"As life rolled on" ....

You could get a song out of that title, graham ...

And yes ...

It did ....

And it does ...

Sunday morning coming down ....

And the Sunday funnies ....

Yes, Dick Tracy was "front-page news" back then ....

And I believe you are right ....

Charlie Brown did not come until after ....

And so ...

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I always liked, a couple of times a month, Dick Tracy had "Crimestopper's textbook" one comic panel on how to protect yourself,
or maybe a rogue's gallery
Wonder if they have any large "best of" of the strips back then on Tracy
I got some of other strips

I think Alan Jackson
and "Remember When" got it perfect
(snuff posted it a few weeks ago)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y4NTXT96EM

had a discussion on a different thread about this recently I think
pie and heart showed some pictures
I had never heard of it either
We don't get it here
(just ragweed/pollen/and moss and ivy)

The way you hear some people talk about it, you would walk away believing that the whole world was about to be engulfed in the stuff, like in some horror movie ...

We figure it is probably people that went on a bus tour to somewhere where the stuff grows ....

And they heard someone saying down there that if we didn't watch out, that stuff was going to cover the world soon, the way it grows ....

And we figure they just freaked out and panicked, and now, that is the new version of "THE SKY IS FALLING!"

Except this time it is "RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, THE KUDZU IS COMING!"

And there are people up this way, graham, who are susceptible to panic, and they are out there, on watch for the stuff ....

Whole homeowner's groups, I hear ...

But if the stuff isn't even up to where you are down there, I figure that there is still plenty of time before the stuff gets up here ....

So I'm not going to trouble myself about it .....

When I hear that you have become overgrown in the stuff, then I'll start to get concerned ....

But until then ....

Well ...

And so ...

No, it didn't. It played out West. The picture took place in Arizona.

remember the movie "THE BLOB"
and the sequel

in the sequel Godfrey Cambridge was sitting in a barber chair and it came up out of the sink and covered him
it was like Jello
of all people, Larry Hagman (JR EWING) directed it, and had a cameo, with his friend Burgess Meredith (the Penquin on the old batman)

in the original, Steve McQueen was in his first movie and starred in it.

no, I didn't mean that.
I meant it was one of those that was not a hit in NY or Hollywood, but played the other circuits and was real succesful, the old b-movie circuit

It may not grow that far north. I have heard it grows well as far north as PA, but it grows during the Summer and goes dormant during Winter, so it wouldn't have a long growing season where you guys are. It also needs a cold snap during the winter....and that's why it doesn't grow too much down in Florida.

Here's the map:

Laugh....All three Billy Jack movies were really b movies or c, or d movies. I was only 11, so I didn't notice that.

It's nice to see you hanging out on graham's stoop, heart ...

Beats looking at just guys ....

And so ...

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Bluegrass is on the radio ....

God is in his heaven ....

So all is right with my world, anyway ....

And so ...

Boy, graham ....

What a world we live in today compared to the days of our youth ....

Last night, I went online and downloaded the sheet music for "Red River Valley", and today, I was out learning to play it on the banjo, just like that ...

I find it quite amazing ....

The other thing that is amazing is the digital tuners that they have out now ....

Today, I broke two strings, and was back in tune in a heartbeat with the digital tuner after replacing them ...

And so ...

I broke a string today playing the "Star Spangled Banner", just as I was coming to the ramparts part of it, just before the rockets red glare and bombs bursting in air ....

The "Star Spangled Banner" is a good banjo tune ....

And so ...

If one goes to a place where they have that nite where the musics tracks are played and just anyone sings
and a person wants to sing "Before he cheats" by Carrie Underwood
is that called Carrie karaoke?

here's dwight yoakam doing good time charlie's got the blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIW5MGtYoQ...feature=related

(Words & music by Danny O'Keefe)

Everybody's gone away
Said they're movin to L.A.
There's not a soul I know around
Everybody's leavin' town

Some caught a freight, some caught a plane
Find the sunshine leave the rain
They said this town will waste your time
I guess they're right, it's wasting mine

Some gotta win, some gotta lose
Good time Charlie's got the blues
Good time Charlie's got the blues

You know my heart keeps tellin' me
You're not a kid at thirty-three
You play around you'll lose your wife
You play too long you'll lose your life

I got my pills to ease the pain
Can’t find a thing to ease the rain
I’d love to try and settle down
But everybody’s leaving town

Some gotta win, some gotta lose
Good time Charlie's got the blues
Good time Charlie's got the blues
Good time Charlie's got the blues

wurlitzer prize
waylon jennings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTDsA76wkSg&feature=fvw

and here is Willie and Norah Jones doing it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU9hWiYjVTY...feature=related

How come everybody went to LA?

To make it big in show biz?

I was out there once on the train ....

There was a lay-over there .....

I asked a taxi driver to take me downtown, and he told me there was no downtown in LA ....

So we got into this argument about there having to be a downtown, and he thought I was crazy because I was in his cab without an address for him to take me to ....

I told the dude how could I have an address for a city when I had never been there before ....

He asked me what kind of an idiot gets into a cab to go somewhere when he doesn't know where he is going ....

I told him again that I wanted to go downtown ....

And he told me again there was no downtown, so I went back in to the train station and took the train up to SF ...

LA was way too stressful for me ....

