27 8x10 Color glossy pictures

"I Don't Want a Pickle"

Saturday Cindy, Elyse, and I went to see Arlo Guthrie. We stayed for the first 2 shows. It was a great! He was just as funny as he was when I saw him in the 80s at a small club in CT. He looks very different now; I would never have recognized him. In the first show he sang "The Motorcycle Song" and in the second he sang the entire "Alice's Restaurant". He had his entire family with him in the show, and made a joke about how he is his own reunion tour. After the second show he came out for autographs (darn that I forgot to bring my Alice's Restaurant LP). My friend Stacy was the show director that day and she allowed us to take this photograph. If he comes back next year, and I was told that it is possible , I will definitely bring this photo and my LP for him to sign.





House of Lords is winding down this leg of their European tour. Man just looking at their schedule makes me tired. A USA tour is in the works. We're hoping there will be an Orlando or Tampa or Jacksonville or perhaps even an Atlanta (we have family there) show date we can attend. In the meantime I've been listening to Robin's new CD and there's a wonderful duet between her and James on it.


Club Yahoos

Looks like the yahoos are at it again. I'm away for two weeks and suddenly people are saying the club is filled with stalkers. Of course members of this concerned group are stalkers themselves, so this is not be the first time they've spread stalker accusations. From what I understand, the complaint is that certain people showed up at an event honoring departing cast members. I wasn't there so I don't know if the real problem was whether this group or some of the cast were annoyed that people they didn't want were in attendance, or whether people crashed that actually weren't invited or welcome. I have seen guests (mostly women) so obsessed there have been past problems in this area, but this group complaining has a history of distorting events or retelling gossip. I'd have to hear what happened from a reliable source.

The cast being employed professionals should not share private information with guests in the first place, especially those who can't keep secrets or appoint themselves acting guardians. If this occurred at one of the locations I think it did, it was either at a public place or an accessible club room so some non-cast could attend. In both these cases it wouldn't be the first time nice cast members OK'd friends to be there and some people got bent out of shape over it. It's even possible the attendees helped prepare the event and the complainers are just ignorant or annoyed. Any nonsense could easily be avoided by holding the event privately (off-hours, backstage, a person's home), so I have to wonder why this was not the case.



MythTV

I ordered extra memory so both computers will have at least a gig in them. I still need to order the HD tuners, antenna, and large SATA drive before I can begin with the software configuation. I have one system running Fedora and the other running Ubuntu. Both are having problem with the 3GL crashing parts of Gnome, but I'm just playing. I wish that the Fedora package installer/RPM was faster, and that the system bootup console was better hidden behind a graphic. I wish Ubuntu layout looked more like Fedora's. I wish they both handled window manger configuration changes without breaking.



"I Just Want to Ride On My MotorCyc-le"

What's with this motorcycle safety commercial that's playing 1000 times a day? It's the one where a person does the right thing by looking both way before pulling slowly out into the intersections, but a motorcycle rams into him anyway. The commercial is trying to tell you that looking both ways is no longer enough. You need to look twice.

If you watch the video carefully you'll notice a few things. (1) The driver looks left, then right. Since traffic comes from the left, everyone would naturally look to the right first then keep an eye on the left for their own safety. You could spend all day looking back and forth before moving. What about the other direction that only got one look, shouldn't you look back there again? The driver didn't need to look twice, he needed to look in the correct directions once. (2) The motorcycle is in one lane when he hits the car in the first clip, then he is in another lane or a more distant street in the next clip. (3) The motorcycle is traveling much too fast to react; the car was moving slowly and was barely out into the street. Suppose that was a child that ran into the street instead? I think the bike would have hit them.

Having been the driver of one of the smallest cars you can own, smaller than a motorcycle in fact, I can tell you first hand that people do all sorts of stupid things to you and blame the fact that they didn't see you; especially since they are all driving tank size vehicles and chatting on cell phones. Sounding my horn stopped many an accident. I don't want them looking back and forth twice, I want them focused on their driving and looking once correctly in the first place.

Syndicated 2008-05-08 06:28:45 (Updated 2008-05-09 06:15:37) from Keith