Willie Nelson has a new cd out... He pays tribute to Cindy Walker who wrote some of the greatest songs...Like 'You don't know Me, Cherokee Maiden, Take Me in your Arms and Hold Me, and Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age.' She is 87 years old and lives in Mart, Texas, which isn't that far from here. Johnny Gimble plays on it along with The Jordanaires...How cool is that...I would like to hear "You Don't Know Me"..as it has always been a favorite song of mine..I wish there was a radio station that played Willie, Chris, Johnny, Waylon and all the old songs...I don't like most so called country music today...nor many of the singers...it is just pop music with fiddles...and few fiddles.. Some I do like..like Lucinda Williams, but would be hard pressed to name any more...
Man oh man...there is so much madness out in the world I don't know where to start..Will start close to home...Panhandle of Texas is on fire....over 1,000 square acres are burned and on fire. Seven have died and 2 are missing...Cattle, crops, homes, out buildings all gone.... Oklahoma, is on fire too...Farmers in other parts of the state and the country are being asked to ship in hay as they have nothing to feed the remaining livestock....it's all gone...Plus the tornado's in Oklahoma, Mo, Kansas, etc...I swear if I was a believed the end of the world criers, I would tend to think they might be right..We are going to hell in a handbasket.. Then watched on news this morning where a huge chunk of ice fell into the ocean in the anartica....and is not the first time....How long can you tread water Noah?Fire, floods, countries all over the world are suffering from drought, mad cow desease, bird flu, and aids. Plus we have people killed each other in record amounts, and every country either has the bomb or is big buds with someone that does. Lets not forget our old friend Iran......lordy lordy....Today in the DAM NEWS is a tiny little article...here tis'200 ENTER HOLOCAUST CARTOON CONTEST IN IRANTehran, Iran...An Iranian newspaper's contest for Holocaust-related cartoons has drawn entries from 200 people, with some drawings mocking the World War 2 slaughter:one entry shows Jews going into a gas pipeline. Most contest entrants are Iranian, but six are Americans , and a few cartoons have been submitted from as far away as Indonesia and Brazil, according to the Hamshahri newspaper, A few of the drawings have been posted online.Jeez...even I can be at a loss for words once in awhile..Closer to home...Arkansas is being urged to 
prepare themselves for a big quake.. The small town of Piggott ..populaion of 3,900, which sits on the edge of what researchers say is the most active seismic zone in the U. S. east of the Rockies, is just a tad shakey... It shows a little inset map of the places in the zone....goes from Memphis, through Charleston, Kenn. to Ilinoise....holy shit....Seems like we have bloggers out there in that neck of the woods....so .....head for the hills........Didn't mean to make this a doom and gloom blog..started out with Willie and went to Arkansas earthquakes...fuckme till I duck and cover
North Texas is on fire and we had rain last night. The fire is terrible...something like 600,000 acres on fire and 4 people killed...Here in West it is green and lush...flowers blooming, grass is green and birds every where..Rained all night long and we needed it...we have been lucky so far..just a few small grass fires..nothing serious...thank the goddess..In the mean time I owe Sooner a Dublin Dr. Pepper as his Okie girls beat my girl bears...Matt lost the race by a pubic hair...what a mess...I think I was more upset than Babs ....She's like...oh well, he got points for coming in second and there is another race next weekend...I on the other hand am in the closet digging for my cowboy boots to go kick someones ass..jeeeeeez ....I have acquired another nephew...this makes 2 now..have one more nephew and a niece to go...David is in Iraq. He works for Hallaburton.....he gave me a job discription but too complicated for me...He and his wife have been married for 30 years..wow..He will be home soon for his r&r for 6 months. He says it is pretty scary that he knows there are people out there that will cut his head off if they kidnap him and they won't let them carry a gun....hooboy....The must pay a lot of money.....I got new books from library...6 of them..!) Christ The Lord.....Out of Egypt by Anne Rice....I am reading it now and almost done.It is the life of Jesus when he was a child.....So far it has been a total waste of trees....2)Queen Isabella by Alison Weir...Biography.....very good so far..reading it along with the Anne Rice book...3)The Thrall's Tale by Judith Lindbergh......a story about a Viking slave (Thrall) and he daughter...will see4)Cold Skin by Albert Sanchez Pinol...spooky book...5)A Minister's Ghost by phillip DePoy....another spooky one6)Nothing But Trouble by Michael McGarrity.....mystery.....so will let you know how they are...but the Anne Rice book just sucks....while reading it I keep asking Anne to make it better...but so far....nada..
Did you read in the paper where Oklahoma is passing a law to make it legal to kill child molesters?.....Works for me....I should get my kit to get signitures to get Kinky on the ballot in the mail today...They sent it priority mail and should have been here Saturday, but it didn't make it...That should be good for a few laughs.....Me pounding on doors asking people to give it up for Kinky....
Eveyone knows that I love most things Texas...but I especially love ole Willie Nelson. I also am crazy about his daughter Lana Nelson who attends to The Pedernales Poo Poo. Which is a part of Willie Nelson.com..Pedernales Poo Poo consists of her pictures and musings about the shows, the people, her Dad. Miss Lana is very very talented..I l like to click on and browse through and see the pictures and read what she has to say about the events at the time.. I also stole one of her pictures for background on my computer of her Dad and the Dalai Lama together..It is the best picture I have ever seen that defines 
the word 'joy'. So I reccomend everyone taking a few minutes out of their busy day and checking out the many talents of Lana Nelson..and check out (toward the bottom of list ) the 2 pictures of Willie and Dalai.......When you go to Willie Nelson.com you will see Willie's town at the top..you will see a blurb that says Pedernales Poo Poo...click on that..you won't be disappointed...