And too crowded, as well .....

All you could see out there was houses jammed right in on top of each other ....

If I wanted to live that way, I'd of have been born a sardine ....

And so ...

Waylon looks like a real bad-ass in some of those pictures, graham ....

And in others, he looks rode hard and put up wet ....

He was a hard-living dude, wasn't he?

there is too a downtown in L.A.
Figueroa street
and the Chinatown is also downtown
unless they don't call it that
here's Pet clark doing downtown (Remember when they called her Pet?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUSYb3igXzI

I tell you
I only was in L.A. a few times before last year, and hated it

however, last year I loved it
Stayed on the beach and drove into Hollywood
maybe that is the way (as opposed to staying right in the heart of it)
wish it was closer to drive to

You know, yesterday I met some friends in from UK who were in NY staying at the Milford Plaza hotel
After lunch we went back to their room if you can call it that
What a crappy hotel right in Times square (44 and 8th ave)
room was like a sardine can
2 double beds and NO chairs or anything

and mold and mildew all over the ceiling and bathroom

they must have paid 200 bucks for the pleasure

yeah
this song was about the time in NYC he played at the Lonestar cafe (the club with an alligator on the roof)
Where cops busted in looking for drugs they thought he had because of his songs and all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CndxYFHsYVc
don't you think this outlaw bit done got out of hand

If I had known that before I got into the taxi, graham, then I could have told him where to take me, and he wouldn't have thought that I was some kind of nut ...

This dude wanted a street address, and I didn't have one to give him ....

I thought downtown was downtown ....

And yes, I got that from that Petula Clark song ...

And so ...

Did it come with those famous NYC bedbugs for that price, or were they extra?

I don't know, but I cut my finger on something in the room
at least I got a teatnus shot
(wonder if those anti-vaccine people on this board get one of those or refuse them)

Where did that come from, anyway?

Did that one dude at Nashville, Ernest Tubbs, pin that label on them?

Or did they come up with it?

Here is the website for what is supposed to be a cool music club down in NYC called Le Poisson Rouge, graham ....

http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/

Nashville doesn't like you to use your own band
so Waylon and Willie went to Austin and released The Outlaws, Waylon,Willie, Jesse Colter(Waylon's wife) and Tompall Glaser.

Willie had been a Nashville songwriter since the 50s (he wrote Crazy for Patsy Cline and Hello Walls for Faron Young and many others, but couldn't get his own hits.

Waylon was considered the sort of court jester of the group (and a bit younger)

You know, Waylon was suppose to be on the flight that Buddy Holly died on, but gave up his seat the last minute

but it was basically an inside joke, saying they were outlaws.

I didn't know Willie wrote "Hello Walls" ....

I liked that song, myself ....

But that goes back a ways ....

As does "Crazy" ....

And so ....

Waylon Jennings - Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way (Live)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2ix03nQWO8...feature=related

"When I got to Nashville, somebody told me 'Hoss, you got it made!'"

willie also wrote

Night life for Ray Price
Funny how time slips away for Billy Walker (later Elvis did it)

Pretty Paper for Roy Orbison (Christmas song)

Faron Young - Hello Walls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMSWAUAKJn0

Faron Young looks a lot like PeeWee Herman, graham ....

Could they be related?

yeah a little of this and that
not too mainstream

I would doubt it
unless Faron was hiding his Jewishness

faron was great
I loved his song
It's 4 in the morning
and the odd thing about that song
I heard it on Radio Luxembourg in a hotel in Flims Switzerland of all places before I ever heard it here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eetd5JVGZoI

here are two comments on thatyou tube about that song that are intersting

One of the very few Country records to chart in the UK. There should have been many more, but how could there be without airplay?

This was taped at a tribute to Ernest Tubb. A Nashville legend says that Faron recorded this song while healing from a car wreck. He had broken his jaw in the wreck and for a short time sang with a lisp when pronouncing words that started with "S". Count the words that start with "S" in this song; there are two I think, "she" twice and "saw" once. This was taped years after he overcame the lisp after completely healing. Listen real close to the original and you can barely hear the lisp.

Stevie Nicks & Chris Isaak - Red River Valley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOFVrDAnrGc...feature=related

Leonard Cohen Red River Valley Live and Rare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Hnky4B46A...feature=related

Marty Robbins - Red River Valley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUFCn86CxaI...feature=related

You know of the place, graham?

The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q41r1nmmGB4&NR=1

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The candid world is curious, graham ...

WOW, graham ....

I just saw Barack Obama here in the forum ....

I bet he heard about you being God's favorite BLOGGER ....

And it stirred up his interest to come and read your stuff ....

I bet that he will be thrilled to see how you are protecting him in here and speaking up for him and stuff ....

And so ...

I just saw Barack Obama in here again, graham ....

His name was right next to your name, in fact, down on the list of who is in the forum right now ....

And so ...

That's just awesomely beautiful!

I think Stevie Nicks has a perfect voice for country music.

If I ever meet him, I'm gonna ask him out and then, if I'm really lucky and he says yes....I'm taking him home with me:)!

Do I get to play my favorite country song too?

Favorite Versian:
Lefty Frizzell
Long Black Veil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4MfjciVda8

Graham's probably sick of hearing it...I've bored him to death with it.... but maybe you aren't sick of it yet Livy