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Friday Open Thread: Unplugging
ByThe plan had been to go to Virginia. My brother-in-law’s family has a homey cabin on a jazillion acres, three ATVs, and two quarts of Popcorn Sutton’s Apple Pie Shine. Alas, alack, their young’un is down with pneumonia, and now I’m scrambling for Plan B. My Star City Harbinger friend is looking into getting us into his parents’ cabin in north Georgia, or Mrs. Hooligan and I may head to Charleston to stay with Pedal on her boat. No matter the direction, we’re getting out of town, turning off the cellphones, and tuning in to things other than the everyday.
Y’all have a great weekend. It’s going to be beautiful.
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October 10th, 2008 at 8:58 am
See what happened when we defeated the Diesel Power Plant that was going to be put in Woodfin? Remember that John Carroll warned us all of rolling blackouts if we didn’t get the thing built ASAP.
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October 10th, 2008 at 10:37 am
I was just in Virginia this past weekend, doing this: Virginia Creeper Trail video. We go at least once or twice a year. Highly recommended — much more fun than following politics.
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October 10th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
He’s BACK! One of the greatest presidential candidate comebacks in ALL of history!!!
“Pat Paulsen knew where he stood.
“I am neither left wing nor right wing,†said the deadpan comic and “Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour†editorialist during his quixotic run for the presidency in 1968. “I am middle-of-the-bird.†”
see full story:
http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/
By the way, the Smothers Brothers are playing WCU soon… I think I’m going!
As to Paulsen, we had him lined up to play in a movie I wrote in the early 80s that, alas, did not get made.
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October 10th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
I’m leaving tomorrow for a sojourn to Sunset Beach, North Carolina. There I will drink tequila, make love to my woman and work on this sunburn I started at the Obama rally last week. Don’t worry, though, I will be sporadically updating my blog while I’m gone.
Take it easy everyone. Don’t let the fascists get you down.
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October 10th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Oy.
My plans fell through. I’m not unplugged after all.
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October 10th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
I’m volunteering (well, tips accepted) at the WNC Nature Center’s annual Hey Day on Saturday from noon till two. Then I’m heading downtown to street perform in the late afternoon and evening. The weather’s supposed to be lovely, they’ll be plenty of folks downtown, the leaves are exploding, the stock market is crashing, and we’re having an election.
In times of crisis, people need a good laugh and since I only ask for a dollar for my performance, not $700 billion, I think I have a shot at a pretty good night.
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October 11th, 2008 at 8:35 am
My day’s agenda – grab some caffeine, pay a couple of bills, fill a few prescriptions, go see Religulous, do some laundry, work on some tuneage for an upcoming cassette release (yes, you read that right).
Life is bitchin’.
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October 11th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Cassettes are not dead, at least not in this town.
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October 12th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Huge afternoon and evening downtown. There were so many people, that when the light would change, 20-30 people would cross all day long. Had two great shows at the Nature Center to start the day. What a town!
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