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And I bet he bedded Rachel the showcase model too!

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Dead, at their zenith in the magic of Red Rocks.

Starting with Bobby’s “I’m moving to Australia” at 8:29 of Ship of Fools and then BOOOM

Estimated Prophet -> The Other One -> Eyes of the World

An insane mind melting experience.

The bottom has fallen out. I’d say Fire Phil Fulmer, but they already did.

Might as well forfeit the rest.

Pathetic

It seems, that in addition to being a guitar god, Eric Clapton also fancies himself something of a gun nut. Luckily for some rich folks, his collection has grown too big and he needs to sell some guns off to make room for others.

Clapton has claimed that his passion has gotten out of hand in much the same way his guitar collection did. “It’s following the same pattern as when I collected guitars, cars and watches. I start out with a fairly broad spectrum, get obsessed and engulfed and finally narrow the collection down. I built a gunroom that can house a certain amount of guns and now I have to clear the decks for the new guns I have on order.”

Oh to have his problems.

And I think this comment, sums it up nicely

O-shit- Clapton is even cooler than I thought.

But enough of that, here’s some pictures (and yes, thats Eric playing guitar in the engraving)

Sometimes it pays to get the hell out of dodge.

Sitting in DC, no matter who I talk to, its just a constant barrage of bullshit. Leaving the city of talking points, therefor, is bound to be a refreshing change.

With that in mind, and considering this new moon is the start of this years rut, I decided to head south, to North Carolina and get an on the ground feel for what the election will bring (and with the hope of landing a buck Sarah Palin could be proud of).

Yesterday afternoon saw us outside the Eastern Carolina town of Keanansville where I learned the local bucks are mostly dog driven and just not too big.

Spend some time at the Keanansville bait and tackle as folks hauled in the first bucks of this falls big buck contest. Some nice bodied deer, but a little lacking in the rack department.

We headed out to greener pastures though, a 3,000 acre QDMA managed property with gated access (not high fence, simply gates at the driveway to prevent folks from coming in

They put me on a stand overlooking a river bottom and under some powerlines. Had about a 1500 view down in both directions and sat down around 5pm to watch the action.

And action it was. At a range of about 800 yards (too far for me to shoot) I witnessed 3 bucks in a battle royale on a grassy bluff overlooking the river. I was mesmerized, when I decided to look the other way and saw 5 medium sized does grazing.

All of a sudden a small 6 pointer, probab ly 2 year old, buck jumped out into the field. He had a nice rack for his age, and will certainly be a wall hanger, but not yet.

He too became a bit skittish, and I was hoping a dominant buck would appear, but none did. Instead a couple of more does wandered out.

Still, as the sun went down, I could hear deer fighting all around. Eventually, a nice sized doe materialized, and with shooting time down I decided to take her with a 185 yard shot to put food in the fridge. The 140 grain sierra game king powered by 54.5 grains of h4831 was just devastating, putting a small slit into her left side and blowing a good chunch of her heart and lungs out a softball sized hole on the right side. She was knocked down, then sprang up and ran about 20 yards leaving a river of blood behind.

Word to the wise, if your hunting in the afternoon, don’t forget a flashlight. And have a backup. Its tough to dress a deer in the dark.

My buddy final picked me up, and under the lights of his truck, I gutted her and then hung her over night.

Its now 6:15 am, and a brisk 31 degrees. I’m in a different stand, closer to where those bucks are and along a line of heavy scrapes and rubs between some food plots, a watering hole, and the nasty tangled brush the big boys love.

Can’t see anything, but can hear lots of deer. Shooting time starts in 20 minutes or so.

As the underdog forces of good meet evil on the ultimate battlefield over the next few days, I think all red blooded, nose to the ground, All VOLUNTEER Army loving, American’s can agree

Go Vols! Beat ‘Bama!!

I’ve been really lax in the blogging.
No excuses. Well, yes. There is. Three or four.

As I’ve stated, life gets in the way sometimes. And to quote Uncle, I do this for me not you.
That said, I also got a face book page recently. Its under my real name, and I’ve been posting a bunch there. Its strange, most of the folks I am linked to are from high school and college. And a couple from DC. I started posting a bunch of political stuff there - cause thats what interests me, but then realized I didn’t want to do that. In my line of work, having folks know your political thoughts isn’t good for business. Sure there are Republicans and Democrats in DC, but I’m neither. I offended (and am offended by) both. But, I’ve got this handy little Facebook link on my Firefox toolbar, and it makes it easy.

Any one know if one exists for Wordpress??

The other things are really work. And at night (or in my little free time when I’m not at work or with the wire and kids), as I come to terms with the looming Obama I’m loading ammo. I’ve loaded about a 1000 rounds this week. 80 rounds of 280 Remington. 200 rounds of 7.62×39. 500 rounds of .45 ACP. And 100 rounds of .45 Colt

In the meantime, groove to this. It may be the single best Fire On The Mountain ever. Can’t help but put a smile on my face when I listen to it (and I’ve played it at least 20 times this week)

Jerry is grooving. And Carlos Santana just shreds.

Awesome!

I’m sitting next to this (NSFW) on the flight back from Minneapolis. Hot damn! She’s got a mold of her butt under the seat.

Love it. Gotta love it.

