Last night the PingTeam shot yet another Red Carpet event at the Dallas International Film Festival. It was great fun and pageantry. The Dallas star of the evening was badboy J.R. — Larry Hagman of “Dallas” fame and my more favorite “I Dream of Jeannie” back in the day.

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Among the luminaries on the Red Carpet last night at the Dallas International Film Festival was the original “Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother” Jerry Jeff Walker. (Did you know he wrote “Mr. Bo Jangles” too, although arguably most associate the song with The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band … HA! Or even Sammy Davis Jr.)

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There was a superstition when I was a kid in which you were assured of rain on the farm if you killed a rattlesnake and hung it on the “bob wire” fence. Or wait, was that a coyote? And speaking of barbed wire lore, it was a sign of respect and remembrance if you hung […]

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Allow me to take just one second to expound on the Gene Ween show.  Apparently some readers didn’t think I knew my Ween from a hole in the ground.  Perhaps they are right.  But, please remember that I don’t attend shows to worship the artist, merely to describe what happened.  I do luv me some […]

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I missed the Oakland Ween concert by only a few days during my West Coast gig, so I vowed to see the band at the next opportunity. Well, I traveled across the entire country, but I am only half way there, having caught Gene Ween’s “solo” show last night at The Brighton Music Hall in […]

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The Dirty Gig continues in the Boston area, with day trips throughout the state and over into Connecticut counteracting the effects of flooding. With little time for Wi-Fi … but here are a few notes and some random photos. First off, just let me say, Boston DID NOT get the memo that smoking is so […]

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On a recent visit back home in Texas I attended a Social Media Club gathering, at which I picked up a few Twitter followers and new friends, and also networked the old school way — traded business cards. But the best old school moment of the night there at a place called Embargo  … I […]

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I heard a definition of Folk Art once that explained it as an attempt, by someone who is not formally trained in art, to create art — regardless.  Ha!  Guilty as charged.  I have been known to muck around with some art, yet no one has ever accused me of being very educated.  My creed: […]

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I grew up on Old Route 66, so I suppose road trips run through my veins. And I don’t think it is coincidence that I am somewhat of a visual thinker … Ha … probably influenced by all that overexposure to the artwork of Route 66. The billboards, the Indian teepees and the curio shops […]

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Two of my readers tell me they prefer the “Blogs About Nothing” on this Website. Well … lately I haven’t “had nothing” on my mind. I search newspapers and Websites for meaningless topics — looking for nothingness. Most of the stuff nearly qualifies. Then the other day, I got lucky. I tuned in to a […]

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