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• Tracks 01, 08, and 11 are from Speaking In Cursive
• Tracks 02, 03, 05, 12, and 15 are from III
• Tracks 04, 07, 09, and 13 are from The Wall Against Our Back
• Tracks 06, 10, ad=and 14 are from Please Turn The Gas Back On

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This is a show I found linked on the Drag The River message board. It was formerly hosted on cotapers.org but isn’t in their database anymore. Thankfully there were two seeders for the torrent and it took about eight hours. I’ll probably never know who the seeders were but I owe them a debt of thanks. Also thanks to the original taper: James Freeman for making this available for us. I did convert the FLACs to MP3 for this tape but it’s always nice having FLACs of concerts laying around. And there you have it….

Well folks that’s all for this intro. I have one more in the alt-country vein then I am going to bring in some Texas/Red Dirt music to fill out the intros series. I may have two or three more months of weekly intros in me. If you have heard me mention a band and would like to request an intro please feel free to drop me a line on twitter and I’ll see about taking care of it for ya’.

I don’t think I ever agreed with any idea set forth by the late Teddy Kennedy but in his passing our own mortality is realized. Major news outlets across the world are reporting on his death and every one of them I have read has mentioned the scandals that marked this man. I will not do that here. Regardless of what dark clouds may have hung over the head of Edward Kennedy he is no longer with us and we can put those dark clouds to rest. I will take a moment out of my day to pray for the family he left behind and also to pray that his soul is at rest. My sincere hope is that Senator Kennedy was right with his maker and that he is now in a better place. He was a public figure my entire life and, when I was blogging politics back in the minion days, often the subject of my ire. I know many of my regular readers feel the same way. I participated in jokes about the man and at his expense. I ask that none of that take place here today. Even if you did not agree with any Sentator Kennedy’s politics it is not time to bring that up. He is mourned by family, friends, and more than that he is mourned by the country he served for many years. He may not have served in a manner in which I can glorify here but he dedicated his life to be a U.S. Senator and regardless of any disagreements I believe he supported what he truly thought was best for the country. I would rather have men who are strong in their position oppose my views than men who are weak in theirs support them. Senator Kennedy was just about the antithesis of everything I believe this country needs but I respect him for his tenacity, dedication, and long years of service. In death we are all equal and we all stand before the same throne for judgement. Senator Kennedy was no more and no less a sinner than I and he professed to be a believer in Christ, a Catholic, and as such it is my belief that he will be judged in the same manner in which I will be judged when my time comes. I can only now pray that he was right with our creator and hopefully look at the good he brought this country and the earth during his time here.

I know many of the conservative sites I read will be posting on the death of Senator Kennedy in a manner that is, in essense, nothing more than burning his body in effigy. I hope that I have removed any site that would do that from my reading list but should I run across any today, or in the near future, I will cease being a reader of those sites. I hope you have all read the two links above Who The Hell Is Romeo Sid Vicious? and What Is This Place so that you are not the least bit shocked when I say this: Any comment, from anyone, that derides, insults, or attempts to tear down Senator Kennedy will not be approved if held for moderation and any comment not held for moderation will be censored upon my seeing it. I want to make it clear that I had nothing but ire for Senator Kennery’s policies and most of the causes he supported but I will not allow this website to be used as a place to impugn the dead.

I ask all of my readers to pray for the family and friends that Senator Kennedy left behind as well as the nation that is mourning the loss of one it’s longest serving senators. Regardless of how we feel about his politics he was a man who bled just like you and I and in the end died just like and I will some day. His family, friends, and nation need your support and prayers today.

R.I.P Senator Edward Kennedy

To suggest any of my three readers boycott anything but I for one won’t ever buy a Frommer’s Travel Guide. I have never even bought a travel guide to begin with and likely never will but if I do it won’t be a Frommer’s guide. You see Mr. Frommer has pretty much wet himself over people carrying guns in Arizona. If you don’t know who Arthur Frommer is then don’t feel alone because I didn’t either. He is apparently some old liberal who writes travel guides, and from some of the reviews I read whilst doing my obligatory ten minutes of in depth research required for each article, they are pretty good. But poor Mr. Frommer has his panties all up in a bunch over some folks in AZ exercising their rights and carrying guns at a political event. Leaving aside the joy I find in bashing Arizona because it’s not as cool as Texas I can honestly say that it ain’t all that a bad place. I might even go back for a visit one day! While I lived there I saw open carry almost every day and never felt unsafe at all. In fact I am pretty sure it’s safe to be standing at a gas station with two guys carrying guns on their hips than it is to be standing in one without a gun in sight when some thug decides he needs crack money. While I don’t approve of myself living in PHX I do approve of Arizona’s gun laws. However Mr. Frommer doesn’t and had proceeded to nearly piss himself on the web whining about it:

