Halloween's A Bust

Halloween is kind of a bust where I live. We bought a couple bags of candy and have only had one kid so far. That's one, as in less than two. Ha ha!

There's an official time for trick or treating, meaning they have around a half hour to go.

But we never get very many for some unknown reason. So I end up eating most of the candy myself. I see there's some "Three Musketeers" in the bowl, which aren't my favorites but I will eat them.

I Wrote About Gravy

I also lost somewhere around 5-7 followers at Twitter. Maybe just a coincidence, since they're the ones no one wants anyway, those trying to sell things or whatever. I don't even know which ones they were. Not ones I was following back. Kay surah surah.

Anyway, my theme today was "Gravy." This is at Grandma Slump. The original idea was "Going Beyond The Same Old Grind," which is still a good idea I'll probably do sometime soon. But then I jotted down "from guts to glory to gravy," with this "teaching," that You want the gravy and glory, you need the guts ... No guts, no glory, no gravy.

Not extremely funny but weird sounding when you go on about it all day. So it was an initial post in the morning about gravy, then four bursts of tweets through the day on the theme of "Guts to glory to gravy."

I was a little amused by it myself. And that's what counts. Because no one else is here! I know that. And you'd know it too, if you were here.

80 Years Since Wall St. Crash

It's hard to believe it's only been 80 years since the Wall St. crash, the whole thing at the beginning of the Great Depression.

I'm not 80 years old, of course, but I go back a long time. And I used to hear my grandparents talking about the Depression and how terrible it all was. My grandpa wouldn't vote for a Republican no matter who he was, thanks to the Depression. I honor his memory for lots of things, but that's probably the biggest. He had the right idea. The Republicans are skunks. No offense to actual skunks.

But doesn't it seem like those days, the '20s are an infinity ago, plus one? To me it seems like it. 80 little years is all it's been. The ink's barely dry on the papers.

If you look at papers from 1929, it was a different world in many respects. They did the same things, of course, but we've come a long way since then.

I Hit 100 Followers

On one of my Twitter accounts. I only have one that I put my efforts into, since I have limited efforts.

It's been slow going, but today my thing cracked 100, like 101 at one point I think. I might lose 20 overnight, because, frankly, I have a lot of followers who I'm not going to follow back. They're mostly there, it would appear, for some business thing. Very few of them are what I'd call interested in what I have to say. So it's all vain and worthless, but hey ... you get your strokes where you can!

Ha ha. It is worthless, no doubt about that. I see that with the clearest eyes man can have.

There was one guy who started following me, though, who looks suitably strange enough for my tastes. I mean that as a compliment. His bio says: "Historical evidence suggests the existence of at least one immortal living among us. We're looking for the proof." And he has Rasputin all over his background. He's seeking information about someone named Sam Bailey. And says at his blog, "Those who know me personally recognize the ridiculousness of me interacting with strangers - even on the internet. Whether or not you've guessed from the blog, I'm not much of a socialite."

Joe Lieberman -- Putting Up With Him

It's hard to believe the entire party supported this guy for VP in 2000. After all we've been through with him in the meantime.

It's impossible to forget that this clown appeared at the Republican National Convention last year. And that he supported John McCain for President. That's bad enough, but that also means he supported Sarah Palin for VP. And potentially for president at any given moment, depending on McCain's ticker.

Isn't that something? If Joe Lieberman had his way, Sarah Palin would be that close to the presidency. And the Republicans, who gave us eight years of irresponsibility, would still be in control.

Personally, if I had my way, we would've kicked this lousy turncoat to the curb as soon as the '08 election was over. He could've had a nice time over at his new home, the Republican caucus.

Now, here he comes again. Threatening the health-care reform bill. After all the work they've put into it. After all the hope that we've built up that something decent might finally happen for a change. We've got the insurance companies with a knife to our throat all the time. And what's Joe Lieberman's take on that? He won't lift a finger to help.

I renounce half of my vote in 2000. Al Gore, you should've picked someone better.

I Forgot To Write Something Yesterday

I don't know what happened. I have a goal to write a little something every single day. Only missing a day here or there just to break up the streak if it's giving me fits.

But yesterday wasn't one of those days, either for breaking the streak. I just noticed, nothing happened and I'm trying to think back why.

I had plenty of time. But I guess it must've been when we went to our reading room to read, we were down there close to two hours, probably. I was reading away, with my reading glasses.

