Category Archives: Entertainment

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Posted on October 6, 2010 by Terry Taylor

{Note: While I don’t agree with everything those 2 gentlemen are doing in that video up there, I do like the weird music, the dude’s Sam Elliot-esque voice and the crowing rooster at the end.} This is not an authentic … Continue reading →

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Cake: Short Skirt, Long Jacket, Short Memory, Long Time

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Unless you are from Sacremento, it’s hard to imagine that the band, “Cake,” has been around since the early 1990’s. Yet there stands John McCrea in his worn gimme cap talksinging the words to one of the hottest songs on … Continue reading →

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Robert Plant’s “Band Of Joy”

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Terry Taylor

“Band of Joy” is the result of Plant’s decision to abandon his follow-up to “Raising Sand,” the beautifully done duet with Alison Kraus, produced by T Bone Burnett. Got to be a story in that abrupt cancellation. Tweet This Post

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Brad Paisley Sings About Light Bulbs and Throw Rugs

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Country music singers can nail a hit song about anything. The old standbys about drinking and mama and God and country are still getting clichéd to death with the cowboy hat crowd, but new topics are making the scene. Few … Continue reading →

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Are You Ready For Some Millionaireball?

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Terry Taylor

You don’t have to be a Jets fan to like Hard Knocks on HBO. For the entire summer, I have flipped between replayed games on the NFL channel or watched replays of Alabama versus Virginia Tech, or Alabama versus Florida … Continue reading →

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Get Low

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Terry Taylor

The packed theater darkens. There are no previews. What flows across the screen appears to be 1930’s Tennessee. Accents like the ones I grew up with in Alabama pour from the Dolby speakers. My mind returns to the storytellers I … Continue reading →

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Copywriters Don’t Write Anymore

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Terry Taylor

In a digital world were words are less important than the ideas they  convey, the craft of writing is changing. Hell, it has changed, drastically.  I’m not saying that all copywriters are becoming keyboard mutes, I’m saying that snippets and … Continue reading →

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3Damned Awesome

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Terry Taylor

The new high-end LED/LCD, 3D HDTV’s are ruining my old school eyes, but not in a painful way. It is delightfully devious retina ruination, an eye-opening bite of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, like in Genesis. … Continue reading →

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Click, Click. Goodbye.

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Terry Taylor

With every click online, we’re giving a piece of ourselves away. This sentence just cost me a little chunk of my humanity. The next few will bleed me further. It is happening to you too. Soon we’ll only be measured … Continue reading →

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I Write Like

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Jeff Johnson sent me a website I have not seen before. He is like a Google bot when it comes to rooting around the Web. It was featured on Holy Kow, Guy Kawasaki’s content aggregation site. The site purports to … Continue reading →

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The Endless Kindle

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Terry Taylor

The new graphite-colored Kindle DX has a bigger screen (9.7 inches), 50% better contrast, 4GB of storage, 3G wireless network, a battery that goes a week between charges and holds up to 3,500 books. Sure, it costs $359.00, but let’s … Continue reading →

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Shooting Our Inner Reptiles

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Almost 4,000 feet above sea level: you can smell the horsepower from up here on its way from Michigan. A runway stretches across the top of this mountain in Bath County, Virginia. The road that ends at the door of a … Continue reading →

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Where Is Atticus Finch?

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Growing up fifty miles from Monroeville, Alabama means I have crossed paths with the reclusive Harper Lee many times. I never met her, mind you. I know her from her famous book, a biography she refused to cooperate with and … Continue reading →

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Cooking Up A Storm Of New Cookbooks

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Terry Taylor

There are a lot of new back-to-basics cookbooks being published these days with the Slow Food movement and it’s first through third cousins roaming the aisles at bookstores. Tweet This Post

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The American Web

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Harvard’s Institute of Politics has released a poll indicating that young people are worried about the future – and not so positive about their chances in it. The pessimism ranges from financial concerns to doubts about their ability to afford … Continue reading →

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