The Opinion Review

If you don’t have a quiktrip in your town your missing out. I have never seen a better store for all of those goodies with almost no nutritional values. But QT is different…They even have fruit and salad and health drinks.

Now do I get that healthy stuff? Hell no… It will take a doctor to tell me that there is very limited time if I don’t change my ways… But even that may not make me go into a health food frenzy.

I remember back in the day QT used to have “Quittin Time Beer” There would be commercials on the TV with a dog named Lamar to help serve the ghetto sud’s.

I wonder if those sud’s where better than the “Beast” That would be “Milwaukee’s best” in party lingo… Or, I think that’s how it went… Maybe it was Meister Brow… Hmmm? Help a brother blogger out huh?

I like super hero movies… I saw Batman The Dark Knight Recently… Very Kewl.

Hancock is certainly a different take on Super Hero movies…This guy is a drunk with super human powers (like Superman) and has an attitude of FTW… If you know what im saying…

He is always tearing up stuff as he saves people and catches bad guys… He seems to have no guidance or morals when it comes to how he get’s the job done… Very interesting.

He then saves a guys life that becomes his friend and “consultant” on how bo become a cherished super hero instead of one considered to be an “asshole”

I also checke out “The Bucket List ” this weekend… It was a moving story about 2 guys that are termanally ill and create a list of things to do before they “kick the bucket” Great story and photogrphy as they travel worldwide… Almost holding back tears at the end… I hate that…

Weekend movie nights… Been neglecting my blogs but hope to do better.

I have always thought that Magical Mystery Tour could have been recorded in the garage somewhere… Or some of it anyways… It’s not all that great of a recording.  Even though it is a great record over all…

George Martin has been hailed as such a great producer…And he was…But there are many other records from this period that have as good or better recordings.  The song “magical mystery tour” is paticarly noisy and muddy.

I remember back when the early Beatles CD’s first came out… They were all released in mono… To preserve the “original” recordings… They “fake stereo” vinyl records sound better.

Anyways, Magical has some magical music on it… I like the song “flying“… It is the picture of 60’s psychedelia… Love that trippy guitar.

The string arangements on “I am the Walarus” has to be the best in rock and roll. And that saxaphone (I think) playing on “Baby im a Rich Man” is the most bizarre horn part I have ever heard. That is Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones playing that… Miss that guy.

Other Highlighs

• Hello Goodbuy - Great guitar line and simple lyrical message.
• Your Mother Should Know - Dance to a song before your mother was born
• Strawberry Fields Forever - Maybe the best John lennon Song ever.

I am here as you are here as we are all together - John Lennon

I have been using scribefire for a few months now when I jumped on the blogging train. It is amazing at how fast it is to get used to the software and how much you come to depend on it to manage blog’s

It uses the FireFox browser which I prefer more than Internet Explorer. Now you can simply post to a blog without ever leaving Firefox … It’s handy to be able to surf sites and type the post at the same time.

It’s unfortunate that Today.com doesn’t seem to support the software.. Maybe because it has an “ad” feature on it to post ad’s on your site but I haven’t been able to get that to work anyways… And on my other blog’s I haven’t made much money from ad’s anyways. So I blog out of passion to make my silliness public - Not to make money.

ScribeFire is popular software and makes blogging a snap. You should download it and use it if your not already! You dig?

My girlfriend and I went and did a little light mini van shopping over the holiday. Just to see what happens. We went over to South Pointe Chrysler in Tulsa . There was a used van we found there on the internet that seemed pretty cheap for us poor people.

My girl filled out the online application and immediately got approved for a loan..WOW what a trip huh? Neither one of us has good credit anymore..We were just looking to see what would happen. They called and wanted us to come on out…So we did…

We were greeted by a smiling guy as soon as we pulled up that seemed a bit over eager to help us… You know how these car lots are. He would ask us some questions and then tell us to wait as he went and talked to somebody else. - A manager or something.

Then came a hipster “credit manager” that seemed pretty cool.. He was typing a lot of things into the computer. He said that the internet application was “lost” and that he had to do a new one…Strange… Then he told the sales’ guy to go ahead and have her Honda Accura apprased for trade in…Then they both said to wait and they would be back after while…. Lot’s of waiting at these car lots…

The “cool” dude with the Ozzy Crazy train ring tone on his cell returned and told us we had a “100 dollar” car but that he could help us get into a $9000 van if we had a few thousand to put down…The cheaper one we liked was apparently off the table… 

Hey, We outta here…

My girl is off getting a better van for a better price right now as I compose this little review… Southe Pointe… It’s OK to turn us poor people down unless you lie about it and then become a complete ASS about the vehicle that we already have… There is no such thing as a $100 car unless it’s in the junk yard.  The blue book for the honda is about $2200 and the car run’s good… What is that guy talking about?

See Ya South Pointe…Wouldn’t wanna be ya….

A friend at work told me about the show gangland on the History Chanel . It sounded pretty groovy so I set up the DVR to check it..

