YES, I AM STILL HERE peeking out my window on Main Street, and I can’t express to you how much it depresses me that there is actually going to be a “J6 Awards Gala” to honor those ‘patriots’ who invaded the U.S. Capitol in an effort to stop the lawful, traditional certification of the 2020 Presidential election.
The event will be held at one of the Trump golf clubs. He is listed as “an invited speaker,” although he has not said publicly whether he will attend.
I do not know if he will benefit from the ticket sales, but we can guess.
He HAS announced that when he is elected he will issue pardons for all of those persons arrested or convicted for the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. You may remember: “Kill Mike Pence” because Trump’s vice-president refused to interfere with the certification of the election.
Don’t know if former Vice-President Pence is invited.
Tickets are $2,500 for individuals and $50,000 for a table of 12.
Some of my friends say that Jan. 6 was merely a peaceful patriotic display and that news reports of a violent insurrection with attacks upon capitol cops was greatly exaggerated. I love my friends despite our differences.
On the other hand, I know what I saw.
I’m not going to send my money for a J6 ticket. I’m saving up to buy a Trump Bible and a pair of Trump tennis shoes. I’ve already set aside some bucks to buy some Trump trading cards.
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ANIMAL CRACKERS. After reading my expert observations about the disappearance of the 2024 Summer cicadas, former county judge Max Tackett says he has collected some in the skimmer of his swimming pool.
I will confess that the extreme heat of some days drove me inside during the hours when cicadas did their singing. So, I automatically thought they were gone underground.
And I’m just about through making expert pronouncements about wildlife. I swear that at 11:30 Monday morning I heard some of that cicada racket.
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THEY’RE STILL IN SPACE. In the past seven weeks in this column I’ve mentioned the astronauts that are stranded in space because everyone is a bit nervous about their safe return to Earth.
I hope the astronauts have guardian angels.
They were launched June 5 and were supposed to return home eight days later.
The way things are going, NASA says it may be 2025 before the civilian spaceman and spacewoman can come back to earth. And NASA has determined that the astronauts are NOT coming back in a Boeing-made spacecraft.
Now, that rickety Boeing Starliner spacecraft is going to return to Earth without the astronauts. I wonder if we’ll witness the thing go to pieces under the stress of re-entry.
Some of my friends probably wouldn’t believe what they saw.
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IN REFERENCE to unkind remarks in this column last week about Regions Bank closing their store and departing our town — this thought unfortunately arrived at my brain too late to include in the article. My late thought was of one of the songs by the late Kenny Rogers: “You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille.”
While I’m at it, I thank Diamond Bank, First State Bank, and Farmers Bank and Trust for advertising their services on our pages and thereby keeping our doors open.
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THINGS I LEARNED from opening e-mail: Still trying to get my head around the fact that the words ‘Take-Out’ can mean food, a date, or murder.
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MORE THINGS I LEARNED from opening e-mail. Nov. 23 is National Twirlers Day and the Razorback twirlers will perform at halftime (or before) of the game with Louisiana Tech. I wonder if ‘we’ have any transgender twirlers.
If Arkansas high school bands no longer have twirlers, where does the Hog band get them?
At the War Eagle Arts & Crafts Fair?
Twirlers or not, I support the Scrapper band and I wonder why no one has hit me up for a Band Booster membership. Maybe they’ve gotten super-selective and I don’t meet their standards.
Remember that I have taken it upon myself to claim the vaunted title of Scrapper Band’s Third Greatest Trombone Player of All Time. I’ve claimed that title for several years and no one has challenged its truthfulness. I owned my own horn; bought it with money saved from my paper route.
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WORD GAMES. Another set of twins: First and Ten. It’s time for football.
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HE SAID: “I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.” Kanye West, entertainer
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SHE SAID: “It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.” Stevie Nicks, musician
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SWEET DREAMS, Baby
