Have a ball on Turkey Day.
While I won’t be heading to the Turkey Testicle Festival, I will be traveling to dine with friends in Memphis and I’m so looking forward to sharing the community meal.
And for the musically inclined, here’s a link to a ton of food tunes you can stream while eating your turkey repast.
Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Posted in food, holidays, Memphis, music, ouch, road trip
Tagged food, food music, food tunes, holidays, music, Thanksgiving, Turkey, turkey balls, Turkey Day, Turkey Testicle Festival, weird food
Riding to a game last night, I flipped the radio around the dial until I ran across this tune. Cranked it up, sang along (Give it to me baby) and put a smile on my face for a few minutes.
The Offspring – Pretty Fly (For a White Guy).
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Posted in Feel Good Friday, music, Pop Culture, road trip, travel
Tagged Give it to me baby, music, Pop Culture, Pretty Fly (For a White Guy), The Offspring
Sometimes NASA is just cool.
A couple of years ago they sent a Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter into orbit around the moon. Included on the craft was a microchip that had the names of anyone who submitted their moniker to the NASA website. I made sure that little chip had my name upon it. Matter of fact, as a tribute to a friend who loved space but was taken too soon by the damned demon that is cancer, we actually filled out the form in his name and gave the certificate to his widow. Stew is still circling the moon as we speak.
I mean heck, we obviously aren’t getting flying cars or living like the Jetsons and jetting off to space anytime soon. I thought that was my one shot at being an astronaut.
Until NOW!
NASA is at it again. This time you can send your pic out into the zero gravity zone on an upcoming launch of the Space Shuttle.
I submitted the pic at the top of this post. See, I was already prepared for my astro moment.
The Face in Space page says:
NASA wants to put a picture of you on one of the two remaining space shuttle missions and launch it into orbit.
(snip)
Return to this site after launch to print your Flight Certificate – a commemorative certificate signed by the Mission Commander.
How cool is that!?!?!
And just know that if my picture sees a UFO while it’s out there, I told it to wave at the little green men and then come back and report to Fox Mulder.
Posted in aliens, road trip, science, space, television, The FUTURE, travel, UFO
Tagged Face in Space, flying cars, little green men, NASA, outer space, space, space shuttle, television, The Jetsons, X-Files
So I spent the majority of Monday on a day long drive from the office to a tennis match to another tennis match to a softball game and back to the office.
It was a long day, nearly 200 miles and several different towns and cities.
I spent most of it by myself in the car. Part of the time driving I was on the phone, but most of it was just good old me, myself and I.
During the course of the day I saw tears of sadness and exhaustion followed by tears of joy. The joyful emotion came not from an athlete but from a parent.
I saw heavy, black thunder clouds that transported tornadoes that ripped up a few communities I didn’t drive through.
I saw a coyote trotting through a field. I don’t know its destination, but I believe it was racing to find a safe spot ahead of the storm.
I saw a rainbow.
I think it was some sort of vision quest day.
It’s Friday and I spent the morning at the 73rd Annual West Tennessee Strawberry Festival Parade in Humboldt, Tennessee today.
Lots of corn dogs, lemonade, candidates and marching bands in attendance. One parade exec I heard speaking was pleased with the turnout considering the horrible weather and flooding parts of the community endured just days ago.
In honor of the strawberry, today I bring you The Brothers Johnson.It’s from a performance on a Dutch televsion show in 1977.
And if you want to find out how to help with flood relief in Tennessee, there are links at Speak To Power.
Posted in classics, Feel Good Friday, food, music, ouch, Pop Culture, road trip, travel, weather
Tagged 70s music, Brothers Johnson, carny food, festivals, Humboldt, parades, strawberries, strawberry, Strawberry Festival, Strawberry Letter 23, Tennessee, Tennessee flooding
Today was a stuck on the couch and surf the Internet day for me.
I came across the Southern Foodways Alliance website thanks to a post over at Adrenaline’s Shadow about her craving for a hot sausage sandwich from The Big Apple Inn in Jackson, Mississippi. Maybe more importantly, she didn’t order the pig ear sandwich. What she did do was link to a documentary about the restaurant called Smokes and Ears. Wonderful stuff.
Thanks to those two sites, I’m now craving barbecue because of the documentaries by Joe York at the SFA site. He shot one about the art of Whole Hog barbecuing in Lexington which is about 40 miles from my locale here in Hoots. If it hadn’t been for all the rain and flooding today, there might just have been a road trip.
