{"id":5136,"date":"2010-03-22T13:51:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T17:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5136"},"modified":"2010-03-24T07:14:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:14:51","slug":"you-sir-are-bad-ass-the-newest-x-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/you-sir-are-bad-ass-the-newest-x-man","title":{"rendered":"You, Sir, Are Bad-Ass: The Newest X-Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered some takeout Chinese food for lunch today. Rather than wait in the &#8220;restaurant&#8221; for five minutes (I decided on the fly and didn&#8217;t call ahead), I walked a few doors over to the somewhat upscale \/ not significantly downscale liquor store to check out the gin selection. I&#8217;m working on a big gin project that I&#8217;ll be breaking out for your edification soon. Or &#8220;my big gin project&#8221; is just a euphemism for my alcoholism. You decide.<\/p>\n<p>I found what I was looking for and headed to the register. On the way, I had to step aside for a guy walking in the other direction. He was a few inches taller than I am, white, bald-pated, late 40&#8217;s or early 50&#8217;s, and wearing a black Xavier sweatshirt. While I waited for the guys ahead of me to finish their purchase, the fella returned to the front of the store. He put his bottle on the counter with a thud. I looked over and noticed <em>IT WAS A 40 OF <a href=\"http:\/\/beeradvocate.com\/beer\/profile\/29\/66\" target=\"_blank\">KING COBRA<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At 12:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>On a Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I was buying two bottles of high-class gin (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.citadellegin.com\/#\/\" target=\"_blank\">Citadelle<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhkrahn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">D.H. Krahn<\/a>, if you must know), but no one was looking at me and thinking, &#8220;That guy&#8217;s gonna start drinking in 5 minutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The X-Man on the other hand? From the Chinese restaurant, I saw him walk across the parking lot, keys in hand, and thought, &#8220;You, sir, are bad-ass.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A minute later, I thought, &#8220;That&#8217;s a much better blog-series than &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/f-you-you-whining-f\/\" target=\"_blank\">F*** you, you whining f***<\/a>,'&#8221; so let this be the inaugural post in a new series on bad-assery! Happy Monday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered some takeout Chinese food for lunch today. Rather than wait in the &#8220;restaurant&#8221; for five minutes (I decided on the fly and didn&#8217;t call ahead), I walked a few doors over to the somewhat upscale \/ not significantly downscale liquor store to check out the gin selection. I&#8217;m working on a big gin &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/you-sir-are-bad-ass-the-newest-x-man\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You, Sir, Are Bad-Ass: The Newest X-Man&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[998],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-you-sir-are-bad-ass"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1kQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2884,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-111008","url_meta":{"origin":5136,"position":0},"title":"What It Is: 11\/10\/08","author":"Gil","date":"November 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"What I'm reading: Finished The Spy in the Ointment last week, and haven't started anything new, although I dip into \"Have You Seen . . . ?\" occasionally. 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