Free Guitar Lessons For Hillary, Barack and John

Little Rock Jams is offering a free guitar lesson to each of the three major Presidential candidates when they come through Little Rock AR. The author feels that he can best judge the abilities and character of the candidates by the way that they act in the context of a guitar lesson and promises to give us the benefit of his experience teaching them, to help us decide who to vote for.

No more stinking debates! Let’s have an old time three way head cutting jam session.

 

My Home Life as told to the New Yorker

 

Million Blog List

I’m # 1086

Stumbling around in blogland this morning I found a wiki called “The Million Blog List.” It is an attempt to get one million bloggers to list their blogs, in no particular order, on the mother of all blogrolls. Hey, a link is a link, right?  I listed all three, so I’m really #s 1085, 1086 and 1087.  It’s gonna be big.

 

Search Terms Updated Again

Here are a few of the search terms that people have followed to ROTUS this morning. The middle aged lovers must be very disappointed if they don’t scroll down as far as my blog carnival posts. Bald men I’ve got, though. Experienced readers will know that I never follow directions.

i love bald men
obama whites hair
middle age love
white haired ladies for obama
obama supporter white political correctnness
i will follow directions when i am asked

Update: I’m sure this person will NOT be disappointed.

big hooters

Hmmmm this just in:
obama bumper yes we can kill white folk
WTF?

famous bald white men
This is not about me.

chocolate+naked
Now that’s more like it!

toyota prius bra
Olga, can you give me a hand with this one?

 

Carnival Time in Maryland Again

It’s time for the bi-weekly Carnival of Maryland again. This time hosted by On The Red Line. It looks like the opening of a new Hooters Restaurant is the big issue this week. I would have saved my illustration from the last carnival post if I had known.

I have another Clark’s Picks post in the carnival. This time it’s Billie Holiday.

 

Clinton Leads Among Bowlers but Not Beer Drinkers in PA

Parsing the electorate has reached a new high in ludicrous at the Kansas City Star, who’s polling in Pennsylvania - a long way from Kansas City folks - indicates that hunters and bowlers prefer Hillary while beer drinkers and protestants go for Obama. In my world, which includes Pennsylvania, BTW, hunters, bowlers, beer drinkers and Protestants are pretty much the same people. Almost everybody in Pennsylvania is at least two of those.

Their conclusion: Obama can’t win in Pennsylvania, there aren’t enough young black people. Once again the polls have forgotten about us.

 

Mad Disk Jockey On The Loose

I did one of my occasional fill in evenings at the radio station tonight, just after I finished talking to “Jason” in tech support and getting my internet connection back. I was fortunate to be able to premiere the new CD by Chester River Runoff, who will be having a CD release party at the Prince Theater this Friday. Of course I used the opportunity to shamelessly promote Clark’s Picks, where I have just posted a piece on John Herald, an undeservedly obscure musician from the 60’s folk scare.

Dick Cheney did not accompany me to the station. He was busy planning an invasion of Uraguay, “just in case.”

 

Internet Problems at ROTUS Ranch

The squirrels have gone on strike and my connection is down. I am posting this from an undisclosed location. I just wish Dick Cheyney would clean up his pizza boxes and put that shotgun away.

 

So, I stopped By The Pawn Shop The Other Day

We have one little pawn shop here at Rotus Ranch. Like many pawn shops there is a musical instrument section, usually filled with cheap east Asian manufactured junk, scratched and dented to a fair thee well and priced near or sometimes above their cost new. I like to look. I once bought a 1937 King Zephyr alto saxophone for a couple hundred bucks at this shop. Their lack of knowledge about musical instruments can work for you sometimes.

Last week I found this Guild F-30 guitar, still in it’s case, leaning against the wall back there. I’m not going to disclose the actual, ridiculously low price I paid for it. It has a Hoboken label, which means that it was built in the Hoboken New Jersey factory, long closed down. Hans Moust, author of The Guild Guitar Book tells me that my new guitar rolled off the assembly line on October 27, 1964. I don’t have a guitar buying problem. I can quit any time I want.

Just thought I’d put a little guitar porn up on my blog.

 

Carnival of Maryland Again

No not that kind of carnival, dammit. Every couple of weeks the Maryland Blogger Alliance puts on a blog carnival.
Today’s carnival is hosted by UU Mom. That reminds me - Q: What is the UU (Unitarian Universalist) definition of diversity?
A: When there are three colors of Toyota Prius in the church parking lot.

I have a post from Clark’s Picks in the carnival again, this one about Bill Kirchen, Takoma Park resident and guitarist for Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen.