How come is it that the “CSI shows” use old rock and roll tunes. Is it because the copy rights have run out or is it because someone has noticed that the surviving rock bands (The Rolling Stone, Paul McCartney, The Who, and others) fill up stadiums every time they tour. This question came to me as I just happened to catch “The Who” live in concert. It took most of “Who Are You” for me to realise that I was watching the super bowl. I just have to ask why “The Who” and not some hip hop rap crap band. Maybe it’s because “The Who” have talent and they could time the music to the fire works very nicely. The lasers where used very nicely to. I see what Sunn (comment #2 “February 3, 1959) means about guitar solos he went a little nuts but at lest he has skills to show off with. I caught all of “Who Are You” very nice and all of “Won’t get Fooled Again” also very nice. I just wish that I had caught the whole thing.

…..That the band who would become “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” set foot on American soil for the first time….. February 7, 1964, The Beatles started their first American tour, which, changed American pop music forever…… John, Paul, George, and Ringo – the Moptops who became the guru’s of music in my generation, and, I believe, will be considered rock icons by many more generations to come…..

This ties-in with my previous Post on Buddy Holly, as Paul owns the publishing rights to the Holly catalog….. He lost the rights to The Beatles catalog thanks to one “Yoko Oh-No”….. The music business is rough around the edges (it has a black hole at the center)…..

This is strange and weird – I’ve been listening to my I-Pod set on shuffle play since I haven’t got my main music system setup yet…. As I started this post, I clicked on my I-Pod….. It was on the last two seconds of silence on the song I stopped it on the last time I used it…. Here’s what came screaming though the speakers, out of 555 choices I have on the I-Pod – “That’ll be the Day”, a Buddy Holly hit, performed by The Beatles from the Anthology I album cranked up….. I’m bettin’ it’s going to be a good day….. Dig out some early Beatles and “Rock Out, Citizens of MR Land” (That is an order signed by MR, and approved by PD Bob)……

Yeah, I know February 3 was yesterday, but I thought Sunn might post this as he is our official MR Rock Cornier…… February 3, 1959 has come to be known as “the day the music died”, and, someone “drove their Chevy to the Levy” or something like that…..

It was the day Buddy Holly, Richie Vallens, and the Big Bopper died in a small plane crash in Iowa….. Holly is looked upon as one of the founding fathers of Rock and Roll…… He was from Lubbock, Texas and he had just really made the big time….. The irony of the tragic accident is that Buddy wasn’t supposed to be on the plane….. He had a cold and his bass player at that time, Waylon Jennings (someone you may have heard of) gave up his seat on the plane to Buddy….. Country music took a giant leap that day, although, it would be a few years before Waylon hit it big…. Life is strange and weird for the most part……

……So says Prairie Dog Bob, and, he did NOT see his shadow, so, it’s going to be an early Spring…… PDB says that the term “Ground Hog” is a derogatory slang term for the noble, intelligent, handsome, and strong Prairie Dog….. Don’t ever call PDB a “Terra Hog”, at least, not in his presence……

PD Bob and I watched that, as PDB called him, “stupid, dumb, and over-rated #%^&#@ Hog” in Poxi-whatever-tony, PA say that he saw his shadow meaning six more weeks of Winter….. Our local weatherman pointed out that it was impossible for him to see his shadow as it was cloudy and snowy all the way from Maine to Oklahoma….. The shadow he saw was from all the media lights….. DuuH….. No wonder he sees his shadow every year!…… PD Bob immediately started planning a mission to visit this “Rat in a Prairie Dog suit” and straighten him out horizontally……

Anyway, dig out your copy of “Ground Hog Day” (sorry, PDB, but that is the name of the movie), and give it a watch…… I’ve got PDB looking for my copy right now…… He’s doing it, but, keeping mumbling something about animal profiling, and how can anyone call a PD “Dog” a G “Hog”?…..

