Smarty, I'm really tired of this topic so i'm gonna do something i normally wouldn't. I apologize, sort of, in advance. I think you misunderstood a couple of the major issues people raised about the originally intended performance. I think you misunderstood PH's reasons for posting, too. Whatever. ...

I've so wanted to remain silent on (what I consider to be) this non-issue here, but it looks like my stupid conscience is going to lead me awry again. Pardon me for unburdening my thoughts. First of all, DBT is accountable to none of us as fans. I am saddened that Patterson felt he had to write that...

Hey, y'all. Smarty here. I know I'm late to the party, but I really feel like I need to clear the air about where I stand on things a little bit, after that post a few weeks back. And, though I'm not by any means a political person (I'll address that in a bit), I figured this is a good place to put ...

I'm laughing and crying right now. Can't hardly see to type. And I think my squeals of glee have just woken up the whole house. Oh, Cooley! Best. News. Ever!!!

Hey y'all, I'm back from vacation, but getting ready to take off for a horse show this weekend. It doesn't stop. I've got less than a month until I see Patterson in Lexington, though. Yay!! One of the pictures I took on vacation - this is for Woodduck: http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/231/sam1677q...

Maybe one day there will be a marriage equality tour. If so I am gonna wear my "nice Dale Earnhart t-shirt." and do the entire tour here in North Carolina. I may just be playing devil's advocate here, but I see a problem with the idea of the above-stated hypothetical tour. As admirable as...

Thanks for the responses, everyone. I've been thinking about it, and since ticketing/football-obsessed fuckers don't look to be as big problems as I thought they were going to be, it finally boiled down to the fact that I haven't seen the band since their teeny little heads were bobbing above the cr...

Hey y'all, Smarty here. I'm on vacation right now, but I needed to stop in and seek some advice. This show is (unlike everything else) actually doable for me, and I'm considering going. I just have a couple of questions I'm hoping y'all can answer that will help me decide whether to go or not. 1) th...

Hey, everyone! Been offline for what seems like forever - the windstorm we had on Friday knocked our local cable and internet provider for a loop. Finally, last night we got it back!! But I can't complain, as we didn't lose power, and there are so many people still living without it (no power royall...

Was so sad to hear this on the news the other night. I loved Andy (though I grew up watching the show in syndication). It's strange how 2012 seems to be calling up almost everybody left from the show. First Goober, now Andy, and Gomer's going fast... The sheriff and his deputy are back on the same w...

I could see how you can say that the author's words were stolen, but pretty much every great novelist will admit to "stealing" from the authors who inspired them. Musicians say the same thing. As a struggling author, I'd like to address this point. The "stealing" of ideas that y...

Got this little gem from LoadedBurglarAlarm:

Happy Birthday!! Hope it's a winner!

I can't believe you guys! Thank you so much for the thoughtful wishes here -- I can't begin to tell you how much they made my day. You're all terrific!! I feel great - a new decade, a new beginning. I can say now that my teen years are finally behind me that they won't be missed. I hope for greater ...

Happy Birthday, Iowan!! Hope you have a fantastic day!!!

Hey, this is an easy one for me to remember!

EXCUSE ME but there are those of us who got chests at the age of 10 and it is hereditery!!! Not Chemicals!!! Shit both grandmothers grew up on farms in other countries, a little after the turn of the last century and they had them!!!! My Aunt Peggy was Ms. Lithwania 1953/4, grew up on a farm, had n...

Gator McKlusky wrote:Bieber is so 2011. It's all about one direction now.

^^^ Much to my ever-deepening chagrin. Every time my sister pulls that shit out, I get an overwhelming urge to go to my room, throw SRO on the turntable, and crank the volume all the way up.

It's never right. You're contracting "you all" with the apostrophe taking the place of "ou." Y'all. Hope y'all had a nice Father's Day. That's the way I spell it too, but I'm from the mid west (Ohio). ^^ Same here, and I'm also from Ohio. My dad never put much store in Father's ...

Got my ticket today! Presale, dudes. Psyched. Pretty steep with Ticketmaster charges, but I'm sure it'll be worth it. Going for Patterson, obviously, but I quite like Todd as well. Smarty - you are moving to Lexington? I attend U of K, formerly stayed in the dorms but will now be renting an apartme...

The 94-year-old actress, best known for her role as Carreen O'Hara in the 1939 epic "Gone With the Wind," passed away Monday night. She also played opposite of Mickey Rooney in the Andy Hardy series for MGM. Rutherford concurred with other cast members that no matter what else they had don...

Good morning folks. My day has not gone according to plan as I turned my ankle/foot on my outside stairs dealing with the dogs and turned my knee into hamburger and either severely sprained or broke something in my foot/ankle. Hoping to avoid the emergency room but not sure about that yet. https://...

Sorry I missed this yesterday! Happy belated, Monty! Hope you had a terrific day!

Oh, boy. Sorry y'all, another tempest is brewing on the horizon, so this is going to be lengthy... I wonder if you have all conjectured by this point (based on my previous posts in this thread) that I read. A lot. And, as a struggling writer, I take an objective view toward what I read. I've read en...

Say it ain't so Smarty!!!! m It ain't so, Swamp. That story is a sensationalist follow-up to the poorly researched and untrue article published about a month ago in the NY Times on the rate of breakdowns rising on the tracks. As always, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics, and they used som...

My move-in day is the 15th. This is actually doable for me!!!!

Happy Hump Day, folks!! http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/6567/221910867785c9f9a94c.jpg Been out for a while, dealing with some royal shit handed down by my *wonderful* University... but what can I do about it but work it out as best I can? Got a little NC-worthy horse humor for y'all: http://img705....

Full-time college student in equine science and management. Hope to hold some job in the horse industry by the time I graduate.

Have a good one, Clams!!

I guess I may be able to add some perspective to the pile, as a young person who remembers all too clearly being bullied 7-8 years ago in middle school. Not poked fun of, not ridiculed, not teased, but bullied. This is going to be very tough for me to share, so I'd appreciate no snarky comments abou...

As I've learned first hand to my regret, the Civil War did not happen 150 years ago, it happened yesterday. And it didn't happen in "this" country (wherever "this" is for you in the US), it happened in TWO countries. Any comments one may want to make about anything having to do ...