Our friend Burl Burlingame posted the above photo on his Facebook page over the weekend, with this cutline:
This is for Brad Warthen, because journalism just ain’t the same without us.
Yes, that’s Burl on the left, in full Hunter Thompson mode back in the day. I don’t know the lady.
Note the concentration, the devotion to duty — taking notes even when he can’t see the notebook. That’s what I call a work ethic.
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This blog needs more photos of the unnamed lady on the right.
Didn’t y’all first notice that she’s married?
Mark – I noticed that she was married, but that wasn’t one of the first two things I noticed.
Yeah, Burl’s cheap pen and his hairy arms… am I right?
Something like that Doug. Something like that.
There’s a guy in that picture?
I wish I could remember her name. She was very sharp and very funny, and sort of bemused by the whole beer babe gig.
You know, this really makes MY souvenir work picture from about the same time, of me shaking hands with Howard Baker, look pretty lame. Note that he and I were both bearded at the time.