Number One, Number One

Go Ahead and Play the Video! We are going to start this blog in reverse.

 I wish I had a microphone today. While writing is superior most of the time, there are those moments when a real laugh can actually be amplified more by sound than written words and I could really have some fun today..

Thanks for everyone's patience in my three day delay in making this first post of 2010.  I don't care to write about personal health issues, but I didn't start the new year off very well.  I'm still far from out of the woods, but you can't keep a bad man down long.  Besides, I missed everyone too much.  I think the best medicine in the world is a little socializing with friends.

"Number One"  The Ruttles.  Now obviously that is a spoof on the Beatles as filmed back in the mid seventies.  I think it was called a "mock"umentary.   However, it seemed like the perfect song to start 2010 since it applies to two things I want to focus on today.

First, Happy New Year!  This is actually "Number One" story of the new year.  I hardly consider my note on Monday a real story and may even delete it later.  I hate negative posts, but felt everyone deserved an explanation.  So this will be the first official post and one of the things I want to do today is take a look a some resolutions I have made for 2010.  But first . . .

Warren Beatty is Number One

Tiger Woods has just been blown completely off the planet as the number one male slut on the earth by actor Warren Beatty.   Beatty was in all the Hollywood rags and online headlines this week after unauthoirzed biographer Peter Biskinds made claims Beatty has slept with approximately 12,775 women in his 72 years . . . give or take.  He doesn't say give or take what, but with a number well into the five figures there is plenty of room for giving and taking and still hanging on to the "Number One" title.  I doubt Hugh could even come close to those numbers, but even if he did, Hugh was single.  Beatty got married to Annette Benning on March 10, 1992.  How he pulled off his escapades the last twenty years is almost unimaginable.  Then I guess he could use the excuse . . . and be telling the truth . . . "But dear, there was never anything serious."

I even found a video on YouTube showing Dustin Hoffman helping Beatty clean makeup off his neck and shirt before entering the AFI awards where Beatty was the guest of honor.  I started to post it, but decided anyone who wanted to see it could just click here.  After Beatty sorts himself out he obviously lies to someone who asks him about it by saying he cut himself shaving. 

Honestly, I don't buy it.  First of all who keeps count of something like that unless they are trying to set some kind of record?  Second, somehow the mathematics just don't seem to work out . . . not even for Warren Beatty.  Still . . . even at 9.000 or 10,000 . . .he's the new "Number One" male slut of all time.  I don't think that record will ever be broken.

New Year's Resolutions

I set three resolutions for 2010.  I could have easily come up with 10 or even 100, but I thought I would hold it to three and try to accomplish each one.  First, my goal for 2010 is to write 100 articles during the year and to put as much as possible into making each one interesting and worthy of being read.  I know I can't keep up the pace of one a day that I was doing during the month of December.  In order to accomplish that I had to put a lot of other things aside and while that was a good thing in December I know I would burn out if I tried to keep up that kind of pace.  Only Steven King can keep up that kind of pace and from some of the things I have read that he has written I dare say he takes some pretty powerful drugs to get the job done. I think I will stick with non fiction. I take enough powerful drugs for medical reasons.  No telling what would come out of this keyboard if I started popping pills for recreational use in order to turn out more pages.  In addition I intend to launch a new website for this blog within the next few weeks.

Resolution number two . . . complete something I started last year that is only about 1/4 complete.  It is an online museum/tribute to Harry Chapin at http://16parksidelane.net.  Last month I spent $1,000 on graphic art for the site and haven't done any thing with it yet.  I have 43 videos and I am always looking for more.  I actually have my goal set to complete this by the end of February.  I think it will be something a lot of people will be able to get a lot of pleasure from.

Finally, another task that did not get finished in 2009 is on my resolution list to finish early this year.I am working on building a YouTube clone site at www.yodaddy.tv.  The site is almost done, but it is going to take a lot of videos to make it interesting.  So everyone is invited to stop by and post your own videos.  It was only four years ago when YouTube began.  For someone who wants to be a big fish in a little pond you can set up a channel and start broadcasting today.  There are a few technical problems I am working on, but all in all it is operative.

So let's hear the Ruttles again.  "Number One, Number One".

Good Night, Irene

I want to leave you this morning with a little bit of country history about Irene, TX.  It has one less house today than it did a fewdays ago.  My oldest step daughter's house went up in flames night before last.  She wasn't living in it, but two of her grandchildren were.  They were not home at the time. 

In 1977 the last church in this town that used to be 300-400 in population was closed and the pastor wrote a story about Irene.  In 1977 he officially proclaimed Irene dead as the last church was closed. Well, it won't be dead as long as ole Webster lives here.  Maybe in a coma, but not dead. 

1989 photos of Irene

These are links to my little corner of Texas along with the story that the pastor wrote.  The pictures on the above link were taken in 1989 so they are 20+ years old.  It hasn't gotten any bigger and the churches have all but fallen down and not been painted.

Irene Post Office in 2001

I get my mail at this post office.  It is only open 2 hours a day and has 48 mail boxes. Postmarks from the Irene post office are sought after by collectors  around the world.  When you live here you just hope to get your mail.  It can sometimes be undependable.

When I bought a lot here and built a house I had to fill in a well before I could get a permit to put in a septic tank.  I knew little about the town's history at the time.  I found out later the well I had to fill kept this town supplied with drinking water for over 100 years (See the story in the first link above).