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I'm Eatin' High On The Hog by Mac Wiseman (1956) is our tune today. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Sydney Powell. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Sydney Powell is a high-powered Constitutional lawyer who has had extensive service in the Texas and Virginia Departments of Justice before starting her firm. She is currently representing Lt. General Michael Flynn, on trial for "Being a Republican in Donald Trump's Circle." All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To...

Swingin' Monday was a holiday, so we'll have Swingin' Tuesday with Adolph Hofner & The Pearl Wranglers and their 1956 recording of I Get So Lonesome (Since You're Gone). Hofner began his recording career with Jimmy Revard and the Oklahoma Playboys. In 1938 he was offered a contract with Bluebird Records and formed the group Adolph Hofner and His Texans. During WWII he recorded as Dolph Hofner & His San Antonians, and in 1950, sponsored by Pearl Beer, he formed Adolph Hofner & The Pearl Wranglers. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

The Bible tells us to work smarter, not harder. Or, better yet, don't work at all if you can help it. You can look it up. It's in the Proverbs somewhere. That's why we're announcing today that we will simply be republishing everything Joe Biden says word for word rather than spending a lot of time and effort writing satire. We at The Babylon Bee realized we were spending all this time trying to satirize Joe Biden when, frankly, he just can't be satirized. He's doing all the hard work for us with statements like "You ain't black!" and, of...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Bob Dylan. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Yes, today's quote comes from a talented and enigmatic character whom most would associate with the Communist wing of the Human party, including myself. Yet words mean things; these words are just as hallow today as the lives that protected this nation, and more importantly, our Constitution. For without a Constitution to defend, we have nothing. It's really that simple. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Horace Mann. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Horace Mann was an American educational reformer and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the puzzle into the white squares on the bottom half (answer...

We remember Robert Zimmerman, who was born in Minnesota on this day in 1941.  We know him as Bob Dylan. As far as I know, Dylan has been quiet lately.  He seems to be enjoying retirement and having the rest of us listen to his songs.  (By the way, May is another anniversary of Dylan's second album, the one that included "Blowing in the wind.") Dylan did win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.  Eventually, he accepted the award, but his trip to Stockholm was typical Dylan, as I recall reading in The New Yorker: When he finally showed up in Stockholm, during an...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Ayn Rand. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Ayn Rand was an author best known for her libertarian positions and celebration of individual rights and initiatives. Her best known books are The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the...

If you enjoy old British spy shows, I’ve remade a music video for The Professionals, a show from the late 70s. It starred Gordon Jackson as the spymaster Crowley, and Lewis Collins as Bodie and Martin Shaw as Doyle, the spy partners. “Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor focuses on Bodie, who had been previously a paratrooper and SAS soldier. Very fast-paced and much into shooting.

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Hudson H. Luce. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Hudson H. Luce is an attorney from Topeka. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the puzzle into the white squares on the bottom half (answer grid) belowEach letter must stay in its own column...

TGIFF! Its Fiddle Friday and we have Earl Garner playing Crazy Horse (1972). THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

Here's one for the road.

Good guitar work.

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Joseph Heller. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Joseph Heller was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the novel Catch-22, a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice, like a Democrat. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve...

The Lovebug Itch by Eddy Arnold (1950) is our selection today. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

So I wrote another Rona tune with my buddy Larry Chaney. The first one, Corona Saturday Night, was written 1 week in and we were still digging staying home with our fams. This one, Crampin’’ My Style, was written 8 weeks in, from a different perspective. While filming my small town local park, some criminal dads were practicing baseball with their kids on one of the diamonds. They looked at me suspiciously, probably worried I would report them for illegal family fun behind the yellow tape. Please feel free to share. https://youtu.be/UcPMRFErij8

The Akbarnama was commissioned by Akbar the Great, the third Mughal Emperor, reigning from 1556 to 1605, as a history of his reign. It was written in Persian and illustrated by 49 artists. The music is from Nand Kalyan (vilambit ektal), from Ustad Munir Khan’s Classical Sarangi Music.

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson’s son said he “ha(s)n’t even got the words” following the death of his mother, Paddy Bowden. Bowden, 58 — who was estranged from Dickinson — was found dead following a “tragic accident” in the couple’s £3 million former marital home in Chiswick, West London. The former couple’s son, Austin Dickinson, wrote in a heartbreaking post on Instagram: “By now, a lot of you have seen the news. My mum has tragically passed away. I haven’t even got the words to say right now and I ask for privacy and respect for myself and our family.”...

Our tune today is Owl Hoot Blues by Dub Dickerson (1950). THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

Nice 70's tune.