I love my state.

I hope everyone else got up at 7:00am this morning to hear Discovery return safely. If you didn’t, you should pay more attention.

Just when I thought Bush couldn’t get any stupider…

Our fearless leader says we should teach the “theory” of intelligent design alongside the “theory” of evolution. Let’s go to class, people.

There isn’t a “theory” of intelligent design. At least, most educated scientists wouldn’t recognize it as a theory any more than they would call my belief that Bush is actually a six year old in a man’s body a theory. Sure there are people who believe it, but it has no factual basis. A theory is, by definition, as close as science can come to fact. There are other theories of which you may have heard. There’s a theory of gravity, a theory of the periodic table, nuclear theory — a whole slew of theories, in fact, that build our basis for the understanding of natural phenomenon. If we’re going to teach “intelligent design” as a legitimate alternative to evolution, we should also teach the four elements of earth, wind, and fire as a legitimate alternative to the periodic table. We should teach that a nuclear bomb is actually God farting and not an atomic reaction. If we’re going to actually instill doubt in our children about the history of evolution, we should instill the same doubt about the theory that the earth circles the sun. Oh, and the Earth is flat. Really. Some people believe it. It apparently works for intelligent design.

…of pepper.

Seriously.

We’ll get to that. I was blown away by Stoney and Jeremy at Longhorn’s on Thursday. Chivalrous Productions should have their new website up within the next couple of weeks.

We had a very good time as always last Friday at the Rail in Hays. Blaine’s band came out, as did JD’s. After sleeping from 4:00am to 7:00am, I decided it was time to drive home. I made it to Walker, where I then decided it would be a good idea to take a nap parked outside the church. By 9:00am, my headache was worse and I had developed a kink in my neck due to my non-reclining seats in my truck.

Even with the eventual nap I took once I got back to Sharon, my voice was still shot. I didn’t get it whipped into shape until about three hours into my set at Buster’s. The crowd was a little weak, with the exception of a few close friends, until about 10:00pm. They refused to believe that I didn’t know “Cinnamon Girl” or any Journey. Some guy asked for Big and Rich. A big thanks to Lern Tilton for writing the response to that request.

So back to the lines…After the show, the one table of hard-core partiers decided it would be funny to offer $5.00 to anyone who would do a line. The only powder they had immediately at their disposal was ground pepper. I’ve seen a lot of things after shows, but I’ve never seen anyone snort pepper for money. I love rednecks.

I had a much larger crowd at PJ’s last Tuesday than I expected. Thanks to everyone who came for, well, coming.

Saw Chris “G” Goering
Made the move to Manhattan
What the hell was he thinking?
May be playing some bass for the ATB
Swinging tremolo style

Hays tomorrow for another installment of the We Hate Country Music tour
Got Stack’s amp warming up
Rock and roll

Mason says hi.
Actually, he says “cough, sniffle, wheeze”.

For those of you who have forgotten to read the band log, he’s been pretty sick lately. While our prayers are with him in that he either gets better or gets better drugs, the shows for now are booked as acoustic, solo shows unless otherwise noted.

I’ll be playing tonight at PJ’s in Aggieville. Why they picked me to open their weekly country night I don’t know, but I’m quite thankful and I’ll give it the old “I hate country music” try.

Friday night will be a big show at the Rail. In Mason’s absence, Johnny Lapka has graciously volunteered to play the show, and Jim has graciously allowed Michael Kisner to tag along. That’s right, folks, it’s a de facto Pearl Grey reunion show, and we’ll be playing all the old songs I hate so much. Come out and let us rock your taxes off.

Saturday is a long-overdue show at Buster’s in Sun City. I’ve haven’t been there since June and I’m twitching for my fix.

Here we go. This is going to be fun. Dodge City Days tonight from 10:00pm – 2:00am. Long Black Highway Days from 3:00am to 8:00am as I drive back to Topeka for an auction for the Kansas Highway Patrol for which I need to be in Topeka tomorrow by 8:30am.

If I don’t sleep tonight I’ll sleep tomorrow.

It’s 9:43pm and I haven’t yet left my apartment. It’s so nice to have a comfortable place to live with Internet access. I’ve been doing a lot of geek work and I’m up for a break.

I played with Blaine last Friday in Wakeeney, KS. It’s been a while since I had so much fun. I played something like six originals, covered one of Rob’s songs, then played some more originals before playing one of Trevor’s songs. I think I got through everything but Republican. I should have played Republican…I may have avoided this guy talking to me for 30 minutes, trying to convince me to go to Afghanistan on a USO tour. He said his good friend was Darryl Worley. I nodded as if I knew who he was. The guy was nice and had some nice things to say, but I don’t think Afghanistan is the best place for alt-country music.

The Lincoln County Fair was a struggle, but we somehow pulled it out. There was a decent crowd that liked the folk and bluegrass. We don’t get to play that kind of music very often.

Dodge City Days this weekend.