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Friday, April 22, 2005
Desperados waiting for a taco
I realize I’m a little slow in reacting here, but I didn’t have a blog before last week and it’s always tough to get warmed up to serious subjects.
Guy Clark, you’re breaking my heart.
I never got to interview you while I was a part-time junior-league music critic for the San Angelo Standard-Times. But I understood that what rare interviews you gave, you were given to bein’ ornery.
And unlike the rest of my favorite artists, you’re the only guy (ha!) that I haven’t managed to see perform, at least among them who are still kicking.
So it was always easy to imagine you as a serious and mysterious sort of dean of Texas songwriters. Solemn and sober as a judge (even if you weren’t), not likely to indulge in anything more frivolous than odes to Lone Star cooking and homegrown tomatoes.
But those Taco Cabana commercials…
I don’t blame you for taking their money. Heck, I’ve seen Willie shill for everything from Old Whiskey River whiskey to (Willie, Willie, Willie, how could you?) Texas Roadhouse restaurants. And that’s just recently.
But Taco Cabana? Couldn’t it have been something a little more dignified?
I’d go home and listen to one of your albums to clear my mind, but instead of “The Randall Knife,” I’m hearing … “My father had a quesadilla / my mother bought it for him / when they went to Taco Cabana / the special was two-for-one.”
I won’t cry.
Sniff.
Permalink | | Categories: By Dave Thomas
Katie, you’re so product
If there’s one thing I thought we’d all learned by now, it’s that not everyone needs a blog.
Word of this, however, has not reached NBC.
“I don’t know why (“NBC Nightly News” anchor) Brian Williams isn’t blogging right now,” says Jeff Zucker, NBC Universal Television Group president.
Which makes me wonder: How do we know Brian isn’t posting over at Diaryland like right this second?
But what we really need to worry about is that Zucker also thinks Katie Couric should be blogging.
This is a bad idea. All Katie Couric would ever post are quizzes and memes. Imagine this on your Newsgator: Katie is 100 percent normal!!!!
A couple of quick things: First, if you’re into the Austin Film Society’s Bollywood series, the Times has an article about Amitabh Bachchan.
I took typing class and it led me to yearbook staff. Ice Cube took typing and it led him to rap superstardom. But can Cube bust rhymes like this?
Making it happen: From Ellen, a noted wit, beauty and future Olympic skier:
You know, JC Penney launching an MTV Cribs line sans “Scarface” paraphernalia is so product.
Just sayin’.
Permalink | | Categories: By Sarah Lindner
