Daily Archives: November 7, 2007

It’s a Pig

November 7, 2007 – 10:50 pm

From Winona MN, a tragic porcine tale of the filing of animal cruelty charges against a pig-sitter.
The pig, part pot-bellied, larded up from 50 to 150 pounds, while its owner left it in the care of a co-worker. For nine months. While the owner recovered from ankle surgery.
Now, parts of this story are just too [...]

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RIP, Hank Thompson

November 7, 2007 – 10:20 pm

Hank Thompson, another country singer whose stardom slightly predates my interest in the genre, has passed away at age 82. Hank was yet another one of my grandparent’s favorites, and I doubtless was first exposed to his music at their farmhouse atop a rocky Kansas hill.
I came to like and enjoy Hank’s music, along [...]

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Ugly is as Ugly Does

November 7, 2007 – 9:51 pm

I totally forgot about the CMA Awards on ABC tonight, and interrupted a perfectly good episode of Alton Brown’s Good Eats to flip the channel.
More’s the pity; I was regaled by Big and Rich, who sang some over-amped, unintelligible-lyric tribute to, of all people, Porter Wagoner. Porter would probably have been most gracious, had he [...]

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