Rocker Peter Frampton Reads to Children

Because I was the only one who entered. We had a great time out there. Welcome back from New York, Lynne.

Well, we’ll be at Rileys for the Red Carpet Oscar Gala tonight. Drinking beer and chasin’ chickens. We better decide this thing now - Lord Of The Rings deserves best picture more than any movie in a long time. List of nominees MSN predictions. Come to Riley’s where it’s safe - Peter Jackson might decide to show a boob.

Just a reminder Glenn, Chris and I will be covering the open mic at Riley’s Tavern in Hunter on Sunday - runs from 6-9. Free BBQ chicken, cheap beer and lots of “atmosphere.”

Here’s John’s directions:

“Here is a particularly bad map. Bad in that what they show as Hunter Rd. is now FM 1102. You could get there using exit 196 off 35 like they show. But it’s easy - 1102 is the road that yall all make that last turn from onto Hoffman Lane to get to our house. If you don’t make that last turn and keep on going towards San Marcos, you get to the next little ghost town called Hunter and you can see the old bar right from the road. There’s signs.”

John upgraded our comment account so we have some new features. (Thanks!) I’m pasting in some info he posted as comments on another thread in case you all didn’t see it:

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A tip about comments: click on Kim’s Haloscan logo in this post then, on that site, look to the left and Under “Members” click on “Manage Comments”. It’s the third item down. Login as Whippleworld and enter the password. Then, once at that handy dandy page, drag that URL that appears in your browser’s address bar to your favorites, your links bar or just onto your desktop. Then, whenever you click on that shortcut, you’ll instantly go right to that comments veiwing/editing page again without having to re-enter the user name and password. Turns it into a one click deal, making it really easy to see all the comments and to correct a spelling mistake. Not that I’ve ever done that.

John Whipple

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Even more current news. No need to save a shortcut anymore. With the upgrade we just got, all you do to edit is hit that little “pencil on notepad” icon next to your name and it takes you right to the site. BUT it’s still cool to see all the new comments in order of the most current by hitting that “manage comments” selection I was talking about. You will see it from the edit post page. Try it.

John Whipple

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Note that that little pencil icon won’t appear under the comments unless you have logged into the Haloscan page at least one time. Once you do that, it’ll remember that you’re authorized to edit comments and will give you that pencil icon for editing, a trashcan for deleting, etc. The average person off the street won’t see those icons, only those with the username and password who have logged in.

Kim

Grace (not Deirdre)

Her first long road trip driving all alone. Sara is her very good friend who’s up there going to the University of Oklahoma. She just called to say that she’s half way - just on the other side of Fort Worth.

It’s so rare to have those great matchups on the same night. The Spurs got spanked so hard that I can’t even sit down. I think Tim’s going to be OK. We’re sure hoping the Kings will beat the Lakers - it’s close at halftime right now. Casey has a deal through Home Depot this next month where all her family and friends can get tickets to the Spurs/Clippers game on March 10th for $15. They’re $25 seats and they throw in a coke, ice cream and hot dog. So, I guess they have to tie a hot dog around the Clipper’s neck to get people to come. But it’s a good deal - that’s $10 worth of concession stuff. If anyone wants to go let us know. We always have a great time at the games.

BurnNet Secure Here’s the technology: Immediatec And their online store that they say is accepting new artist’s CDs for sale and that claims that the artist gets 100% of the sale: Two Big Toes

Also - Ringo sues Jobs.

I can’t seem to view in full page mode.

New comments script

Deirdre emailed me off list for any way to know if there are new comments. I replied pretty much “der, dunno,” but I had the good sense to CC John, who found a solution.

I’m going to test it now…..wish me luck

Waiting here for my little boy to come back from his first big rock concert. Very curious about how he’s going to compare it to Slaid Cleeves.

No Depression

Lena Horne doesn’t want to be portrayed by Janet Jackson in biopic.

Yea, whenever I see Janet Jackson I think of the ever classy Lena Horne.

Not us. But somebody in the family’s starting a family with their first baby. Big, big, exciting news. Try to guess who it is. If you’ve already heard, you can give congrats in a comment.

My old friend Robert Plemmons used to make fun of me because I had the enthusiastic habit of blurting out that something was one of the 10 best whatever … album, movie, concert. He said that over the years I’d placed several hundred titles under some of those headings and that I was a very poor accountant. Well.. I was just certain that that was one of the 10 stupidest things I’d ever heard.