I finished reading A Million Little Pieces by James Frye. I found the book to be less than perfect.Even though it is supposed to be a biography I would have found it hard to belive even before Oprah went on her war hunt for his balls because there were some untruths in his book. First of all, this is written by a man who is a confessed, alcoholic, dope smoking crackhead. Of course there will be lies and untruths in his life story. He was fucked up most of the time..how is he supposed to remember all the shit that went down..? Besides, he is a alcoholic, dope smoking crackhead...why not bolster up a story with a little imagination? So it makes for a better story, and wasn't the point of this book(beside making him some bucks) to reach out and help other addicts? I give him full measure for letting the world know that you can get clean and sober without turning your life over to God, the sky, a tree or some other higher power. I went to 3 AA meetings and made a promise to me and who ever was in ear shot of my screams in the parking lot of my last aa meeting...I promise I will never drink again, as long as I don't have to go to those damn meetings.I wish the AA people nothing but continued success,(15%) but I agree with James Frye, that by joining AA and turning your life over to a 'higher power' and doing their 12 steps, and just giving up all control of your life to them..well, you have traded one addiction for another...now you're addicted to AA.....I have been sober for over 14 years(actually I have lost count as counting each sober day one day at a time is a pain in the ass) and it wasn't because I went to meetings, or turned myself over to a higher power, or walked in the steps of my fellow drunks...It was because I said I am not going to drink anymore. Then proceeded to do it...I am my higher power...I have control over what I do and don't do...I have no excuse for any of my behavior other than it is what i wanted to do and I did it...Now I don't want to do it any more and I don't...That doesn't mean that some peole aren't predisposed to 
being a drunk...I do believe it is in the genes, but I also believe you can use that as a great excuse for a series of wild and drunk weekends too. OOOOOh, it's not my fault...my Daddy, or Mother or both,were drunks, so I am a drunk too...Well, fuck that..quit your whining and get off your ass and take personal responsablity for your own sins.. It sucks, but that's the truth...I will be atoning for my sins till they throw dirt on me...and so will James Frye....Which brings me back to the heart of this post..In the book James gives the results of a test he took, called the MMPI-2...it said: he suffers from depression, low self-esteem, confrontational, tends to be agressive.Sometimes reacts to confrontation with violence. He engages in self-destroying behavior. he has low tolerance for frustration. He internatizes stress and deals with it through a process of self-destruction. He is irresponsible, resentful, manipulative, hurtful and has a psychological predisposition to addition.
So after reading the book, and knowing all of this what does Ms Oprah do? The woman who is supposed to have this heart of gold, who gives cars away, donates money to all sorts of charities(and lets us know all about it)who has done nothing but good for all sorts of folk for the last 20 years....what does she do? She drags this alcoholic, dope smoking crackhead out onto her stage and humilates him in front of the entire world...and why? Becuase he lied to her through his book.. He duped her...she was emabarrassed by his 'duping'. Hell, if she was going to be embarrassed ..she should have been embarrassed when Tom Cruise made an ass out of himself, her, and who ever was watching when he did his trampoline act on her couch and pumped his arm and said "I'm in love, I am so much in love."....now that was embarrassing...Why didn't she drag ole Tom's ass back on her show and have him account for his behavior. That asshole owes ME an opology.
So I say to James Frye...good book.....continued success...and to Ms. Oprah? You should be ashamed of yourself.
My old friend David Pareya won his run off...so that is good news...The county burn ban is lifted, that is good news. The West Volunteer Fire Dept. has approximately 70 cookoff teams intered as of Tuesday. It is scheduled for March 18 at the West Fair and Rodeo grounds in the city of West, and that is excellent news.They are holding a free shot clinic at the elementary school.The Czech Classsic Car Club is holding their meeting next Sunday. Kiwanis Club is having a fish fry in the West Middle School cafetorium. The West Ambulance Service will be having their semi-annual Mexican Dinner Fund Raiser. The menu is to include enchiladas, taco, rice, beans and all the trimmings.There will also be raffle tickets to be sold and $1 each or 6 for $5.The Fur Trading era re-enactment at Aquilla's Dead Horse Creek is a roaring success and still going strong..There are 2 pages of pictures of men and women in period costumes..it really does look like the real deal..Some guy has become so enamored with the muzzle-loading rifles that he uses them to go deer hunting each year. There are two articles in the West News that are totally against Bush and the republicans and I was shocked right down to my converse tennies.....Holy shit! Has good sense finally come to West? Be still my beating heart...Babies babies...new babies..Three new births this week, and only 2 deaths..we're catching up. Three birthdays, two engagements and one of them is Derek Maler who is one of the kids of a couple that I have known for almost 30 years..Damn, I can remember when he was born. He is a friend of my 2 granddaughters and is a good kid..He had some bad moments right out of high school, but he found a way to straighten his life out and is really doing well..Jerry's Chicken Shack is celebrating their one year anniversary. They do make great chicken, but try to limit my intake so only go once every 2 months.Oh cool, the garage sales are starting to pop up now...I love garage sales, they are better than used shit stores.The Catholic Family Fraternal of Texas, KJZT Society #104 Immaculate Heart of Mary Junior Division in Abbott recently supported the Wendy's Winter Coat Drive by collecting winter coats for people in need. Nice thing for the kids of West to do..but actually only printed it because I liked typing out the full name of the group..17 words...heheee.The boy Trojans have qualified for the Regional Powerlifting Meet. Go Trojans. The boys baseball team is not off to a good start, they lost 3 games in West tourney. The Lady Trojans won twice in the non-district action....70 years ago Rud J. Marar believed he was the first at driving an automobile in West. His license number was 1256..denoting that in 1910 there were 1256 cars in McLennan county. Mr. Marak said he had the same license number for years.Jeanette Karlik printed a old timie washing list and will reapeat it here if for nothing else Babs and I ....WASHING CLOTHES RECIPE
Build fire in backyard to heat kettle of rainwater. Set tubs so smoke won't blow in eyes if wind is pert. Shave one whole cake of lie soap in boiling water. Sort things...make 3 piles..one pile white, one pile colored and one pile work britches and rags.To make starch, stir flour in cool water to smooth, then thin down with boiling water. Take white things, rub dirty spots on board, scrub hard and boil. then rub colored. Don't boil, just rinse and starch.Take things out of kettle with broomstick handle, then rinse, and starch. Hang old rags on fence. Pour rinse water in flower bed. Scrub porch with hot soapy water. Turn tubs upside down. Go put on clean dress, smooth hair with hair comb, brew cup of tea, sit and rock a spell and count your blessings.It's 80 degrees, the sun is shinning, there are garage sales this weekend and if I need to wash clothes I can take them to the laundry mat....hoooooooooora........
