I posted this back in 2003 - just rediscovered it and thought I'd do so again.....

A successful rancher died and left everything to his devoted wife. She was a very good looking woman, and determined to keep the ranch, but knew very little about ranching, so she decided to place an ad in the newspaper for a ranch hand.

Two men applied for the job. One was gay and the other a drunk. She thought long and hard about it, and when no one else applied, she decided to hire the gay guy, figuring it would be safer to have him around the house than the drunk.

He proved to be a hard worker who put in long hours every day and knew a lot about ranching. For weeks, the two of them worked, and the ranch was doing very well. Then one day, the rancher's widow said to the hired hand, "You have done a really good job and the ranch looks great. You should go into town and kick up your heels."

The hired hand readily agreed and went into town one Saturday night. However, one o'clock came and he didn't return. Two o'clock and no hired hand. He returned around two-thirty and found the rancher's widow sitting by the fireplace. She quietly called him over to her.

"Unbutton my blouse and take it off," she said. Trembling, he did as she directed.

"Now take off my boots." He did so, slowly.

"Now take off my socks." He did.

"Now take off my skirt." He did.

"Now take off my bra." Again with trembling hands he did as he was told.

Now," she said, "take off my panties." He slowly pulled them down and off.

Then she looked at him and said, "If you ever wear my clothes to town again, I'll fire you on the spot."

roo - Strange Beautiful Music is still Joe's publishing company...it's mentioned in the PSATMOR liner notes. It never stopped being a company, so that can't be the reason Joe decided to use it as an album name. This is interesting...I wonder what made him finally use it.

And you probably know this, but for those who don't...the phrase is a play on a line from Jimi Hendrix's Third Stone From The Sun ("strange beautiful grass of green...")...

There are unfortunately still a lot of people who will never vote for a black man to become president, but I'd also say there are a lot of people who are against an older white male being president. I'd say both points of view are equally wrong.

As I said before, I have issues with both major parties so I'll be voting for someone else.

I agree with you that people should learn on their own and make an educated choice, but it's hard for me to vote for Obama or McCain when it seems like their campaigns are treating everyone like sheep. I think I see this more on the left than the right, but maybe that's just because the Democrats have been getting more coverage recently. I work at a newspaper, as you know, and it sucks that I have the impression the press elected a Democrat as president in the midterm 2006 elections...but that's another issue.

To me that election was no different than the Grammys, Oscars, or any other awards show...people are afraid of making decisions on their own and they need their opinions to be validated by others...

Weird dream last night.

Passion & Warfare is obviously a classic instrumental album.

But a good begining with the guitar hero aspect of Vai could be the David Lee Roth album: Eat Em & Smile.

Do you know that Jupiter protects the Earth from all sort of meteors?

Yeap, Jupiter is a shield for the Crystal Planet. Without Jupiter, we probably weren't here anymore.

That's the correlative story of The Third Stone From the Sun

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With Jupiter in Mind

Hi everyone, I'm new to this place and the two loves of my life are guitar and martial arts. Are there any other martial artists in this place?

Mr Wooley, how bout this?

which led to THIS

which led to THIS

which led to THIS

which takes us back to this - HELL YEAH!!!

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