Short Skirt and a Long Jacket

We continue playing the hits! My hits! My inspirations. My joys, my feel-good moments. Since this band is not of my youth, I will have to defer to the Google machine for input here. I have long term (youth) and very little, short term (after my youth) memory. CAKE. Great band, on the scene 1991. I cannot name a single band member, but the entire catalog is on my iTunes library. They and Cracker, another 90’s band (second best music decade, kids) always make me smile, always lift me up. This song is both fantastic and inspirational to me, but we’ll get to that shortly.

Like me (or at least I would like to think so), CAKE is a multidimensional band. Mixing pathos, funk, an alt rock vibe with wit, sarcasm and just great music. If you want to smile, find them and thank me.

I want a girl with a mind like a diamond
I want a girl who knows what′s best
I want a girl with shoes that cut
And eyes that burn like cigarettes
I want a girl with the right allocations
Who's fast and thorough and sharp as a tack
She′s playing with her jewelry, she's putting up her hair
She's touring the facility and picking up slack

I want a girl with a short skirt and a long jacket

I want a girl who gets up early (gets up early)
I want a girl who stays up late (stays up late)
I want a girl with uninterrupted prosperity
Who uses a machete to cut through red tape
With fingernails that shine like justice (hey, ho)
And a voice that is dark like tinted glass (hey, ho)
She is fast and thorough and sharp as a tack (hey, ho)
She′s touring the facility and picking up slack (hey)

I want a girl with a short skirt and a long, long jacket

I want a girl with a smooth liquidation (smooth liquidation)
I want a girl with good dividends (good dividends)
At Citibank we will meet accidentally (meet accidentally)
We′ll start to talk when she borrows my pen
She wants a car with a cupholder arm rest (hey, ho)
She wants a car that will get her there (hey, ho)
She's changing her name from Kitty to Karen (hey, ho)
She′s trading her MG for a white Chrysler La Baron (hey)

I want a girl with a short skirt and a long jacket

Writer(s): John M Mc Crea

Okay you lunatic, what does this have to do with the price of rice in China? It drove me to put together the perfect outfit for the Plexus Annual Meeting, March 19, 2026, and for me, the precursor to Keystone. I picked up the long jacket at a recent Goodwill visit (remember my Some Girls post?). And as you can imagine, I have many short skirts. Time to make a statement! Time to be a presence! Time to announce to the world (okay a bunch of obviously open-minded LGBT folks), look at me!

This is the first of three days in complete Kandi mode followed by a few weeks of nothing at all. Enjoy the posts to come, there will be a dry spell, which you won’t notice because we are so stocked with content here.

The evening was time well spent. Not much of significance to report, but I did get quite a few compliments on my legs (like I wasn’t trolling for those) and had a very lovely, lengthy conversation with a woman named Hope. It was deep and meaningful, and we’ll leave it at that.

Here are the obligatory pregame pictures, hope I did okay…

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