So, I was watching the MTv VMA's last night and realized they are complete bullshit. I remember a time when they kicked ass. I guess that was time when muscians actually made vidoes. Nowdays, the Video Music Awards are nothing but the same four fuckin' videos were nominated in EVERY category. It was like the special olympics.... everyone got a medal. Such a travesty. The only award I considered even worthwhile was the Viewers Choice. I like that award because the nominees aren't picked by some beat-off committee who are in the marketing game. Guess who won? Good Charlotte. Rock n Roll. You know why? BECAUSE PEOPLE DON"T REALLY LISTEN TO THE OTHER BULLSHIT!...but I digress. Those guys were nominated for a couple of other things too but didn't win them. All the fuckin' winners were Justin, Eminem, and 50cent. MTv is apparently run by hip-hoppers. Now don't get me wrong, I like some of that stuff but I'm more of the old school type. I wish Evanescence would have won an award. Those guys kick complete ass.

On another scene, tonight Matt and I are going to the Red Dirt Cafe to catch Badwater and Robert Earl Keen. We need our Keen fix. Haven't seen him in a couple of years. Tomorrow we're headin' to the Bricktown Dog to watch the OSU game and drink ourselves sober. Then its pretty much open for the rest of the Labor Day weekend. Better check badasswebsite.comin a bit to see "Will I Eat It Friday?". Its gonna be good. Have a great one folks as I always have a mediocre one.

Kevin still pussed out.

So, I went down to the Bricktown Dog last night to deliver some posters and whatnot. I called Kevin and asked if he was going to come down and have a few beers. Well, surprise! He pussed out. I hung out with Eric and got to play DJ for a bit. Then Roger and his brother, Dave, come walting in. I think to myself, "Self, lets stay for a little longer and shoot the shit." While we were at the table, Burt and Carly show up out of the blue. Turns out it was Burt's B-Day at midnight. So fuck it. I stay and get stupid with everyone and we talked the entire time. End up closing the bar down. Topics that were covered were (if I remember them all); war, government, religion, relationships, books, movies, sex, physics, metaphysics, something about Mars, and numerous side conversations. Yeah, we covered it all...... side note: as I'm writing this, I just got a call from Moses. I guess he works for Dell computer now.

Just found out yesterday that Guy Clark is playing my hometown of Ardmore September 15 at the Tivoli Theater. Thats on a Monday.... who the hell scheduled this show on a Monday?!? Guess I won't make that one.

This is Kevin and my IM about the whole guy getting arrested for playing war or whatever.



delsdeL: hey kevin

delsdeL: it was a pellet gun

delsdeL: so it could actually shoot

MilMusicman: so what.

MilMusicman: I did that too.

delsdeL: and i never played cops and robbers around a school WITH A GUN

MilMusicman: I did

delsdeL: i knew better

MilMusicman: We used the school as a fortress

delsdeL: maybe in the fucking panhandle!

MilMusicman: small town dude. SMALL town

MilMusicman: not in a city

MilMusicman: still fucked up

delsdeL: i would have had him arrested too

delsdeL: seein a kid walking around a school with a gun

delsdeL: i'd call the cops

MilMusicman: not everyone is out to murder people

delsdeL: yeah well now days you don't know that

MilMusicman: That is zactly what I am talking about. Crime rate is the lowest its been ever right now. Just b/c it has happend a few times around the nation doesn't mean that every kid with camo on and a gun is going to kill people

delsdeL: blogged

MilMusicman: video games. shit. the whole purpose of being a kid is actually getting outside and playing, we made fun of the people that stayed in and played video games.

delsdeL: thats cuz you never owned a system

MilMusicman: haha

delsdeL: if yer parents bought you one, you would've been right there with 'em

MilMusicman: no, i think our differences are from city kid, panhandle small town kid

delsdeL: dude all you got to do in the panhandle is play video games!

delsdeL: i still had lots of friends and we played outside

delsdeL: video games sucked back then

delsdeL: so we didnt play them much

delsdeL: just went to the arcade to play

MilMusicman: if you were a nerd. We rode motorcycles and bikes, and dug holes and walked along the railroad tracks and made traps for animals and shot birds with our pellet guns. haha

MilMusicman: we never had an arcade

delsdeL: dug holes!

delsdeL: hahaha!

delsdeL: wow

delsdeL: thats what i like to do for fun

MilMusicman: dug holes, played with dump trucks and stuff.

delsdeL: well we had what we city kids call a "sand box" we didn't have to do manual labor to have fun

