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Little Bits

Posted on October 30, 2009 | Comments Off on Little Bits

* Back when I used to eat sugar with abandon, Necco wafers were my favorites. Just as well I can’t eat them anymore. They’ve turned organic, flavored by such as red beet juice. Sounds dreadful.

* Dick Cheney is backing Kay Bailey Hutchinson for governor. Lordy. While Sarah plumps for Rick Perry. This could be a dustup. What is it about Republicans? Why do they so often choose suicide?

* This weekend I expect to be eating leftover, stale candy corn. A little, anyhow. Might as try a Necco.

* Mr. B., upon learning that his cub scout pack will be picking up trash after his school’s Halloween carnival on Saturday: "That’s the thing about the scouts. There’s the good parts and the bad parts."

* Happy to see this old photo I snatched years ago still draws ’em in. A score or more hits a day, in fact.

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Back in the saddle again

Posted on September 12, 2006 | Comments Off on Back in the saddle again

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Well, more or less. Gene Autry has been dead since 1998. Nevertheless his name gets invoked in some auction materials that came in the mail (Lord knows why) announcing the Sept. 22 sale of his uncle’s place, the T.L. Autry Ranch, near Gene’s hometown of Tioga, Texas. "This historic 116.89 (+/-) acres is the ultimate hideaway, just minutes from I-35 and Lake Ray Roberts."

If you’re not in the real estate market, there’s always the Gene Autry Centennial celebration next year in Tioga (where the child Gene shined shoes in the barber shop), a town so destitute that parts of it were auctioned off in 1982. I know. I was there. Hardly anyone bought anything–not even the barber shop. But the centennial looks like fun, and if you can’t wait there’s the annual Autry festival next month in Parker, Texas. But, then, I was always a fan of "America’s favorite singing cowboy." I was, in fact, unaware if there was another one. When other kids swooned over Roy Rogers or the Lone Ranger, I would just smile and whistle "Back In The Saddle Again."

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