The boy....

Alan a few months ago:

Lucero at Ardent Studios

Go check out this Lucero show from the Ardent Studios. It's a 10th anniversary show (they've been around ten years? Gosh I feel old). Anyway, lots of good old songs in the show, and the band is tight and, mercifully, sober.

Back from the blogging dead....

Here's most of what I've been up to:

Alan on February 25th

My lil' Gunner:

Alan's first bath!

Pic taken right after.

Rodney Alan Garrison II

Rodney Alan Garrison, II "Alan" was born January 30, 2007 at 4:58 pm at Baptist Hospital in Jackson. He weighed 8 pounds and 8 ounces and was 21.5" long. Mom Alan and Frank are doing well!!!



More pictures can be found here:

http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4302448&a=31742375

Rodney Alan Garrison II

Rodney Alan Garrison, II "Alan" was born January 30, 2007 at 4:58 pm at Baptist Hospital in Jackson. He weighed 8 pounds and 8 ounces and was 21.5" long. Mom Alan and Frank are doing well!!!



More pictures can be found here:

http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4302448&a=31742375

Must be MP3 Monday

Here is a cut from the new M. Ward album, a cover of Daniel Johnston's "To Go Home," a rollicking, thrusting (uh huh huh huh) rocker just full of energy. Download it here. You can download the full album on the excellent music site emusic.com.

Muzzle of Bees, one of my favorite MP3 blogs is hosting a new Wilco tune, "There's a Light". Download it here. It's a live cut, but the sound is pretty good.

Also, rbally is an excellent mp3 blog which is heavy on the Wilco.

Bob Dylan - The Levee's Gonna Break

New track from his new album coming out soon. Classic story song, repetition style.

Dowload it here.

Ahem, Reality, please report to the White House

Mr. President said Wednesday that if we left Iraq it would be cutting and running.

He also said, without a hint of irony whatsoever:

"Leaving before we complete our mission would create a terrorist state in the heart of the Middle East, a country with huge oil reserves that the terrorist network would be willing to use to extract economic pain from those of us who believe in freedom"

Ahem.

He's referring to Iraq I presume, not Afghanistan. So we're clear: Before our unilateral, unprovoked invasion, Iraq was NOT a terrorist state in the heart of the Middle East. Iraq was a lot of bad things (just like Sudan, et. al), but it was not harboring, assisting or fostering terrorists. I get it, it's part of the great neocon strategy. CREATING a terrorist state where there was none before helps us to fight the terrorists. After all, we can only fight them if we create them.

I get it now.....

Geez. Have we triggered an all-out DISASTER or what?

This story in the Guardian is really disconcerting:

"Turkey and Iran have dispatched tanks, artillery and thousands of troops to their frontiers with Iraq during the past few weeks in what appears to be a coordinated effort to disrupt the activities of Kurdish rebel bases."

I think the Kurds are allies with Israel. We're allied with Israel, obviously. So, it's Iran and Turkey and the Shia in Iraq v. Kurds/Israel/U.S.

"Frustrated by the reluctance of the US and the government in Baghdad to crack down on the PKK bases inside Iraq, Turkish generals have hinted they are considering a large-scale military operation across the border. They are said to be sharing intelligence about Kurdish rebel movements with their Iranian counterparts.

"We would not hesitate to take every kind of measures when our security is at stake," Abdullah Gul, the Turkish foreign minister, said last week."

Thanks, Mr. President.