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From Shaboomin April 14th 2010:
From the Star-Telegram

FORT WORTH -- Louis Torres has a can-do attitude.
Just one glance at his yard, which is adorned with thousands of beer cans -- some strung together, others crafted into ornaments -- provides proof.
Torres began putting together his beer-can canopy a couple of years ago. He and his buddies share an affinity for Miller Lite and Milwaukee's Best Light, and when the cans began to pile up, Torres went to work.
He wrapped the end of a long, thin wire around a weight, tossed it over one of the limbs of a hackberry tree in his back yard, and started stringing cans onto it. When the string was about 30 feet long, he tied it off to his chain-link fence.
Torres was so impressed with the result that he did it again, and again.
The result is head-turning exhibit in a mostly industrial neighborhood west of downtown.
"Some days there's four or five cars parked out there" on Currie Street, Torres said. "People come up and take pictures. They call it the beer tree."
"Beer trees" is more accurate. More than 75 brilliant strings sweep from various heights. Most start in the hackberries and tall cedars. Some loop from the edge of the stone house's warped roof.
Torres said he was about a year into his creation when his daughter, Deann Ledesma, showed him how to slit the cans' sides, then squash them to create an ornament. When the wind blows, the ornaments spin.
Jeremy Conley, a courier for a company in Dallas, stumbled onto the house Monday when making a delivery in the area. He rolled down his window and stared at the display.
"It's amazing," Conley said.
Another visitor, Jacky Miller, saw the house a few months ago and had to show it to his friend, Jack Hooten. The two brought a 12-pack of Miller Lite to share with Torres.
Torres didn't know either of the men, but friendships form fast over cold beer. He said they're not the first strangers to bring him brews.
"Some days I'll get home and find 12-packs sitting just inside the gate," Torres said.
The cans not only serve as yard art; they're a savings account of sorts.
"If I'm short of money and need cigarettes or beer, I'll pull down a string and cash it in," Torres said.
Torres said as long as the cans keep coming, he'll keep creating.
"Thanks for the beer," he told Miller and Hooten as they climbed back into a pickup. "I will put 'em up."


I know this a long article and usually I would just take an excerpt or two, but this thing is solid gold. The first thing I was asking myself was how the hell are the neighbors not bitching about this? Then I read that Louis here lives in the industrial west side of Fort Worth. Ha I imagine its kind of like the abandoned house in Fight Club. Then Louis somehow manages to have the reporter spin the article about how he is resourceful and productive for drinking a shit ton of beers and then drunkenly stringing them across the yard. Holy shit Louis, I need you as my blog PR guy. You'd probably have my blog pullin' down Pulitzers in no time. And shit that's not all, Louis is collecting free twelve packs from strangers to boot. Bravo Louis, Bravo.

UPDATE: I Just saw this picture with the "Rehab is for Quitters" sign in his yard and to post it. I am definitely headed to the 7-11 getting a twelver of Milwaukee's and headed to Louis' beer wonderland.

I'm not going to try to reinvent the wheel here. I'm just going to post the blog I wrote a fucking year ago. A YEAR AGO. Fuck the internet needs to catch up. Shit is embarrassing.