoyed it! (As if the severed fiber wasn’t enough, I’m renewing my hard discs due to problems with 2 of them, which means fun with copying, rescuing etc!!!)
Drive death is never fun. Good luck with that.
I need it! 🙄🥴
I presume these are spinning drives? I’ve discovered you need to keep good backups of solid state drives because when they die they are dead. No recovering them.
They are all spinning, SSDs are far too expensive for 6TB+6TB backup / 5TB+5TB backup / 3TBs / 2TBs and more smaller ones! But I’ve just decided to change to a docking station with two slots for the hard discs, instead of covering my desk with lots of boxes [not to mention the plugs + connections!] This way I always have a backup disc to any of my main discs. However one 3TB disc is seriously damaged and if I’m lucky I get a couple of files copied at a time… to the freezer and then back… a looooooong process and every time it does less and less! 🙄
Too bad. A real data recovery services cost and arm and a leg. I’m sorry you have to go through that process. You’re getting the cold spin.
Other World Computing had an out of this world deal a couple of years ago. They put a 4TB SSD drive on sale that fit my MacBook Pro. The original price was $1800. They marked it down to $300. I snatched that up faster than lighting strikes. The old drive in the MackBook pros was failing, and the SSD completely revitalized the computer, plus gave me lots of room for photos. I think the owls had something to do with that deal coming my way. I have a large safe full of backup drives with mainly photo files on those drives.
You were really lucky!!!! Yes, I am familiar with their prices! 🙄 For now it looks like not even freezing helps it. It won’t even mount. At least I’ve got 6tb & 4tb safely backed up. Now for cleaning up!!! 😉
That’s good. Happy cleaning.
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I like the line “gurgle sound” in the lyrics a lot. I heard a few gurgle sounds later after the tacos. Spunk’s face pretty much says it. But yeah, that is a fine tunage there.
I heard plenty of gurgling after Mi Taco went down. Spunk knows how to express himself. Thanks, Bruce.
Ah ah, it’s nice you remembered this parody ! Your cats are funny on these photos! Thanks for this sharing, Tim
You are welcome, Flo. I’m happy you liked it. The kitties are silly. Thanks, for stopping by.
Those cat shots just crack me up.. scare me a bit, but mostly crack me up ha!
They are just silly, kitties and relatively harmless. Thanks, Brian.
Tim – you have star quality! And your kitties add the sparkle and glamour. You have great insights in the lyrics. “Who cares for things we do If there’s little for me and nothing for you…”
Thanks, Rebecca. I’m sure you have had those feelings of helplessness over government projects and decisions that are for no good reason other than egos and officials wanting you to believe it’s good for you.
Those cats tho!
They always have something to say. Thanks, Eric.
LOL, another cilantro hater. We’re a minority, I think. I love that your parody connects what’s trendy from both eras. 🙂
Thanks, Mary Jo. We in the minority have good taste. I’m happy you like the parody.
That was fun, not god awful at all! Although I dare say the cats disagree!
Spunkie-Poo 💋 looks terrified, Sasha looks bored and Tesla looks pissed off! 😀
Heck you don’t like cilantro? 🙂 Ha ha I enjoyed the music Tim .. not a bloody awful version at all 👍 And those kitties .. gorgeous