I know, It’s the same old bitch about the electric companies again…… We’re in an ongoing Freezing Rain/Ice/Sleet/Snow storm right now, and, the power outages are already above the 150,000 mark….. In the 2007 Ice Storm over 600,000 were without power, and, some areas did not have power restored for over 4 WEEKS!….. According to our news reporters, “there’s nothing you can do – Ice builds up on the power lines and they come down”….. BS!….. They could bury the damn lines….. I heard all the sorry reasons why this can’t be done – 1. It’s too expensive, 2. The lines are easier to work on above ground (If they were buried, this would be a rare occurrence – just like water, gas, and sewer lines, which are buried), etc, etc….. It all boils down to GREED!….. The electric companies could care less about someone freezing to death due to a power outage, or, someone smashing into a power pole that wouldn’t be there if the lines were buried, or, someone burning their house down and themselves up by the inappropriate use of gas heaters…… Nope, they are only interested in PROFIT!…. They don’t care about loss of life, injury, property damage, or any inconvenience to the customer – Just as long as you pay-up every month….. They are quite happy to sit back using the same dinosaur technology that started with the planting of the first power pole in the late 1800’s!….. It’s the Twenty-First Century, people, it’s time to force the electric companies and their political cronies into it……

What other companies do you know of that would remain in business, when, at the most critical time that you need their service, it’s not available?…… How do they get away with it?…. They’re a PUBLIC UTILITY!….. All their power poles and lines are on PUBLIC PROPERTY!…. They are regulated (yeah, right) by the same local politicians that like to put money in their pocket also!….. Sadly, it comes down to the American voter, who, for the most part, doesn’t even vote, or, just votes the same crooked politician back in office….

WAKE UP, CITIZEN, YOU ARE SCREWING YOURSELF!….. Not only do you pay for a service you can’t get when you need it most, the electric companies pass all the constant repair costs on to you by going to the Corporation Commission (the politicians I mentioned earlier) and filing for, AND, getting an across the board rate hike……

Am I the only one who sees this?….. Am I that far off base?….. Let me know what you think out there MR Community Members on this subject – Only if you have the time – It’s really not that important – Don’t make waves…… (Point Taken? – I Hope So)

Yep, the last Monday in January has been named “Bubble Wrap Day”…… Originally designed to be used as wallpaper, yes, wallpaper!….. Some of that late ’50’s futuristic look of the future due to the intense interest in space travel mixed the fear of nuclear Holocaust with the Cold War going on with Russia….. As we all know, it made a much better packing material than wallpaper, so, here we are, some 50 odd years later with a holiday for packing material….. Who would’ve thought….. Is our IQ’s going down that fast?… Anyways, it’s fun to play with…..

The Red Dwarf fans out there will remember bubble wrap as the famous “Tension Sheet” invented by a schoolmate of Arnold Rimmer’s which is now super rich…. Rimmer goes back in time with the intention of convincing his grade school self to take a piece of bubble wrap to the patent office before his school mate….. You also get to see Dave’s younger self as leader of a rock band, and, hear his famous “Um” song…. I laugh just thinking about it – Time to get out the DVD and watch it….. If you’re not a Red Dwarf fan, you should be…. The new movie is great!……

Summer 2009

Thanksgiving 2009

New Year, New Decade 2010

This summer I hung this Cheeto on the tree to fool a crow. (It did. He grabbed it in midair and came up short on the string. Never tried it again) I left it hanging. It made it through Thanksgiving and now into the new decade. The orange color turned to black and it has turned hard despite the rain. I’m hoping to set a new world record and need your support. Send money to me and send a link to this post in an email to 10 friends. Thanks.

As most of you know, I don’t follow sports that much, but, it seems to me that there was an extraordinarily huge number of firing and hiring of coaches – both college and pro – this year….. Has the “WIN or you’re outta here” philosophy kicked (field goal – 3 pts.) in or what?…… I see the Seattle Seahawks have a new coach…. Just a warning, Seattle, you keep it up and OKC might just buy them and call them “Lightning” since they bought the Sonics and renamed them “Thunder”….. God, I hope not!….

