The Lucy Bull in me

Maybe it was the desert ~ maybe it was a tent without stakes ~ maybe it was just me; but as I lay in the dark in a room with but a bed, a single song slew me. On loan from the Tempe Public Library was a recording I was playing of one of Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion programs. Providing a musical interlude that evening at the Fitzgerald Theater in Minnesota was Iris Dement. She sang her song "Our Town" and my heart filled my head with all the memories of my Grandma McCuen it kept hidden within. I loved the Saturday nights in Benson when Grandma would have us hush and she would tune in the Prairie Home Companion on the stereo. With daylight and the day's static fading - I'd sit enraptured by the storyteller and his guests. Well ~ I heard that song again today and I lay happily haunted once more.

When you don't have time for a DISC assessment

I can learn almost everything I need to know about a person's disposition by how they answer the following question ~ Is a Reese's peanut butter cup a candy bar?

Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft Gets Honorable Mention

Like a Siberian Russian able to hold obscene and toxic amounts of liquor - I can take in a bunch of Christmas music without cracking up. Here is a list of my favorite mainstream radio offerings:

1)"Do You Hear What I Hear" by Whitney Houston
2)"Celebrate Me Home" by Kenny Loggins
3)"Hey Santa" by Carnie and Wendy Wilson
4)"I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" by Gayla Peevey
5)"A Holly Jolly Christmas" by Burl Ives
6)"All I Want for Christmas is You" by Mariah Carey

Alright, I'm running out of time here at the Friedman Branch and you all are busy hating - but how about these terrible offerings at the bottom of the list:

987)"Happy Christmas (War is Over)" by John Lennon
988)"Same Old Lang Syne" by Dan Fogelberg (Besides Johnny Cash's "Sunday Morning Coming Down" - this may be the saddest song ever composed - keep the sharp objects out of arm's reach)
999)"Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney

Congratulations Paul McCartney and Wings

Simply composing the most uninspired Christmas song of all time!

Confession

I have Luke Wilson's wallet.