I watched 2 episodes. One on the Outlaws Motorcycle Club and another on FSU. I didn’t really know either one of those gangs…

 The Outlaws are as big as the Hell’s Angels in the mid west.  They are apparently adversaries of the Hell’s angels and into the life style 99% or they are 1%Rs as the saying goes… A guy that supports himself totally from the lifestyle. It is said that only 1% of motorcycle people actually do this..They are the TRUE outlaws. Or perhaps they are simply a guy without a real job.

FSU (Friend’s Stand United) are a bunch of punk rock fan’s that double as street fighting thugs…They are interesting as many of them are “straight edgers” That don’t use drug’s or drink booze. I suppose they cure their boredom by beating down drug dealers or white power punks by outnumbering the opponents or just plain ruthlessness.

They veiw themselves as vigilantes with no remorse for the violence because they are not robbing, drugging and stealing from good folks but from drug dealers and other criminals. Pretty interesting.

Is the show any good? It’s entertaining except for the way it is shot and the narrator. They seem to be really flashy with the pictures and footage… I guess they assume the gang’s themselves are not interesting enough on their own and have to add all of that quick photography and “lightning” flashes to keep us interested.

The narrarator always has some kind of obnouxous tone to his dilevery and constantly repeats himeself.. I suppose he believes we didn’t hear him the first time around. I’d prefer a more bias approach to the narration . Not that I agree with the gang’s agenda’s or anything. But these people do believe in what they are living.

Check it out and tell me what you think… 

I was born and raised here in Tulsa. I am proud of my city and have no desire to live anywhere else. I remember lots of folks I grew up with were always wanting a “way out” They would join the army, or try to go to LA and become famous musicians. There was always they typical opinion that you couldn’t get “known” here in OK in music… You had to go to California to do that…

 Many country artists have put OK on the map…Garth Brooks ETC… Those guys didn’t have to go to Nashville did they? Oh but their records were recorded in Nashville…The musicians that they played with and formed in OK were for the “road only”.

I  lived in Memphis TN for awhile… I thought it sucked… It would take at least 1/2 a day for a trip to the mall… It was just so big. Good to be back..And here to stay…

Tulsa has all the shopping, dining and nightlife that your big cities have but with way less time to get there… We don’t have any “tourist” attractions  and that’s fine… I couldn’t care less if we don’t have a six flags or major museum. It’s all good… I live here… I don’t need to take a tour.

It’s a very livable city… I’m glad to be living and working here… Can YOU dig it!

There are 1000’s and 1000’s of blogs created on the internet every day.. With many free tools such as Blogger.com and free software like wordpress almost ANYBODY can start blogging with very little computer skills. And if I can write stuff that somebody might read then ANYBODY can… You dig?

Trying to get traffic and regular readers to your blog seems to be the real challange for me… Oh one of my blogs The Hip Opinion get’s between 20 and 60 vistitors everyday… And that makes me feel good…But what about folks that have 10,000 readers every day?

I have read a few books and looked at a few of the millions of websites that teach how to become a successful or profitable blogger.  I try to follow many of their tips.Some of them have been successful… I am getting  some page views at this blogging network.

Lately I joined Blog Explosion … I saw it on another blog I was reading. It seems pretty user friendly and “guarantees” blog traffic. I added one of my blogs but it hasn’t been “approved” yet… Surely it will because most of the ones I surfed there are blogger.com blogs…And I have one of those too .

With all of the networking sites that are suggested to help build traffic it’s hard to get anything done when you have a family and a full time job… But I’m gonna keep on plugging along…Why? Because I LOVE IT…Forever…For LIFE!

Did you know that you can go buy a brand new computer and it can be totally locked up and full of crap within a few weeks… Totally unusable… You have to run some kind of maintenance tools or your system is going to quit working for you and that’s going to suck. Then your going to get frustrated and want to smash your computer…OMG.

Even though nearly all systems you buy from the store have tons of preloaded software to help keep your box running smooth… I always uninstall all of that stuff because they will want your money and subscriptions and stuff. Buying the computer was expensive enough for this poor geek so I go to the internet and get free tools… Like CC Cleaner

This little program has been around for many years. It’s totally free and does a great job of simply cleaning up crap that builds up over time on your computer. Once installed you can simply click “run” and it will totally clean up the garbage in under 10 seconds… And it does it good… The last time I ran it on this laptop it cleaned over 500MB. And I don’t even use this machine that much… Very thorough

Check it out! Totally FREE!

I’m having a smoke while writing this blog..  I have been smoking again after a 6 year recess… Unfortunately I was with a girl for a short time that got me hooked again… Yea, Like it’s HER fault…LOL.

 With the “sin” tax on smokers these days it can cast enouph to send a man to the poor house to be a smoker. And since I’m there already I needed to find a brand that I could smoke and not go broke while doing it..

Enter - King Mountain See they are cheap.. Online… I of course don’t buy smokes online as I live in Oklahoma and we have “smoke shops” which are cheaper anyways… If you want to be a smoker this is the place to be. And I hear it’s illegal to buy/sell smokes online anyways because of tax purposes…

I have tried many other cheap cig’s but these seem to be the best… And they are consistent because many cheap cig’s tend to have good and bad batches…

So what is the real solution - QUIT! All of us smokers know it’s bad for you…