Archive for May, 2008

‘Return To Forever’ Sparks Jazz Fusion Revolution in Houston

Return to Forever are (left to right): Al Di Meola – guitar, Chick Corea – Keyboards/piano, Stanley Clarke – bass, Lenny White – drums. They reunited after being apart for 25 years and are just kicking off their tour. Tonight was their third show, after their first two shows in Austin.
First off, let me [...]

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Open Letter to Lottery Winners (and Losers)

Dear Lottery Winners,
I invite you to firmly point your fingers right at me and laugh out loud that you pulled off the near-impossible and won a sum of money, large or small, by playing the lottery. Go ahead. Enjoy it while you can.
Now for the other 99.99% of you, aka “Losers”, I ask only this:
STEP [...]

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Sarah on Ukulele

Sarah likes to embrace anything having to do with Hawaii, since she was born there. Once I showed her how to play the ukulele (very basic things, a few chords and vamps and this waltz), she can’t seem to get enough of it. Here she is playing a waltz that I learned when I was [...]

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David Cook, the Accidental American Idol

He didn’t even mean to audition in the first place. Who would have thought, huh?
Here’s what he looked like at his audition. Come a long way, eh?
Congrats to you David Cook. Way to go on sharing your moment at the end of the show with all of the contestants.
Best wishes.

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The Battle of the Davids

American Idol comes to a close and the roar of the crowd during and after David Archuleta’s performances was evidence that I was right this whole time . I predicted that David Archuleta would win the whole thing with David Cook coming in the somewhat coveted second. I say coveted because runners-up at American [...]

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Teach a Man to Fish…

All I did was show Zack how to cast. We used lures which are easy to manage and don’t stink. He did a better job casting each time he did it kept it up for a bout an hour and a half.

Then, after it got dark, he hooked one and I jumped over to keep [...]

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Fear of Gas Lines Conquered, Auto Repair Next

One day, I was at Lowe’s picking up some household odds and ends with my family, when we walked by the grill section. I always looked but never touched when it came to these stainless steel outdoor monster kitchens, but this one had a yellow sign on it showing the normal price and then the [...]

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