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http://www.slowfooddallas.blogspot.com/
I have been on the mailing list for Barking Cat Farm.
Wish I could actually drive out to Rockwall to get the food. I dont, but I do get the mailing list with ranch reports. Good stuff.
Hey folks. I realize its been a long time since I have checked in with most folks. When I get more than 5 emails in a month checking on my pulse, I guess its time to update the internets on my goings on.
Mostly, things are good. My hand is recovering. Ten years or so at “Rockfest” I jacked my hand up so bad I had to get a plate and screws. There was no drinking involved or anything interesting…in fact, the incident was flat out dumb. It was friday night of rockfest. I was looking forward to a day of music with Matchbox 20, Jewel , Bush, No Doubt, Collective Soul, Counting Crows and The Wallflowers. It never happened. About 2am I was kinda just playing street hockey with sticks and fell on my wrist….breaking it badly. Never saw the show.
Fast forward ten years. Im on my bike with Spyche and had a crash. It was a pretty bad sprain, but the good part was that a creaky wrist that I thought was normal was really pointed out to be screws rubbing on my tendons. After displaying my wrist to every resident in the building as a bad example of how to go about caring for a wrist, it was suggested (short of at gunpoint) that I had to get the hardware out. A scan of my wrist showed some damage that could be scoped too, but they were not sure if it was recent or from a while ago…not that it mattered.
When it first happened, I had to cancel some gigs. I could not play. After two weeks, I could make some noise. I ended up canceling a gig at Adairs and still played a short set at Allgood. This resulted in the Boys Named Sue getting banned from Adairs for backing out on a gig. Kinda Sucks…but well…whatever.
So I ended up with surgery on my wrist. They took out the plate and screws, debraided my tfcc and cleaned my tendons. Had my wrist in a surgical cast for two weeks and got it out two weeks ago. I can play fine….dexterity is fine, but the strength needs to be rebuilt. wrist is a bit clicky though. It was like that before surgery, but now that most of the issues have healed, thats whats left.
Got a kitten…or…well…he got me. A week before the surgery, I had reports from my neighbors that my Jeep was “Meowing”. Turns out a kitten had holed up in the engine. So the day after surgery…a weekend of presumed “rest”, spyche caught the kitten and cleaned him up.
He has been at my house ever since. Sweet fella. Mostly well behaved. Likes twine. Very curious..but I love him to death. Called him Mojo. Mojo the Dubcat!
So…
I had fun mucking around with circuit bending. I didnt have a lot of time, so I played with a pretty small circuit.
Here is the link.
From Dallas Observer
Boys Named Sue
Best Country/Roots, Best Song (”Honky-Tonk If Yer Horny”)
Once again, you readers have proven that while you may know little about country music, you certainly know a thing or two about having a good time—and if you’ve been drunk at a bar in Dallas in the last five years, you’ve probably had a good time or two with the Boys Named Sue. A BR5-49 for the Jackass set, the Sues drink hard and play harder, mixing classic covers, zany originals and goofy medleys into maybe the most entertaining train wreck in town. “With the Sues, we all say, ‘What is the stupidest thing we can do?’” says frontman John Pedigo. “Then someone will say, “Hey everybody! Watch this!!!” And then we all jump off the bridge.”
Take for instance DOMA Best Song “Honky-Tonk If Yer Horny,” which recalls the spirit of comic country classics like “Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother,” “Convoy” and “Up in Smoke” as it tells the tale of a truck-stop hooker named Clementine, “a guaranteed good time.” Leading off The Hits—the Sues’ proper debut—with a bang, the song proves once and for all that the Sues are the local kings of the beer-drinkin’ anthem. “The Hits was intentionally conceptual,” says Pedigo. “And by conceptual I mean we got together in one night with two cases of beer and a bottle of Tuaca and wrote the entire album and recorded it soon after. I don’t think we recorded a song without giggling.”
But it’s not all goofin’ off for the Sues, as The Hits also features some fine straight country tunes, from the easy shuffle of “Travelin’ Down” to “Amber Friends,” a tear-in-your-beer salute to the Sues’ favorite liquid therapists, all spiked with the lovely, lilting fiddle lines of the band’s secret weapon, instrumentalist Bobby Sue.
As for what’s next for the three-time DOMA kings of country, it’s anyone’s guess, but it will certainly involve alcohol. “The Sues will continue to reign supreme and out-drink everyone under the sun,” says Pedigo. “It’s funny to watch people attempt to keep up with us. Sorry, but it’s impossible. [Bassist Ward Richmond] and I alone ‘beat’ Australia and New Zealand and that ain’t easy.” And with drinkin’ songs as good as these, it’s hard not to believe him. —N.W.B.
Kitty, a stray that has settled into Spyche’s place, had a kitten!
We are not really sure of kittys background. Its even suspect that she used to live in that house all along and perhaps the previous owner left her.
In any case, kitty was getting bigger and bigger and when she finally was taken to the vet for an inital checkup, it was confirmed that she was pregnant.
Her water broke (I didnt know that they did that) on Wed night. We frantically hit the interwebs to see what the signs of a cat going into labor was.
Lost of appetite - Check
Affectionate - Check (but she is always that way)
Hiding in safe place - “Wheres kitty? Hiding behind the door” - Check
Luckily a trip was made that very day for towels and a nesting box. She kinda had this surprise “help me” look on her face and was promptly scooped into the box and in about an hour, we had a new kitten.
We were pretty worried about what to do with a big basket of kittens, but kitty only had one kitten.
Here are pics one day old.
So I get a call from Mark David Manders on Thursday asking what my calendar looks like for a gig on Wed. Usually Im pretty booked, but it looked open….still, by the tone of his voice, it sounded like the gig was a bit more involved. Usually I have to ask if its in Odessa, Lubbock or further before just saying I can do it. Turns out he needed a fiddler for a show in Puerto Vallarta. Five days, all-inclusive, everything paid for and we just play on Wed night for a two hour set. SWEET!
Luckily I got my passport figured out in April, just in case I needed to take a quick trip to Mexico with my girlfriend. From what I heard, folks have a 12 week plus wait up for passports. I got my expedited from a kinda shakey looking operation in Richardson, but it did only take two weeks. AA passport is run by a guy named Sonny. Its legit and the guy is really nice….it just has a strange vibe to it. Its a little weird to see stacks of passports with birth certificates stuffed in them strewn across the room, but Im sure his organization skills are better than mine.
Springing the request to take a full week off of work to my boss was pretty easy. Its more of a matter of asking “Hey, I got a free vacation…but I need to leave on Monday, should I take it?”. Im the master of the “loaded question”.
So the resort is doing a “Texas music” week theme with the folks at Love and War. They shipped some Love and War menu items and have texas artists like Mark David Manders, Austin Cunningham and Jessie Dayton.
The resort is Marival in Nuevo Vallarta. This apparently is a “resort only” part of the beach. It was more like a compound getting into the place. Its a ways from any towns, but if your just interested in a little swimming, lounging and reading a good book, this is the place.
The room I got is very nice. Its a suite right on the beach.
The first day was spent
mostly accustomizing myself to the various buffets and snack eateries as well as
the numerous bars. All-inclusive is pretty dangerous.
Did some picking with the Dayton gang and watched the sunset.
For FREE!!!
The pics are here
More will be added as I snap pics…but I have to pay for Wifi, so it might be sporatic.
This is the lobby.