Here’s my offering of concerts to hopefully start this string and to encourage other people to follow Kim’s lead with “best of” lists. In no particular order or accuracy:

* Neil Young featuring the Nashville Brass - 1971? (one of those Age of Aquarius years) The old, pre-fire Municipal Auditorium. After a sudden intermission, the old giant velvet curtain had been lowered and the lights dimmed to black so you didn’t know that Stephen Stills had come out unannounced until from behind the slowly rising curtain, they started playing Suite Judy Blue Eyes. It was like electric, man. The 14 horns in the Nashville Brass on Cinnamon Girl and Down by the River was, too. I have stories about that night that it’d take hours to tell. And even more hours to remember.
* Townes Van Zandt - 1973 Kerrville Folk Festival. No words could come close to doing that one justice.
* Rolling Stones - 1981 Tattoo You Tour. Dallas Cotton Bowl (we went with Mitch when he was a teenager). A turning point in Stones concerts. Jimmie and I saw them at 1975 at the Convention Center - The Stones were o.k. but not great. They let (needed) Billy Preston do 30 minutes in the middle of their show and that was amazing. But Tattoo You was unbelievably great and I’ve seen every Texas tour since except this very last one. We got tickets to the Steel Wheels Tour from Gene Fresco as a present when Taylor was born. The Voodoo Lounge Tours was great, too. I’m rolling all those into one.
* Dire Straits - 1990(?) Money For Nothing Tour. New Municipal Auditorium (with Glenn when he wasn’t a teenager). Best, cleanest production and tightest musicianship I’ve ever seen. I’ve never since heard a P.A. sound that good.
* Joni Mitchell - 1974(?) Old Municipal Auditorium. The famous Miles of Aisles tour. Tom Scott, the L.A. Express and the whole deal. Off the charts.
* Stevie Ray Vaughn - 1989(?) I’m not good with years and on these that I think are 1989 or 1990 I may be playing fast and loose with whole decades. Full Indian head dress at the Majestic Theater. We had VIP seats and met with Stevie Ray after the show. It was when he was at his very best. Plemmons and I, speak of the devil, saw him open for Rocky Erickson and the Explosives (when he was mostly unknown - after The Cobras and Triple Threat and before playing for David Bowie) at Pappy’s Teen Club over by the airport. About 1976 I guess. We were in the front with our feet almost on the stage in this High School Gym-like place with only about 20 old 13th Floor Elevator fans behind us. No-one in the universe has ever made two 22 watt Fender Deluxe amps turned around backwards on metal folding chairs sound like that. And Rocky was awesome, too, only he would keep playing after the songs ended and the bass player would reach over and turn his amp down to try to stop him. That show also deserves to be on the list.

Those are the first 7 on my best 5 list. What do you got?

(Once again, I have a comment that’s too long for the comment section!)Gamete donation is the ultimate in closed adoption. I’ve met people at adoption conferences who were experiencing the same issues as adoptees in closed adoptions - but without any hope of resolution! Annette Baran and Reuben Pannor, the authors of “Adoption Triangle” - the seminal work on opening adoption records - also wrote a book called “Lethal Secrets” about donor insemination. I failed “Bioethical Considerations in Genetics” when I wrote a paper on this subject using this book as my primary source - how was I to know that the 70 yr old professor was such a proponent, and apparently - satisfied customer, of sperm donation?

My big stupid dogs both smell like big stupid skunks. What can I do?
John got sprayed once (it was all his fault - he thought the skunk was a cat and kicked it) and I made him take off all his clothes outside then threw them all away. Brand new pair of sneakers - tried everything to save them, but nothing worked.
Maybe I should shave off all the dog’s hair - they’ll be shedding soon anyway.

Beauty and Shadow’s new friend.

10 Worst Album Covers

Eggs for Sale on the Net.

To me, selling eggs is no different than selling children.
So many kids need to be adopted, why go to such great lengths to make one from scratch? I suspect that these folk would be rejected by most agencies.

Selfishness is boundless.
In my experience, being a parent is all about selfless giving.

Maybe I’ve just been lucky cause it was easy for us to have our own kids.

Until then, we’ll have to amuse ourselves with this nifty quiz.
Which ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ character are you?

High school assistant principal admits he planted drugs in student’s locker.