A long time ago in a trendy grocery store far far away, I met a great and talented friend… JT. As best as my beer-muddled mind can recall we met while working at the same high-end grocery store in luxurious PV mall. My memories of A LOT of the 80’s are floating in a pool of beer in a dark corner of my brain. I attribute that to the following equation:
(beer + 19 yr old drinking age + new credit card)Arizona State University = “I’m sorry senator, I don’t recall.”
But I do remember our mutual love of Hemingway, Steinbeck, Buffett, girls, movies, baseball and beer… cheap beer. I have mentioned JT in previous posts. He is my Beer Milkshake amigo. At the appropriate time during the movie Cannery Row (with Nick Nolte) we had beer milkshakes that Justin had pre-made. They were as bad tasting as the actors’ faces made them look. JT is, as long as I’ve known him, an artist in every sense of the word: actor, painter, writer, and he lived and worked in Key West (where Hemingway, Hunter, Buffett, and McGuane lived… you get the picture).
Fast forward some 25 years; JT is married with kids, and an artist at Charles Schulz Studios. His job takes him to Japan and in the last couple years, via an artistic mission, Cuba. Thankfully, he wrote a journal during his art-mission in Cuba this past December. Here is the link to his Cuba Gooding Journal (that just flowed out… I wish it hadn’t)…
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR and READ IT. He has posted three parts of the journal so far–WITH PHOTOS. He is an amazing writer, artist, and observer. You won’t be disappointed.
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