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  1. HudsonHawk

    The Music of Our Lives

    Who's gonna fill their shoes Who's gonna stand that tall Who's gonna play the Opry And the Wabash Cannonball... There are some out there, but you won't find them in Nashville.
  2. HudsonHawk

    The Music of Our Lives

    Johnny and Waylon are already gone. Willie is 85...
  3. HudsonHawk

    The Music of Our Lives

    Vintage (60s-70s era) receivers are getting more and more rare and in demand and consequently more expensive. You can't touch a working Marantz from that era for less than $300 and the more powerful ones are upwards of $800-1500, depending on condition. I got this Sansui from a coworker a...
  4. HudsonHawk

    The Music of Our Lives

    My favorite Charlie Christian story is how he came to play with Goodman in the first place. Story goes that Christian auditioned for Goodman on the recommendation of John Hammond. The audition was in a studio and didn't go well, and Goodman was uninterested. Undeterred, Hammond arranged to...
  5. HudsonHawk

    Great smelling shampoo

    I think I've mentioned this before, but when I was in college, I went goo-goo for a girl named Susie, who was from California and completely unlike every big-haired Texas gal I knew. At any rate, she had a distinctive smell in her hair that I remember to this day. I hadn't seen her in 20...
  7. HudsonHawk

    What do you use for thinning, grey hair and balding on top?

    I like your cousin. I too promised myself a long time ago that I'd never be one of those guys who pretends he has more hair than he does. I keep mine buzzed year round.
  8. HudsonHawk

    What do you use for thinning, grey hair and balding on top?

    What do I do for thinning hair? When it's cold out, I wear a hat. When the sun is out, I wear a hat. The rest of the time I think back nostalgically to when the girls used to love to run their hands though my thick, wavy locks.
  9. HudsonHawk

    The Music of Our Lives

    My setup is pretty simple: 1970s-era Sansui 8080db receiver, U-turn Audio turntable with a Bellario tube pre-amp. Run it through my Paradigm 7 SE MK2 floor speakers, or when I want to crank it up without rattling the walls, my Grado 325se headphones. I haven’t had a cassette or CD player in...
  10. HudsonHawk

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    McCovey later said that was the hardest hit ball he ever hit in his career. Baseball is a cruel game sometimes.
  11. HudsonHawk

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Baseball great Willie McCovey died yesterday at the age of 80. McCovey played in four decades, from 1959 to 1980, most notably with the San Francisco Giants, where teaming with Willie Mays was part of the most feared 1-2 punch in any National League lineup. He was named Rookie of the Year in...
  13. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Depends on what's wrong with it. I've repaired my refrigerator a couple of times, and my washing machine three times. Once I had to replace the tub bearings, which wasn't easy and I had to rent a special tool, but managed to fix for $150. Another time, I had parts 3-D printed to replace the...
  14. HudsonHawk

    BATTER UP!

    I stayed up to watch the entire game. I was completely wiped out, and I didn't even care who won. Nathan Eovaldi (who's from the same town as Nolan Ryan, in case you missed the 400 times they mentioned it) pitched his ass off and should have won that game. If the Sox somehow manage to not win...
  15. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It can feel that way here in Houston sometimes too. Not that there are more visiting team fans, but there are usually more than you'd expect. But Houston is a relatively "new" and very diverse city. Few true "natives". It's especially that way in parts of Florida too
  16. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Someone once asked me how far away a place was, and I said "not far at all, really just a 'possum toss'". That had a few folks spewing beer out of their nostrils.
  17. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I do this all the time with my Southern accent. Normally, people say they can hear it, but it's just there in the background, so to speak. There's the ubiquitous "y'all", I'll occasionally use phrases like "fixin to", and I sometimes have a pronounced drawl (which is elongating words, making a...
  19. HudsonHawk

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I watched "The Catcher Was a Spy" on the plane the other day. It's the story of Moe Berg, former Major League ballplayer who went on to join the OSS in WWII and was tasked with finding out where the Nazis were on building an atomic bomb, and if necessary, assassinating Werner Heisenberg. It...
  20. HudsonHawk

    New Blade Runner Movie NOT a remake!

    Bladerunner and the sequel are about *humans* questing to figure out their humanity.
  21. HudsonHawk

    Peggy Sue has died.............

    I believe I read where Gerron has visited the site, though only within the last 10 years or so. Holly's widow, Maria Elena, has never been, and she sued Gerron over the latter's book a few years ago, claiming she owned the rights to anything associated with Holly including the name "Peggy Sue"...
  22. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    One of the more popular events at the rodeo is “mutton bustin”. Little kids riding sheep. It’s hilarious.
  23. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    When I went to play with the tigers in Thailand, the first thing they told me was “don’t ever approach a tiger from the rear, the last thing you want to do is startle a tiger.” The second thing was “don’t ever approach a tiger from the front. The second to last thing you want to do is make a...
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