October 28, 2017

Needed some Tom Petty tonight...

Will always love this song...the lyrics are just hauntingly beautiful!

October 24, 2017

Im melting.....

https://imgur.com/gallery/dqkoD

We started Halloween early at our house! Now we have to replace a few pumpkins thanks to the unusually warm weather!

October 15, 2017

Two amazing concerts the past two nights with my best friend (Isbell and Stapleton)

My best friend and I have know each other since we were elementary school age. We were a natural fit because we were both nerdy, both only children, and we both were farm kids in TN. He’s the only brother I’ve ever know, and we’ve surely fought like siblings when we were teenagers, but we’ve never not been close. He is the godfather to my kids and I’m the godfather to his daughter. He recently got back from a deployment with the Army and we’ve been catching up on our favorite pastime, going to concerts. Our wives tease us about us going on dates together, but it’s all in jest because they know we both have a passion for music and we both enjoy concerts and neither of them have that same degree of passion, so it’s a win win, especially on nights the girls coordinate to do something together while we go out.

Anyway, we both live in the Nashville area and this weekend was a unique event in that we went to concerts on back to back nights. Last night we saw Jason Isbell at the Ryman, which was an incredible show...his fiddle player and back up singer, who is also is also his wife, was his opening act...both were sensational. Tonight we saw Chris Stapleton at the Bridgestone, which was also amazing. So, cool thing from tonight’s show, Chris Stapleton called up on stage his buddy Chris Pratt to sing with him on his signature song “Tennessee Whiskey” and an extremely cool thing from last night...listen up liberal country fans...Jason Isbell had the local chapter of the ACLU inside the Ryman signing up volunteers as people came into the venue...(I don’t usually mix politics and music but I thought that was incredible!)!!

So...these songs are to friendship, and an incredible weekend with my brother!

October 8, 2017

When were apostrophes dropped from the title box??

I’ve noticed this multiple times today and it’s making me somewhat agitated because I know damn well how to use that punctuation mark and it’s making my posts look dumb!

October 4, 2017

Manchurian Candidate...or the RW view of Vegas...

So the RW is nuts...but you guys knew that. Here’s a little insight into that madness from my own little world here in TN.

Backstory, for those that don’t know, I’m a physician in middle TN near Nashville, grew up here in this community and went away for several years and moved home about a year ago. The Nashville area is pretty purple, a blue dot in a sea of red, and the suburb I work in is now extremely red, wasnt always that way but I digress.

In our OR, we have a nurse who is a Navy vet. The guy likes to try to buddy up to me because I’m also a Navy vet. The thing I can’t stand is that this guy is like the boisterous vet in a bar that can’t stop talking about his service and all the amazing things he participated in, in other words a bullshit artist. So this dude claims that he was in “intelligence” and he knows things that are top secret and most Americans don’t know...cough, bullshit.
Yesterday, the guy was pontificating about the mass shooting in Vegas and he goes “Clearly this Guy was a ‘Manchurian Candidate’. His brother was on the news saying how normal he was and how he got a phone call out of the blue and took off to Vegas. I’ve seen that type of thing before. They probably were playing ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’ and triggered his training and the real question is who is behind this!”

I heard this walking by the front desk of the or and stopped dead in my tracks. I said “What’s so hard about accepting that this was a middle aged white dude that did this? If it was a POC or a Muslim would you be saying that crap?”

His response, “I’m just saying...that’s what the brother said and it’s just too convenient.”

My response: “Dude, you need to turn off the Alex Jones and watch some real news like CNN...cause that crap is frying your brain” and I walked off.

That folks is the epitome of the RW mindset...that’s why Trump was elected, and that’s why Jesus Christ himself as a Democratic candidate wouldn’t be able to convince these fools to vote for him!

October 2, 2017

Square One- Tom Petty

My favorite...

September 19, 2017

Did R.E.M. predict the future? (End of the world as we know it)

So, my wife sends me a news update this am about US plans to shoot down North Korean test missiles and says "Cue R.E.M.". I responded with the obvious text of the song from my iTunes library. Now I haven't listened to that song in a while but I heard a lyric that stood out to me...take a listen and see if you catch it: (hint it's at the end of the first verse)

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"Team by team reporters baffled, trump"

Yeah the official lyrics are lowercase "trump" but it is an interesting coincidence...or maybe not!!

September 16, 2017

Coltrane....on the anniversary of the 16th Ave Baptist Church bombing

A song written to memorialize the bombing:

September 14, 2017

When your kid is a "Whovian"

So Im a huge fan of Dr Who, and, thanks to Amazon Prime, I've been able to expose my son to the newest generation of Dr Who. For the past two years, we've been slowly making our way through each season until we've finally caught up to the current season.

He's now 8 and my wife and I trade nights where we put him to bed. Recently, he and I have developed this routine where I put him in bed and I say "Sweet dreams bud..". And he responds "Of????" And I have to say, or he corrects me "Of Timelords, and TARDIS', of Companions and Sonic Screwdrivers, of Captain Jack, and the Ood. "

That nighttime blessing was a complete fluke, I totally made it up one night, but he loved it! Now, he's amended the phrase to say...

"But no dreams of Davros or Daleks or Cybermen"

Lmao....I've created a nerd monster!!!

September 6, 2017

Any DU'ers playing the launch of Destiny 2 tonight??

If you're on PS4 message me! Would love to play with a fellow DU guardian!