Keller's Corner

The nocturnal never negative nomadic notion turned out to be super positive. A huge thank you goes out to all who were in attendance. Once again, the spca benefit at the fredericksburg field house was a success. People seemed to have fun and the house sold twice as much beer as last year. So they were stoked. The volunteers kicked serious ass. Again. We had a lot of the same people who have donated their time for this event over the years. So people knew what they were doing and the show ran like clockwork. The norva, national and neighborhood theaters were incredibly accommodating and friendly.

For 72 years, the soap opera Guiding Light has brought joy to many people. It has recently been cancelled. This made me remember that I recorded a song about the show, using the characters and the story line of the time as the focus of the tune. It pretty much wrote itself. My wife Emily, grew up watching that show. From 97 to 2000, she and I and our 2 dogs, circled the country in a variety of motor homes playing upwards of 200 hundred shows a year. Each day, we would stop somewhere where we could get TV reception on our Radio Shack 8 inch 12 volt TV to watch this show. I of course didn't always watch but I did enough to know the characters and their personalities and their back stories and who they were sleeping with and who their wives and husbands were sleeping with and who killed who and who and so on.  Once we settled back into Fredericksburg, we were introduced TiVo. It was then I got really caught up in the characters and this song was created as a joke.  Each year, the real life actors would go to Kings Dominion (amusement park) for a series of autograph signings and interactive seminars where they take questions from fans.

I've been very blessed to be able to play some really cool shows lately. In driggs idaho, I opened for dark star orchestra at a drive in movie theater, fully operational with the FM transmission, one of the last functional, operating drive ins of its kind. I remember in high school, our local drive in had 5 dollar sundays where it would cost 5 dollars per car load, meaning we'd all meet in the parking lot and pile coolers and folding lounge chairs, as well as about 10 people in the back of a pick up and...drive on in. Ahh good times.  The show at driggs was the first time they tried anything like this at the site.  The first couple hundred cars got to actully drive in to the venue.

Ladies and gentlegerms. Boys and girls. Dogs and cats. Alpackas and emus. Sasquatches and 30 pound nuclear catfish. Welcome to the "odd" pre order contest (Applause applause sceams whistles much rejoicing). I'm happy to announce that a few of you lucky readers could be the proud owner of such prizes like bacon flavored dental floss. I like to use it to put pieces of bacon BACK between my teeth or just simply suck on it. Mmmmmm bacon.  As a matter of fact, I'm useing some right now. Yummy. The grand prize is an a Flip HD video camera with a customized song/video made up by me about the winner.