The Church of Heat

Reverend Horton Heat, Supersuckers, Murphy’s Law. The Bottleneck. Lawrence, Kansass. The show was good, but the real news is the city’s no-smoking law. It was surreal to be in the Bottleneck and not see clouds of nicotine billowing across the stage. It also appears that the Bettie Page clones in Kansas gotten much, um, heftier than their counterparts here in KC. And, memo to dirty hippies: a show with punks and rockabilly types might not be the best fit for you.

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Cowtown Strikes Back

Even though the KC metro is up to 2 almost million people, many of them still have an inferiority complex about the city being a “cowtown.” While I generally don’t buy into that crap, I recently saw something that definitely gave me pause – a John Deere tractor pulling a big piece of farm machinery down US 169 Hwy.

This was just north of Downtown in the Briarcliff West area, one of the poshest of the city’s newest suburban areas and only 3-4 blocks from Mayor Kay’s new McMansion. It’s a snooty part of the city that aspires to be “the new Johnson County,” but inside the city limits.

The weird part is that I never saw this kinda thing back in my podunk hometown. Farmers never drive their tractors down I-70, yet this farmer was on one of the main highways to/from the downtown of Missouri’s largest city. It totally reminded me of Big & Rich’s “Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy” video where they are parading across the bridge into the city.

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Supersized

This is what America has come to – using our vast industrial powers to produce a cup holder for french fry cartons.

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Dean Koontz – Midnight

A megalomanic software billionare infects a small town with nano-robots than run amuck.

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The one with the nubbin

My dog has 7 nipples, instead of four pairs. Bizarre. I should have named her Chandler.

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