Speaking of reading, I see Barnes & Noble has a new electronic reading device, which looks cool. It's called the Nook. We have a Kindle in the family but it's not mine. If I think about it in the next few months -- let's say Christmas isn't too much of a budget killer [it will be] -- I might get one.

Then I can read more to my heart's content and forget all about "Boy Leg." Nah, I wouldn't do that.

My big problem with getting one of these electronic reading things is that I have hundreds of books that I haven't read. If I want to read, I could be reading everyday for nothing till I'm 70 years old.

Then my eyes will have fallen out and I won't need one anymore. Except I might, because at least on the Kindle it reads to you. By the time I'm 70 they'll probably have robots to read to me.

From Elvis In Memphis

I got the CD recently out, "Elvis In Memphis."

These are songs I already have, on the '60s box set as well as on the original records. They also put the "Back In Memphis" album together with it, since they're all the recordings Elvis made at American Recordings in Memphis in 1969.

The "Back In Memphis" album was originally together with a live record of Elvis at the International Hotel in Las Vegas.

At the time when these came out, I wasn't buying that many Elvis records, although I've had them now for decades. I was definitely noticing them somehow. I must've seen them in record stores. I was actually confused by it all. "Back in Memphis," "In Memphis," "From Vegas to Memphis," "From Memphis to Vegas," etc. I don't know if there were any other variations.

I couldn't really see the difference it made as to where he was and why they were making such a big deal about it. Just so they don't lose him. Since I never personally ran into him, whether he was in Memphis, Vegas, or Nashville didn't make any difference.

I can see the point now, that he was in a rut, then went back to his hometown to this legendary studio (at the time very successful) and put down some great tracks. Even so, I wasn't tuned in, so I didn't really realize how great the tracks were till a few years ago when I got the '60s box set. Now I love the songs.

And I'm very happy that Elvis had this high point -- some stuff to be really proud of.

This set is nice. The songs are in the order they were released on the LPs, plus there's bonus tracks, to give at least one take of each of the songs he recorded. It seems, though, that something's missing. Like the stereo versions of some of the songs, like "Suspicious Minds," "Kentucky Rain," etc. These are represented only by the mono versions. I'm no expert in these things, but I believe the versions on the '60s box set would be stereo. And I'm also thinking the versions on the "Elvis #1 Singles" box set are also the stereo versions. Don't hold me to that.

The pictures are nice in the "Memphis" CD set (2 CDs), the booklet has some good notes, there's a nice plastic slip case to put the cardboard set in. I like it. It was $13.88 at Walmart.

Dare We Hope?

The health-care debate is getting crazy, with multiple voices claiming various things. The public option's in, it's out, they support it, they don't, Obama supports it, Obama doesn't. Sheesh.

Just wake me up when we get something done. I'm so sick of it.

I think it'd be helpful if we knew 100% that President Obama wanted X, Y, and Z. Then all the competing voices -- all the king's horses and all the king's men -- wouldn't make any difference.

A lot of the craziness I suppose we can chalk up to the Republican mischief makers, the scoundrels, our national cancer. They're no doubt behind the scenes trying to gin up as much mischief as they can.

Yes, the Republican party is a cancer in our country. They're a scourge and it'd pay if we could somehow find the cure.

Commander Cody

Just this morning I started watching the serial "Radar Men from the Moon" (or something like that), introducing the character Commander Cody.

I guess I never knew who Commander Cody was. I just remember the name of the singing group that had Commander Cody in the name.

But he was on old serials, as an adventure character. Anyway, I'm still in the first episode, which features some guys shooting a ray gun at trains, electrical towers, etc.

Commander Cody has a flying suit, which when he gets it all adjusted, he's able to fly and get there just before they blow up another train.

The Commander is an ordinary looking guy, but looks extraordinary with the big bullet helmet.

We'll see how this goes. I've seen several serials, and they tend to be monotonous, a lot of getting the secret thing, then losing it, then getting it, then losing it, etc. I hope this one is better.

Defragging My Computer

I have two computers that I use. And both of them are slow as molasses.

They're old and don't have enough memory, etc., but at times they've worked along fairly well. Nothing like what I've seen lately in decreased performance. Like sludge.

One of them says it doesn't need to be defragged but the other did. So I'm letting it go doing that now. It's taking forever, and the hard drive is a really small one.

