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Merle Haggard
|Merle Haggard
Merle Haggard in concert in Athens, Georgia, in 2013
|Background information
|Birth name
|Merle Ronald Haggard
|Also known as
April 6, 1937
Oildale, California, U.S.
|Country, Western, outlaw country, Bakersfield sound
|Songwriter, musician, guitarist, singer
|Years active
|Capitol, MCA, Epic, Curb, ANTI, Vanguard
|Notable instruments
|Merle Haggard Signature Model Fender Telecaster
Merle Ronald Haggard (born April 6, 1937) is an American country and Western songwriter, singer, guitarist, fiddler, and instrumentalist. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster and the unique mix with the traditional country steel guitar sound, new vocal harmony styles in which the words are minimal, and a rough edge not heard on the more polished Nashville sound recordings of the same era.
By the 1970s, Haggard was aligned with the growing outlaw country movement, and has continued to release successful albums through the 1990s and into the 2000s. In 1994, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.[1] In 1997, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.[2]
- Early life 1
- Early career 2
- "Okie from Muskogee" and "The Fightin' Side of Me" 3
- Later career 4
- Comeback 5
- Collaborations 6
- Equipment 7
Personal life 8
- Wives and children 8.1
- Health 8.2
Legacy 9
- Influence 9.1
- Discography 10
- Number one hits 11
- Awards 12
- Sources 13
- Footnotes 14
- References 15
- External links 16
Early life
Haggard's parents, Flossie Mae Harp and James Francis Haggard,[3] moved to California from their home in Checotah, Oklahoma, during the Great Depression, after their barn burned in 1934.[4] They settled with their children, Lowell and Lillian, in an apartment in Bakersfield, while James Francis Haggard started working for the Santa Fe Railroad. A woman who owned a boxcar, which was placed in Oildale, a nearby town north of Bakersfield, asked Haggard's father about the possibility of converting it into a house. He remodeled the boxcar, and soon after moved in, also purchasing the lot, where Merle Ronald Haggard was born on April 6, 1937.[5][6] The property was eventually expanded by building a bathroom, a second bedroom, a kitchen and a breakfast nook in the adjacent lot.[5]
His father died of a brain hemorrhage in 1945,[6] an event that deeply affected Haggard during his childhood, and the rest of his life. To support the family, his mother worked as a bookkeeper.[7] His brother, Lowell, gave Haggard his used guitar as a gift when he was 12 years old. Haggard learned to play alone,[5] with the records he had at home, influenced by Bob Wills, Lefty Frizzell and Hank Williams.[8] As his mother was absent due to work, Haggard became progressively rebellious. His mother sent him for a weekend to a juvenile detention center to change his attitude, which worsened.[9]
Haggard committed a number of minor offences, such as thefts and writing bad checks. He was sent to a juvenile detention center for shoplifting in 1950.[10] When he was 14, Haggard ran away to Texas with his friend Bob Teague.[8] He rode freight trains and hitchhiked throughout the state.[11][12] When he returned the same year, he and his friend were arrested for robbery. Haggard and Teague were released when the real robbers were found. Haggard was later sent to the juvenile detention center, from which he and his friend escaped again to Modesto, California. He worked a series of laborer jobs, including driving a potato truck, being a short order cook, a hay pitcher, and an oil well shooter.[11] His debut performance was with Teague in a Modesto bar named "Fun Center," being paid US$5, with free beer.[13] He returned to Bakersfield in 1951, and was again arrested for truancy and petty larceny and sent to a juvenile detention center. After another escape, he was sent to the Preston School of Industry, a high-security installation. He was released 15 months later, but was sent back after beating a local boy during a burglary attempt. After his release, Haggard and Teague saw Lefty Frizzell in concert. After hearing Haggard sing along to his songs backstage, Frizzell refused to sing unless Haggard would be allowed to sing first. He sang songs that were well received by the audience. Due to the positive reception, Haggard decided to pursue a career in music. While working as a farmhand or in oil fields, he played in nightclubs. He eventually landed a spot on the local television show Chuck Wagon, in 1956.[8]
Married and plagued by financial issues,[8] he was arrested in 1957 shortly after he tried to rob a Bakersfield roadhouse.[14] He was sent to Bakersfield Jail,[7] and was later transferred after an escape attempt to San Quentin Prison, on February 21, 1958.[15] While in prison, Haggard discovered that his wife was expecting a child from another man, which pressed him psychologically. He was fired from a series of prison jobs, and planned to escape along with another inmate nicknamed "Rabbit". Haggard was convinced not to escape by fellow inmates.[16] Haggard started to run a gambling and brewing racket with his cellmate. After he was caught drunk, he was sent for a week to solitary confinement where he encountered Caryl Chessman, an author and death row inmate.[17] Meanwhile, "Rabbit" had successfully escaped, only to shoot a police officer and return to San Quentin for execution.[16] Chessman's predicament, along with the execution of "Rabbit," inspired Haggard to turn his life around.[17] Haggard soon earned a high school equivalency diploma and kept a steady job in the prison's textile plant,[17] while also playing for the prison's country music band,[18] attributing a 1958 performance by Johnny Cash at the prison as his main inspiration to join it.[19] Upon his release in 1960, Haggard said it took about four months to get used to being out of the penitentiary and that, at times, he actually wanted to go back in. He said it was the loneliest he had ever felt.
