Douglas & Dakota

Two in the morning at the spillway and the water is low enough to read the trotlines by. A kerosene lantern comes bobbing down the bank, a jon boat sits tied off where nobody ties off a jon boat, and…

Past two in the morning, a salvage yard's floodlight catches a saw blade throwing sparks over a mountain of dead sedans. Dakota takes the rows of junked cars while Douglas stands in the gate light, an…

After the daily smoke ritual comes the drive-in at one in the morning. A speaker wire gets snipped down at the fence gap behind the screen, and Dakota walks the gravel with the flashlight while Dougla…

After the daily smoke ritual comes the storage gate at 2 a.m. A bolt cutter is chewing through a brass padlock in the amber light, and Dakota takes the flashlight down the aisle. Unit forty-three roll…

After the daily smoke ritual comes the truck stop at 3 a.m. — a hose slips out of the van's tank, Dakota grabs the squeegee off the rack, and the thief turns out to be the night cook, five hundred mil…

Douglas and Dakota shut down a rigged ring-toss booth at the county fair — a carny with glued-down bottles, rings that never fit, and gas money on his mind. After the daily smoke ritual comes the midw…

Douglas and Dakota turn a coin-box bandit, a rolling laundry cart, and a load of orphan socks into a chantable 2 a.m. laundromat sting. After the daily smoke ritual, the van idles by the dryers, the q…

Douglas and Dakota turn a stuck snack machine into a midnight sting. After the daily smoke ritual, a rusted van, a runaway shopping cart, and one very dramatic bag of chips turn a parking-lot theft in…

Douglas and Dakota turn a plastic lawn flamingo into a full-blown fence-stakeout operation. After the daily smoke ritual, a sprinkler, a rusted van, and a sack of stolen garden gnomes push this buddy…

Douglas and Dakota turn a porch-pirate scare into a one-van parade, complete with crooked streamers, a cardboard badge, and a leaf blower deployed like outlaw justice. The crew is high on the daily an…

An outlaw southern-rock buddy anthem about Douglas and Dakota — high every day, chasing creeps in a rusted van like a cartoon stakeout crew.