I also deleted all the TEMP files, which was a challenge in and of itself, since the disk cleanup function didn't work properly till I looked it up and made a registry change. Crazy crap.

The other computer -- which is very sluggish -- I ran a spyware thing. It came up with 48 minor, really nothing sorts of things. I don't know if any were serious, but I haven't seen anything especially wrong on that front.

Tomorrow I'll see if it's any faster.

I seriously need two brand new computers. The time is practically here, now with the new Windows 7 being released.

Pussyfooting Around

Keith Olbermann used a word for the Democratic leadership on the health care issue, that they're "pussyfooting" around.

That is so true. You would think they have major media people saying it, that they would get their butts in gear and get this thing done the way the people want it.

It's hard to believe that once upon a time they were trying to get this done before August!

The U.S. Chamber Of Commerce

I saw the video where The Yes Men punk'd the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, by posing as Chamber officials to say the Chamber was reversing their positions on global warming and doing something about it.

It was hilarious. Then it ends with this actual Chamber official showing up to stop the whole thing.

It's thought provoking though. Why in the world would the Chamber of Commerce be against doing something about global warming and climate change? Do they have some other planet they're planning on settling to carry on their work? Or is this planet -- Planet Earth -- the only one they have in mind?

It's astounding to me that anyone -- left, right, conservative, liberal -- would be against doing something to make the world a better place for us and our children to live.

But the Chamber of Commerce -- aren't they usually thought of as responsible citizens? I thought so.

Messing With The Kindle

There's a Kindle in the family, not mine. But I've had a little time to mess with it.

I downloaded a book today, nothing I especially wanted, but I searched and searched and found one I thought I could possibly enjoy. So it's OK.

As to reading on the Kindle, I'm definitely not used to it yet. But so far I'm not overly impressed. It might be a while before I get one for myself.

I like the idea of being able to get various places in a book with some speed and not having to dink around with menus, up and down, all that to get to a place.

As for the highlighting feature, it's not easy enough. I came to a few places in the book I wanted to highlight, which is possible to do. You push MENU, then scroll the five-way button down six or seven steps (that gets monotonous), go to the beginning of the place, click, then to the end of the passage, click. That's all there is to it. But then next time you want to highlight, you hit MENU and the thing is back at the top, meaning you have to scroll down six or seven steps each time! OMG! That's their system?

As far as I'm concerned, everything is tough to get to, tough to navigate, etc. The keypad isn't that great, etc., etc.

One definite thing it can do is get the book you bought fast!

By the way, if the passage you want to highlight is on this page and continued on the next page, that's the same process two times.

Out To Eat

We were out to eat tonight, at a local steak place. It hasn't been in business too long and apparently didn't have as much business as it did tonight, for whatever reason.

The waitress was very apologetic for various things and said they hadn't had a crowd like this before. She might've heard someone talking about it, one of the bosses, because she didn't seem like she'd been there that long.

They were very anxious. She said the cooks were stressed. I could picture them back there trying to cook meals over a candle or something, as long as it seemed to take. But in the end it wasn't really all that long and we weren't mad or anything.

It made me feel a little anxious, though, to know they were all anxious.

Up, Up and Away

I was looking for a beautiful balloon, something I could puff up and fly away in. But all we have is a rubber raft and it doesn't fly.

It was weird watching the coverage of the balloon boy yesterday. The swirling of the helicopter made the balloon look like it was going a hundred miles an hour.

It would've been nice to see it from a stationary camera to see how fast it was actually going.

Anyway, all's well that ends well. It was nice that the kid wasn't actually in the thing. But now they have a few questions to get settled, probably, and it'll be done.

I hope it wasn't a hoax.

Vietnam Moratorium Anniversary

I didn't march personally, but I do recall the whole thing happening, 40 years ago...

It's when I first learned the word "moratorium." I used the word moratorium the other day in a different context and some (older) guy didn't know what it meant. So I guess not everyone's heard of it.

Anyway -- it was widely felt that "Vietnam Bleeds On," and we finally extricated ourselves from the whole thing. It seemed like it took forever. But I understand the Afghanistan war is now a longer war.

It must have been something about being young, but Vietnam seemed like forever. And the last eight years -- while agonizingly slow because of George W. Bush -- doesn't feel like it compared.

What Takes Congress So Long?

Headline: House Expects Health Care Vote By Christmas.

By Christmas? What's the big hold up?! Get it done!

