I'm reduced to posting embedded YouTube videos now. But this one's pretty fun. It's the appearance of 3/5 of "In the Present", also known as this year's touring version of Yes, on the Mike Huckabee Show on the Fox News Channel. For real. Huck is a known rock fan, and a bassist, so you might think it's not that strange, but still ( Read more... )

OMG, I haven't talked about the speeches yet!  I won't be so wordy this time.  Let me just say this about that:

I loved Obama's victory speech.  It brought tears to my eyes.  I will go to hell and back for this man.  Just say the word, President Obama, and I'll do it.  I hope and pray that we as a nation will follow this man to the kind of healing, ( Read more... )

One thing before my actual post: as I type, I'm sitting in the food court in Chicago Midway Airport, with a long layover between flights, as in greater than 3 hours.  If I were still 30, I would've left the airport and taken a train or a cab into downtown, just to see if people are still having afterglow celebrations.  But I've been to Chicago a ( Read more... )

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Last night, I stayed in an Econolodge near the Philly Airport.  At work, we're under a "necessary travel only" order through the end of the year, and go cheap when we have to go, so I'm taking this "travel cheap" thing seriously!  While the Econolodge has a free continental breakfast, I wanted something a little more substantial (even though ( Read more... )

Take a look at the following.  You might want to wear some nice thick, fluffy winter gloves, or perhaps to don a "beanie" as the kids like to call them these days.  You'll be slapping your forehead for sure.  (BTW, you can spend the first two minutes of the interview, while you're still intellectually engaged, to don your personal protective ( Read more... )

I think I'll just join the fun, and suggest that the ones of readers of this blog (I'm being generous to myself), go take a look at this Sarah Palin interview clip.

For the love of Dog, I just came across another one.  Gov. Palin believes that a diplomatic position supported by Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, and James Baker is naive.  Really.   ( Read more... )

You know what rocks? Black Sabbath's Paranoid. I mean, this isn't news or anything, but we just got a copy of it recently, and I've been listening to it a lot over the last couple of weeks. What a fantastic album. No wonder Black Sabbath was so influential. I've been digging some of the hidden jewels on the album as well as the old classics. " ( Read more... )

Yesterday, the Boy Scouts did "Scouting for Food," in which they went door-to-door and solicited donations of food for the Houston Food Bank. The Houston Food Bank in turn supplies many of the smaller food banks, pantries, and missions throughout the greater Houston area.

( To see pictures and more cute writing, and to find out which VIP the Boy Scouts, met, click here! )

Please give if you're able.


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