Side project - Biggy Blog!!

With the encouragement of my brother, I've started a sister site - www.biggybloggers.blogspot.com This site will focus on my interest in cryptozoology - Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Blobsquatch and more. I am hoping to turn this into a site that seriously discusses the mystery and myth surrounding Sasquatch. My brother will also contribute from time to time. More on this later...

We took the kids to the Shriner's Circus today. What a blast!! The kids had a great time especially during the animal acts! Good stuff...I'll be posting a bigger post later!

* Saw The Departed - Wow!!

* The Ant Bully is cute, but an indoctrination film for people who want to see ants take over the world.

* My 3-year old walks on her toes and has a squeaky voice...very cute!

My wife and I celebrate our 13th year together this coming June. Traditionally, there are certain types of gifts given for anniversaries depending on which particular anniversary you've arrived. It seems that lucky 13 is lace. I don't usually follow these guidelines when thinking about an anniversary gift, but this year I thought lace would be nice. I am going to look into what sort of things have lace. Obviously, panties, etc. However, to be honest, that would be more of a gift for me!!! So I have put on my thinking cap...I may have to change the batteries!

4 Days Dead...that is the name of the band that I am currently playing guitar. What a great name! I'm a big believer that many bands don't 'make it' because they chose poorly when assigning themselves a name. Now, please don't misunderstand, I'm not developing illusions of grandeur nor am I harboring some fantasy of being discovered. I just want to play and make some good music with like minded folks. In order to do that, you need to be a band that people want to hear - 4 Days Dead sounds like a band people want to hear. We need work - song selection, dress and appearance, but a square has been filled with a very good name.

Blogging Equals Freedom

In an age where it seems our freedoms are facing a swift erosion, a blog such as this represents a great deal of freedom. Currently, court decisions are favoring the blogger in free speech issues. This has allowed this medium to explode. Blogging isn't for everyone, but it is a great way for someone to share with others who are like minded.

I found this blog to be well done and fun to read:

http://southeastsasquatchassociation.blogspot.com/

Yes, I am into some cryptozoological issues - not everything. To be sure, there are some very different ideas out there! I want to believe that there are still mysteries out there to be solved. Modern science is so boring and arrogant. The established scientific community seems to think there is nothing out there "big" to discover. This belief, along with science for profit motivations, have turned scientific discovery into a sterile, boring search for minutia. I like to think that they're wrong. In fact, there are great examples of "big" discoveries waiting to happen - the inconsitencies of physics, gravity, how anesthesia works, human artifacts much, much older than the accepted timelines, and on and on...the list is quite large, but not much profit so not much effort!! So it's exciting to think that there is more out there that we don't understand - that romantic, mysterious pull is what legends are made of and what progress is driven by...

We finally have a name!

4 Days Dead - It has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? So now our new group has an identity on which to hang our collective hats. We have played two events to much praise and enthusiasm so we must be doing something correctly. We have another event in less than two weeks...

My guitars liberate me. I can be anything I want to be when I play. When I pick my guitar up, hold that plectrum aloft to strum that first chord, I am connected with everyone who's ever played - McCartney, Hendrix, Clapton, King, Guy, Keaggy, Vaughan, Van Halen, Sheperd, and the list goes on and on. What sets it apart for me is that many people learn to play and settle into an acceptable status quo - not me! I want to keep learning until the day I die - please let me be near a guitar on my final day!

Here's an interesting link:

http://www.bigear.org/vol1no1/burnell.htm

Enjoy!

Who knew the trees would be so disagreeable? Hadn't everyone else approved the idea? The trees would ruin everything. Couldn't they see that this was best for everyone concerned? It was rude. That's what it was...rude.
Of course, the trees took no notice nor heed of the increasingly turgid comments of the wood folk. The trees had lived a long time and seen many ancient and wonderful things. They were not easily swayed once they had arrived at their decision. Unfortunately, The decision came with a heavy responsibility as many of the wood folk, as well as many of their own number, would not survive this night.

The Stout's Defense Statement

Hello,

This is my first entry of my new blog. I am hoping to use this space to share views, opinions, crazy stuff and writings with anyone intereseted. I am also a pretty big buff of the mysterious aspects of the world I live. This will also be a great place to share stuff with my brother who is soon moving to Puerto Rico. I've done a bit of research on Puerto Rico. It has a very rich history...pirates, natives, rum trade, slave trade, espionage, scandals, etc. It should provide my literary brother with inspiration.

So this is an exciting start to a new adventure for me. I plan to lay the good, bad and ugly out for analysis and discussion. So for now...

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Be sure to watch the BBC productions of Jeeves & Wooster starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie

Go outside and see the real world!