UPDATE

Its even better. She’s ridden the Sybian on Howard Stern!!! And hooked up with Artie!!!!

Here’s here web page and her myspace page. I’m in love.

And, Boyd, while she had clothes on - her ass rocked and her tits were gorgeous. And pretty much hanging there for me to stare at the whole time. It was an epic struggle trying to keep my focus on my laptop.

Need I say anymore??

Nope. Glenn Reynolds has more though.

And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I
don’t mind. Why should I be frightened of dying?
There’s no reason for it, you’ve gotta go sometime.

If you can hear this whispering you are dying.

I never said I was frightened of dying.

RIP, Richard Wright

Last week, I was a respectable 9-7. Lets see how I can do this week!

But more importantly, what’s up with the Monday Night Football double headers. Is that going to be a feature ALL season long?? And perhaps more importantly, where is Monday night’s Texans Ravens game going to end up being played??

Week 2, 2008

Sunday September 14, 2008:

Chicago Bears (1-0) @ Carolina Panthers (1-0) - my pick: The Panthers
Tennessee Titans (1-0) @ Cincinnatti Bengals (0-1) - my pick: The Bengals
Green Bay Packers (1-0) @ Detroit Lions (0-1) - my pick: The Packers
Buffalo Bills (1-0) @ Jacksonville Jaguars (0-1) - my pick: The Bills
Oakland Raiders (0-1) @ Kansas City Chiefs (0-1) - my pick: The Chiefs
Indianapolis Colts (0-1) @ Minnesota Vikings (0-1) - my pick: The Colts
NY Giants (1-0) @ Saint Louis Rams (0-1) - my pick: The Giants
New Orleans Saints (1-0) @ Washington Redskins (0-1) - my pick: The Skins
San Francisco 49?ers (0-1) @ Seattle Seahawks (0-1) - my pick: The Hawks
Atlanta Falcons (1-0) @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-1) - my pick: The Bucs
Miami Dolphins (0-1) @ Arizona Cardinals (1-0) - my pick: The Dolphins
San Diego Chargers (0-1) @ Denver Broncos (1-0) - my pick: The Broncs
New England Patriots (1-0) @ NY Jets (1-0) - my pick: The Jets
Pittsburgh Steelers (1-0) @ Cleveland Browns (0-1) - my pick: The Steelers

Monday Night Football Games - September 15:
Baltimore Ravens (1-0) @ Houston Texans (0-1) - my pick: The Ravens
Philadelphia Eagles (1-0) @ Dallas Cowboys (1-0) - my pick: The Cowboys

Dave Stewart is a mad genius

Not only did he come out with a line of harmonically tuned vibrators - and played Somewhere Over The Rainbow with them on the Howard Stern show (you can listen here) -

but he has totally re-done the Eurythmics songs with full orchestration to replace the synthesizers.

Check it out. It blew me away

Here’s the video for the original Sweat Dreams. WHen this song came out - at the fawn of the MTV age, it was a musical revolution

You can also see him in the video for Tom Petty’s Don’t Come Around Here No More, a song Dave wrote (about the night Stevie Nicks broke up a long relationship with Joe Walsh and he ended up sleeping with her) on an album he produced. He’s on the giant mushroom at the start.

The Gun Toting Liberal is keeping track of the games, and making predictions.

What a great idea . . . so good, I ought to do it.

And so, with the season starting tomorrow night (tomorrow?!?!?!?!) in conflict with McCain’s acceptance speech (I knew the left wing MSM was anti Republican, didn’t realize the NFL was too!) here we go

Week 1, 2008

Opening Night, Thu, Sep 04

Washington Redskins (0-0) @ New York Giants (0-0) — my pick: The Giants

Sun, Sep 07

Detroit Lions (0-0) @ Atlanta Falcons (0-0) — my pick: The Falcons
Seattle Seahawks (0-0) @ Buffalo Bills (0-0) — my pick: The Seahawks
New York Jets (0-0) @ Miami Dolphins (0-0) — my pick: The Dolphins (sorry Brett)
Kansas City Chiefs (0-0) @ New England Patriots (0-0) — my pick: The Patriots
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-0) @ New Orleans Saints (0-0) — my pick: The Saints
Saint Louis Rams @ (0-0) Philadelphia Eagles (0-0) — my pick: The Eagles
Houston Texans (0-0) @ Pittsburgh Steelers (0-0) — my pick: The Steelers
Jacksonville Jaguars (0-0) @ Tennessee Titans (0-0) — my pick: The Jaguars
Cincinnati Bengals (0-0) @ Baltimore Ravens (0-0) — my pick: The Ravens
Dallas Cowboys (0-0) @ Cleveland Browns (0-0) — my pick: The Browns
Carolina Panthers (0-0) @ San Diego Chargers (0-0) — my pick: The Chargers
Arizona Cardinals (0-0) @ San Francisco 49?ers (0-0) — my pick: The Cardinals
Chicago Bears (0-0) @ Indianapolis Colts (0-0) — my pick: The Colts

Monday Night Football Games, Sep 08

Minnesota Vikings (0-0) @ Green Bay Packers (0-0) — my pick: The Vikings
Denver Broncos (0-0) @ Oakland Raiders (0-0) — my pick: The Broncos

Check back next Tuesday to see how I did.