from dave's window is...

....a picture that i plagarized. yes, this is a teddy bear having a colonoscopy. dave's link is to your right, if you care to..

This Is My Life

i got my membership at blockbuster today. i guess that means i am now a resident. i picked up the first two 'deadwood' shows. damn. these guys don't fuck around with saying the word fuck now do they...i will explore this series more.


i guess friday night lights has bit the dust. too bad. i thought this was a pretty cool show. then they started moving it around all over. it's no wonder why the tv ratings have dropped. the shit stays and the good get moved or on the tv three times a week. rip friday night lights.


what a cool picture.

i think i have finally found a basketball game. played with some guys today that were pretty cool. we will see if this works. i hadn't played since november and it really showed. i made my first shot and then none after that.

getting caught up

you can tell i am back in good old sylvan park. sorry about the lower case, but i think it gives the post character, but that's just me.


hey jessie, you don't know how proud of you i am. and i officially, in words, take back what i said to you when you decided to switch your degree in the middle of the stream. i believe the words were....uh, what the hell you gonna do with that...you are working in the field of your study...cool huh. it will be hard to give up when that day comes. congrats and much love and respect


uh...this caused an accident. i used to call it 'comfortable'.


this is the picture we are sending out by email. you should have seen the first one...ew.


i love the grammys. its one place where you can see all types of music in one night.
my faves were the way the chicks kicked all ass. i think i posted this before but these gals can really play and sing and i don't care about their politics. in fact, i like charlie daniels too. second favorite part was christina aguilera singing...it's a mans world...and just killing it. that woman can just.flat.sing. real easy on the eyes, too


this is michael amante. he can really sing. he is appearing in st. louis at the touhill and apparently is quite the master. up there with pavarotti. i heard him on kmox and someone asked him who his favorite singers were. he immediately said steve perry and freddie mercury. he said that steve perry had the most powerful voice he had ever heard. if you watch steve and really listen to him, he is very powerful. i just thought it was very cool that he mentioned them right off the bat. i got to thinking...who else has that voice. paul rodgers was the very first name that came to mind. then ian gillan.

so let me get this straight, other than the three stooges, the latest 'i could be the baby's daddy' is the old coot that anna nicole smith married. someone has supported the fact the baby could be from the old mans gak. man, oh man, he was ninety and that means it still worked. i am impressed.

february 2007 part 2

SHOCKED...SHOCKED I TELL YOU
many years ago, on a morning show i did, we used to do a bit called 'death pool'. at the beginning of the year, people would call and nominate someone they think would die that year. i have had anna nicole since 1997. very tragic, but not surprising. this woman was fucked up for a long time. the question remains, who gets instantly rich and the most important thing...what about the baby

february 2007

THE EAGLES...


this is one of my very favorite bands. the first time i heard 'take it easy' on am radio, i immediately went out and bought the album. also that day, i bought jo jo gunne, please don't ask me why i remember that. enjoyed 'desperado'. LOVED'on the border', that was the clincher lp for me and with the release of 'one of these nights' and then 'hotel california' at the age of 20, these guys knew mt life better than i did. here are my top five eagles songs...

1. 'one of these nights'-without a doubt my favorite song by them
2. 'hotel california'-a true american rock and roll classic
3. 'on the border'-sweet unknown ass kickin guitar solo here
4. 'those shoes'- from what i gather, done in one take. thanks bob heil
5. 'take it to the limit' i wonder what randy meisner is up to



i drove all the way to comiskey park in chicago to see them in 1976. the bill was...pablo cruise opened the show..i really used to like that band a lot...then sammy hagar, boston...their first tour...they were ok, steve miller, then the eagles.
i then saw them in 1980 in kansas city. after that, in 1997, i was one of the saps that paid 95 bucks to hear joe walsh do 'ordinary average guy'. that tour was frustrating. while it was excellentto hear 'lying eyes' and such, i wasn't thrilled to pay that money to hear glen frey play 'smuggler's blues'.