According to Rolling Stone, "In 1972, then–California governor Ronald Reagan expunged Haggard's criminal record, granting him a full pardon."[20]
Early career
Upon his release, Haggard started digging ditches and wiring houses for his brother. Soon he was performing again, and later began recording with Tally Records. The Bakersfield Sound was developing in the area as a reaction against the over-produced I'm a Lonesome Fugitive", also written by Liz Anderson, which Haggard acknowledges in his autobiography remains his most popular number with audiences." Haggard felt a connection to the song immediately and when it was released it became his first number one country hit. When Anderson played the song for Haggard, she was unaware about his prison stretch. "I guess I didn't realize how much the experience at San Quentin did to him, 'cause he never talked about it all that much," Bonnie Owens, Haggard's backup singer and then-wife, is quoted by music journalist Daniel Cooper in the liner notes to the 1994 retrospective Down Every Road. "I could tell he was in a dark mood...and I said, 'Is everything okay?' And he said, 'I'm really scared.' And I said, 'Why?' And he said, 'Cause I'm afraid someday I'm gonna be out there...and there's gonna be some convict...some prisoner that was in there the same time I was in, stand up - and they're gonna be about the third row down - and say, 'What do you think you're doing, 45200?'" Cooper notes that the news had little effect on Haggard's career: "It's unclear when or where Merle first acknowledged to the public that his prison songs were rooted in personal history, for to his credit, he doesn't seem to have made some big splash announcement.[21] In a May 1967 profile in Music City News, his prison record is never mentioned. But in July 1968, in the very same publication, it's spoken of as if it were common knowledge."
The 1966 album Branded Man kicked off an incredible artistic run for Haggard; in 2013 Haggard biographer David Cantwell states, "The immediate successors to Same Train, Different Time: A Tribute to Jimmie Rodgers, was released to acclaim.
"Okie from Muskogee" and "The Fightin' Side of Me"
"Okie From Muskogee", 1969's apparent political statement, was, according to some Merle Haggard interviews decades later, actually written as a humorous character portrait. In one such interview, Haggard called the song a "documentation of the uneducated that lived in America at the time."[22] However, he said later on the Bob Edwards Show that "I wrote it when I recently got out of the joint. I knew what it was like to lose my freedom, and I was getting really mad at these protesters. They didn't know anything more about the war in Vietnam than I did. I thought how my dad, who was from Oklahoma, would have felt. I felt I knew how those boys fighting in Vietnam felt." In the country music documentary series Lost Highway, he elaborates: "My dad passed away when I was nine, and I don't know if you've ever thought about somebody you've lost and you say, 'I wonder what so-and-so would think about this?' I was drivin' on Interstate 40 and I saw a sign that said "19 Miles to Muskogee." Muskogee was always referred to in my childhood as 'back home.' So I saw that sign and my whole childhood flashed before my eyes and I thought, 'I wonder what dad would think about the youthful uprising that was occurring at the time, the Janis Joplins...I understood 'em, I got along with it, but what if he was to come alive at this moment? And I thought, what a way to describe the kind of people in America that are still sittin' in the center of the country sayin', 'What is goin' on on these campuses?'" In the American Masters episode about his life and career, however, a more defiant Haggard states that the song was more than a satire: "That's how I got into it with the hippies...I thought they were unqualified to judge America, and I thought they were lookin' down their noses at something that I cherished very much, and it pissed me off. And I thought, 'You sons of bitches, you've never been restricted away from this great, wonderful country, and yet here you are in the streets bitchin' about things, protesting about a war that they didn't know any more about than I did. They weren't over there fightin' that war anymore than I was." Haggard began performing the song in concert in the fall of 1969 and was astounded at the reaction it received. As David Cantwell notes in his 2013 book Merle Haggard: The Running Kind, ""The Haggard camp knew they were on to something. Everywhere they went, every show, "Okie" did more than prompt enthusiastic applause. There was an unanticipated adulation racing through the crowds now, standing ovations that went on and on and sometimes left the audience and the band-members alike teary-eyed. Merle had somehow stumbled upon a song that expressed previously inchoate fears, spoke out loud gripes and anxieties otherwise only whispered, and now people were using his song, were using him, to connect themselves to these larger concerns and to one another." The studio version, which is far mellower than the usually raucous concert versions, topped the charts in the fall of 1969, where it remained for a month, and also hit number 41 on the pop charts, becoming Haggard's all-time biggest hit (until his 1973 crossover Christmas smash "If We Make It Through December") and signature tune.