Good bye Dubai....Good bye Dubai...Good bye DubaiI'm glad to see you go....The only bad thing about them bowing out before we could toss them out, is that Congress wasen't able to stress to Forest Gump how out of touch he is with the American people and just how wrong he is...Hey Sooner....? This is where you put the picture of the guy with his head up his ass...
I don't know if it was a fatal flaw in my plan, a power nap gone wrong or I really did want to vote for Kinky. Tuesday I hadn't slept and took what I thought would be a little nippy nap and ending up sleeping till after the voting booth's had closed..So I saved my self for Kinky even when I didn't mean to ..So now I'm giving it up for Kinky. Going to sign the petition and help get signatures for Kinky and see if we can't get him elected.. I can't believe I slept right through the primary. do'h. I finished the book 'The City of Falling Angels by' John Berendt. What a waste of trees...I am reading 'A Million Little Peices by James Frye....so far it is pretty good...While reading it I was remembering the first and second interview with him on the Oprah Show and I came to the conclusion that ole Oprah really screwed up when she had him on the show.First she has him on and goes fucking gaga over him and his book. Just raves about it...makes it sound like the best book she has ever read.....then she finds out that he embellished the truth in his book, in enough places where she feels'duped'.....With no thougth to what it might do to his sobriety or his mental health, gets him back on her show and rakes him over the coals, embarrassed him speechless and treats him like a mass 
murderer...Judas priest...he's a drug addict, alcololic crack head..of course he lies...that's what they do..they lie....he has told those stories 70-11 times...and every time he tells the stories they change just a little...mainly because he can't remember what really happened, and if you're going to change the story, might as well, make it a bettter story..I understood it completely..but ole Missy Oprah....noooooo, he duped her....like that is the first time someone took advantage or duped her...excuuuuuuuuuuse me...but seems like Tom Cruise's couch jumping episode was a dupe on a gigantic scale..Jumping up and down on that couch pumping his arms in the air telling her and the world "im so in love".....fuck....i would have been more embarrassed by that little show than the fact that some crackhead, drunk pill popper stretched the truth in a book about his drug history...What a hypocrite....she really showed me a side of her that I didn't find flattering.Think she's been reading her press releases.....it's just Hollywood Oprah, not the cure for cancer...fuckme till I give you my autograph
Yes, I received my new Vanity Fair magazine....filled with all the perfume samples....Sat down in my chair to read it and started sneezing right off the bat..damn perfume samples...had to go through the magazine to tear out all the samples...they make me sneeze..and sneeze and sneeze..toss in a couple of pees between the sneezing and you had my morning..It was worth it ...VF has the greatest articles...of course to get to these great articles you have to look at scores of skinny bitches wearing next to nothing pushing products of designer clothes, cars, watches, jewelry, vacation spots, push up bras, thong panties, over priced shinny new cars and other objects of desire that are way out of the price range of 90 % of the American population...but that is a whole 'nuther blog..There is a portion of a book,( coming out this month by Charlotte Chandler called The Girl Who Walked Alone).about Bette Davis...and it is really good and will want to read it ...I always admired her and thought she was such an excellent acctress. They don't make them like her anymore.
Ass kicking article on Grace Metalious the writer of Peyton Place...very interesting...She was hell on wheels back in a time (50's) when women wore aprons, stayed home and took care of the family..Dominick Dunne is stll cracking out articles on rich folk....this one was on the wives of Billionaires that have been arrested or jailed on fraud charges or white collar crimes.. Like I'm going to feel sorry for those rich bitches ...fuckem...Does anyone remember Warren Beaty's Reds, movie abou communism? There is an article about the movie and Warren and Jack and Diane..Pretty interesting, but really would rather they kept their articles on something within the past 25 years.One of the great things I love about Vanity Fair is that they think Forest Gump is an asshole too..and this month James Wolcott hauled his ass through the coals..huh huh..The magazine is worth the $4.50 for that alone...Plus the great article and pictures of Tom Ford's Hollywood..The pictures are pretty cool...nice shot of Angelena Jolie's butt crack and Scarlette Johansson's too for that matter....So all and all I was very happy with my first VF and am looking forward to my next one...