'THE POINT OF MY RANT IS THIS...'
don henley has announced that the new eagle's album 'leaving the land of eden' will only be available at wal mart for the first YEAR before other outlets get the chance to carry it. what...the...fuck. mr. golden pond don henley has turned into a hypocrite. ok, then. you guys haven't done a decent song since 1979. 'hole in the world' sucked. so did 'get over it' and the other piece of shit whatever it was. never has such a band i adored and admired fallen so low. don, fuck you.

some days are like diamonds, some others...

so i get this laptop from craigslist and i talk to the guy; the kid says its a great computer and he is moving to a place where he doesn't need it because his family has plenty. ok, then. i buy it. three weeks later, my shift key is gone, also use of the at symbol, parentheses, etc. this is gonna suck. talk to the computer place on my way to work. 135 bucks just to look at it.woof 'if i could make an exclamation mark here, i would'.


today was a tough day. we are now broadcasting in hd. that's very cool and they have changed the monitors in the studio to receive the hd signal. it sounds very very different. really crisp high end. i like that. apparently the feed to my traffic guy was on delay and the first report was a clusterfuck. while messing with the feed, one of the engineers switched one of my switches. it was painful to hear the dj crash and burn. in primetime. b-u-m-m-e-r.

so, if you could have dinner with anyone you wanted dead or alive, who would you dine with'i would put a question mark in here if i could'...easy for me..jesus christ. 'what's the buzz, tell me whatsa happenin'....

second...my brother. really miss him

third...mom and dad

fourth...teddy roosevelt..hey i'm a fan...we'd probably hoist a few

fifth...jessica biel. sorry.

The Rat Pack at the Sands

One of the perks of the biz is that I get to go to cool stuff. Last night, I went to the traveling company of 'The Rat Pack Live at the Sands'. Incredible. My mother would have loved this. She was the biggest Dean Martin fan ever. These guys were great. Frank was played by a brit and so was Dean. Frank and Sammy even looked like their idols. GREAT band, great music and it's hard to believe that we are so politically correct now. This was set at the Sands in 1962 at the height of the Rat Pack popularity. I really liked this show. These guys nailed it.

superbowl junk

I make bad ass mah-fuggin'chili. Especially when it has been frozen and co-agulated for a while. I would give you the recipe but then I would have to...you know..



Hey Indy,nice job coming out in the cold. It's says a lot about a city that doesn't burn itself down. When the Rams won the Superbowl, the only arrest was for some clown that fell through a plate glass window. I think Nashville's turn is coming and soon.



I watched the big game with four monks. One brother and three priests, one from England that knew nothing of the game. By the middle of the second quarter, he had it down pretty well. All good people, really. It was all good.

billy joel came in at 97 seconds, right on the line and i really wonder what happened to the guy. i don' remember him like that...stevie nicks sounded funky, but i thought prince rocked his hiney off.

Stuff From England

Just some stuff from England I foung lying around today. The place where I stayed is there along with tickets to the Churchill War Room and a train pass form the airport.
Notice is says "25 pounds"...that's about $47. One way.





While at Worth Abbey, I was looking at the paper (their only contact with the outside world) and I noticed that Patti Boyd Harrison had a photography exhibit at a funky place called The Proud Gallery in a very bohemian part of the city. I couldn't afford the pictures ($2000 was the cheapest), I got some souvenirs. Postcards from the Gallery.





My man Winston. England would probably be speaking German without him. He drank whiskey every morning and helped win the war. My man. From Chartwell, his home.

Junk Between My Ears

Tonight, we are entertaing a monk from England. Father Rod has only been to the US one other time to do a retreat just south of San Francisco (not a bad deal at all). I met with him last night at the annual school fund raiser. Seems like a nice chap but was completely unprepared to experience single digit temperatures. "It certainly takes your breath away", he said last night. It certainly does, father. I like to call it "refreshing". He seems to get the Superbowl thing, after all, you really can't get any more rabid fans than the Brits. I tried to explain as much as I could about Superbowl Sunday, but he will get here at four, so we will have to chat then.

My prediction: Colts 23 Bears 21. Sorry, Coop. I think it's Peyton's year. So, lay your bets on the Bears.

Speaking of bets, Billy Joel was talking this week about how he is placing a bet on the length of the National Anthem. Seems there is a bet for that. He said that the over/under on the length of the Anthem is 97 seconds. Billy also said he can do it in 87 seconds and will bet accordingly. So, will he place that bet or just force eveyone else to place that bet and then he gets more for coming in over? That will be interesting. I will try and remember to time it.