Haggard was beginning to attract attention from artists outside the country field, such as crooner Dean Martin, who recorded "I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am" for his album of the same name in 1969. In addition, the Gram Parsons incarnation of the Byrds had performed "Sing Me Back Home" on the Grand Ole Opry and had recorded Haggard's "Life in Prison" for their album Sweetheart of the Rodeo the same year. In 1969 the Grateful Dead began performing Haggard's tune "Mama Tried", which appeared on their 1971 eponymous live album. The song became a staple in their repertoire until the band's end in 1995. Singer-activist Joan Baez, whose political leanings could not be more different from those expressed in Haggard's above-referenced songs, nonetheless covered "Sing Me Back Home" and "Mama Tried" in 1969. The Everly Brothers also used both songs in their 1968 country-rock album Roots. In the original Rolling Stone review for Haggard's 1968 album Mama Tried, Andy Wickham wrote, "His songs romanticize the hardships and tragedies of America's transient proletarian and his success is resultant of his inherent ability to relate to his audience a commonplace experience with precisely the right emotional pitch...Merle Haggard looks the part and sounds the part because he is the part. He's great." However, his next single, 1970's "The Fightin' Side of Me", was so unapologetically right wing that it left no doubt as to where Haggard stood politically. It became his fourth consecutive #1 country hit and also made an appearance on the pop chart, but any ideas that Haggard was a closeted liberal sympathizer were irretrievably squashed. In the song, Haggard allows that he doesn't mind the counterculture "switchin' sides and standin' up for what they believe in" but resolutely declares, "If you don't love it, leave it!" In May 1970, Haggard explained to John Grissom of Rolling Stone, "I don't like their views on life, their filth, their visible self-disrespect, y'know. They don't give a shit what they look like or what they smell like...What do they have to offer humanity?"[23] Ironically, Haggard had wanted to follow "Okie from Muskogee" with "Irma Jackson," a song that dealt head-on with an interracial romance between a white man and an African-American woman. His producer Ken Nelson discouraged him from releasing it as a single.[21] As Jonathan Bernstein recounts in his online Rolling Stone article "Merle Haggard Reluctantly Unveils 'The Fightin' Side of Me'", "Hoping to distance himself from the harshly right-wing image he had accrued in the wake of the hippie-bashing "Muskogee," Haggard wanted to take a different direction and release "Irma Jackson" as his next single... When the Bakersfield, California native brought the song to his record label, executives were reportedly appalled. In the wake of 'Okie,' Capitol Records was not interested in complicating Haggard's conservative, blue-collar image."[24] After "The Fightin' Side of Me" was released instead, Haggard later commented to the Wall Street Journal, "People are narrow-minded. Down South they might have called me a nigger lover." . In an interview in 2001, Haggard stated that Nelson, who was also head of the country division at Capitol at the time, never interfered with his music but "this one time he came out and said, 'Merle...I don't believe the world is ready for this yet'...And he might have been right. I might've canceled out where I was headed in my career.".
