phil minkler

Free smokes from Manchester's finest!

Day 3 started out by tweeting “Day 3 of #bonnaroo, 85 and humid. We need some rain.. Faaaack! Going to see triumph the insult dog.”  Walking over to Centeroo, a cop on a horse had busted people trying to sell cigarettes without permission.  Walking past, I heard “free cigarettes!” and pulled a quick about-face to get my free smokes from the mounted officer.  She was tossing them to people from a knapsack like she was throwing bread to villagers.  Speaking of cigarettes, one of my tweets around that time was “I haven’t had to #2 in three days. My body is awesome and knows how to survive #bonnaroo.”  It’s true.  Even with all the Jager and cigarettes, I never really felt the need to drop off the kids.  I’m pretty proud of that. Continue reading »