Once Again, God Smiles On The Rose Parade
Happy New Year!!!

After making my 1st tax deductible contribution for the 2005 tax year, I'm curling up with The Godfather & The Godfather II.

Please feel free to join me in both activities.

Santa Claus is tonight's special(like a hot float with a kick-yum).

Chinquapin
(the password is... Generous offer)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Now Playing: Looking for a 2005 theme song
Which should it be, realistic and hopeful, or realistic and pessimistic?

U2's Beautiful Day
The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
There's no room
No space to rent in this town

You're out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you're not moving anywhere

You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace

It's a beautiful day
Sky falls you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away

You're on the road
But you've got no destination
You're in the mud
In the maze of her imagination

You love this town
Even if that doesn't ring true
You've been all over
And it's been all over you

It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case

See the world in green and blue
See china right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out

It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Reach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case

What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow
What you don't have you don't need it now
Don't need it now
Was a beautiful day
http://www.lyricsfreak.com

-OR-

CCR's Bad Moon Rising
I see a bad moon a-rising.
I see trouble on the way.
I see earth quakes and lightnin'.
I see bad times today.

Don't go 'round tonight
it's bound and take your life,
there's a bad moon on the rise.

I hear hurricanes a-blowing,
I know the end is coming soon.
I fear rivers over flowing.
I hear the voice of rage and ruin.

Don't go 'round tonight
it's bound and take your life,
there's a bad moon on the rise.

Hope you got your things together.
Hope you are quit prepared to die.
Look's like we're in for nasty weather.
One eye is taken for an eye.

Don't go 'round tonight
it's bound and take your life,
there's a bad moon on the rise.
http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics

Maybe I'll follow in the footsteps of Minnesota Public Radio's "Marketplace", and play whichever song fits the day's events.

I found out today that I have to "work" tomorrow-PISS!!!! So no late night for me.

Remember, eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we fight the good fight another day.

From everyone here at The Nut House, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Chinquapin
(the password is...PEACE ON EARTH)

You Think Your Holiday Was Rough...
Mood:  cool
Try flying home, having an ice storm hit, and being stuck in the house with no electricity, and the temperature drop below 20 degrees F. That was a long 40 hours. There are some people going on their 7th day with no power, so I should shut-up & thank my lucky stars.

I'll be home in 24 hours. Catch ya'll then.

Chinquapin

Happy Winter Solstice!!!
Didn't catch a wink on the red-eye, so it's nap time for me.

Happy Holidays. Egg Nog & Mulled Wine all 'round.

Chinquapin

To Time Magazine's "Man Of The Year"
I'll bet there's a Stevie Wonder song to express every mood.

Dear Mr. George Walker Bush:

(Take it Stevie)
We are amazed but not amused
By all the things you say that you'll do
Though much concerned but not involved
With decisions that are made by you

But we are sick and tired of hearing your song
Telling how you are gonna change right from wrong
'Cause if you really want to hear our views
"You haven't done nothing"!

It's not too cool to be ridiculed
But you brought this upon yourself
The world is tired of pacifiers
We want the truth and nothing else

And we are sick and tired of hearing your song
Telling how you are gonna change right from wrong
'Cause if you really want to hear our views
"You haven't done nothing"!

Jackson 5 join along with me say
Doo doo wop - hey hey hey
Doo doo wop - wow wow wow
Doo doo wop - co co co
Doo doo wop - naw naw naw
Doo doo wop - bum bum bum
Doo doo wop

We would not care to wake up to the nightmare
That's becoming real life
But when mislead who knows a person's mind
Can turn as cold as ice un hum

Why do you keep on making us hear your song
Telling us how you are changing right from wrong
'Cause if you really want to hear our views
"You haven't done nothing"!
Yeah

Jackson 5 sing along again say
Doo doo wop
Doo doo wop - oh
Doo doo wop - co co co
Doo doo wop - sing it baby
Doo doo wop - bum bum bum
Doo doo wop - um
Sing it loud for your people say
Doo doo wop - um um um

Doo doo wop - stand up be counted, say
Doo doo wop - co co co
Doo doo wop - ow
Doo doo wop - bum bum bum
Doo doo wop - ah hum

More Stevie Wonder lyrics

Can you tell The Nut House had the jukebox loaded up with Little Stevie Wonder disks? I'll be going out of town Monday, but I'll check in with the staff this week. Big New Years Eve party next Friday, hope to see lots of old friends and some new ones as well.

Special tonight: Waking the Bush Pig(it's a real drink, honest)

Chinquapin

All I Want For Christmas...
This is just one example of why Stevie Wonder should have EVERY lifetime music award.

Someday at Christmas men won't be boys
Playing with bombs like kids play with toys
One warm December our hearts will see
A world where men are free

Someday at Christmas there'll be no wars
When we have learned what Christmas is for
When we have found what life's really worth
There'll be peace on earth

Someday all our dreams will come to be
Someday in a world where men are free
Maybe not in time for you and me
But someday at Christmastime

Someday at Christmas we'll see a Man
No hungry children, no empty hand
One happy morning people will share
Our world where people care

Someday at Christmas there'll be no tears
All men are equal and no men have fears
One shinning moment my heart ran away
From our world today

Someday all our dreams will come to be
Someday in a world where men are free
Maybe not in time for you and me
But someday at Christmastime

Someday at Christmas man will not fail
Take hope because your love will prevail
Someday a new world that we can start
With hope in every heart

Someday all our dreams will come to be
Someday in a world where men are free
Maybe not in time for you and me
But someday at Christmastime
Someday at Christmastime

More Stevie Wonder lyrics

My Little Hammer
Mood:  lyrical
Well folks, I've put out a soap box at the Nut House.

Things aren't going the way I'd hoped this holiday season. And the thought of 4 more years of this mess will never reach the acceptance phase. So the new motto at The Nut House is "Eat, drink & be merry, for tomorrow we fight the good fight another day".

So, grab your hammers and bells, and get ready to sing out(I'll leave that one to my sister-you don't want to hear me sing).

The special tonight is a Pusser's Rum "Painkiller"(check out the John Paul Jones decanter).

No longer just a witness,

Chinquapin

Happy Holidays!!!(but don't forget...
Mood:  a-ok
...about stinger missiles & inadequate airport security). News at 11.

Chinquapin

Somebody At FOX 11 Gets It
Tonight on the local FOX 11 news, two "Christmas" related stories ran back to back.

The first, a "Toys for Tots" involving a car club event gathering toys for "needy" children. The very next story was titled "Designer Doggie Gifts", featuring $300 plus dog "purse" carriers, cashmere dog sweaters, and Juicy Couture charm dog collars.

The anchors read the copy for both with absolutely no irony. Maybe the Producer gets it.

Tomorrow is Santa Lucia Day. Girls, get your candles ready.

Chinquapin

Breaking News- Kerik Isn't Up For It!!!!
Wonder what happened?


Bernard's withdrawn.