Happy New Year

Started the afternoon by heading to the fireworks stand and getting my best laugh of thd day when Jakob asked the man at the counter for Dynamite;)...a little too much red dead redemption I guess. We started selecting individual items but ended up going with the big party pack because it looked like you would get more for your money.

Fireworks-CHECK!

we headed to the Wallace Lake Dam in Shreveport, Louisiana for our fireworks fun. I also took my gun and fired off a round..Jakob had never seen someone fire a real firearm, and you could tell he didn't realize it would be so loud.

Last year Jakob was all about lighting everything, this year, he didn't want to light anything..he wanted me to put on the whole display. It was very windy out by the lake and lighting those fireworks was a real challenge, I had one little lighter and could never really tell if I was running out of lighter fluid or if it was just too windy to keep a good flame on the lighter so I started a small fire, and lowered each one's fuse just low enough to ignite it and after it was lit I would sit it on flat rock. No wonder Jakob kept running away from the scene, sometimes the lit fuse was so short that as I slapped the fireworks down on that rock it would fall over and start shooting flaming balls straight at us....that was actually pretty fun hahaha

We went home, and on the way I started receiving texts from Erica. Then her mom, Linda called me asking if I would mind bringing him by sometime during the weekend.The way it was adding up it looked as if Erica wanted her mom to watch Jakob, while we went out for new years ever....long story short-she stood me up,again- but did text me to say she was just in a bad mood and didn't want to ruin my day, so she decided she was just going to go out for a mimosa with her mom...
She's full of stories.

I asked Jakob what he wanted to do for the rest of the night and gave him a few options like Movies, Bowling, Skating etc. and he chose Skating. By this time I had a few drinks in me and figured I should call a cab, so we jumped in a taxi and headed to Hot Wheels skating palace at 3000 Old Minden road in Bossier City. They were having an all night skate and it was fifteen dollars each just to get in the door. We rolled around the rink one time and nearly killed each other and a few other skaters...Roller Skating is not like riding a bike,It doesn't just come back to you. I used to be a decent skater, this was painful and with a packed floor full of teenagers, laughing their ass off at you, I decided Jakob and I should stick to the game room.

I knew it was new years eve and Taxi's would be hard to come by. I was right. None of the taxi's we called ever showed up. We waited for hours. We decided to start walking home at 3am. Thankfully, it wasn't too cold. I tried and tried to hail taxi's from Airline drive to Barksdale blvd...to no avail...Then the cops came..

Me and a 5 year old...Bossier City PD. This was weird..this was awkward. They asked a bunch of questions about what was going on at 3am and if Jakob was my son..They offered us a ride home..we jumped in the back of the Police Cruiser and it was the tightest space you have ever seen in your life..very cramped, but they took us home! Happy New year.

Sham Wow Parody

Funny stuff, would have been the coolest if we could have gotten Vince (The real sham wow guy)to do it.

Toby Keith vs. Peter Cooper

Ethan Hawke might want to avoid crossing paths with Toby Keith in the near future.

The current issue of Rolling Stone has a profile of Kris Kristofferson in which actor Ethan Hawke recalled a confrontation between Kristofferson and an unnamed country singer at Willie Nelson’s 70th birthday party in 2003.

THE LIE
Before Kris goes on stage Toby warns him about performing the "lefty" stuff, Kris Kristofferson shot back with,What the F*&%# did you just say to me?" Toby seemed confused so he answered "What?" ..maybe not knowing Kris Kristofferson was once an Army officer...and that's when Kristofferson totally laid into him, saying "You ever worn your country's uniform? You heard the question. You just don't like the answer. Have you ever served your country?" "The answer is no, you have not. Have you ever killed another man? Have you ever taken another man's life and then cashed the check your country gave you for doing it? No, you have not> So shut the f*&%# up!"


Keith recalls rehearsing his song “I’ll Never Smoke Weed With Willie Again” at the Beacon Theater for Nelson’s birthday concert.

“And as soon as I was done, they said somebody’s gonna speak — and I don’t remember if it was Robert DeNiro or Bill Clinton — and they said, I think, Ray Charles is on his way to the venue. Well, I had never seen Ray, so we went out and stood in the empty chairs, and [one of the members of Aerosmith] said, ‘I ain’t gonna miss this.’ … ZZ Top may have come out and watched that, too. … They led Ray on from the right side and Leon Russell was on the left and Willie was in the middle. I stood and watched Willie cry. Of course Ray, couldn’t see him, but Willie cried the whole time, and Ray played and they sang. The whole thing got quiet in there, and it was really mysterious and touching, like nothing you ever saw.”

Fast Forward to Sunday's Academy Of Country Music Awards...Toby Keith came backstage and looked at Tennessean reporter Peter Cooper and growled "Are you Peter?" To his credit, Cooper admits he is and Keith just glares at him and goes back up on stage.

Rewind again...Toby Keith is at a party earlier and he launches into how he hopes Cooper is backstage tonight because he's seriously pissed at what Cooper wrote about the country superstar. In a nutshell, Ethan Hawke wrote a long piece in Rolling Stone about Kris Kristofferson and how amazing he is. No dispute there. Hawke then recounts the incident at Willie Nelson's birthday party/concert at Madison Square Garden in 2003. According to Hawke, Kristofferson, really calls out the singer and slays him in front of folks like Ray Charles and Norah Jones.