You know it's hard out here for a pimp(you ain't knowin ) When you're tryin to get this money for the rent(you ain't knowin)For the Cadillac and gas money spent(you ain't knowin)/We'll have a whole lotta bitches jumpin ship. Wait I got a snow bunny, and a black girl too/ You pay the right price and they'll both do you/That the way the game goes, gotta keep it strictly pimpin/Gotta have my hustle tight, makin change off thee women.Gotta couple hoes workin on the changes for me/But I gotta keep my game tight like Kobe on game night/Like takin from a ho don't know no better, I kow that ain't right.You know it's hard out here for a pimp(you ain't knowin)this is the Oscar winner for 2005.....and should be the theme song for Forest Gump's last 4 years...Fuckme till I hustle and flow
Monday was the 170th anniversary of the fall of the Alamo to Mexican troops during the Texas Revolution. The annual memorial service honors the fallen on both sides (from 189 to 257 defenders and several hundred Mexican soldiers) of the 13-day siege that ended March 6, 1836, four days after delegates adopted the Texas Declaration of Independence. Texas went on to win its independence.March 20th abour 400 Texan troops surrendered near near Goliad and March 27th those captured at Goliad were massacred. April 21st about 910 Texas volunteers attacked part of the Mexican army, killing 630 and capturing 730, including Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who was forced to order the withdrawal of all Mexican troops from Texas..He had tried to escape dressed as a woman...bastid...killed some of the bravest men in Texas history. During the 50's when the Davy Crockett tv show was on and was very popular my young cousin Greg(Di-an's baby brother) was a huge Davy fan...so Big Mama, Daddy Red, my aunt Estelle, Greg, my parents and I all went to the Alamo. They all lived in Mesquite, and had driven down just to take Greg to see the Alamo where Davy had fought so bravely. Daddy was stationed at Kelly AFB but I had never been either..so off we go..With Greg wearing his blue jeans, cowboy boots, spurs, twin guns strapped to his tiny waist(he was 
about 7) and his coonskin cap...he was Davy Crockett...We start walking up the path to the intrance of the Alamo and it is nothing like what you would expect..it is a small chapel on tree covered grounds, right smack dap in the middle of San Antonio...We enter this most holy and sacred place to all Texans...silent and in awe of the history of this musty smelling adobe church..We all look around and try and put ourselves in the places of Davy, Bowie, and those brave boys from Tennessee and Kentucky...Greg looks to the left, the right and up to the ceiling.....mouth hanging open in wonder...and then this small little replica of David Crockett speaks out and says:"Is this the place where all them bastard Meskins kilt ole Davy?"..My Aunt, Grandmother, Mother and Daddy and I did what them boys should have done....we split....REMEMBER THE ALAMO
Went to post office to mail the pictures to my friend Karla who will have them back to me I hope in about a week..Then I went to the library and checked out 3 new books..
1) A Million Little Peices by James Frey..(who got a spanking on Oprah Winfrey's show, and for the record thought she was just a little too I'm above doing wrong and your a giant asshole for my taste)...I mean for the Goddess's sake..he was an alchoholic drug abuser...of course he lied..that's what drunks do....why tell the truth when we can embellish a little and make it better...sanctimonious heifer)2)The Regime by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins(the lastest in series of the Left Behind Books...yes I read them even though I don't believe in God, it is still good reading)3)The Lighthouse by P.D. James...Will let you know how I liked them..It is another spring time day in West, Texas and I can't tell you how beautiful it is..Texas has the most amazing clouds...that is what I really missed when I lived in S. Calif. was the clouds....there was so much smog you couldn't see the sky most of the time....and when I came back to Texas I swore that I would never take for granted 'them big fat fluffy pillowy clouds'.....more than once I have just stopped the truck, got out and leaned on it to look up at the sky and appreciate the wonder of Texas skies filled with those lovely clouds...The only draw back for my day is when I went out this morning to get the paper, I found Rocky's breakfast...a beautiful red bird...damn him..it's not like he need's the food, he eats like a pig...I know it is the cat in him...that is what cat's do...but damn...I just hated to see that bird ending up as his meal...little fucker..
The high light of my day was checking my mail and finding my first edition of Vanity Fair. Shady Lane had told me she was getting me a subscription to it as they always had great stories in it and she wanted to be able to talk with me about them...we likes to bullshit on stuff we find interesting...What is really funny is that a hard shell yankee with a fuckyou and your mother attitude could end up being friends (for over 30 years) with a hard shell fuckyou, how's your mother attitude. Ain't life a kick in the ass...So I will also be updating you on the articles in Vanity Fair.I can just see you all rolling your eyes in your head going "and we should give a shit? why?"...Because I will try to be funny and will say fuck alot..I don't know if you all have noticed but with the exception of when I am conversing about forest gump and an occasional fuckity fuck fuck fuck....I have been trying to delete most of my random fucks...not sure why...maybe I'm trying to be more user friendly...But knowing me the way I do.....that won't last long...I have been saying fuck in one form or another since I was 4 years old...so don't expect it to last long...Besides I figure if I'm not going to do it I should at least be able to say it..I just reread my post...lots of fucks in there..so maybe I'm not deleting as many as I thought....
