off topic (Jonathan)

The Manzanita (Spoken in the voice of John Wayne)

Bein´out in this country I get to feelin´ like sayin´ the word manzanita. Manzanita, gives a man pause to think about what he has in his life, and the small simple pleasures of a gallon of manzanita by his side. Yes sir, nothing like manzanita to get the old heart pumpin´. Out here in the arroyo, y´know, samplin the simple pleasures of life, manzanita is a necessity, a kind of life force that ya just can´t do without. Manzanita, cool sweet manzanita, like a waterfall only more drier like. A dry pokey little waterfall with all kind o´needles stickin´ out of it. I was trudgin up the A456 t´other day with my compadre and it got all hot and dry and I said to myself "What does a man have to do around here to get hisself a tankard of that manzanita?" Then I said it right out loud. "We won´t last ´til sundown without some life givin´ manzanita." Maybe I was overstatin´ it a bit but you know how I get about my manzanita...

Jonathan