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I was really sad to hear this and have enjoyed many of the internet memes/tributes.

Chris Rainbow, APP vocalist for some of their best songs, also dies this past week.

Yep, that’s right!….. I put it under “Holidays”, but, I guess it really isn’t one…. Usually, it’s one of my luckier days, but, so far, I woke up with a headache and not “Feelin All Right”, but maybe things will get better as the day progresses, we’ll see ….. Have a Good One….

Yep, PD Bob was running and jumping all over the house way too early this morning…..  It took a few minutes to figure out what the Heck was wrong with him….  Then it stuck me – it’s GROUNDHOG DAY……  We just finished watching the DVD (and all the extras) of the movie starring Bill Murray……  I guess it had been a year since I last watched it…..  There were some parts in it that seems funnier than before…..  Weird…..  Anyway,  PD Bob hereby Ordered me to ORDER everyone to watch the movie,even if you have to go out and BUY it!…..  I wouldn’t ignore it too much – That little FurBot seems to know everything that goes on!……

What can I say about the Seagulls that hasn’t already been said. Now it’s on to beat those egg sucking Communists. I hope unbelievers saw last weeks game. What, did someone say something?

Well we have lost 2 more great musicians Last week longtime bass player for Neil Young Tim Drummond passed. Before joining Neil during the Harvest sessions Tim had played with such greats as James Brown and Conway Twitty. He was 72.
Then this weekend we learned of the passing of original CSN&Y drummer Dallas Taylor. A long time colaborater with Steven Stills he joined CSN&Y when they began playing live. He went on to play in Stills super group Manassas. He passed in LA at age 64

I had a BIG Medical Holiday (Ha!)…….As all of the MR Community knows, I think, I spent the 28th of December through the 3rd of January in the confines of the OKC VA Facility (VA Hospital)……  Seems it wasn’t my choice, but, if things didn’t fall into place the way they did, I might not be here to write this gibberish for your to peruse…… I don’t Know how, nor, if it even possible to THANK Jek, Nancy, and all the numerous friends I knew I had, but, never, until now, realized how much……  I came up with a saying many years ago – “Friends are Forever” – Money, Statue, Power, all that means NOTHING……  How much, and what you would do you for a friend in need, without even thinking about or worrying about the time/cost, etc… is a TRUE FRIEND!……  It seems I have way more than my share, but, I refuse to give up one single one of them!…..  Friends are JUST TOO Important!…..  OKAY, OKAY, Enough,,,,  Thanks Everyone, now, you may regret what you did because you had to read this Mush (Ha!)…….  Belated Happy Holidays and, yes, I’m still not all the way back, but, my journey has been made so much easier because of FRIENDS like you!……..

Let me be the first to say…….Merry Christmas to everyone.

Hope you have all been good this year.

It is with Heartfelt sadness that we have just learned of the passing of Music Legend Joe Cocker. Rest In Peace.

I just finished ( for the 2nd time) Listening to Neil read his newest chapter in his foray into being a author.
Many of you know (and some agree) that Neil Young has never done anything that I did not like, and this book is no exception.
As he starts off he prefaces that this is a book about cars, And Dogs. He goes into quite a few stories about dogs that he has had over the years and the cars that were important at the time.
It is kind of a retelling of his story first brought forth in Waging Heavy Peace many of the stories will be familiar to readers of that book, but this time around he expounds on the cars that played pivotal roles in a lot of the best and worst times in his life. He laments about having to get rid of a big part of his car collection in 2010 due to lagging record sales and some bad investments.
Also anyone that has followed Neil in later years knows that the environment is a big cause to him nowadays. Here he expounds on the damage that his cars did to the atmosphere along the way telling how on certain trips how much CO2 he put in the air.
It was fun to learn that most of his cars and trucks were not necessarily Collector or Muscle Cars but as he says cars that “Spoke to him and had a personality”
The last chapter deals with his LincVolt Project. Re-powering a 1959 Lincoln Continental Convertible with Battery/Hybrid power. If he can do that with the ultimate Gas Guzzler why can’t it be more readily available in production models at an afordable price.
So for any Neil Young,CSN&Y,Car, or Environmental fan this is a must read/Have.

Read This Book

Actually I’ve been on the Blog everyday fighting SPAMMERS…….  We are up to 200 new user registrations, if you can believe that!……  We have 23 total officially registered users…..  Everyday there is at least 2 to 4 Spammers trying to get on the blog, so, I get on everyday and delete their registrations……  It’s keeping the Blog to those we WANT on it.…..  If any of you have any friends that you think would fit in to our brand of oddness, please let me know, so that I don’t delete them by mistake…..

I’ve been occupied with the usual excuses for not Posting or Commenting, but, I’m hoping this new update will cut down on the Spammers, but, maybe, just maybe, they’ll get the message if I delete them enough….

I WILL, and I promise (for what that’s worth (Ha!)) to start Posting again because I enjoy the Blog and the MR members that we have……  Definitely , Please, Please feel free to take up the slack and Post, Post, Post…..  Thank you and have a great Holiday Season….. 

Got to see him a couple of years ago with MR & JJ

Man, how did it get to be Thanksgiving again?……  Time flies……  Oh, Well, Happy Thanksgiving all you MR Turkeys (Ha!) and enjoy the Holiday Season…….

Veteran’s Day gets by a lot of folks in the US (actually I tend to still call it Armistice Day, as I learned from my grandfather who was wounded in the Great War) and I wish we would do more cool things like this event from the brits. It’s been in the news and even part of the Bing homepage, they planted 880,000 ceramic poppies around the Tower of London to represent the british casualties of WWI. (I think people nowadays get impatient for historic things to celebrate, this was the centennial of the *start* of the war, and only the 96th anniversary of the end of it, but who am I to split hairs?)

Humans are still so foolish, and it’s easy to look at the world today and lament, but thankfully it has been a while since we’ve blundered into something on a scale of WWI or WWII. There may still be hope for us. As Albert Einstein famously said, “I don’t know what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

Thanks to those who have answered when called to defend us and others, their sacrifice and honor redeems humanity against the petty, greedy, stupid squabbles that inflict such suffering on the world. If politicians and businessmen were required to be in the forefront of any military action, we wouldn’t need Veteran’s Day.