I thougth Jon Stewart was hysterical....the opening 5-10 minutes was just perfect...and that he was poking fun of the biggest stars in Hollywood, made it even funnier..Like he said, what are they going to do, bust me down from basic cable.?I was pleased at some of the awards and disappointed at some others...think Matt Dillion should have won supporting actor for Crash as apposed to George Clooney, but think it was sort of a popularity contest...and would have loved to see Felicity Huffman win instead of Reese Witherspoon.....and even though the academy nominated Broke Back Mountain for 8 Oscars, I didn't think it was going to come away a big winner..But they did honor Ang Lee as Director..And for a change it didn't go over by 2 hours like it usually does.So if you didn't watch and want to know who was nominated and who won...email me..I have all the winners...ha..have done that every year for about 15 years or better..To me the biggest fuck up on award was the original song Oscar which went to Mafia 3? or somthing like that for a song called It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp....from Hustle and Flow....it's not that I don't think it 
deserved to win,,(it didn't ..no way..)..it's just that you know not one of those old farts voting for Oscars have ever even listened to a rap song more or less listened to it enough to say...oh yes, this is the best song....Dolly Parton was up for Traveling Through from Trans America....and she sang it and Mafia 3 did theirs and puuuuuuulease...there was no comparison....Show me one white person under the age of 30 who can tell me one line from that song other than it's hard out here for a pimp..and I will kiss yo ass...Those old farts were just trying to look cool....and all they did is make asses out of their selves...although it was worth the price of amission to see them get up and thank everybody in the rap world...and they were the only ones that thanked Jesus..which I enjoyed...They had better commercials at Oscars than at Super Bowl...the one for GM was really cool...especially if you're an old fart like me...and the best part of the Oscars? Was when they introduced Samuel L. Jackson and he strutted out there like the baddest mother fucker in town.....he swaggered....and I loved 
it....it was hot....They need to take Lauren Bacall back to the old farts home...she had lots of trouble reading her lines and was doing the Kathern Hepburn head wobble...Right after the local news Jimmy Kimmel's show was on ...he had Quintin Tarantino, Johnny Noxville, and the Tennessee Three (John Cash's band)....it was pretty funny....they used the 5 second beeep for bad language a lot....think Q. and Johnny N. were nipping a little back stage before they came on...I think they word for the night was cocksucker....So there you go folks...the Hollywood update....
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Ok, I typed it and I can't understand what I said...I may have found my calling...hire myself out on line for plumbing jobs...Mr. BYG, just email me and tell me what the problem is...and I can tell you how to fix it..Plumbing is easy...just don't ask me to do any electical work..I go out side and turn off the electricity just to change light bulbs...that shit is scary..Although I could tell you how to do the job, just don't trust myself to actually do it...I looked up waterless tanks for Waywrong and wow, those babies are cool...I want one of them...and a new toilet..Thom said he had one for me and I said I could put it in.....but haven't heard from him soooo...Went through a bunch of pictures so I can send them to Karla and she can email them to me and I will send to soonerboy, she also said she would download them to a disc so I would have them to watch any time I want...Found one of Michael Ray, Larry Wayne and Jackiesue....all three of us lined up against the wall of Daddy Red's barn out in the country. We look like we are standing in a lineup. Larry is 3 years older than Mike and I and Mike was 2 months older than me..so we must have been 3 and 6...I don't remember the picture at all...there is another one of all three of us sitting on the ground up against the barn eating ice cream out of a carton and we look dazed from icecream over dose.. (Even then I had a thing for ice cream).But I can't find it...also a great picture of my Daddy..and of course the kids and grandkids..some of me...younger version and older fatter version...and one of Shady Lane...and assorted pets.can't wait for sooner to get them and put them up...and speaking of putting pictures up, didn't he do a great job with the pictures...love the blow job on the dog...if you get bored you should just skip back to the beginning and look at all the pictures he put on my posts..don't have to read them..just enjoy the pictures.. He does such a great job...good boy sooner...good boy...Maryjo called and Bailey is doing ok, but they figure he has about 3-4 more or less, days before he will stop eating and when he does that..he will join Chuck, Bill, Nate,Eddie, Lucy, etc..in heaven...
I'm watching the race...they are actually making corners...and drive alot on the grass..but this is more of a race than the going round and around and around..Leo commented and told me that I reminded him of Wyoming Knott in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein....well, I'm sorry to say that is one I havent read, but will check it out Monday..as I only have 2 books left out of that stack of books to read..Well, I do have a Shel Silverstein children's book to read and 2 auto-biographs I picked out from Used Shit Store.One by Shelly Winters and One by John Houston...so I have read 11 books..Will have to go back and see when I posted the list and see how long it took me...Henrietta said I have read over 10,000 books in the past 11 years..that is just from the library, that doesn't count the ones I have bought or had given to me...and my own collection of books..Damn. I need to get a life..Also, thanks to Soonerboy's posting of the picture of the Zulu's...you will be able to compare that picture to the picture of the Zulu's in the paper or on tv....Such a difference..I know my Zulu's...I have Lady Blacksmith Mombassa cd's, and they are Zulu....still don't think them guys at the parade were Zulu's...So sue me...Fuckme till I tote a spear
I love coming to my blog and finding all the new pictures that soonerboy has put on my posts...he does such a terrific job..matching up the picture with my post...the boy is a genius...some times the pictures are better than the post...my love to you my bastard son..Dom if you are reading this...Artic Monkey's are going to be on Saturday Night Live next Saturday..I don't know if you get SNL in jolly old England, but if you do, this is your Artic Monkey alert as I know you like them...To everyone out there that is taking on home repair jobs, whether painting, plumbing, (no electrical) repairing, mending, refinishing, outdoor or indoor...let me know....I am a semi-professional at most of these things...painting especially...might be able to help you with what you are trying to do. Like I have said...Jackie of all trades, mistress of none..I also do most of the work on my truck and did most of all the work on my cars, from trucks to jeep. 
