Somehow while driving on a dark desert highway with the cool wind in my hair, probably in a convertible with the top down, I can’t imagine the "Warm smell of colitas’ as being the tip of marijuana cigs. For that to be the case, it would have to be growing all over the fields, and even burning to be warm!
Colitas, of course can be any type of small tail, so a warm smell of colitas might be from barbequed pig tails, which is as plausible as lobster tail.
Although ‘colita’ has been applied to a cigarette tip, after it’s nearly all burnt, I can’t imagine being able to smell that while going down a desert California highway, unless they were my own colitas!
What brought this on? Well, I’m in China, and seems as though the Eagle’s song is popular enough to hear it as a staple in many stereo shops!
Welcome, whit3hawk. I’m guessing this post is referring to this [url=http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_001.html]link[/urk], in which Cecil says it’s the tip of a marijuana branch (i.e. the bud), not a spliff.
Hotel California can only b about a whore house. Listen to the words of the song, and see for yourself. “…mirrors on the ceiling, champagne on ice, we are all just prisoners here, of our own device.”
