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What passes for knowledge these days is a funny thing, a moving target. With the advent of Al Gore’s interweb, anyone can quickly pass themselves off as an expert on just about any topic. Since 2006, the word “google” has been in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as a verb. Hence, “I’ll just google it” was born.
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In this era of the 24-hour news cycle, “breaking news” becomes old news pretty fast but that doesn’t mean it’s forgotten. Personally, and professionally, I’m having trouble getting past the Austin American Statesman (AAS) releasing the video footage of the Uvalde school shooting before the victim’s families were allowed to relive the worse day of their lives in a private setting.
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It was an honor to participate in the reading of the Declaration of Independence on the Grimes County courthouse steps July 1. I appreciate Brent Cahill, the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and Elections Administrator Lucy Ybarra for making it happen.
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If, to you, the question “Are you a real cowboy” evokes a response of “That depends on what you think a real cowboy is,” then you are likely a fan of the movie Urban Cowboy. I mention this because Mickey Gilley passed away a few weeks back. Hearing that sad news brought forth a flood of memories for me of Gilley’s Club in Pasadena. I played drums there several times in the late 1970s with a c/w group I belonged to. While I never met Mickey Gilley, I did meet his musicians, each of whom was a monster player.
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By popular demand, I have chosen to rerun this article that was originally published in the Navasota Examiner Wednesday, March 3, 2021.
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According to a 2019 Smithsonian magazine article, screenwriter and television producer Rod Serling of “The Twilight Zone” fame, borrowed the term Twilight Zone from the U.S. military. Apparently, it refers to the moment a plane comes down and cannot view the horizon. The article went on to state that the anthology “spoke to his mission for the show: to be able to tell bold stories about the human conditions on screen by obscuring the view somehow.”
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All this talk about our public schools and vouchers has made me think about my days at Helms Elementary School in the 1950s. To get a glimpse of life at Helms, look no further than a DVD of “The Christmas Story,” without the snow, of course!
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Lately, I feel for the people who have flagpole duty. What a workout they are getting. The flags are going to half-staff so often that one may wish to invest in a halfsize flagpole just to save all the effort.
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