MAYAN RUINS FOUND IN LAKE HAVASU CITY!!!

Local resident discovers ruins while doing yard work.

Expansive excavations and digs anticipated in near future! Archeologists from all over the world are expected to start pouring into the area in the next few days.

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Okay, enough hype and BS. A few posts back I commented on the terraces in front of the house. The middle terrace was a blank canvas until a few days ago when I decided to put some of the leftover paving materials there, and to try to make something attractive with them. Attractive or not, here’s the end result. Eat your heart out. We’re looking for an appropriate piece of metal sculpture for the middle terrace, a stallion maybe?
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We recorded the Country Music Awards on the DVR so we could watch them at our leisure, sans commercials. Trish is an avid country fan and I enjoy it also although classic rock is still my favorite. One thing about the CMAs disturbs me greatly: the attire. Looking out at the audience you see many bright splashes of color in a sea of black – black as in formalwear, bright color splashes as in $10000 gowns. What happened to denim and boots and leather vests and those silly-ass western cut shirts with pearly snaps? Granted, several of the male performers wore hats and boots with their designer suits but others were bare headed and a few were even wearing knit watch caps. Good grief, knit watch caps! It would have made Gene Autry puke.
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And the women: I want ‘em in skin tight jeans and western shirts with the top 5 buttons undone. Instead they’re bundled up in these stupid gowns that contain a couple hundred yards of cloth and have a 8’-12’ diameter. Is there a woman in there somewhere? It’s just not right.
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Another thing: what makes a song or group ‘country’? Mostly there’s little doubt cuz the lyrics refer to trucks, tractors, hay, barns, floozies and two-timers, and the voices have that classic, often mournful, southern drawl/western twang. Some of the CMA nominees had none of that and I’m wondering, who defined this as country anyway – and what were they smoking at the time? The sound is soft rock and the lyrics contain no reference to pickups whatsoever. Which one of you faithful readers can shed light on this mystery?