So use me ......Im cheap...is it me or did something weird just happen to my font...what the fuck ?i know i must have done something but not sure what...kinda cute though....I finished reading Iris Johansen's On the Run.....it is fluff...I hate books on supposedly strong women but can't keep thier pants on because of that one man..who makes them tremble and get hot in their nether regions..jeez...get a vibrator...and learn how to change your own tires..So unless you like fluff books....skip this one..reading The City of Falling Angels now..
I talked to my friend Karla who used to be my neighbor but now lives in Mo. and she said she would scan my pictures and put them in an email so that soonerboy can post them for me...So you will be able to see what i looked like then and now..well, at least close enough to now to get an idea what I look like.also pictures of Rocky and Churck and Nate, and Baby and Bill..all who have gone to their great reward ....that is the problem with getting old, the damn pets don't last as long as you..Maybe I should get a parrot..teach it to talk and they live forfuckingever....ya, Rocky would love that...some feathered friend to talk smack to him..also pictures of Jenny and Jamie and her pit bulls...which are beautiful...you'll see...I am going to have an Oscar party for one tomorrow night...I'm probably the only one who will be watching it..but I love award shows and Oscar's are my favorite...jeez...I need to get a life...going to go read my book and finish reading my blogs....see ya'll at the races tomorrow..where Babs has assured me that the cars actually make turns and don't just go around and around and around....
The Southwestern Regional Rendezvous will be at a 37 acre spot along the banks of the Dead Horse Creek. The event will feature men and women dressed in costumes depicting the fur trading era between 1700 and 1840. A Rendezvous was traditionally where mountain men came down out of the mountains to an agreed on location to sell-trade their pelts for supplies, re-connect with old friends, hoot, holler and carry on... They set up primitive time period camps, dress time period and live that way for the duration of the evert. It began Wed. and will go on through March 12, and there will be 200 camps where people will be portraying various aspects of this period of time.There will be blacksmiths, mountain men, native Americans, settlers, traders, natural fur dyers, soap makers hat makers, fur traders, colonials, Scottish-Irish (Celtic influence), seamstresses, 
gun makers and many more.People from all over the country including Canada come to take part in the activities.This event is rotated from location to location and Aquilla was chosen for this year.Though competition is limited to the participating members, the public is invited to attend from 9am to 4:30pm, this Saturday and Sunday. Amission is $3 a person.Some of the traders set up shop and will sell period trade goods. Plus there are various types of competition like the back powder shoot with period rifles, a tomahawk and knife throwing contest, archery shoot, fire starting, etc. There will also be seminars and demonstrations during the weekend..
Now that sound slike fun.The Purple Heart Chapter 476 plans a meeting today...RVOS Lodge 46 has scheduled a meeting and social this Sunday at Cottonwood Hall. The West Rest Haven (old farts home) is having a salad fund raiser. 
The City has hired a ordinance enforcement officer..This is part time job to enforce peple to keep their yards clean, trim their trees, haul away their junk, cars, trash etc. I refer to him as the pretty police...West Libraray is starting a Book Club..beginning in March. Hmmmm that sounds interesting.The first ever Czech American Polka Cruise is back...The Polka Bus left Feb.6th with 57 West Czech's and met over 80 other Czech Americans at the pier in Galveston where the Carnival Cruise Lines Elation departed for the ports of Progresso and Cozumel. According to the West News the high light of the cruise was the Vaneks of West, a polka band who had the crowd yelling and screaming for more..There was a polka contest and a Czech costume contest for both men and women.They also had a Taroky Tournament.The cruise was such a success that they are organizing another one for fall.There were 8 birthdays celebrated this week, 2 engagements, 1 birth and four deaths, including David Odens aunt Jean Oden, his Daddy's brother's wife..Plus an anniversary ..The Joe Longs celebrated their 60th anniversary..and never once in the article about them was she refered to by her name..just Mrs. Joe Long...guess after 60 years she doesn't have one...Sad news the boy's Basketball team lost to Iowa park 69-50. Damn.But both the girls and boys weightlifting teams won the regionals.. We are also having a High School rodeo 
tomorrow..it begins with a Cowboy Church Service...God is big in West.Apples are on sale at Food Mart so am going to pick some up and maybe make a pie.I have more reasons to bitch...they put up more stop signs...think some one is making some money off of this deal.Can't drive 10 feet with out coming to a stop sign...Jeanete Karlik's article about her Uncle Raymond who when he was 12 years old would take the interurbn to Dallas to pick up Model-T's and drive them back to West. They were paid $1.50 a trip. When she asked him about a 12 year old's drivers license, he said no 
one had a drivers license back then. He said he remembered paying $3 for a commercial license and it was a little button that you clipped on to your shirt.That I think is pretty damn cool...she tells great stories about her uncles, they did what sounds like really exciting things but were just common occurances back then...One time they left West on horse back and rode to Colorado spent a few weeks and then rode back. Eeach one took $10 for the trip.That's all the news for this week in West...going to go rake the yard before the pretty police come after me...
