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abuelo gringo

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  1. Mrs. Rex Ryan?
  2. Just started watching Family Tree from Christopher Guest. Stars Chris O'Dowd, who was great in Get Shorty (on Netflix?). Seems true to Guest form, so if you like his work, you might like this. Only through first episode so far. Also, being big into genealogy, my wife and I find this particularly amusing.
  3. I miss the old Ace Record Store on Elm in downtown Dallas in the 60s. Thousands of used Blues and R&B 78s for $2-5. Never could afford much, but could spend hours just looking.
  4. Another record club kiddo here, only I was with RCA Victor, as I was mostly into jazz and swing. This was certainly one of my first that I purchased myself if not the first. I was working at a laundromat for 50 cents an hour and LPs at the time ran $2.98 for the most part. This was more, as it was a double album. Released in 1960, I still had it until a house flood about 3 years ago. I lost hundreds of LPs, 45s, and 78s. C'est la Vie. It goes to show you never can tell. This was great, as it included Caruso, Tommy Dorsey, Harry Belafonte, and Maurice Chevalier, an eclectic collection. I played the hell out of it in the early 60s.
  5. Always loved Allen's writing and performing. Only time I've seen him was in 2014 with Alejandro Escovedo's United Sounds of Austin. Great show with lots of great Texas singer/songwriters. I think he did about 4-5 songs.
  6. Sounds good. Glad to see Ashley Jensen in it also. She was great in his Extras series.
  7. Ahh -- but what do you order for your friends at Whataburger? https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/fired-deputy-smuggled-whataburger-to-inmates-officials-say/273-735dd4ee-8eee-4f46-a320-b4b5179ac8d6
  8. I still remember the night in 1981 when Charlie Rocket said fuck in the closing moments when the cast was assembled to say goodnight. He was, of course, canned and disappeared from tv for a while.
  9. Thanks! Also going in March. Will try to work this in.
  10. Can you order that by name at most WBs, or do you have to ask for a number one with chicken patty and fried egg?
  11. I'm a big Paul Siebel fan. Also good openings by Paul: I met her at a dance, I thought I'd take a chanceSo I held her tight when I heard those fiddles playSo now I'll tell the news: she made me lose my bluesJust one little kiss and I threw them all awayI got a love so true and nothing you could do could change meI'm gonna let it shine ... like a blinding lightBut I'll be back for more, I'll be a-tapping at her doorAnd we'll climb the hill when the whippoorwills sing tonight and If you don't love her, better let her go You'll never fool her, you're bound to let it show Love's so hard to take when you have to fake Everything in return You just preserve her when you serve her A little tenderness.
  12. So I'll make my stand And remain as I am, And bid farewell and not give a damn. We're idiots, babe - It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves. The crowd began to cheer. He flew away. Oh my Grace, I've got no hiding place.
  13. Arrested cop has a busted up face in mug shot. I heard he banged his head on a patrol car. WTF? Everything about this story is fishy.
  14. https://www.austin360.com/entertainmentlife/20190102/garfield-librarys-hit-spot-cafe-closes-suddenly Hit the Spot Cafe at Garfield Library. RIP
  15. I wonder if they even bothered to clean it first. First, grease and flour your pan.
  16. God Bless Mark Twain.
  17. This just in! General Francisco Franco is still dead!
  18. It rained?
  19. Kin to Longhorns James Theodore and Ernie Jr.?
  20. Always one of my favorites -- Been a fan for some time. He has written lots of good songs and performs them well.
  21. Written and vocal by Powell St. John (Austin days in Waller Creek Boys), violin by Spencer Perskin (Shiva's Head Band).
  22. abuelo gringo

    Songbirds

  23. The week before Thanksgiving 2002. Wife and I were sitting in the Erwin Center waiting to see Jackson Browne and Tom Petty on his Last DJ tour. Just about the time lights went down for Browne, the people behind us arrived, with the slight commotion of hurried people. I looked around and saw our grown daughter and a friend sit down. Neither of us knew the other was going to the concert. Shared tastes, maybe?
  24. Janis Joplin and local piano player Robert Shaw at the Union theater in UT Student Union. It was called "Blues 'n Barrelhouse" and tickets were fifty cents each. First time to see Janis and fell in love. 1966.
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