New Trio! |
My friends Joey Sykes, Billy Alexander and I are launching a new trio, dubbed...Uncle Junior... so make sure to drop on by, say "hi," and (of course) add us to your roster of close, personal friends!
Posted by on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:51:00 GMT |
Dictionary Use All Gone To Pot |
My dad yesterday recounted a story involving a friend of his who professed both unfamiliarity with the word 'cannabis' and an inability to find that word in a dictionary -- two odd bits of incapacitat...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:10:00 GMT |
Purists. Of a Sort. |
Country Music News Blog posts a news release about the National Academy Of Recording Arts & Sciences committee's refusal to recognize Merle Haggard's new bluegrass album as "bluegrass" for purposes of...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 07:28:00 GMT |
"Memories of You" |
The new demo's up. Props to Loren Ellis (for the banjo pickin') and Roger Malinowski (for engineering the special, roadside-motel banjo session). Thanks, boys.Of course, if you really like the song, y...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:24:00 GMT |
Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue |
My dad has two Clumber Spaniels. Whenever he goes to a concert he makes sure to buy a matching pair of the performing artist's bandannas for them. He's got quite a collection: Toby Keith, the Dixie Ch...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:52:00 GMT |
Hotel Cahuenga |
Slate "profiles" a Malawi couple, Mr. and Mrs. "M," who have turned toward alleviating "the tragedy affecting so many U.S. celebrity children," namely, by adopting them. Their first adoptees: Britney ...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:46:00 GMT |
Error on a G String |
This is a bizarre case. Former Procol Harum keyboardist Matthew Fisher sued for a share of the copyright to "Whiter Shade of Pale" based on his contribution as keyboardist on the recording and...won!I...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:03:00 GMT |
Baa |
From Reuters:KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Officials at Nepal's state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:35:00 GMT |
Shoulda Tried the Cha-Cha |
From the AP:[De Soto, MO store clerk] Vicky Gaines says a masked [naked] man walked in and began doing the hula dance.Police say the plan was for the naked dancer to create a distraction while another...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:17:00 GMT |
Apologies Excepted |
A recent paper by Cornell psychology profs Jane Risen and Thomas Gilovich (via Collision Detection) confirms what psychologists have long believed: Recipients of apologies appear not to discriminate b...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:56:00 GMT |
