Flint's is long gone unfortunately. E&J just opened up a place in Laurel, which is where I live. It's now overrated. Still trying to find good 'que up here. My favorite, strangely enough, is Sam's in San Jose.

He also has never moved his base from NOLA, even after Katrina. As an Oaklander, I really like guys who stand their ground.

"Once upon a time in the projects" by Ice Cube. Mom's bitching cause the county check wasn't right!

I'm from the Inland Empire of California (aka the IE). No jobs to be had down there, pretty depressed. Most of my family has government jobs of some kind - teachers or, the real growth industry down there, law enforcement. My favorite is my cousin who is Mr Tea Party and has a gunsmith business out of his garage. His…

Vanity will get you Somewhere by Joseph Cotten. He was one of the Mercury Players and, for a while, every movie he was in was pure gold (the Third Man, Citizen Kane, Magnificent Ambersons). Then again, he also did one of the Airports ('72 IIRC).

Johnny Rodriguez! Sheez.

I saw him at the Opry last year and tailored my vacation just so I could have breakfast with him. I got to the hotel late but they had some leftover eggs and biscuits and gravy on the back table, and it was all free. He talked about his baseball career for a while, and Kurt Flood and free agency. He career was before…

My sister married this WT hillbilly, and he had an old Shovelhead and subscribed to Easyriders magazine. Me being of the wont to read anything at hand available (Easy Reader's version of Readers Digest, Condensed Classics, and Zane Grey at my grandpa's house, Popular Mechanics at my own house) I read these and learned…

When I was in a band, Augie Meyers was my chief influence. I even had a Farfisa Compact Duo for a while, then I just used a Korg with a cheesy organ sound. Way, way, way ahead of their time.

And when you see his youtube videos, his voice was all there. Every single live song on there is gold. Robbins was really something. I still like George Jones the best but that probably does have a lot to do with his lifestyle, Deedoodle the Duck and the Old Man.

That ep with My Fair Lady! "And where's that soggy puun?" "een Spahn, een Spahn!"

Anybody remember Prickley Heat, the SCTV version of Body Heat? "What about my burnin loins?" And they Prickley came back with some line about throwing them on the fire in the fireplace.

Dr. Tip…and the House of Representatives!

Mike was a big fan of 20 Minute Workout too.

I like the DT-redolent conversations with the goose. "What was that Sammy?" Pause. "Oh yes I know". And where he admits he's an alcoholic to Guy: "Everybody knows you're a boozebag! You do your show from a bar!"

I was going to college when the Ants were popular, and your parent's demographic fit what I saw exactly. Most college girls I knew really liked Adam and the Ants, Scritti Politti, Kagagoogoo, etc. Most college boys grouped them as pretty hair bands and pretended to like them if they were trying to get into said…

He wasn't bad, he just didn't do anything. Like Brown this year, he had some pet propositions that he put on the ballot, but unlike Brown, every one of them failed. After that, he didn't even go to Sacramento that much. I do have a somewhat spacey friend at work who saw him in an elevator at a hotel in Sac shortly…

Yeah, also, being in prison 18 years doesn't exactly set you up for glorious job possibilities. And, on the positive, he might get some closure out of it too.

The best part of this is that I'm sure he has no button of the sort.

Hey my name is Dewane, so my parents were too stupid to spell it "right" too. There are about 50 spellings of Duane. This one happened to be my great-grandpas, but he's not around to tell me why the weird spelling. I am always proud when the characters of black comedies have the name Dwayne, like Dwayne from What's…