Hammer Mill Days

Hey howdee, everybody! It's your old friend Joe of Big Green. Yeee-haw, have we got an amazing blog post for you this week. Shit boy howdy. (Did I say "howdy" yet?) My apologies. I'm just practicing up for the promotional tour we'll be embarking upon to plug our new album, Cowboy Scat: Songs in the Key of Rick , a collection of songs written by, for, of, and around our dear cousin, Rick Perry, governor of Texas, author of all we hold dear, inventor of the syrup gin, holder of the three-cards (in 3-card Monte ... don't know where I'm going with that). Rumor has it that the album is a recreated soundtrack from a musical that was lost over the side of a pleasure craft on Lake Tahoe in 1978. Someone apparently went back in time for that particular Nevada vacation. Rumor has it, anyway. Okay, so ... we're practicing, to be sure. What else? Well, we posted the February episode of our ludicrous podcast, THIS IS BIG GREEN , just this past week. What kind...

A couple of quick swipes on the political front this week. No time to 'splain, man ... just too damn busy. Sequester. Well, it's here. Big surprise. Note to the President: Never tell yourself they'll never do something THAT stupid ... because they always will. I know, the sequester was a collective enterprise, strongly supported by Boehner and passed into law by his knuckle-dragging caucus. But thinking that there is some precedent this group will not break is living in a fantasy world. Wake up, people! Syria. Secretary Kerry is pledging additional non-lethal support to the Syrian opposition. It's hard to know how best to approach this crisis, but I know this much - whenever we get deeply involved somewhere, particularly in that region of the world, the result is not good. (What's the opposite of good again? Ah, yes.) No good answers here, but I know that the motives behind whatever policy we advance in Syria are not likely to benefit the Syrian people, nor ...