{"id":5188,"date":"2010-04-09T18:32:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T22:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5188"},"modified":"2010-04-09T18:37:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T22:37:20","slug":"you-sir-are-bad-ass-baby-i-dont-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/you-sir-are-bad-ass-baby-i-dont-care","title":{"rendered":"You, Sir, Are Bad-Ass: Baby, I Don’t Care"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy of The Impossible Cool<\/a>, let’s end this week with a dose of Bad-Ass:<\/p>\n

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Robert Mitchum.<\/p>\n

Whose biography, Baby, I Don’t Care<\/a>\"\", I just bought on my Kindle. And who would sneer at me and then kick my ass for having such a device.<\/p>\n

Every man should have at least one Robert Mitchum moment in his life. Here’s mine.<\/p>\n

I was at a New Year’s party in NYC in 2003, a few sheets to the wind, kindasorta getting over some heartbreak<\/a>, when I bumped into a cute, tall, redhead who’d drunkenly flirted with me at a party a few weeks earlier. We resumed our flirtation and got to smooching a little. Then she looked up into my eyes and drunktiredhorny said, “Take me home.”<\/p>\n

And I looked at her, smiled, and said, “Baby, I ain’t got a home.”*<\/p>\n

That’s my Robert Mitchum moment. She reconnected with her friends, who led her outside a little later. Two days after, I met the woman I’m gonna spend the rest of my life with.<\/p>\n

* As far as that night went, it was true. I wasn’t driving back to NJ in that condition, and wasn’t gonna bring her back to my friends’ sofa with me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy of The Impossible Cool, let’s end this week with a dose of Bad-Ass: Robert Mitchum. Whose biography, Baby, I Don’t Care, I just bought on my Kindle. And who would sneer at me and then kick my ass for having such a device. Every man should have at least one Robert Mitchum moment in … <\/p>\n

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