Update

Nat IM’d me last week to persuade me to join him in a trip to Tremblant, about an hour and a half northwest of Montreal. I didn’t have any snow gear, I hadn’t been snowboarding in six or eight years at least, but on the plus side the ride up would be free and I didn’t exactly have any obligations for the weekend. So, I went.

The theme song for the weekend turned out to be “Jenny”, from The Mountain Goats’ album “All Hail West Texas,” and its defining line “900 cubic centimeters of raw whining power, No outstanding warrants for my arrest. Hi diddle dee dee! Goddamn! The pirate’s life for me.” The lyrics, vocals, instrumentation, and production quality are all decidedly low to absent in that song, but it’s evocative of freedom and fun. Most importantly, it’s hilarious, especially when seven people sing it out loud while rolling down the windows in their overstuffed SUV as they pull up to the Canadian border in a snowstorm.

I guess you had to be there.