Do we or do we not have the majority in the Senate and the House in addition to the presidency?

I am fuming mad at Congress. This is ridiculous. (Weren't they trying to get to it before September?)

The Great Escape - Movie

The present movie I'm watching while doing my exercises (20 minutes a day) is 1963's "The Great Escape," starring Steve McQueen.

How many shows were there anyway about Nazi prisoner of war camps? "Stalag 13," "Hogan's Heroes," and this one are the ones I can think of. "Hogan's Heroes" of course is a heck of a concept for a sitcom. But somehow they made it work.

So far, I'm probably still in the first hour, I haven't seen any swastikas. So there must have been a reason for that. Wonder why. They're not saying Nazis all that often either. They use a couple words over and over for the Nazis: goons and ferrets.

The big thing about the movie is how they're constantly trying to escape, and the culmination of their efforts will be a "Great Escape," based on a true story.

Just watching the first 40 minutes or so, the goons don't seem very smart. They fall for every diversion and they don't seem to recognize all the dirt showing up in the prison yard (from digging a tunnel).

It might just be me, but if I'm in charge or a guard in a prison camp, and the prisoners we have are known for escapes, I'm going to be extra suspicious about everything. I'm going to be periodically emptying out the barracks and checking the floors, including under the stove (duh). And any kind of apparent diversionary tactics would be addressed as well.

If someone is able to dig a 335 foot tunnel, that means someone else wasn't paying very good attention up here.

Los Lonely Boys -- 1969

I got this EP at Amazon, MP3 downloads. It was only 99 cents today, which sounds cheap enough, eh?

Of course it only has five songs on it, but it's a good one. I'm old. I like the songs, especially "Polk Salad Annie."

I've never had anything by "Los Lonely Boys" before. In part, just because that's the way it is. And in part, because they played a song by them at a funeral for a friend of mine one time. So it's hard (impossible) for me to hear their name and not think of this guy's funeral. There's a lesson in that. Don't ever play a song at a funeral that you ever want to hear again!

Songs are: Evil Ways, Well Alright, She Came In Through the Bathroom Window, Polk Salad Annie, and Roadhouse Blues.

I'm Your New Commander, You Now Are My Prisoner

The other day I got the soundtrack of "Rocky Horror" from the Roxy Theater. 1974, I believe.

I like hearing it. Since I've heard the movie soundtrack so many times that there's nothing left to hear (and I still love it.)

The Roxy one is of course different. And I haven't heard it enough to know all the differences. It's all nice as far as I'm concerned. I don't care for the Brad song in the middle, which I don't even remember the title to, the one that didn't make the movie. So I keep skipping it -- whether it's the movie soundtrack album or this one.

An interesting snippet I heard tonight while at the exercise place -- well, I heard the whole "Rose Tints My World" song. The interesting snippet of this is where Riff Raff says, "Frank N. Furter, it's all over, your mission is a failure," etc. He almost sounds like Little Richard on one part. It's very boisterous and soulful, as compared to the movie's more metallic, driving version.

The Scenery Away From Home

We needed to go to a funeral out of town today, 60 miles in a direction and place we don't ordinarily go. I've been there before but it's very rare.

We noticed the scenery seemed so much more wonderful than what we're used to seeing. The river, the lake, the trees, the quaint buildings (there weren't too many quaint buildings, I just threw that in.)

It made me think how ordinary everything around home seems, which must be the way it always is.

It reminds me of the contentment you can have by staying at home. It doesn't matter to me if I see great scenery in other places. I'm happy enough at home.

It's like in the Beatles' song "The Inner Light," which is quoting from the Tao Te Ching, "Without going out of your door, you can know the ways of heaven." I have a version of the Tao Te Ching, the Stephen Mitchell one, that says, (and I can't quote it), the people live next to a great country, but they never go there. Because they're content with their own place.

I Finished Watching Doctor Zhivago

This is a big day. I finally got through the whole movie, Doctor Zhivago!

As I've said before, I watch movies while doing my morning and evening exercises. I have a particular regimen that takes around 10 minutes each morning and evening. So to watch a movie means to watch it around 20 minutes a day. And this is a longer film.

Add to that the fact that I was depressed by it at first and could've quit at any point. But I got a little more engrossed, and insisted on the discipline of seeing it through to the end. As I became more engrossed, it was an easier task.

I liked it quite a lot, as it turns out. And I watched most of the documentary afterward on the making of it. I have a little more to go.

