Isn’t It a Pity: PBTB 4/23/23

Isn’t it a Pity: April 23, 2023
The Powder Blue Tuxedo Boys

The Powder Blue Tuxedo Boys are back at their usual bar seats at the Frolic Room on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. It is a hot 85F afternoon.

Patrick: How can you put ice in your beer?

Timothy: It’s summer. I always put ice in my beer in the summer. Keeps it cold.

Patrick: The Becks Beer Germans would put you in a concentration camp for that.

Eddie the bartender is playing “Isn’t it a Pity” by George Harrison on the jukebox.

Patrick’s phone rings:

Patrick: Yeah. Pause. You’re kidding. Pause. Okay. We’ll try.

Timothy: So?

Patrick: It was Michelle O. She wants us to write a video script for her if she runs for President.

Timothy: You’re kidding?

Patrick: That’s what I said. But she will pay the usual fee even if she doesn’t use it.

Timothy: Michelle O is one tough broad.

Patrick: Yeah, so we have to soften that image and make her friendly.

Timothy: You mean like the girls in “Petticoat Junction”?

Eddie starts laughing. “Not gonna happen.”

Patrick: Yeah, I know. Michelle O’s death stare is infamous.

Timothy: I know it’s a lot of money, but I’ve got no ideas. Do you?

Patrick: No.

Eddie: Isn’t it a pity.

TJM

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