These are some amazing docs. I haven’t watched them all yet, but the man is good at what he does. It’s an excellent mix of music, visuals and interviews. He even has one about Prince’s hot chicken in Nashville.
I’ll be settling in and watching all these over the next day or so. I recommend you do the same.
I heard this on Lightning 100 last week while cruising through Nashvegas on my way to Murfreesboro for the TSSAA girls state basketball tournament.
It’s stuck with me ever since, so I thought I would share it with you.
Norah Jones performing “It’s Gonna Be” from The Fall album she released in late 2009.
I love the organ in this one. I think that’s what pulled me in.
The performance is from “Later With Jools Holland.”
Posted in basketball, Feel Good Friday, music, Nashville, Pop Culture, road trip, travel
Tagged Feel Good Friday, It's Gonna Be, Later With Jools Holland, Lightning 100, music, Nashville, Norah Jones, radio, The Fall
It’s been too long since I’ve been down in the Big Easy.
I think the recent Super Bowl win by the Saints has amped up my desire to make a return to NOLA.
I’m missing New Orleans. Days like today, Fat Tuesday, make me crave it even more … the food, the music, the beads, the beverages.
Speaking of beverages, I’m not Catholic, but I am giving up something for Lent this year. I’m swearing off sodas. Bye Bye Mountain Dew. See ya later Dr. Pepper. It’s been sweet, but I’m going to eliminate you.
I did this a few years ago and erased Diet Coke from my list of liquids of which I partake. As a matter of fact, it’s now been four years since I swilled a Diet Coke.
Hurricane Katrina has paid a horrible visit to New Orleans since I have. She ravaged it. I hope to make a much more gentle landing in the Crescent City.
I’d love to feel the heavy air and smell the amazing aromas that waft out of doors and windows of restaurants of both the five-star and the tiny five-table variety.
The music pulses through the humidity moving your feet along the cobblestones and sidewalks, pulling you toward the rhythm. Brass boldly squawking at you. The felt-covered hammers inside the piano striking and making the strings vibrate to match the pumping of the blood through your veins. An accordion wheezing and breathing, yelling more than whispering, urging you to come inside. The city and its music speaks to you.
To put you even more in the spirit of New Orleans, Newscoma called upon Buckwheat Zydeco this morning.
I present to you Dr. John performing “Iko Iko.”
Posted in diets, food, football, hearts flutter, holidays, music, nostalgia, road trip, sports, Super Bowl, travel
Tagged Beads, Big Easy, cola, Diet Coke, Dr. John, Dr. Pepper, Fat Tuesday, food, Hurricane Katrina, Iko Iko, Lent, Mt Dew, music, New Orleans, NOLA, Saints, sodas, Super Bowl
So budget woes have kept you from taking a holiday vacation this year.
Same here for the Squirrel Queen.
For those of us who spend hours watching the Discovery and History channels, this will be a perfect alternative to that whirlwind trip around the world.
Instead of forking over wads of cash to fly your extra bag across the globe, just click on Google Street View’s tour of the ruins of Pompeii.
The tour of the city that Vesuvius stopped in time is cool stuff that can entertain you for hours.
It doesn’t come with a tour guide and you can’t buy tacky souvenirs, but it’s a great trip none-the-less.
Now if I can just find the baths with all the naughty frescoes they always allude to during shows about those randy Italians.
Here’s more Google fun.
Posted in architecture, art, Clicky Clicky, geek/tech, holidays, road trip, television, travel
Tagged archaeology, budgets, Cool, Discovery Channel, fun, Google Street, Google Street Views, history, History Channel, Pompeii, Pompeii ruins, television, travel
I had to go to Jackson to cover soccer for work last night, therefore no Halloween partying for me.
During my drive, I did take pleasure in looking for spooks and haunts out scavenging for candy. I made a mental list that included, in order of appearance, an adult scarecrow riding as a passenger, a convict and a skeleton trick or treating together, an uncreepy clown, a sexy pink bunny, a fairy and a monarch butterfly riding with a ghoul who looked a lot like a zombie Uncle Fester, and a cowboy.
However, I did not spot this awesome family of Wild Things riding the subway.
As posted on BuzzFeed.
Posted in animals, candy is dandy, classics, freaky animals, holidays, kids, road trip, soccer, travel, zombies
Tagged costumes, fun, halloween, Halloween costumes, holiday, Where the Wild Things Are, Wild Things, zombie squirrel
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