The Making Of It documentary really drives home the point how hard it'd be to make a movie like that. Wow!

Another 9/11 Would Perk The Republicans Up

We know the Republicans won't be happy with anything good that happens for America while Barack Obama is president.

They're against any positive legislation, against the Olympics, against the Nobel Peace Prize. We'll surely be hearing from them soon that Thanksgiving and Christmas should be canceled.

So what's it going to take to bring a rosy hue back to their cheeks? I think it would take something massive. Perhaps a terrorist strike. I'm sure they'd love that! The worse the better.

Then we'd be able to see Dick Cheney make one of his glorious appearances. Saying in his best Penguin voice, "Wah, wah, I told you so."

Another full blown, all out 9/11 attack would definitely pluck their heart strings -- we have to think -- and put a bounce back in their step.

Anything that is bad for America, that's what the Republicans want. You know they're rooting for worse unemployment numbers. They really are.

They'd love to see the stock market crash. The Black Plague would be good.

If somehow butterflies might be killed off just before spring and the swallows didn't return to Capistrano, that would be a plus.

My Doctor Zhivago Update

I must be about finished with Doctor Zhivago, watching it. I'm on the second tape and it seems like it's getting close to the end.

I also got the soundtrack record today at a thrift store. Honestly, I suppose I have the record already in the basement, but I was at the thrift store, there was a very nice copy for 50 cents, so I got it.

I've never heard the soundtrack record before today ... even though I've known I had it over the years. The front cover never appealed to me, but that was all before I ever saw the movie and really zeroed in on it. I would always glance at the picture of Geraldine Chaplin on the left side and it never appealed to me. Looks like a guy about to kiss a baby seal.

It's funny, I never really looked at the cover at all .... really looked at it. The thing is I'm never interested in soundtrack albums of movies I haven't seen. So I can look at them a million times in thrift stores and recognize them without ever really zeroing in on them. The same thing was true of the "Music Man" soundtracks -- Broadway and film. Now that I've seen the movie, I look at them carefully.

As to the movie, I like it OK. But I don't think anyone could trudge across that frozen tundra and not freeze to death, but hey, I got severely chilled tonight just taking my dog out. And it's not below freezing.

Conservatives Don't Love Mary's Baby

I thought conservatives liked babies. Bundles of joy. Gifts from God. A miracle, each one. Five toes each foot. Fingers, also five each hand. And so forth.

Everything's good about a baby, except the stuff that's not good. Like the 3 a.m. feedings and all the diaper changes. Crying isn't that great. Bilirubin. Heat lamps.

But now they're criticizing Dick Cheney's daughter Mary for being pregnant. So it's not quite as good a miracle when the mother is a lesbian. One wrote:

I respect Dick Cheney, but I don't understand why he is allowing his daughter to take innocent children into her lesbianic home. Can anyone claim that these kids won't be scarred for life? So sad.

That makes it sound like she's adopting. But I checked around and I hadn't read it wrong. There's places that says she's adopting.

And as to Dick "allowing" his daughter to do anything, I believe she's an adult.

A Very Disturbing Photo

Wow, Tom DeLay is one creepy looking guy. A snake in red stripes? Not a good look.

Watching Doctor Zhivago

I'm watching Doctor Zhivago while doing my morning and evening exercises. I've probably seen over an hour of it so far. I believe it's a long movie because there's two tapes.

It seems like a great movie. Except it also is very depressing, and it looks like it's going to get more so. They've had the revolution and the Russians are a cheerless bunch.

This one guy -- the Doctor's brothers -- only speaks as narration in hindsight. He's in the scenes with his brother and he stands there like a post, not saying anything.

The rabble has taken over their house. They haven't got any freedom. The thought police are everywhere. Was that the way it was? It looks like they didn't get off to a good start in Russia! I guess I thought it took a while, but what do I know? (Nothing).

I'm up to the part there Zhivago and his wife and this one old guy who hangs out with them have clambered into a freight car on a train. That's depressing!

Will I make it all the way through this great ... yet bloody cheerless movie?

The Masons

Here's an article -- this is from New Jersey -- on the Masons (Freemasons) hoping that Dan Brown's new book, "The Lost Symbol," will revive some interest in their organization.

I read the book and definitely think the Masons sound pretty cool, as far as their history goes and their various pursuits. I don't know a lot about them, except some members of my family have history (positive) with them.

