It is well documented that Dusty’s taste for music is broad and deep and generally excellent (with the notable exception of his love for The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, but many better men have also succumbed to the siren call of Prog Rock), but Dusty has no call for one genre: Country.
There is a Texas-based singer named Kevin Fowler who has an infectiously-cliched song that is burning up the Texas/Americana charts right now. It is called “Pound Sign (#?*!)” and it is catchy and jangly and hokey and PRECISELY the kind of song, I suspect, that would make Dusty bleed from his ears but only until he found a hot, sharp object with which to puncture his eardrums. Should you want to listen to it, here you go (apparently MySpace still exists):
So the morons who picket soldier funerals with their “God Hates America” signs decided to take it on the road to ComicCon this year. Go figure, the comic nerds found out in advance and counter-demonstrated. Hilarity ensued. Enjoy. Here’s my favorite photo from the counter-demonstration:
From an email forwarded to me this morning comes these photos of a 1,000 lb gator that was shot in the wild in Houma, La., home of our friends the Shrimp Boots Racing Team. Apparently it was shot while crossing a kids’ soccer field. And it was with a female that was even larger but that got away. Estimated length is about 13′8″ from snout to tail. Oy. If Mike Vick had a truly entrepenurial streak, he’d figure out how to face these beasts off against the rogue Burmese Pythons in the Everglades in fights for monies.
Stevo asked me to link here the article (”Lap Dogs“) that was just published in the August 2009 issue of Spirit Magazine about the Toxic Asset Racing Program and their race last February. Here’s a photo:
Maybe it’s because of asinine comments like these. Regardless of the validity of the points he makes, this kind of stuff is just petrol on the fire:
“I would hate to see any kind of takeover happen because it would be badly managed They can’t even run their own teams. They can’t agree on anything. If the teams owned it they would destroy it,” Ecclestone added.
He also scoffed at the leaked FOTA calendar, wondering how the body can compete with the structure operated by his businesses.
“We organise the venues which don’t cost the teams a penny,” said Ecclestone. “I reckon Ferrari and McLaren need us more than we need them.”
“All they have to do is pitch up at a track with their sponsors’ names all over their cars in exchange for millions of quid and race in front of a worldwide television audience - which I have set up and keep going.
“The bottom line is they can’t afford to set up a rival championship,” he added.
Is that an extended middle finger for Ecclestone that I see originating in Maranello?
