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Thus regular reader Buick:
Why be surprised that we care who left which group, why and where they are going? Why is Keith Obermann [sic] leaving MSNBC? Resigned? Fired? Better offer? Creative differences? Having an affair with Rachel Maddow? Inquiring minds want to know.
What happened to […]

Because people come and go.
Because if things were the same, they wouldn’t be different.
Because when you hear hoofbeats, why think zebras?
Because bosses and owners and big shots and shot-callers can boss, own, shoot big and call the shots.
Because usually, it doesn’t really matter as much I/you/we/they think it does, and even if it did, […]

Via Avery’s old friend NG, music criticism in a poem, from the Oxford American. The poet takes on the voice of God responding to Ricky Skaggs’ recent gospel album. The poem begins:
No more light strumming of your mandolin
and the whispered tone and the sap-
happy featherweight songs in my honor.
Ricky no more treacly bullshit,  I actually
rose […]

Earlier this week I read somewhere that I’m in the only state in the continental U.S. without snow on the ground, so maybe the big freeze accounts for the silence in Southerngospelstan lately. Anyway, a round up of some items for our collective consideration:

Tim Parton is leaving Legacy 5 for a position with the 3ABN […]

*Updated with corrected numbers.
That’s how many people I guesstimated to have been at the MTQ, Ivan Parker, Perrys concert I attended last night. It was a Bill Bailey event, one he’s done annually here for 15 or 20 years. A few commenters have expressed dismay about the attendance figure, and I could be off by […]

Date: January 1, 2011
Location: Fort Myers, FL

Setting: Riverdale High School Auditorium
Average age guesstimate: Snow bird

Attendance: 200ish
I’ll be honest: I almost didn’t go to this concert. Pretty much knowing that two out of three acts would be mediocre-to-bad was not enticing, no matter how reliably the Perrys come through. So I did what anyone in a […]