It’s raining a little bit in DFW.
The tumblr for the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo started following me! Yaaa…that’s pretty awesome. Butttttt it also reminds me that I need to look at the schedules and figure out when I’m going to go!!
Anyone want to come?
Also…I want to get a new pair of boots while I’m there!
Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo has a tumblr! :O
Anyone (besides me) planning on going?
I’ll be there!! Will you!?!
Drone Pilot Discovers River of Meat Blood
This is beyond disgusting!!
(gizmodo) - “A Dallas drone hobbyist was flying his rig around one bright Texan afternoon, scouting the skies, when he hovered across something perturbing: an enormous, oozing river of blood behind a meatpacking plant. That’s gross and illegal! Here come the cops.”
The Rangers won negotiating rights with a $51.7 million bid that will now be paid to the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. Texas was able to come to an agreement with Darvish before a 5 p.m. ET Wednesday deadline.
The deal is the largest for a player joining the Major Leagues through the posting system. It tops the deal of Daisuke Matsuzaka, who left the Seibu Lions after the 2006 season, when he was 26. He signed a six-year, $52 million contract with the Red Sox, who paid a $51.1 million posting fee to Seibu.
Oil & Cotton has Valentines Classes! And portions of the proceeds will go to Genesis Women’s Shelter!
Origami chocolate box - Feb 6 or Feb 10
Calligraphy - Feb 3
Corn Husk Wreaths - Jan 30 or Feb 3
(Bonus on the last one! While you craft, relax with a cup of genuine hot chocolate from CocoAndre Chocolatiers, and nosh on baked goodies from the award winning Rush Patisserie bakery)
Pretty Cinnamon is waiting for YOU!!
…and if you aren’t her forever family…
…please reblog so she can find them!
This is Cinnamon! She needs a forever home!!
Isn’t she pretty!? :O
She is located at Arlington Animal Services (Arlington, TX). This is the same shelter Thunder Snow was at sooo this little girl is already guaranteed to be amazing!!
CINNAMON
DA 4 ID# A 14885796
UNALTERED YOUNG ADULT FEMALE AMERICAN PIT BULL MIX (9 MONTHS OLD), RED/WHITE/BRINDLE, 34 LBS., SHORT SMOOTH COAT, BROWN EYES, SEMI-ERECT EARS
Returned Adoption — LANDLORD ISSUES
INTAKE-12/26/11
AVAILABLE
CINNAMON IS LOOKING FOR NEW PEEPS! SHE’S A SWEET, FRIENDLY GIRL WHO WILL BRING JOY AND LOVE TO HER NEW FAMILY! HURRY DOWN TO THE SHELTER TO MEET CINNAMON!More information about Cinnamon and how to make her part of your family forever (or you can even just foster her until she finds her forever family) can be found HERE!!
If you’re not Cinnamon’s future furever family…
…please share this!! I know they are out there!! We just have to find them!! :)
Tour Booking.
Ever DIY booked a monthlong tour for a band? If you answered no, then you probably (a) love yourself and (b) tend to abstain from exercises in futility, neglect and self-abuse. I began the process of booking our March tour on Nov 27th, and have reached out to around 100 clubs all over the US and Canada. Guess how many have responded! I’ll be gracious and say 20. It’s probably more like 15, but my Inbox is too convoluted these days to get an accurate count. 8 of those were places we played on our last tour who are over the moon to have us back b/c we put on a hell of a show and are courteous and professional in our dealings. With venues’ calendars quickly filling up things are heading into “I guess we’ll have some days off in the second half” territory, which sucks because we all put our lives, careers and certainly income on hold to do this. So I do everything in my power to make sure we’re wringing every drop out of it. We’re at the annoying point of our audience starting to grow rapidly and needing to be in front of them often, but not having the proper support let alone finances to make that a simple task.
There are some town that I have completely given up on. But If you are in the following cities and know bookers, promoters or bands [somewhat near our genres of punk, pop/punk, Celtic or harder folk/bluegrass] that you could hook me up with, I’d greatly appreciate it as we’d really still love to hit ‘em. As with any industry, having a somewhat personal connection tends to result in….well, results. Otherwise, just drop a line and encourage me to keep plugging away.
St Louis
Tulsa
Dallas
San Antonio
Austin
El Paso
Buffalo
NYC
Philadelphia
Montreal/Kingston/Toronto
Oh, if you’ve never heard us, please check out our super-professional and very easy to digest and consider with only 30 seconds of effort EPK. Are we something of a niche market? Perhaps at first glance, but not if you actually know music. Are there TONS of bands we’d be great on a bill with? Absolutely. But if you think the various musical outlets are overrun with shitty, screamy, over-produced quasi metal made by overly tattooed but also beyond effeminately coiffed and Proactiv’d bags of bones, you should try looking at NEARLY EVERY NIGHT on NEARLY EVERY VENUE’S calendar for the upcoming FOREVER. Tons of bands closer to our wheelhouse are still kicking up dust and there’s plenty of demand for it, but it’s crowbarred in and competition is stuff to say the least.
Thank you for your time and don’t let your babies grow up to be musicians!
Dallas folks?
The Park Virtual Fly Through.
