Comments on: Urp.

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:19:55 +0000

The Lovely Wife and i had a very flexible organist for our church wedding (’85) who worked “Roundabout” into the pre-service music, and neither of our parents figured out why all our friends were cracking up . . .

For those who dislike both country and Christian contemporary music, something for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfs3BJZxKkc

For those at work who can’t click YouTubes safely, the hook of this music video is “Cletus, Take the Reel.”

By: nancy

nancy — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:54:42 +0000

The last time the Pistons won a conference title, I could hear celebratory gunfire coming from the west (Detroit). Last night, the Wings won the whole Stanley cup and all I heard was crickets. Make of that what you will, but I think it’s safe to say hockey is bigger in the suburbs.

By: Terry WAlter

Terry WAlter — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:45:31 +0000

Just read in Indy, rocks weighing up to 15 pounds are being tossed from an I 65 overpass. Three nights in a row,from the same bridge, same 2 hour period. Seems like with a lead like that, by the third night, they might have someone laying for them. But wait, there’s no money in that is there? Instead, an ISP spokesman calls for help from the public. The same public they’re running around looking to extort money from for minor traffic offenses. Police ‘protection’ my ass, no wonder Indy has a crime problem.

By: Terry WAlter

Terry WAlter — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:27:45 +0000

Ft. Wayne-Jim & Carrie on the morning radio show. “Well Carrie, have you checked the wires lately; is there any news? The Red Wings won and there’s still no report of Detroit being burnt to the ground?” Seems like that would be like trying to light charcoal with book matches & no flammable liquids.

By: coozledad

coozledad — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:41:12 +0000

Dexter: Country music really has taken a nosedive. I thought the alt-country and Dwight Yoakam swing would help, but then all the war fetishism and “deddy” songs started crowding the good stuff out. But what the hell do I know? I really only hear it when I go to the feed store.

By: Dexter

Dexter — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:09:10 +0000

”
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick says the city will celebrate the Red Wings’ fourth Stanley Cup in 11 years with a parade on Friday. It’s scheduled to start at 11 a.m.”—from FREEP

Time for a Vimeo report, Nancy? I was at the ’97 parade and it was a HOOT !

By: Dexter

Dexter — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:44:38 +0000

Trapped in music hell, my take:
I worked in a warehouse and the hillbillies had boomboxes staggered all over the work area, all tuned to the country station.
I hated country music. I had a great, soft job, too…all I had to do was walk around with a clipboard and chart inventory…very easy, and I liked it.
I was also slowly going insane as I envisioned myself with a sledgehammer , smashing Zeniths all to hell, in sequence, right down the goddam line.
So I walked into the office and I quit and never came back.
Now I love to listen to Brad Paisley and Montgomery Gentry, but only on Imus in the Morning .(RFD-TV).

A friend’s wife drove him to infidelity (he said) with the constant playing of this cut on a vinyl record .
She wore the record out and bought another one and did it all over again. So when she went on her Angie-jag, he went out and balled his friend’s cutie pie wife. Hell yes it happened! It was the seventies, and that stuff happened all the time.
Of course it doesn’t anymore…does it?

By: Dexter

Dexter — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:35:07 +0000

I was in Philadelphia , last weekend in March, 1981, for the NCAA basketball Final Four.
Indiana and North Carolina were scheduled to play that Monday night for the championship.
I was at lunch at a Russian restaurant with my travelin’ buddy, the place was full of suits having boozy lunches.
TV on.
“Reagan has been shot in D.C.”
So another storyline was created.
The huge headlines were about a fallen President, but the sports world had a game to address.
Unlike what happened twenty years later , when 9-11 shut down the sports world, most notably football and baseball, the network heads decided that since Reagan lived, the game must go on.
There was some negative feedback to this decision, and I wondered how the press on-site for the event in Philadelphia felt, but the event proceeded as scheduled, without a hitch,and I had no problem with it. It must have been difficult for some sportswriters —how much to say, if anything, abut their emotions. I suppose editors cut most sentiment out.
I was brought up that way; on November 22, 1963, our high school basketball game was played as scheduled. Yes! I never forgave those greedy principals for making us play that night, it was a cruel thing to do.

By: Terry WAlter

Terry WAlter — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:00:00 +0000

I had a friend who bought a bar. I told him if he ever had trouble clearing the place out, I’d come sing Morris Alberts’ Feeeelings.
In regard to McCain, He looks old and he is old. I’m sure his time at the hotel didn’t help. I tend to go along with the proposal that he declares his one-termedness up front and choose someone like Mitt Romney as his Veep/successor.

By: coozledad

coozledad — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:43:14 +0000

I’ve been in that car many times. And I’m afraid I would have been the dipshit who punched in “Happy the Man”. Especially Crafty Hands. I am truly sorry.
And then the Cocteau Twins happened.
Once a geek, always….