thanks Henry and Jake, your crack got me!

OK so this year bought my own Christmas.

I have wanted driving mocs for like 6 years. Break down and buy them, I know I know.

SO I made my selection and purchased on line. These to be exact!

Today I get an email “track your package…” don’t mind If I do. It’ll be here tomorrow. Yee haw. “Watch this video …” ok I love these handy suggestions. WHAT IN THE WORLD? I could write a better song or better yet what came first the song or the slideshow. This is embarrassing but funny as all get out. If you have time and only ONLY if you have nothing else to do.  Too bad stranded UK airport people don’t read my blog.

Merry Christmas

moccasin soul

Do me and yourself a huge favor. While you still can, please go listen to the new Sufjan Stevens album. you can listen to it for two weeks here at NPR.org or scroll down. I’ve got their player right here.

I am trying to help educate all my top 40 radio listening friends. Its hard ya’ll! Click on the picture and that will take you to his website where you can have one of the songs for free.

So this Elvis 75^th birthday party me lady and I were to attend the other night was awesome. Christy Zimmerman Medina thought our last picture was sacrilegious. I don’t know what she has against Jesus but i think he’d be good looking if he looked like Jesus. in reality he was probably more brown.

Don’t ask her about it thought she was home by choice with a sick baby. She urged me to keep the date and take Curt with me. I did we had a blast. Subsequently I have been listening to Chulahoma,

the album of Junior Kimbrough covers by the Black Keys ever since.If you do not own this i would recommend that you run out and buy it before you buy the new what ever it is you all are listening to these days.

Also, I played Sweet Caroline” the Elvis version in the Buzz Sunday. All is well that ends well. And the night ended expensive but we were all well. Curt and I had a flat, got a cab home and got the funniest look ever when i said to a lady “we’re together” and she misunderstood. i meant same tab not like “together in the biblical sense.

Check out my last few songs of play list.
George Strait ‘if I know me’
Clay Walker ‘this woman this man’
Tracy Lawrence ‘if you loved me’
Diamond Rio ‘Love a little stronger’
Alan Jackson ‘tonight I climbed the wall’
Mark Collie ‘Something’s Gonna Change Her Mind’
Clint Black ‘burn one down’
Toby Keith ‘ wish I didn’t know now’
George Straight ‘ I can still make Cheyenne
Clint Black ‘loving blind’
Other stuff Sammy Kershaw, Neil McCoy Brooks and Dunn…
Then throw in P.M. Dawn’s ‘I’d die without you’ Random.
Wow, what a morning.
I hear these songs and I am instantly transported back in time say 1996-97. I miss Lara ‘the queen’ and ‘Shiny-white-Reeboks’ Josh, Lisa, my pretty girl friend with the cool dolphin sticker on her red Nissan, Billy bob Joe Jackson something something jr. aka Bill, Jake and his red truck,. You are all still my friends too, but you are all better looking now.
I remember fondly working at Pizza Hut, delivering people’s pizza before they could blink twice. I had the best car ever, my Nissan Sentra SE-R. Once I lent it to Bubba (Otis Lee for you outsiders) to take someone out to supper. I had to drive his old Chevy truck. I lost money that night I had to put gas in it twice. I remember thinking that the long horn sticker on the back made it look even cooler. Now that I live in Austin and everyone except me has a long horn on their car, not so much.
Funny thing is, as warm as my memories are of this period, I would not like to go back there and relive any of it.
Love you all
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Ok folks i swear i am working on some real stuff and writing it down.
it is a book maybe or a pamphlet more like and yeah yeah yeah
i am working on it and you’ll get it first here but i need to Send it to my Editor Friend who just had another beautiful baby. Congratulations Stephanie and Saki. Bottom line i have nothing but cool videos to show you.
I went to a David Bazan house show thanks to Eli and i loved it. and i loved it, like that needed to even be said.
It was awesome
no P/A just Dave and his guitar. My point is to make you all fans.
this is woman in me an old Dylan song, and the laughter in the middle is for the guy who requested the song that had driven from Dallas to Austin and gotten caught in the storm. You’ll see David non his head his direction. it was cool to say the least.

and then the end of the show. was funny and awkward.

Want to see something really cool?
Of course you do.

My friends James and Elizabeth do some amazing freeze frame action and they captured the sweetness that is my baby.
Let’s just say you live in Central Texas and you want some pictures don’t say I never told you who to go to. I mean just look at my girls wow so hot. And to think people I live with these ladies. See; I need a son to help bring the universe back into balance. Alas, it will stay lopsided for a while hopefully.

Check out their site or here to see more.

vignettephoto.com

well i cant believe it but it is finally happening. Our friends and Neighbors and countrymen Justin and Amanda are in the Hospital working on Chase their little man. we were all kind of in this pregnant boat together so it will be cool to finally meet this little guy.

We have been doing everything in our power to persuade him out.

Jade cried all evening last night to get him here and wore herself out she went out at 10.30pm after i gave her a bath and slept until 6.30am.

We have eaten Pepperoni Pizza and yesterday evening with perfect fall south Texas weather we went on a little ride around their ranch looking at these animals more commonly seen in Africa riding on an old unimog Mercedes, stinking cool truck but bouncy. about half way through i looked back at Amanda and said maybe the bumps will help the little man come out.

So Chase isnt here yet but cant be long now.

Man I am getting tired of politics and Banks failing and my stock being in the dump. I am ready for Obama to be President and end poverty and hunger in the world. I know that would make him the Anitchrist. With hunger and poverty gone though every one is happy and my stock will bounce to where I am not loosing my pants on it so I can sell and pay a little faith pledge I made in so very little faith.
So I have a love hate relationship with email right now.
I love getting stuff from loved ones but I only lie like It when I comes to me and not to over say 10 or 20 others. You know what I am talking about these political emails. I know I should care but like I said earlier I am over saturated and I no longer think it matters one way or the other. I have friends from both persuasions saying ooh this one is an important election.
I want to respond with “they are all important and nothing really ever changes.” Yeah one guys is better at this than the other and the other had more experience in like 4 extra thing and this year one is old and one is a few years older than my self, but I still don’t think that is going to matter long term.
So when I get these political emails I always say something mean in my head that changes them around and makes life more entertaining for me.  This morning’s was a personal message from Dr James Dobson of Focus on the family fame. “This week, Dr. Dobson delivered an extremely important radio message in which he outlined the specific reasons why he now supports Senator John McCain in the upcoming presidential election.”
Then I insert number one
He has a hot wife and he is old so when he kicks the bucket I am going to the funeral with a bottle of bubbly on ice some redi-whip some strawberries and a Barry White CD.

Ok hope your weekend is off to a good start. my started with my uvula 3x its normal size.