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Random Ramblings

I watched the American Masters PBS special on Woody Guthrie, it was fantastic. What a fascinating individual. Peter Coyote narrated, he has a powerful voice for narration. I love listening to it and can almost always pick it out.

While I was watching the special I also found out that The Adventures of Brisco Country Jr. the complete series is now coming out on DVD. I really want it but will wait till it comes down in price. Here are a few other complete series that I would like to have and one that I do own. Keen Eddie is a great show.

Before the Woody Guthrie special there was a special on sharks with Jean-Michel Cousteau. I missed it except for the end. It looked like it was pretty good.

Tonight we had dinner at Ghengis Khan’s and it was awesome. You pick your foods and sauces and bring it to a couple of guys using a giant stir fry surface, there they dump out your bowl of ingredients and stir fry it up for you. So good.

MySpace has a few cool sections now, and one of them is comedy. After spending the weekend with Wes Molebash and talking comics I decided to check out the comedians on MySpace.

You know what I would love MySpace to do? Allow you to call up the tours of all of your musicians and comedian friends and be able to see where they all are performing on a specific day. That would be helpful.

You know what else would be helpful from MySpace? If they would answer complaints about moderators. I have complained about the moderator for my high school message board on MySpace 12 separate times over the past 6 months and have heard nothing. I also sent messages to all the alumni on MySpace that I could find and asked them to do the same and no one has heard anything. The moderator is from another school and spends his time harassing people who post messages on the message board. Is anyone from MySpace watching what is happening at MySpace?

I started Deja Dead last night, and got 5 pages into it and fell asleep. Not sure what I think about this series yet. I’m three CD’s away from finishing Eldest and the story is just getting better. I can’t wait for the Eragon movie or the next book in the series.

Photo-A-Day #460 07/12/06

I want one of these. I have talked about it before with friends and I think that a towable smoker would be something that I could use to start a little weekend business. How, Why, well I could travel to outdoor events and be the BBQ guy spreading good cheer and good food around the Northeast. We’re talking tailgating at Foxboro Stadium, tailgating at the Buffett concerts and visiting motorcycle, bike and kayak shops for special events.

Here are some that I found. I’m thinking under $3,000 for the grill and another $1000.00 for the customizing.

I think the one I really want is the Horizon 20″ Marshal Smoke-n-Wagon. 44″ X 22″ with Double Burner Fryer and 15″ wheels. It is all a pipe dream for the time being but I’m going to keep on researching this and someday who knows you might have me catering your events.

The photo comes from St Joe’s Harley Davidson in St. Joseph, MO. This was a very nice shop with some great extras and details inside the store and outside. The facade of the building was beautiful and even used details from the bikes as fixtures on the building. I took a couple extra pictures there.


The entrance. Smoker is off to the left out of shot.


See how the pillar is actually a replica of a light bar and front fork. Sweet.

I’ve decided to try and go back through all the pins I’ve gotten and set up a list of links to all the Harley Shops that I’ve visited in the past 5 years. So look for those on the links section.

Transformers movie news – Transformers behind the scenes article and video at Holloman Air Force Base.

I am currently in Kansas City, MO. Tomorrow Clinton, IA. Does the fun ever stop. No sign of Car’s toys except I saw a rare one in a newstand at the Chicago Airport. I should have gotten it. I saw the Transformers Titanium toys yesterday and I am not impressed with the ones I saw. So I’ll save a few bucks there.