MilMusicman: typical spoiled city kid

MilMusicman: ;-)

delsdeL: everyone had a damn snad box

delsdeL: snad!

delsdeL: hahaha

MilMusicman: lol

Kevin wrote a deal on his site about the kid getting arrested for "playing cops and robbers". I heard about that and it was a pellet gun. Just some advice for all you kids out there I learned as I was growing up. If you are going to play some kind of shooting game:

1. Don't use a gun that can actually shoot. Use the ones that have the big orange rubber tip on it.

2. If you do use a gun that shoots make sure its the 70's style see-through neon blue gun that shoots ping pong balls.

3. Play it at your house or in your backyard or even at a friends house. Just make sure its private property.

4. Don't use your school as a "fortress". I don't even need to explain this.

5. If you find it necessary to play "soldier", use G.I. Joes action figures or dress up like a Storm Trooper. You will be less likely to get shot or arrested.

6. Lets stick with video games. Video games never hurt anybody. I wish I could have played Medal of Honor when I was a kid.

Follow these rules and everybody will be cool.

Well one of my pics made it on ilovebacon.com. Take a gander at the Pee Pee one from my Cozumel Trip. One of my favorite sites on the net.

You know what pisses me off? People who buy cigarettes with pocket change. If I have that bad of an addiction, I'd be sure to set aside enough cash where I wouldn't have to dig around the couch for enough coins to buy smokes. I'm trying to pay for gas, a pop, and maybe even a pack for myself, and it takes forever for these damn people to count out nickels and dimes.



They're up! They're up! They're up! Check out College Days 2003 in the photo section.

From a special request last Wednesday, here are my top ten Red Dirt "artists" (in no paticular order). Freakshow, Curt Hill Band, Bristol Fashion,....wait wait wait..... sorry, wrong list. That's part of my favorite Joe's bands. Here we go: Bob Childers, Red Dirt Rangers, Tom Skinner, Medicine Show, Kevin Welch, Scott Evans, Brandon Jenkins, and of course the "Big Three": Ragweed, Stragglers, and the Divide. Listen to any of these people and be enlightened.



College Days pics are comin'!!!

I stepped in a fresh pile of dog shit this morning. Maybe a sign of the week I'm going to have. A fresh stinky one thats hard to get of your shoes.



College Days pics from this weekend will be up soon.

Today is National Slacker Day, so I ain't doin' shit. I'll let Strong Bad and my buddies (well they aren't my buddies. I don't know them.)at Something Awful entertain you while I keep telling myself, "You are not 22 anymore. You are not 22 anymore. You are not 22 anymore. Please make it all go away."

Well, I kind of started my birthday a little early. Melisa and I went to the Bricktown Dog and met up with Kevin and Jamie. Had a few beers and talked a little bidniss with the owner, Eric, down there. That man has got his shit together. By far one of the best run bars ever. So, tonight for my actual b-day party, we're gonna start at the Penny or the Dog. Basically go around to all the bars and see what they'll give me for free. Then hit the ole Farewell to Sanity show at the Concert Hall. That will in turn cause me to consume more tasty beverages as I "rock out". Tomorrow, may just hang around Stillwater. Hopefully we can all hang at Red and Carrie's pizzad and have a pre-party that night for College Days on Saturday. What a great week *tear rolls down my face*. I mean, come on now, its Bofeces *grabs kleenex and blows nose*.

They say its my birthday!...nah nah nah nah nah!..... Happy Birthday to me!.... nah nah nah.



On this day in 1975 the world was blessed with a great haruspex. Me. If you see me out tonight, you may greet me with "Happy day of the anniversary of your birth, your majesty."....or something.

It seems that I have a special request to list some of the "best of" red dirt music (i.e. top ten songs and bands). Songs I can do, but now bands....that may take some time. It is really hard to put a list of the generations that have set and example. Well, hell, what am I saying. I'll drink a few beers and ponder on this for a couple of days and Friday, in two posts, I will have my top ten red dirt songs and muscians! My word is the law!

While we're on a "best of" deal here, I want to say that the top two shows on TV right now are Monster Garage and Monster House. The best song ever written is Posion's "Nothin' but a Good Time" and the best person to hang out with is me.

Today, I'm going to tell you what, I think, are the two greatest produced albums of all time (and I've listened to many). I tell how well an album is produced by how kick ass it sounds on ANY radio at ANY volume. These two cd's do just that. You can put them on a cheap ass stereo with all the treble and bass jacked up and it still sounds clean as a whistle. I swear, even if the speakers were blown, if you put either of these two cd's in and press play, they would magically heal. The two records I'm talkin' about are probably not any a majority of people would guess. They are....drum roll, please,.....Extreme's 1989 self titled debut AND Mr. Big's 1991 release, "Lean Into It". I challenge anyone to find better.