I am not yet certain whether I would advocate a travel boycott by others of the state of Arizona; I want to learn more about Arizona’s gun laws and how they compare with those of other states. But I am shocked beyond measure by reports that earlier this week, nearly a dozen persons, including one with an assault rifle strapped about his shoulders and others with pistols in their hands or holsters, were openly congregating outside a hall at which President Obama was speaking to the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

First and foremost I saw quite a lot of this footage while MSNBC was trying to paint a law abiding black man as a white supremecist and not a single person had a pistol “in their hands”. I doubt Mr. Frommer has ever been to AZ and if he has he never bothered getting out of the car. The first day I was in Phoenix I saw open carry when I stopped to buy gas and by the second week I didn’t even think about it anymore because it was just part of life there. Nevermind that these folks were following their local laws concerning the carry of firearms and they were very respectful about the whole deal. Mr. Frommer has more to say on the matter (but you knew he did, didn’t you?)

For myself, without yet suggesting that others follow me in an open boycott, I will not personally travel in a state where civilians carry loaded weapons onto the sidewalks and as a means of political protest. I not only believe such practices are a threat to the future of our democracy, but I am firmly convinced that they would also endanger my own personal safety there. And therefore I will cancel any plans to vacation or otherwise visit in Arizona until I learn more. And I will begin thinking about whether tourists should safeguard themselves by avoiding stays in Arizona.

I am sure Arizona will miss you Mr. Frommer. However the threat to democrazy here is you and your ilk. People carry loaded weapons in the open all over Arizona every day and in my home state, Texas, we carry them where you can’t see them. Your scaremongering is almost amusing but it lacks the bile to really make me chuckle. You will begin thinking about tourists safeguarding themselves? I assure you that in any city in Arizona your tourists are less likely to come to harm than they are in New York or Washington D.C. but those nasty people in Arizona can carry icky guns, ON THEIR HIPS, WHERE WE CAN SEE THEM, whatever shall we do…

According to the Phoenix, Arizona, police, people with guns including assault rifles do not need permits in Arizona, but can simply carry such weapons with them, openly and brazenly, when they gather to protest a speaker at a public event. The police also acknowledge that about a dozen people carrying guns, including one with an AR-15 assault rifle, milled about outside the event at which President Obama spoke.

Oh we aren’t ready for a solution yet. Let’s use scary words some more! Texas doesn’t require a permit for an AR-15 and one can be carried openly anywhere in the state save some places restricted by laws that exist in AZ as well. We carry our pistols subtely but in the same places and the same manner as folks in AZ. You want to try and lead people to believe that this is something unique to AZ but it isn’t and it certainly isn’t just “when they gather to protest” but rather all day every day. Why should law abiding citizens be asked not to excersize their rights just because POTUS is in town. He wasn’t scared but now you have your liberal panties in a knot over a few people carrying weapons legally. I am guessing you have an opinion on what we should do…

I would feel as I do regardless of the political identity of the speaker whom these thugs attempted to intimidate. The continued tolerance of extremists carrying guns is a frightening development which strikes at the heart of the political process and endangers the ability to carry out a reasoned debate. Is there any responsible citizen of the United States who believes that people should carry guns to a public debate or speech? If Ronald Reagan were delivering a political talk in Phoenix, Arizona, would they have felt it was proper for protesters with guns to mill about outside the hall from which he would leave?

I’d appreciate hearing your comments. The question is, should we all organize a travel boycott of Arizona until this tolerance of armed intimidation is ended, probably by an act of the Arizona legislature?

Well my comments are above and below this line. I have no desire to comment over on your site you scared little man. Whether or not I feel it is proper to carry guns to a debate or speech has nothing to do with the issue and frankly neither does your opinion on the matter. These thugs, as you call them, are ordinary people who are law abiding and merely using their rights. It is called a show of strength and it is not a scary thing. I looked over your site and when the Black Panthers have shown up across the nation with AR-15s as “security” for someone they support you have said nothing. I suppose it’s alright for one side to tote out their scary looking guns but not the other. I call complete and total bullshit on your statement you wouldn’t care which party was speaking. You were silent on the Black Panthers intimidating voters and didn’t suggest that people would feel unsafe traveling there. You are a hypocrite and nothing more. You and your ilk represent what’s wrong with the world today. Be a man, take off the panties, and try firing a gun for once. It won’t be so scary once you know they work. And as for your suggestion that you arrange a travel boycott of AZ until they remove the rights of their law abiding citizens? I bet there’s more than enough NRA members that’ll detour their vacations right through AZ to make up for your panty-waisted ilk that may or may not answer your shrill cry for a boycott. Get real Mr. Frommer and stick to travel. Leave the politics to someone else.