Coyote
The winter always makes me think of Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde record. All of the songs sound like they are being drowned in snow. Even on the cover of the album he looks like he is freezing his ass off.
So tomorrow I leave for Minnesota, the home of Bob Dylan and the freezing cold. It seems like wherever there is terrible cold weather there is a lot of drinking going on (Russia, Wisconsin, Tibet,...etc). I know, there is a lot of drinking happening in Mexico, New Orleans, and that shit ass state where Ponce De Leon thought he found the fountain of youth (the nude beaches in Miami can be very deceiving), but there is a key difference. These warm places are where tourists come to drink and party. In cold places people are not drinking in order to sleep with one another. They just have drinking problems (Wisconsin has the highest rate of alcohol abuse in the US, Russia has the highest rate of alcoholism in the entire world). It's not because drinking keeps you warm (it actually opens up your capillaries and makes your core temperature colder) or that there is nothing better to do in these cold places (ie. Wisconsin Dells (a water park in the midwest), Hockey in Russia, and in Tibet....well there is nothing to do in Tibet except drink or meditate, but 2 out 3 examples is not bad). So why do people in cold climates drink until it is a problem? Answer: Because the cold sucks. Drinking doesn't make you warmer, but it does make you forget how bad it sucks to be cold.
Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside of Mobile
Bob Dylan - Just Like a Woman
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