This week is big time for Nashville. CMA week brings in a ton of country music artists for concerts and fan club meetings. There are free shows and activities downtown during the day, and then each night there is a big concert at the Titans stadium with all the major acts. I would love to see Carrie Underwood perform live – that is my goal this week.
Tar on the Beaches
The oil spill keeps dragging on with no fix in sight. This is baffling to me. Why are these people so cavalier about the amount of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico? I believe they are trying to find a way to collect the oil and still sell what they can get from this oil well instead of trying to find a way to stop the oil from polluting the water, shoreline, beaches and wetlands.
Ernest Tubb on the Radio
Q. What radio show did Ernest Tubb begin broadcasting from his Nashville record store in 1947?
A. The Midnight Jamboree – now the second longest running radio show in America (second only to the Brand Old Opry.)
Live MMA
This weekend will be a big first for Nashville. We are hosting a Mixed Martial Arts competition and it will be broadcast live on CBS. There has been a lot of hoopla downtown with the fighters here. They are having press conferences and public appearances at all the downtown clubs. I’m not a big fan of any kind of fighting, so I’m not planning on going to the fights. There are a lot of guys from the office who have tickets and are going to make a big night of it. Oh well, I’ve got plenty of other things to keep my attention.
Don’t Call it a Sandwich
There’s a new menu item at Taco Bell – the tortada. I wonder if the real Mexicans have ever heard of a tortada? I have been told that the real Mexicans get a big laugh at Taco Bell representing themselves as serving Mexican food. The new commercials make the tortada look like a sandwich made on one of the press machines that seal the edges around a filling. If they are not too expensive I’d like to give them a try.
Can’t Sleep
Usually I am fast asleep by the time Craig Ferguson comes on the air, or at the latest I’m asleep right after his monologue. I love the Craig Ferguson show, but it comes on so late, that I just cannot stay awake long enough to watch the whole show. But tonight I am wide awake – and Craig Ferguson is not on over the weekends. Darn the luck!
Stop the Stupid
It seems like all weekend long I have been dealing with stupid people. There was a lady who stopped at the entrance to McD’s and just sat there, blocking the entrance for like 4 minutes, and then acted like she woke up and drove away.
There were dozens more. Was it a full moon? Or what?
Damn My Phone
Like I advised everyone yesterday, I set all my clocks ahead an hour for Daylight Savings Time. But today I see that my cell phone has not changed. Why doesn’t AT&T handle this change in a timely manner – no pun intended!?!? I know that when I travel back to DC the cell phone changes to Eastern Time automatically as soon as I get near Knoxville. So why can’t AT&T set my phone one hour ahead?
In Like a Lamb
The first few days of March have been gloriously warm and sunny. The day time temperatures have been in the 50’s and by the weekend they will be in the 60’s. I would love to see it hit 70 degrees! That’s Spring!
I wonder if the old wive’s tale of March coming in like a lamb means that it will go out like a lion? I sure hope not. We had such a nasty winter, everyone is sick of the cold and the wet and the wind. We are ready for Spring and Summer!
Drug Company Commercials
It seems like we are being slammed with commercials by drug companies, especially for Lupitor and Chantix. The style of commercial is a testimonial by a typical user talking about how much their lives have been improved since using the product. The companies are using non-Hollywood types to do the testimonials and are even putting a small disclaimer on the screen that these people talking “are not actors.” Right. They might not be members of the actors guild, but I am sure they are reading a script and getting paid for their appearance in the ad. In my book, that makes them actors.