Monday? Why yes…Yes It Is

 - Republicans aren’t much better than democrats when it comes to, well, anything. To wit: these guys can’t even decide on how to elect a speaker of the house. Stop doing homecoming Queen stuff, start doing what we sent you to do. Get your shit together or get out

- Note: this is my only posting this week.  Gonna be gigging Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday this week pretty much all over West Texas. Yee Haw!

- Showing yet again I know absolutely nothing about the economics of oil, west Texas crude nor any others spiral upwards after Hamas decided to commit mass suicide. Iran behind it, Syria now getting involved, etc etc, yet oil is still fairly stable, as of this writing anyway.  Gee…remember when we just didn’t give a rat’s rear about middle eastern oil? I do.

- Opinion:  any member of any level of government in our nation that supports enemies of our closest allies should be immediately expelled. You don’t have to support Israel, but we shouldn’t have to pay your salary when expressing support for people who decapitate crib bound infants.  No need to try and change my mind.

- Read about some ‘college’ ‘students’ protesting the removal of tampon machines…from the mens rooms. There are several layers of idiocy here. Why are there tampons in mens rooms? Who thinks there are actual men who need tampons? Why is this even a discussion?  Bunch of ignor-fracking-ramouses! Perhaps college wouldn’t be so expensive if they stuck to reality education instead of trying to reinvent biological facts 

- Hot wife and I went to Clear Springs for supper Friday, if for no other reasons, their onion rings. Waitress asked if we wanted ranch dressing, which of course I’d never heard of. Asked her ‘who does that?’ to which she replied ‘almost everybody.’  If this is what being out of touch with pop culture is, I’m all for it. 

- Perhaps the most interesting thing about Saturday’s eclipse was watching the outdoor cat’s reaction. Confusion, a bit of fear.  I can somewhat relate. As far as I know no one blinded themselves, which is good

- Being a musician isn’t as easy as the general populace thinks.  Being a band leader is a job I’ve never had, nor would ever want or could do. A band makes noise, a good band makes music, a great band makes music while presenting a very high level of professionalism, stage presence, and musicianship with the ultimate ambition of grabbing and keeping the audience happy…while maintaining peace with band members. 

- There was a series called Caprica, a prequel to Battlestar Galactica.  Caprica was a brilliantly written and presented program that didn’t get enough ratings for SciFi network to show all the episodes filmed and ready for airing.  I genuinely don’t understand these things. The prequel was on par with BSG and exponentially superior to any Star Wars movie, yet failed. Same with Crusade, a followup to Babylon Five.  Go figure.

See y’all sometime next week.