I was looking at my friend Cooper's blog and he has posted a survey that says that many Americans think 2007 is the year we make contact. When I was a young man growing up on the farm, my bedroom faced the southwestern sky, and I had a wide, panoramic view of the stars. Being in the middle of nowhere, on certain nights, you could see literally thousands of stars, very clearly. With the aid of a telescope, a guy could spend hours and hours plotting the stars and just looking. One winter night when I was 12, the sky was especially full of stars. I noticed someting wasn't quite right. In the lower left hand sky, three very bright lights had congregated and they were pulsating. After looking at them for about 5 minutes, I pissed my pants when they all took off in different directions. I literally thought I was having a heart attack. At twelve. I, obviously, have never forgotten that and I never will. What does it mean? I am not sure. All I know is that may life was different after that.

MORE SUPERBOWL STUFF...who's gonna show you this stuff? ME!



The Top 10 Scandals in Superbowl History. According to RADAR.



No..no, not these guys. If they ever did a movie about these guys, they would call it "Punters and Kickers Gone Wild" and that's the name of the article...funny, I thought I heard it somewhere else.


The guys at "Cracked" magazine have done it again. Here's a list of the "wussiest" Superbowl halftime performances. Pretty funny.

Leaving...

I can't believe the time is coming as quickly as it is. I almost get a panic attack when I think my baby is getting ready to walk out the door to college. About 5 months is it. The routine of preparing for this event is breaking my heart. Forms to fill out, money to be sent and the transition to an empty nester makes me wonder where the time has went. It's incredible how fast it's going and how it continually spins faster and faster, like a carnival ride that makes you want to throw up...literally. I'm dizzy and I want to get off. But.I.can't. All of her "used to be little" friends are going all over the country. From USC to Clemson to Temple, they are breaking up that little gang of theirs. I am witnessing what we all learned in watching "The Lion King". It IS the cycle of life. But, for brief shining moment, I'd like to return to her being in fifth grade and Dad still being cool. A moment in time never to be realized..in this lifetime, anyway, maybe again in the next. I can only pray.

Women Left Off The List

A couple of posts down, AskMen.com listed the top 100 hottest women on the planet, but I think they left some women off. Hey, beauty is subjective, but as a conissuer of fine women, here are some that I think were left off the list....



Kristin Chenoweth. This gal can sing, dance and looks awesome in a bathing suit. She's about 5 feet tall, so good things do come in small packages.



The only reason I watch Gilmour Girls is because of Lauren Graham. Solid, quiet beauty.




Rose McGowan is hot. Points are taken away because she dated Marilyn Manson. Points added because she is dating Al Pacino.

So, your turn. Leave your nominations on the comment bar. Love to see them.

On The Backs Of American Consumers.....

Exxon posts record U.S. corp earnings
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM.N: Quote, Profile , Research) reported a slight decline in fourth-quarter earnings Thursday due to lower natural gas prices and shrinking profits from gasoline sales.

Still, the company recorded the most profitable year in U.S. corporate history, with 2006 earnings totaling $39.5 billion.

Net income in the fourth quarter slipped to $10.25 billion, or $1.76 a share, from $10.71 billion, or $1.71 a share, a year earlier.

Excluding one-time items, Exxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly traded company, earned $1.69 a share.

The average earnings forecast of analysts polled by Reuters Estimates was $1.51 a share.

Revenue in the quarter fell 9.4 percent to $90.03 billion.

Earnings from exploration and production activities were $6.22 billion, down $818 million from a year earlier due to the natural gas price drop and decreased volumes driven by lower demand in Europe.

Earnings from refining and marketing operations totaled $1.86 billion, down $430 million due to lower margins.

Oil prices in the fourth quarter dropped from the record levels hit in July but were still robust, hovering around $60 a barrel -- roughly in line with year-earlier levels.

Natural gas prices, on the other hand, were sharply lower than in 2005. According to Reuters data, the average U.S. natural gas price was about $6.61 per million British thermal unit in the fourth quarter, down from $12.77 a year earlier.

Since the end of the 2006 third quarter, Exxon Mobil shares are up 10.4 percent, outperforming the Chicago Board Options Exchange's oil index, which has risen 8.8 percent.

