tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142599992009-10-13T05:47:04.435-07:00I wish I was a fisherman, tumblin' on the sea...Ryoushinoreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14259999.post-58641138497800448842007-08-14T19:37:00.000-07:002007-08-14T19:42:30.366-07:00

Don ImusUnkle Creepy

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We really enjoyed watching Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story Wed. night. I made the youngsters watch it. The kids especially loved Green Onions and Otis but were dumbfounded to see Jesse Jackson with that big old afro. Check your local PBS listings to find out when they'll show it again 'cause Ryoushi sez check it out.

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I can't think of a better woman to start this off than Sam from Chris Muir's comic strip day by day. Muir describes Sam as World weary, cut to the chase, an accomplished engineer who still stops to smell the roses...after measuring them.Zed you're a lucky man.

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Well it's one week later and the online gun community is euphoric over the trashing of Jim Zumbo's long career. I haven't seen this much chest thumping since Powerline, Free Republic, et al took down Dan Rather.Jim Zumbo was an easy target. He was vulnerable to the pressure brought to bear by the shooting community because he was/is a member of that community. We have a huge fight coming up in

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"I'd just like to say that I was exhausted from a long day of free single malt scotch all expense paid coyote hunting. I really didn't mean to say semiautomatic rifles should be banned from public lands because they were terrorist weapons. I'm checking myself into an exclusive rehab program and AR sensitivity awareness under the watchfull eye of Ted Nugent. Look for details in the next issue of

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Healing Iraq has compiled posts from Iraqis, mostly Sunni trying to defend themselves and their neighborhoods from the militias. Hat tip to Chester....Ali – Khadhraa district:Please inform us about the areas that are expected to be targeted, so we can be prepared. Also please inform us on the necessary steps we should take to protect our families and ourselves.Ibn Al-Iraq – Jihad district:Salam

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Anybody here seen my old friend Daniel? No? I didn't think so. Senator Moynihan was everything I love about many of the old-time Democrats. And sorely miss in most of the current crop. "The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare."First off, he grew up in hard times but worked even harder and achieved greatness. But he always kept a genuine

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, unlike The Rolling Stones would probably be the last ones to claim the title of World's Greatest Rock and Roll band. Just look at the picture, Tom is saying "No Ryoushi don't go there." Too late.It's been thirty years since I was riding shotgun in my friend Rick's Gran Prix and first heard "Breakdown" on the car radio. That snaky guitar line and shout along

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It looks like Ward Churchill needs to start polishing up the old resume. BOULDER, Colo. -- The University of Colorado announced Monday that it will dismiss controversial professor Ward Churchill."Today, I issued to Professor Churchill a notice of intent to dismiss him from his faculty position at the University of Colorado Boulder," CU Interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano said Monday

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If Johnny Cash shot a man in Reno, Nevada just to watch him die, what the hell is he doing stuck in the Calif. State Prison at Folsom? And what makes him think that train just keeps on rollin' on down to San Antone? Maybe it's just rollin' on down to Modesto or Bakersfield.No disrespect meant, I'm just sayin.

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Today is Rodeo day in Covis, CA, my hometown. We live right next to the staging area for the annual Rodeo Parade so I woke up early to the sound of air brakes and horses clip clopping off their trailers. I had some coffee and decided to walk over to Barstow Ave. and wait for my 12 year old niece, Meghan to ride by in her first Parade.Now this is not the Rose Parade by any stretch of the

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I didn't know weather to cheer or cry when I saw this snippet in a local Santa Cruz, CA paper."At the closing party of this elegantly displayed show, Darryl Ferrucci is lowering the brow level with a sort of home-grown recontextualization--he's bringing the spaghetti Western music, cheap beer, guns and people back to his objets d'art formerly known as targets, and car doors before that. The

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I was watching Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood today and found out Buck Owens passed away early Saturday morning. Buck was a huge star here in the San Joaquin Valley. We were just as exited as everybody else about those four long-haired guys from England but Buck and his Buckaroos were OUR band. Many people think only of beaches and Hollywood when they think of California but most of the

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I guess you could call Buddy Miller a late bloomer. Here's a question for any baby boomers that might stumble across this post. How many people do you know that picked up the guitar in the 60s? OK. Now, how many of your garage band pals are still making a living playing music?lonely...cricket...chirpsBuddy Miller has been hanging in there making music since the Summer of Love and didn't really

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First off I must say I'm still not 100% convinced that Neko Case is human. You simply have to be suspicious of so much talent and beauty under one roof. In typical Siren fashion, the first thing that gets your attention is her (?) voice calling to you through a veil of luscious reverb. Human women just don't sing like this anymore. You must investigate. So you buy a CD and listen while examining

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I stumbled across Peggy Noonan's A Separate Peace last week. I think she's onto something here."I think there is an unspoken subtext in our national political culture right now. In fact I think it's a subtext to our society. I think that a lot of people are carrying around in their heads, unarticulated and even in some cases unnoticed, a sense that the wheels are coming off the trolley and the

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My pick for this weekend is one of my favorite films of the 90's, Rob Roy. In 1995 we got two films about Scottish legends, Rob Roy then William Wallace, Mel Gibson's Braveheart. For me Rob Roy is a finer film by far. A timeless story shot in the misty Highlands of Scotland and actors that are every bit as good as the story and scenery.Liam Neeson is perfectly cast as Robert Roy MacGregor, a

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OK, we're doomed. Can the apocalypse be far behind once filth like this starts to pervade our streets?

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I guess there are worse ways to start a blog than saluting a great dog and mourning his passing. That's my pal Dusty over there on the right. He passed away last weekend and it really let some of the air out of me, out of our whole family.We picked Dusty up from the pound back in the winter of '97. The doc there figured he was about three years old then and told us he was a lab/greyhound mix. We

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