The only clue Hawke gives is that the singer has a hit out about bombing America's enemies at the time (actually, that song was a few years previous). Cooper praises the piece and says he's not going to disclose the country singer either, but says it "rhymes with Moby Teeth."

Cut back to the press room. We see Cooper; warn him that Keith is looking for him. He's already written a piece about how it apparently didn't happen that will run in Monday's paper.

We all start asking Keith questions. Cooper, incredibly, raises his hand. Keith stares him down and lets him start, but quickly cuts him off and asks him if he's nervous. Cooper's voice is shaking a little. Cooper says he's alright. For the next seven minutes, he reams Cooper-he never raises his voice, but he's like a caged tiger and looks like he wants to leap off the stage and go for the jugular. He tells Cooper, "I'm not f*&%# okay" being in the same room with him. "You ran something s****y, you're in default. I'm struggling being here with you in the room. Ethan Hawke reported a fictitious story about me, Kris and Willie. You ran it and took it to supersize French fries and now you have to answer [for] it."

Cooper keeps his cool. He says he's heard from Kristofferson and will be running a story saying it looks like the Hawke story never happened.

Keith isn't appeased and says to Cooper, "You've never s*&%# in your f***ing ass like you have right now. Do you want to ask me another question?"

At this point, perhaps to put Cooper out of his misery, Robin Leach tries to ask a question to defuse the issue. Keith ignores him. Leach has less significance at this moment than a gnat buzzing around the room. "It was a fictitious, f***ing lie," Keith says of what Hawke wrote. "He didn't call me by name...because he didn't want to deal with the aftermath...you took the story and ‘Moby Teethed' it." Keith goes on to say that Cooper basically "f***ed" him. Cooper, who never loses his cool, very calmly brings up Kristofferson's email and says he was asked to write about the Kristofferson Rolling Stone piece and did so. That's about to be his fatal flaw. Keith pounces and says "Who supersized it?"

Cooper says, "I take responsibility for that."

And Keith backs down for a split second. He then goes back in for the kill-and the real crux of the matter for every one of us journalists in the room.

Keith looks at Peter and says, "Why did you not call me, or Kris or Willie and get a f***ing..."

At that point his publicist pulls him off the stage. All the air is sucked out of the room.

The Krewe Of Centaur Parade was Saturday night, February 14th. I always enjoy the Mardi Gras parades and it's really a thrill to be riding down the road in the KRMD truck listening to people cheer on their favorite radio station. I was unaware that since we were in a the truck we were not allowed to throw beads....most people didn't mind as they were cleaning up on beads and throws from the floats anyway. There were several listeners who decided to share the love by tossing some of their own beads into the KRMD truck for me and my partner to share. Check out the slide show maybe we caught you having fun Saturday night, you made it a blast for me! Thank-You!

American Idol

I grew up just north of Kansas City, Mo and when I heard they were holding auditons for American Idol the same week I was home on vacation, I thought it would be fun to "Crash" the auditions and get a little behind the scenes video. If you have seen the promos on FOX you can even see me in one of them if you squint really hard and don't blink because it goes by really fast...I'm next to the flagpole.(It's the only way I knew where to look). I was not there to audition ...or sing anyway, but while I was there I got to talking to one of the producers and she asked me to do a line for the show. There were a lot of different takes that did not make it to air from the Kansas City show like the video below,and several other bits they spent 2 hours getting the crowd to participate in..We were asked to do several takes on, "Kansas City Rocks" "Welcome Back To Kansas City" "Look What's Cooking In Kansas City, several countdowns from 10-1 all followed by several minutes of cheering..none of that made it..and my "American Idol, Welcome Back To Kansas City" got cut out of the show as well. It was actually a relief to know they didn't use it and make me look stupid...I'll find out February 10th if I made it onto the DVD for "W" "deleted scenes" **crosses fingers**

Divorce Settlement: I Want My Kidney Back

WKRG.com

$1.5 million or his kidney back. That's the strange ultimatum a New York surgeon has given his estranged wife.

Dr Richard Batista donated his kidney to his wife Dawnell in 2001. His attorney claims that she began having an extramarital affair a couple of years after the transplant. She filed for divorce in 2005.

Dr. Batista decided to go public after four years of divorce negotations. He wants the donated kidney back, but will accept $1.5 million in compensation.

Mrs Batista and her attorney had no comment on the suit.

The couple has three children, ages, 8, 11 and 14.

You never know...

I didn't realize this but did you know one in six Louisiana residents have unclaimed funds or property! Things like uncashed payroll checks, old bank accounts, royalties, utility deposits, interest payments, stock certificates and life insurance proceeds...every little bit helps and it doesn't cost a penny to check and see if the state is holding money for you or someone you know maybe a little finders fee action...I have no unclaimed property to speak of, but you never know and that's why I keep checking..maybe some rich person I was nice to one time or someone I played a special request or dedication for, died and left me a truckload of money in their will...yeah and monkeys might fly out of my ....