Back in the mid 70's Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and a bunch of other outlaws gave 
a concert on the Steiner Ranch the xs Ranch...a real ranch, with rodeo stock, rodeo schools and even clown schools. From 620 South there was the 'ranch road' and it was 6 miles of curves, cattle guards, Brahman's of every size, sex and age, cowboys, hippies, and assorted lowlifes. Plus your average everyday folk. At the end of this 6 miles of bumpy road was 'The Lodges' which was ran by the M*****'s by the time I showed up with my brood in tow..It was a nudist place for a while...before my time, and is now one of the most exclusive "Health Spa's" in Texas...But when I lived there with my kids it was just 'The Lodges'...which consisted of about a dozen cabins, a huge outdoor covered patio, boat docks, swimming pool, bar and dining room. I worked there as a cook, waitress, pumper of gas for the boats,and bartender. At one time I actually fried eggs, served a beer, ran out side and pumped $3 worth of gas into a boat and got back to kitchen in time to butter the toast and serve the breakfast. This is fact....I'm a woman...w ...o...m...a...n...lets say it again..The owners were always working angles to bring in business. They had a riding group that would spend the weekend before the ride and the weekend after the ride at 'the lodges' and Lordy could they drink..Tommy Steiner who ran the xs Ranch also rented the 
lodges during the winter for the Rodeo school and I did all the cooking for them...He also held the clown school there and I cooked for them too..This is when MOJO got her fear of midgets..as there was a little person that hung out during the clown School and he was a miniture cowboy, boots, hat and belt buckle..he also had a mustache and he was about the same height and size as she was and it just freaked her out..To this day she is terrified of midgets..which is why one of her favorite songs is Little People Got No Rights...So one summer Willie and Waylon and the boys decided to have a concert...and they made some deal with Tommy Steiner to have it out at the ranch...and like they said in the movies..build it and they will come....so they built a stage and they came...every drunk cowboy and dope smoking hippy came..at the time the rainbow people were following Willie around and they were there along with bikers, hangerons, 
groupies, drug sellers, drug buyers, and many many drug takers...When B. M**** asked me if we needed to order anything special I said yes, 'lighters and papers'...I forget exactly how many we ordered but we sold all of them ...I worked most of the time and got to meet some of the goofiest people I have ever met...made some friends and pissed off alot of cowboys..Cowboys don't like ladies to call them mutherfuckers....told them I was no lady...get over it...I also made a semi- friend of Vic the Vice President of the Bandido's... for you that don't know ...Bandidos are a biker gang...I was leaving work one afternoon before the concert and found a wallet laying on the ground..It had over $3,000 in it..I checked the id and it belong to Vic somebody...so I wandered around and found this guy asleep on his bike with some girl drapped over his 
back...I woke him up and asked him if he was Vic somebody and he said yes, and I said then I guess this is yours..and handed him his billfold. He freaked, he didn't even know it was missing. He was so grateful and wanted to pay me a reward and I said nah. Then I asked him why he was sleeping on his bike and he said they didnt have a place to stay, all the rooms were booked..So I said, my couch makes out into a bed, you two can sleep there. Just no drugs in the house, as I have kids...So he and his girl spent the night and the next day I got to see Willie, Waylon and a bunch of other people but mostly just stood and drooled over Waylon....damn he was sexy....So when it is over Vic finds me and gives me a card...with a bandido with a gun in one hand and a cutlass in the other. Under it, it says BANDIDOS We are the people our parent's warned us about. in the left hand corner it says 'FTW MEMBER' and Vic is signed in pen..and under it is Austin Chapter. and the number 13...there is something in the upper left and right hand corner, but the card has seen better days and I can't make it out...When he handed me the card he said if you 
are ever in trouble and there is a bandido around hand him this card and say"im not a cunt". he said that bandido's give out the cards all the time to get laid or impress some one, but that if it is signed, that person is personally vouching for you..and it is no small thing...which I quipped, "unlike your dick"...he did not laugh and tried to take the card back...ha...I still have the card but have yet to use it....but when I was in calif. I met another biker and told him the story and showed him my card and said I wouldn't have enough balls to tell a bandido "im not a cunt"...so he gave me his card...which says in the left hand upper corner WBF and in the left hand corner Brother and he signed it Pineapple. In the center it says VIGILANTES GOLDENSTATE with a MC in the center of it...and in the right hand corner it says ......Jackie(she's not a cunt)...so I wouldn't have to say it..It goes to show you that as much trouble i have been in since the mid 70's I haven't had to use my two get out of a jam cards....
and she said she stole it from someone else..so it seems to have struck a nerve...I think it is a cute idea and had fun with it..the deal is you choosea band or a singer, then you answer the questions with a song title, then post ...then rub tummy and pat head...which i can do...so here tis'The band I choose is the Beatles..1. Describe yourself............Day Tripper2. How do people feel about you...Dizzy Miss Lizzy3.How do you feel about yourself....Wild Honey4. Describe what you want to be....The Fool on the Hill5. Describe your current mood....Strawberry Fields Forever6. Describe your friends....Run For Your LIfe7.Share a few words of wisdom..Love Me Do..rub rub..pat pat.....
Its true...eat a good helping of asparagus, fresh or canned and then wait about 2-3 hours and go pee...it smells funny..well, maybe funny is the wrong word ...it smells different and kinda tangy...Today is Texas's anniversary...170 years old...there was an article in my DAM News about the Texas Rangers escorting a stagecoach bearing the original handwritten Texas Declaration of Independence and other historical papers to the Star of the Republic Mueseum. The 170-year old documents go on display today which is Texas Independence Day.. Happy Independence Day Texas, and I bet if Houson, and Austin knew how you turned out...............they would have let the mexicans keep you..nah......not really. I do know that Texas could have been better treated by her keepers.Remember back when I posted about my good friend Shady Lane and her care package? She sent me this great card with 2 cowgirls on it and it was blank inside..fill in your own message kind of card? well, she said for me to enjoy it and send it on to someone else to enjoy...and I have..sent it to Babs(that was the unticking thing she received in the mail) and told her to enjoy it and then send the cowgirls on....so the cowgirls started out in Austin, Texas went to West, Texas and I sent them on To Dallas and Babs is sending them on to Singapore....so the cowgirls are going on a world tour....Maybe they will come visit you...
