Gambler 500
This event is so cool. You buy or fix up an old car (spending ~$500, but literally nobody checks or cares). “Impractical” vehicles are kind of the vibe. Look at a Google image search for the cars. There is a “rally” where you make your way to some central location (which I think is something […]
List of Actually Good Kids Shows
We put on Gravity Falls the other day from Disney+ (Miranda said she heard it was good). It was good. Ruby even seemed to like it (she’s just 2). I mentioned it on Twitter, remarking I wished more kids shows were this good (there is so much bad) and I got a pile of recommendations. […]
Country, Bluegrass, and Flour
I always thought it was a fun thing that Flatt and Scruggs were sponsored (for decades) by Martha White flour. I’ve always wanted to be sponsored by a barbeque sauce, me. They wrote and performed a little ditty as part of that sponsorship. I’d love to see the contract they signed, just to see what […]
Bend Old-Time Jam
I’m just going to link up the website to our jam here. There’s an “old” website, so I’m linking to the “new” website here for the smidge of SEO juice it might need to make sure it’s the top result. When I moved to Bend, the fact that there was a website for this jam […]
The Case of the Missing Guitar and the Idiot Who Didn’t Even Realize it was Missing
Weird story! Sometime in 2014-15, my friend Mark wants to sell me this very nice guitar. It’s spendy, and I’m not sure I should do it, but Mark really needed the cash so he could do something very nice for his family, so I pull the trigger. I pick it up from him later that […]