I wonder if I could get one of those Head coaching gigs?….. Even if it only lasted part of a year, that would be a lotta bucks….. PD Bob said he would be the offensive coach…. I told him he was already offensive so he’s halfway there to being hired….. Any MR community members want to throw their hat in the ring for a coaching staff position?….. I bet we could do as well as most of them that are getting the big bucks and the Fame, don’t forget the FAME!…..

Ever wonder what was behind the title of a particular album

The earthquake in Haiti got me to thinking….. There’s a small town called Jones about 4 miles from where I live….. Usually they have 2 to 3 small earthquakes a year – about a 2.0 to 2.5, but, in the last 3 months, they have had over 30, yes 30 earthquakes!….. The highest being a 3.3….. That one shook houses where I live…. I was visiting Robo at the time and it felt like something was trying to push the house over from the South…. There was no noise, except for the walls creaking and loose items shaking….. You could feel the air pressure push on you….. It was weird…. I can image a 7.0!…. Man, I feel for those people…..

I remember that Seattle had one some years back that damaged buildings downtown…. Jek and Anon probably remember that one….

So-o-o, are we facing an outbreak of earthquakes?….. Is Mother Nature going to squash us from the inside to get even?……

This is a response to the previous “Annexed by Canada” post. I think, MR, you have it backwards. Check out this USA image on a Fred Meyer branded Toasted Oats cereal box. America the Beautiful indeed. Look closely!

I just caught a little of this on the news the other day, apparently Sir Paul McCartney is going to license his solo career catalog to be used with The Beatles’ Rock Band software….. Paul always said the money was in publishing and licensing , although it cost him The Beatles’ catalog to one who shall not be named (MJ) in the past….. Time to do some “Band on the Run” on your Wii…..

As I said, I only caught part of this, if anyone knows the details let me know…… It’s been a “Venus and Mars” type of year already and that’s alright with me…..

Yep, Hosers, it’s been below freezing here in the Heartland almost constantly since even before the record breaking blizzard we had on Christmas Eve….eh?… Snow everywhere (even yellow snow) and c-o-o-l-l-d…… So-o-o, we’ve been annexed into the British Empire via Canada…. Take Off, eh?…… Here’s the details……

I woke up yesterday with a Royal Canadian Mountie knocking on my door….eh?… Wanted a cup of coffee and directions to the State Capitol to deliver the official annexation order….. I gave him a cup and told him to, “Take Off, eh?”…….

PD Bob showed up on a dogsled full of Canadian bacon….eh?… He had on a walrus coat and big fuzzy took on his head, and, a copy of Bob and Doug’s movie……. Hoser the dog was leading the pack…eh?….

Oh, yeah, before the Mountie left he told me he was also carrying plans for a ski lift project from Vancouver to OKC and back…..eh?…

There’s nobody out there that still believes in Global warming is there?… I’m going to pour me and PDB another cup, eat some fatback, and discuss it in detail…… Take Off, Hosers….eh?…

……..to all the members and followers of the MR Community….. It’s a New Year and a new starting point…… I’m glad 2009 has gone it’s way and all it’s weirdness with it…… I won’t even go into all the strangeness that I’ve been though during the last part of 2009 – Let’s just start out on a new and better year…….

One note: I’ve had to move MR Headquarters due to the extensive tunneling of PD Bob, which caused the old HQ to collapse into the sink hole he created….. He is now on double secret probation and I’ve taken all his digging implements away from him…… PD Bob didn’t cater to this line of reasoning and has disappeared somewhere on some mission last week…… He left muttering something about, “Why not move the HQ into my tunnels and there wouldn’t be a problem.” He claims he would reinforce them with some sort of super secret materials…… I told him I would get back to him on it – that’s when he puffed up and left…… I suspect I’ll be seeing him soon….. He’ll get lonely and hungry out there on his own and come back……

Anyway, everybody have a Happy New Year and don’t forget to eat some Black-eyed Peas for good luck……

Australian officials in charge of handing out cash as part of an economic stimulus plan accidentally credited the accounts of 16,000 people who were no long living. Local media dubbed the beneficiaries “the grateful dead.”