This is just my own small observation....when they first started talking about having the Mardi Gras parade there was talk of not having enough people, floats, etc. I have never been so I am not familar with the parades etc. Anyhow this guy said he had heard that the Zulu's weren't going to have their parade because there weren't enought people...so this 'white guy' goes to South Africa and brings back real Zulu's to do their
Zulu dance and get the ball rolling...Very nice and that is a great thng for some one to do...Personally I want to see his passport and these 'Zulu's' id...cause from watching on tv and seeing their pictures in the newspapers....these Zulu's are the lightest skinned african's I have ever seen...Every time I have seen pictures of African's they have been black. Not brown, or tan or cocoa colored..but black...but these guys running around in furry leg warmers, african feathered lion headdresses are lighter skinned that Harry Belefonte. They are ligher skinned that Halle Berry, Chris Rock, Jamie Foxx, Wesley Snipes and Samuel Jackson. If those guys are Zulu's from South Africa, I am Chinese.
"IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT GOD THINKS OF MONEY, JUST LOOK AT THE PEOPLE HE GAVE IT TO." Dorothy Parker.
Remember back when I said abortion rights would be the next thing to go with our new leaning so far to the right, they look like the leaning Tower Of Pisa, Supreme Court? They just fired off the first shot and number too is coming up. First one is the 20-year old legal fight over protests outside abortion clinics ended Tuesday with the Supreme Court ruling that federal extortion and racketeering laws cannot be used against demonstrators.The 8-0 decisison was a setback for abortion clinics that were buoyed when the &th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals kept their case alive two years ago despite the high courts 2003 ruling that cleared the way for lifting a nation-wide injunction on anti-abortion leader Joseph Scheidler and others.Anti-abortion groups appealed to the justices after the lower court sought to determine whether the injuction could be supported by findings that protesters had made threats of violence.In Tuesday's ruling, Justice Stephen Breyer said Congress did not create "a freestanding physical violence offense" in the federal extortion law known as the Hobbs Act.Instead, Justice Breyer wrote, Congress addressed violence outside abortion clinics in 1994 by passing the Freedom Of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which allows for court injunctions to setlimits for such protests."It's a great day for pro-lifers," said Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue.Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women, said the decision was disappointing. She said the clinic access act is problematic because it requires abortion providers to seek injunctions "city by city" and turns back the clock to the late 1980's when NOW played cat and mouse with Operation Rescue in trying to anticipate the cities and clinics tht abortion protesters planned to target next.Watch and see..Roe VS Wade will be next.fuckity fuck fuck fuck
After a lot of consideration I have arrived at the conclusion that I'm not saving myself for Kinky..He just doesn't speak out about what he plans to do.I mean it's ok to say you want higher wages for teachers, health benifits and insurance for poor kids, gay marriage, against the death penalty, and is for alternate enery sources...Well, hell so am I but he needs to tell me what his plans are to accomplish all of the above. ..Plus in this saving yourself for Kinky so you can sign a petition to get him on the ballot is very hard for me to do.Because it is not just the primary vote for the governor's race, it is for all the races. I for one am not going to sit out an election on snappy comebacks and the hopes that good stuff is right down the road..I had better assurances when I married asshole's 1,2,and 3 and we all know how that turned out..i'm not much on buying a pig in a poke. His campaign slogan is "why the hell not?" Because that's how we got the last two governors, Forest and Good Hair Perry..Every body's atitude was why the hell not..? We got screwed on both of them..so even though I like Kinky and think he is cute, funny and writes great songs..Looks like I am going to check out the democrats, weak sisters that they may be....fuckme till I'm reelected.
Willie Nelson has a new cd out... He pays tribute to Cindy Walker who wrote some of the greatest songs...Like 'You don't know Me, Cherokee Maiden, Take Me in your Arms and Hold Me, and Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age.' She is 87 years old and lives in Mart, Texas, which isn't that far from here. Johnny Gimble plays on it along with The Jordanaires...How cool is that...I would like to hear "You Don't Know Me"..as it has always been a favorite song of mine..I wish there was a radio station that played Willie, Chris, Johnny, Waylon and all the old songs...I don't like most so called country music today...nor many of the singers...it is just pop music with fiddles...and few fiddles.. Some I do like..like Lucinda Williams, but would be hard pressed to name any more...
Man oh man...there is so much madness out in the world I don't know where to start..Will start close to home...Panhandle of Texas is on fire....over 1,000 square acres are burned and on fire. Seven have died and 2 are missing...Cattle, crops, homes, out buildings all gone.... Oklahoma, is on fire too...Farmers in other parts of the state and the country are being asked to ship in hay as they have nothing to feed the remaining livestock....it's all gone...Plus the tornado's in Oklahoma, Mo, Kansas, etc...I swear if I was a believed the end of the world criers, I would tend to think they might be right..We are going to hell in a handbasket.. Then watched on news this morning where a huge chunk of ice fell into the ocean in the anartica....and is not the first time....How long can you tread water Noah?
prepare themselves for a big quake.. The small town of Piggott ..populaion of 3,900, which sits on the edge of what researchers say is the most active seismic zone in the U. S. east of the Rockies, is just a tad shakey... It shows a little inset map of the places in the zone....goes from Memphis, through Charleston, Kenn. to Ilinoise....holy shit....Seems like we have bloggers out there in that neck of the woods....so .....head for the hills........