I have a Masonic Bible, and it has some interesting bits. They're very interested in the temples and the various order of temple worship.

And of course I've heard various slams against the Masons over the years too. Which, who knows? It's probably a lot of hogwash on those people's part, since the Masons can do what they want. Get together, memorize a bunch of stuff, and share brotherhood bonding (there's a women's organization too, and a boy's, and a girl's.)

I say they sound cool ... but still, for me, it wouldn't be the thing to do.

The article says they started "demystifying" themselves in the '80s. That might be a mistake. I prefer things that are mystifying to things that are plainly ordinary.

Getting Cold. No More Swimming.

I went by the municipal pool, now with Fall in full force. It's cold.

Strangely, there were plenty of parking places. 100% empty lot ... except for me.

No water in the pool. No lifeguards to tell me, "Hey! You!"

Records I Heard Today

I got a box of 45s at a garage sale last Saturday. For the most part, they didn't have sleeves. Yet they weren't in uniformly terrible condition (some were). Some buffed up pretty nice.

The best record in the box, in my opinion, was a Buddy Holly and the Crickets one (Brunswick, "Oh Boy"). But there were other good ones, some country ones (for the most part), and a few rock ones that were good.

I got a Slim Whitman Imperial 45 ("Indian Love Call"), and that record is very noisy. Not that it's beat, but it seems to be a pressing issue. Like they did a really poor job making it.

I wanted to just mention the ones I heard today, which I also made MP3s of.

Bobby Bare - Detroit City; Ernest Tubb - Another Story; Jim Reeves - This Is It; Jody Reynolds - Endless Sleep. I had never heard this record, even though it made it to #5 in the '50s. I see he has lots of songs at Amazon, so it's kind of weird that I'm not familiar with him. I believe I've seen the name a time or two over the years. But that's it. It's a cool song, and the flip, "Tight Carpis" is cool too. In the box there were two copies of this record, the U.S. Demon Records issue as well as an English pressing on London Records. I recorded the London one. The "Endless Sleep" has an interesting story, with the guy's girlfriend in the sea, apparently dead, and he seems to get the call to come join her in her endless sleep. But then he finds her and things turn out OK.

Some miscellaneous country 45s, including artists, Johnny and Jack, Johnny and Jonie Mosby, Kitty Wells; a cool Nat Stuckey record "Sweet Thang/Paralyze My Mind." I really like "Paralyze My Mind"; a Red Sovine 45 "I Didn't Jump the Fence" (this one is slightly off center so I never could get a perfect recording of it.); Stonewall Jackson "B.J. the D.J." (in bad shape, a fairly crappy song. I heard it just once, but the story seems to be a kid who goes to be a disk jockey, he never gets enough sleep, and he ends up in a fatal accident. Ha ha.)

Tab Hunter "Young Love/Red Sails in the Sunset." The word "turgid" comes to mind. What a horrible record. Lifeless; Tammy Wynette "Soakin' Wet,"(this is the B side, which I like better than the A side. Her tears are always dry, but her heart is soakin' wet. What a wild idea!); "Back In School Again" by Timmie "Oh Yeah" Rogers (this one is badly warped but playable. Again, I like the flip side better, "I've Got a Dog Who Loves Me." That's a wild one. His dog loves him but his woman don't. He thinks about feeding her dog food instead of steak.)

Minnie Pearl "Giddyup Go-Answer." This is an "answer" song to another record I got in the box, Red Sovine's "Giddyup Go." I believe it was written by the same guy, at least half the writing team, Tom T. Hall. "Giddyup Go" is a ridiculous song (to me), about an idiot who's so devoted to truck driving that he's on the road for six years at a time (LOL). He has a wife and kid at home. The kid named dad's truck "Giddyup Go." The man shows up after six years and his wife and kid are gone. The next time he sees his kid, it's a surprise, because he's all grown up with a truck of his own, called "Giddyup Go."

Minnie Pearl's answer song tells the story from the other angle. The Mom was sick, that's why she left their home, to go to a drier climate. She didn't leave a trace, for whatever reason, then settled in Phoenix. Years passed. Then the son was to be a truck driver, so he left town. The narrator is there "just now" as the glad reunion of father and son from "Giddyup Go" is described from her perspective.

Our Democratic Super Majority ... Sucks

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Jon Stewart has some great things to say about our "Democratic Super Majority" in the Senate.

Basically, they suck.