Can't really talk much with all this bullshit school starting. Work is much more fun during the summer when all these peckers are gone. Right now though, I really wish I had one of those bank accounts that has an unlimited supply of cash. If they don't have those now, someone needs to get on that. I'll quickly switch banks. The reason I bring this up is I need a good supply of cash cuz I want to drink this week. Its Wormy Dog's 11th Anniversary week and Jake is opening for No Justice tonight and there is nut squishing music all this week. Oh, and my birthday is Thursday too, but who knows if I'll be out. I really need to set up some kind of PayPal donation thing so people can support my drinking. You know I'd sign autographs of pictures that were taken of me partying with the money donated. Then put them on ebay to further my income. Oh well, the real party for me will be Saturday night College Days at the Weed with the Stragglers, Divide and of course Hank's ole boy (not "Tumbleweed Hank").

"Will Ragan Eat It Friday?" now has corporate sponsorship. This will bring eating to a whole new level. Here, I give you the "WREIF? Super Ultra Killer Make-it-Hot Microwave".



Yes, I can now have hot items as well as left-overs for lunch. This has now boosted our office "coolness points" ten fold. Kevin has a lot of catching up to do.

Who's up for happy hour happy time? I am. See ya on the strip at 5.

Holy geez! That was really weird! Check out what I ate this Friday. As usual click on the "bad-ass" link in the nav menu.

I have been taking mowing my yard with my mower for granted. Now, I enjoy mowing. I love the satisfaction of having a good lawn for people to enjoy. I even bag the grass. As of lately, our lawn ahs turned to shit cuz the lack of rain. Anyway, as I was mowing yesterday, the self-propelled drive belt went out on my mower. I immediately didn't enjoy mowing anymore. I hated it. I don't want to push.....that work.... but I had to finish cuz I was 3/4 the way done with the back yard. At least I had the front done. I really got to get that fixed or I'll never mow again. Oh and pics of our very first Meridian trip 1999 are up. Check them out or die.

Oh I forgot to mention the night Folsom played at the Dog, at the end of the night there was about an inch of beer on stage from "beer wars" that were had by everyone. One of the most "party" nights I remember there.

Well, I just thought the next group of photos I uploaded would be Meridian 1999.....but its not. I got my events out of order. I posted two new batches. One is of Folsom at the Dog and the other is of Gary P. Nunn with Ragweed at the Dog. Rare photos here folks. That was one sweet roll of film.

Man, school is getting ready to start. Its bid day and all the incoming freshman sorority pledges are going from house to house meeting people. All the while, me and Matt come tearing through campus in my sweet van blasting Bullet Boys' "Smooth Up In Ya" during our lunch. While I was pimping, Matt was in the second row of my three row seats with the sliding door open givin' the waves and shout outs to all the honeys, A-Team style. We are cool as shit! Doesn't get any better than that.

There is a growing problem I think needs to be addressed in society. I have been flipping through channels in the evening and everyone is aware of the overabundance of shitty reality shows. Well, lately I have been noticing the misuse of a common phrase by these plebeians. Maybe not a "misuse". Maybe more like "incorrect information cuz I'm stupid". People that say this phrase apparently never passed geometry in school. I'm talking about the phrase you say when refering to, say, someone's personality or a bad situation turning to good, anything that is goes one way to another. People have actually been saying "[insert name or situation here] has made a complete 360." Let me tell you something people. A 360 is a fucking circle. If someone's personality does a 360, its right back where it started. If a bad situation does a 360, guess what? Its still fucking bad. I believe, if I remember geometry, the correct number of degrees is 180. Hell, come on folks, even if you said something has done a complete 270, or a complete 90, its still a different direction. Maybe a little better or a little worse. Just don't say a complete 360. That don't make no sense.

Photo upload #2 now complete. "Stragglers with McClure and Reckless Kelly: Wormy Dog Saloon 1999 - Stillwater, OK", successfully transfered. Commence viewing. Next update: First Meridian Trip 1999.

Got a dozen pics of a Robert Earl Keen show from 1999 up. I took a lot more pics but they were the "hold your camera above your head and hope you get a got shot" kind. So, you can see a few good ones I took that night. There's even a pic of "Crazy Heather". Remember her? We do. Click on "photos" above and look for "Robert Earl Keen with Reckless Kelly: Will Rogers Theater - February 1999". Remember, I'm trying to keep these in chronological order (man thats a big word to type).

