Comments on: Thursday miscellanea #27

By: saintseester

saintseester — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:34:04 +0000

I have the latest CM CD should you wish to borrow.

By: Bo

Bo — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:49:45 +0000

Thanks for all the great suggestions on bands. Much to check out now!

By: Terri

Terri — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:09:25 +0000

Holy Shit, Batman!! We’ll need a bigger mousetrap!

By: BamaDan

BamaDan — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:30:28 +0000

Bar Band: Dash Rip Rock or Southen Culture on the Skids maybe? Skip that, just listen to Flogging Molly. Probably fails the “no politics” litmus test, but who cares? They’re drunk and Irish!

By: saintseester

saintseester — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:06:21 +0000

Oh! Bar Band – hear ya go. CowboyMouth DOT com

“Tell the girl you’re sorry…”

By: Lee Boutwell

Lee Boutwell — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:40:47 +0000

On my way out to Burning Man last August I drove the stretch of I-80 between Salt Lake City and the NV state line around midnight. Traffic was practically zero and not a man made light source for 45 miles. The night sky was absolutely beautiful! And HUGE. After driving back home across big sky states NV, UT, WY and NE, I felt claustrophobic when I returned to the tree lined interstates of KY and TN.

By: BamaDan

BamaDan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:21:23 +0000

Rat ain’t nuthin. I’ve seen tougher possums on Old Railroad Bed Rd.

By: Bob Brown

Bob Brown — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:00:16 +0000

I got nightly views of the Milky Way when I was over in Afghanistan. It’s definitely breath taking. There is very little light pollution over there to start with and if you can image a blacked out camp…all I could say was wow!

By: wxchick

wxchick — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:25:18 +0000

BTW, I’m sporting a new Nokia 6301. I needed a WiFi-enabled phone to help out the T-Mobile signal at my abode. Great signal everywhere else except in my living room. Handy to be able to piggy back on the router.

They want $129 for an upgrade with a two year contract. $179 upgrade without contract extension. New customers can get it for $29.99 with a 2 year contract. The sales rep at the stores (I talked to several of them) wouldn’t give me the $30 deal as an upgrade. So I called customer service. The guy took one look at my account, noted that I was a long-time valued customer (well, yeah, I HAVE been with y’all since before you were T-Mobile), and gave me the phone for $10 plus $5 shipping. Works for me, knowing that mobile phones cost about as much as a gumball to make and that the $15 total covered all the packaging, manuals, and UPS fees.

Mobile phone companies are still scammers. But they’ve become the necessary evil that’s replaced the local wired TelComs.

Get the feeling I’m avoiding some work this afternoon? Deadlines. Ugh.

By: wxchick

wxchick — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:18:23 +0000

My best friend’s hubby drove a Hyundai for several years. P.O.S. Hopefully they’ve improved their reliability.

Bon Jovi does some good barroom rock-n-roll. Probably a tad glossy for your purposes. When grunge took over, seems most bars went country and never returned. Not that I ever really frequented bars. As it were. Ahem.

Perhaps you need to check out Hightide Blues. They’ll be at Crossroads on April 10th. Good ol’ “singer/songwriter” southern rock.