THIS IS PURE, UNADULTERATED PROFIT!! LET'S HOPE THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION TAKES THE TEDDY ROOSEVELT APPROACH.

Ask Men's List of Top 100 Hotties

Number five with the judges, number one with me.


No way that number one is right. I only knew 33 of these women.

Some observations...Diane Lane is only number 98? Recount!!


Number 2

Why the hell is Fergie even on this list? She's greasy.
Mandy Moore is 53, that ain't right.
Chistina Aguliara is only 35? WTF? Natalie Portman is higher? NO NO NO


Number 3

Lindsay Lohan? 50? Ew.
Jessica Simpson is number 21. Kate Beckisale is 16? Get a sandwich.

I didn't know #4.

Here's the list. Enjoy!

A Couple Of Things That Are Unrelated

I really watch what I eat. I try to keep the weight at a certain level. There are certain things that I literally can eat enough of to make me puke.

Exhibit A Cashews

I can eat these undtil I throw up. My grandmother used to call them "butter nuts." I understand why. Maybe the best food on the planet. I am addicted to these like real bad


Exhibit B Buffalo Chicken Wings
I first ate these at The Landing in Washington Missouri while playing charity softball circa 1992. The locals invited us over and introduced me to this incredible culinary delight. That night alone, I must have had 12 pounds of them. Anywhere, anytime. The Key West Restaurant at Union Station in St. Louis has the best chicken wings (or it could have been the excellent margaritas). Now looking for good wings in Nashville.





This man should not be playing football. Let alone the Superbowl. Gangstas and thugs. Getting old. He was arrested for weapons by basically having a whole bedroom of guns and his bodyguard was murdered a month or so ago.
That's a good role model. The face of the NFL?

A Posting Of Links

Eight GREAT dominoes videos (I love these)


Two structural engineers name their top ten man made wonders


The top 50 cover songs of all time. Any list with Hendrix as number one is OK in my book.



Ten videos about people driving in winter. Go ahead laugh. At least it isn't you.

Sunday Morning Coming Down

First time going to church in Nashville. It must be indicitive of the neighborhood I live in but I swear I was the only person in the church that spoke English. The church down the street has a sign that says "Jesus did't speak English either". WTF? Of course he didn't, he didn't live in America. Duh. That sign just bugs me and I am not sure why. Lovely service, though. I certainly feel closer to God on Sunday.




We did a promotion with the Nashville Zoo yesterday. They had the "Zoo Run Run" to the tune of "Da Doo Run Run". They were expecting 400 runners, they cut off the registration at 1,200. I love it when radio can deliver like that. It reminds me of the old days.

I have basic cable now and I couldn't be happier. YAY!



College Basketball is now in full swing and of course, my teams suck. Mizzou seems to be getting off the mat and Iowa is...well, Iowa. Vanderbilt has been a big surprise and it's hard for me to believe this is a great team after I witnessed them lose to Furman.


Please, NFL, can we stop this nonstop taunting and showboating? Reggie Bush scored a touchdown while taunting Brian Urlacher. Let me get this straight...you're a rookie (albeit a talented one) and you're taunting Urlacher? The NFL fined him 5K which is like fining me $5. It's getting hard to watch with all the woofing that is going down. Let's stop it now.
Speaking of Reggie Bush, apparently he has been caught accepting goodies while at Southern Cal. Surprise! Not really but who will be punished if he is found guilty? Not him. SoCal will be. And that's a shame.

Love the new commercial where the father is calling and text messaging his kids at the table to the point where his wife takes it away from him. Very funny.


I saw an interview with Bob Seger today. Bob has always been the epitome of cool for me, a guy that I always admired, respected and followed with a great deal of interest. His show in Nashville was OK, but it is clear he is a shadow of what he once was. It was an interesting interview and my respcect for him is intact. He quit the music business to watch his kids go through their formative years. Good for him.
He still looks like my grandfather though; after all, sweet sixteen's turned sixty-one.


I had the best show of my short career in Nashville on Friday. Starting to get comfortable is helping but I have approached this show as a tree. Start with the basics and the trunk, slowly but surely, add more branches to the mix and hopefully, by spring this will be a "show" and not a shift. I think radio still has a lot to offer locally and personality wise. My thanks to Al Brock (the guy with the holes in his sock) for understanding and helping me realize what I want to do. It's his vison also.