I am going to be trying to maybe get some scanned pictures scanned in this week to my interwebscreen of some shows from the last decade. Check it on the westside beeeeotch.

The weekend was pretty cool. Went to eat with Melisa's parents at Murphy's Chop House at the Waterford Marriot then played some Turok on Friday night and went to the Balloon Fest on Saturday night. Of course I forgot my camera. I forgot, Kevin forgot. We all forgot and there was so much stuff to snap shots of. Kelli brought hers though. She works with Melisa and she was kind enough to take a picture of me and Kevin Welch. That rock 'n' rolled. He has one hell of an acoustic show. Anyways, I bought tires for the ole van but they had to order them. You actually have to pay freight if they have have to order tires in for you.... bastards. Get them put on next Saturday. Even got the raised white letters so I can go faster.

This weekend is kind of up in the air. Don't know what to do tonight after we get done eating at the Waterford in OKC. I know Melisa and I are gonna check out some "Old School" Okie musicians, Kevin Welch and Ray Wylie Hubbard, at the Bethany Balloon Fest at Wiley Post Airport tomorrow night. That'll be pretty cool. Hope everyone has a good weekend!

Another installment of "Will Ragan Eat It Friday?" is up on badasswebsite.com. Just click on the bad-ass link above. This one's a treat.

So we went to the drive in last night in Guthrie. We haved lived there for over a year now and its the first time we've gone....yeah, big supporter of local businesses we are. The last time I went to a drive in, I could crap my pants and get away with it. We saw The Hulk there and it was a pretty cool experience. The speakers could have been a little louder. I wanted to take the two speakers we had (it took two cuz one wasn't quite enough) and wear them as headphones. But anyways, the movie rocked. I highly suggest it only if you have some kind of comic background as I know that some people have actually thought the Hulk was a hero. Well, he isn't. He's a fuckin' green body of tormented rage and the only person he will save is Betty. So if, you are Ram Jam's Black Betty, he won't save you. You have to be Betty. Oh, and its $.75 Famous Stars at Carl's Jr. today, so get you some for lunch. I am.

Yeah....went out for Matt's Birthday last night. Bar hopped a little. Drank beer. Had the best bartender ever at the Copper Penny. My drinks rocked. Anyways, good friends, good times, and good times. We ALMOST went to the Dragon's Lair. You know its a good night when a strip bar comes up. Look at the pics of last night in the photos section. Rock.

Wow, everybody needs to go to kevmo.com and check out his pics from the grand opening of the Bricktown Dog Saturday night. What a blast. Best random weekend in years. Today its Matt's B-day. I think we're gonna go drink around Stillwater tonight to celebrate. If anyone sees us out, come join the party.

Tag Agencies can suck my pecker. You can change an entire ownership of a vehicle without the actual owner or previous owner being there....but! to get get a fuckin' replacement tag you have to have the current owner present to sign a fuckin' form. Stupid lame-ass rules. So FYI, if you ever need a replacement you better be the owner cuz you can't do it for anyone else. Assholes! Sorry had to vent.

The last volume of our trip is posted. All are shots from around Memphis.

Yeah... a good weekend. Old friends, new bar, probably one of the most fun I've had in a long time. Rock.

There is waaaaay too much shit going on this weekend. Torn between 3 places tonight. Red Dirt Cafe, Wormy Dog Bricktown, and Bricktown Brewery. May go to the Dog right after work and meet Kevin. I have to take shirts to the Stragglers at the Brewery tonight so I'll probably hang there for a bit, but if its too crazy I'll be going back to the Dog for Nathan and Jake. I'd really like to see Badwater tonight in Norman, but I'll catch them tomorrow with Cooder Graw, and No Justice is playing with the Divide at the brewery tomorrow. People, go check out Micah singin' and playin'. I ain't shittin' you, he's good. Shit! I'm with Kevin.....too much shit to see this weekend.

Lots o' blogs today. Check out what I ate today on BadAssWebsite. Just click on the ole bad-ass link above cuz its....well.... bad ass.

Volume 5 of our east coast trip is up in the photo section. I should only have one more volume to go and its got the King in it baby.

Today's word of the day is "Fucktastic". Whenever you hear that word, jump up and down and scream like in Pee Wee's Playhouse. Use the word "fucktastic" often. We all know what it means.

Welcome to Ledsled's 100%, No Bullshit, You Can Count on Me Weather Report. Today's report is rated [R] for profanity, violence, and brief nudity........Surprise! Today will be...guess what?..... another hot fuckin' bitch in the 100's. No, I don't mean a female thats old.