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- Super Tuesday: Hillary and John McCain have descent leads; Obama and Romney vow to keep fighting; Mike Huckabee comes in a strong third for the GOP…what? Some Young Republican compared McCain to Reagan on FOX News. Ahahahahahahahaha…OK, I’ve regained my composure. Oh yeah, I almost forgot: Obama won big time in the Alaska caucus.
- Eli Manning: Ole Miss’s Superbowl MVP will be on the Late Show with David Letterman tonight. I heart Eli, but a great public speaker he is not. Hopefully Papa Manning hired a fancy publicist to help him squirm through his interview. Vince Vaughn will also so be on tonight’s Letterman, which rocks as well.
- YALL Politics: The best place to keep up with Scruggsgate and other state political issues. By the way, Scruggs now has Wiki.
- Signing Day: Will the University of South Panola’s Tig Barksdale sign with Ole Miss or has he shifted towards MSU? I just hope that someone picks up Brian “Smash” Williams or Tim Riggins. Both are excellent players for the Dillon Panthers.
- Daily Journal Blogs:Keep up with who’s going to MSU with Greg Ellis’s excellent blog or who’s going to Ole Miss with Parish Alford’s blog. I also like Sheena’s blog, Dennis and Carlie’s Blog and Ginny’s blog. Go to DJournal.com for even more bloggery.
- Strangers With Candy (Comedy Central): Ah, good old Amy Sedaris and Steven Colbert. It’s on weekdays at 11 AM (CST), which should be reason enough to buy a Tivo or DVR.
- Elizabeth Hasselbeck’s Baby Blog: Sweet Elizabeth, the poster girl for the GOP (sorry Ann Coulter), blogs her life as a mom. And that is wayyyyyy more interesting than anything the rest of The View has to say, except Sherrie Shepherd, who is also way awesome and one of the coolest, nicest people that I have ever met Check her website out here.
- Angela Kinsey’s Pregnancy: Forget all of the other celebrity pregnancies–this is the baby you should be talking about at the water cooler (Angela plays Angela Martin on The Office). The writer’s strike has lasted so long that she’s showing her baby bump. Should The Office return this season, will they work in her pregnancy? Will it be Dwight’s?
- Ash Wednesday: 40 days of Lent begins now. Expect lots of people to go a few days without smoking or drinking, while Catholics begin their meatless-Fridays. For Episcopalians, like myself, there will be three services today at All Saints in Tupelo.
- Sawyer’s Nicknames: Want a cool or degrading nickname from Sawyer? Do you want to be called Freckles like Kate? The Lost website has a Sawyer nickname generator just for dorks like me. Mine was Freebird. What’s yours?
- Valentine’s Pets: Get a pet for your Valentine at the Tupelo-Lee Humane Society. All pets come with a bow and a card. A dog would be way cooler than that those last-minute flowers you bought last year. Click here for more information.
- Anthony Bourdain No Reservations (Travel Channel): My favorite punk rock chef has a whole new season going on the Travel Channel. The New Orleans episode is especially poignant–Po-boys as a metaphor for survival…“Everybody here has a dead guy story,” noted a survivor.
- Tupelo/Lee Relay For Life: The kickoff meeting is Thursday at 6 PM at the Hilton Garden Inn Walnut Room. Join survivor Kevin Russell of KZ103 and help in a very worthwhile event. As soon as I know more about the Amory/Monroe County event, I will let you know.
- American Idol: Auditions end tonight!! Thank you God!
- Bloodshot Records: One of my favorite Indie labels is having a $6 CD sale. Now, if only the major labels would follow suit, I might stop downloading. (Thanks to Sheena for this nugget)
- Vanity Fair Cancels Oscar Night Party: Dang. I was just getting used to referring to Puffy as Sean John. I was going to have crab cakes with Amy Winehouse. I hope the writer’s strike ends soon.
- Bonnaroo Festival: The lineup for the four-day Tennessee event has been announced. And no, Led Zeppelin is not playing. I think that my personal hell could be having to go to this festival and camp for four days. Wait, I could pay like two grand for VIP passes and get the good showers.
- Riding The Storm Out With Dick Rice: It’s now 12:04 in the AM and I’m still scared to death. Now, it’s 1:50 and the sirens have stopped and the tornado warning is gone. Thanks to Dick Rice and Jonathan Burleson for excellent coverage.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Dies: The Beatles (faux) spiritual guru has gone to the Spirit in the Sky. Remember him fondly while listening to Sexy Sadie.
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Paul Thorn
Tupelo native Paul Thorn returns to town Thursday night with a show at the Lyric Theater. His new video,A Long Way From Tupelo, is currently playing on GAC and a limited edition of his album of the same name will be available at the show. For more information, go to http://www.paulthorn.com/
1. First, I have to say, Bluebell Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream. I try keep it down to one heaping bowl full a week since it's full of saturated fats and I'm a 43 year old trying to keep up the image of a front man. BUT, sometimes I'm weak and I backslide.
2. My Six Million Dollar Man Pinball machine. I finally got it fixed and have been playing it a lot. My 4 year old is learning how to play it so we get to play it together.
3. Saturday mornings, I get up and watch Kay Bain. I've been a loyal WTVA viewer for many years but I get a little upset because they've cut Kay down to just being on once a week. I love Kay Bain. You know, my coffee just tastes better with Kay Bain.
4. I've recently thrown out my old socks. I went to Wal-mart and bought a 12-pack of brand new white socks. I got them all for about eight bucks so I've been really happy about that.
5. My 14 year old daughter, Kit has become a facination. I've always been all about my daughter but now she's coming out with this Aretha Franklin style, powerful voice and I've just been amazed. I love listening to her sing.The Greatest Albums Of All Time (Some of the…)
February 6, 2008 at 1:36 pm
so we totally plugged each other’s blogs today. kinda like cross pollination or something.
February 6, 2008 at 7:16 pm
John McCain is about as conservative as Joe Stalin. And for as much as they like to name-drop Reagan and have people laughably compare them to Reagan (even Obama), not a damn one of them are fit to tie Reagan’s shoes, in terms of platform, aside from Ron Paul – who was one of a whopping four congressmen to endorse him, and who Reagan campaigned for in Texas.
In that last debate, when they asked the remaining four GOPs “Do you think Ronald Reagan would endorse you” – I don’t know for the life of me why Ron Paul didn’t answer with “Uh, Reagan DID endorse me, thankyoudrivethru.”
What I got a kick out of was an article saying some 80odd percent of people who voted for Mitt Romney identified themselves as ‘conservative’.
Clearly, the term has completely lost all meaning.