Later career
"Okie From Muskogee", "The Fightin' Side of Me", and "I Wonder If They Think of Me" were hailed as anthems of the Silent Majority and presaged a trend in patriotic songs that would reappear years later with Charlie Daniels' "In America", Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA", and others. Haggard's next LP was A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World, dedicated to Bob Wills, which helped spark a permanent revival and expanded audience for western swing. By this point, Haggard was one of the most famous country singers in the world, having enjoyed an immensely successful artistic and commercial run with Capitol accumulating twenty-four #1 country singles since 1966. On Tuesday, March 14, 1972, shortly after "Carolyn" became another number one country hit, then-California governor Ronald Reagan granted Haggard a full pardon for his past crimes. In the fall of 1972, "Let Me Tell You about A Song," the first TV special starring Merle Haggard, was nationally syndicated by Capital Cities TV Productions. It was a semi-autobiographical, musical profile of Haggard, akin to the contemporary "Behind The Music," produced and directed by Michael Davis. The 1973 recession anthem "If We Make It Through December" furthered Haggard's status as a champion of the working class. "If We Make It Through December" turned out to be Haggard's last pop hit. Haggard appeared on the cover of TIME on May 6, 1974. He also wrote and performed the theme song to the television series Movin' On, which in 1975 gave him another number one country hit. During the early to mid-1970s, Haggard's chart domination continued with songs like "Someday We'll Look Back", "Grandma Harp", "Always Wanting You", and "The Roots of My Raising". Between 1973 and 1976, Haggard scored 9 consecutive #1 country hits. In 1977, he switched to MCA Records and began exploring the themes of depression, alcoholism, and middle age on albums like Serving 190 Proof and The Way I Am. Haggard sang a duet cover of Billy Burnette's What's A Little Love Between Friends with Lynda Carter in her 1980 television music special Lynda Carter: Encore! He also scored a #1 hit in 1980 with "Bar Room Buddies," a duet with movie star Clint Eastwood that appeared on the Bronco Billy soundtrack.
In 1981, Haggard published an autobiography, Sing Me Back Home. That same year, he alternately spoke and sang the ballad "The Man in the Mask". Written by Randy Travis had taken over the charts. Haggard's last number one hit was "Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star" from his smash album Chill Factor in 1988.
In 1989, Haggard recorded a song, "Me and Crippled Soldiers Give a Damn", in response to the Supreme Court's decision to allow flag burning under the First Amendment. After CBS Records Nashville avoided releasing the song, Haggard bought his way out of the contract and signed with Curb Records, which was willing to release the song. Of the situation, Haggard commented, "I've never been a guy that can do what people told me...It's always been my nature to fight the system."[26]
In 2000, Haggard made a comeback of sorts, signing with the independent record label Anti and releasing the spare If I Could Only Fly to critical acclaim. He followed it in 2001 with Roots, vol. 1, a collection of Lefty Frizzell, Hank Williams, and Hank Thompson covers, along with three Haggard originals. The album, recorded in Haggard's living room with no overdubs, featured Haggard's longtime bandmates The Strangers as well as Frizzell's original lead guitarist, Norman Stephens. In December 2004, Haggard spoke at length on Larry King Live about his incarceration as a young man and said it was "hell" and "the scariest experience of my life".
Haggard's number one hit single "Mama Tried" is featured in the 2003 film Radio with Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Ed Harris as well as in Bryan Bertino's "The Strangers" with Liv Tyler. In addition, his song "Swingin' Doors" can be heard in the 2004 film Crash and his 1981 hit "Big City" is heard in Joel and Ethan Coen's 1996 film "Fargo" and in the 2008 Larry Bishop film "Hell Ride".
In October 2005, Haggard released his album Chicago Wind to mostly positive reviews. The album contained an anti-Iraq war song titled "America First," in which he laments the nation's economy and faltering infrastructure, applauds its soldiers, and sings, "Let's get out of Iraq, and get back on track." This follows from his 2003 release "Haggard Like Never Before" in which he includes a song, "That's The News". Haggard released a bluegrass album, The Bluegrass Sessions, on October 2, 2007. In 2008, Haggard was going to perform at Riverfest in Little Rock, Arkansas, but the concert was canceled because he was ailing, and three other concerts were canceled as well; however, he was back on the road in June and successfully completed a tour that ended on October 19.
In April 2010, Haggard released a new album, I Am What I Am.[27] Released to strong reviews, Haggard performed the title song on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in February 2011. His 2014 and 2015 tour schedule has been aggressive, including over 30 cities in 2015 alone, suggesting the kind of performing stamina usually characterized by artists half Haggard's age.
Haggard has collaborated with many other artists and recorded several successful duet albums over the course of his career. In 1966, his first duet album, Just Between the Two of Us, was released with singer Bonnie Owens, who would also become his wife. At the time of Haggard's first top-ten hit "Top Ten hits, including the #1 "Yesterday's Wine." The pair were often paired in the same breath by just about every young country singer when it came to discussing authentic country music and, in 2006, they released a sequel, Kickin' Out the Footlights...Again. Haggard released the duet album Pancho and Lefty with Willie Nelson in 1983, with the title track becoming an enormous hit for the duo. In 1987, a second, less successful LP, Seashores of Old Mexico, was also released, and the pair would work together again with Ray Price in 2007, releasing the album Last of a Breed. In 1983, Haggard got permission from Epic Records to collaborate with then wife Leona Williams on Polydor Records, releasing Heart to Heart in 1983. The album was not a hit, peaking at number 44. In 2001, Haggard released an album of gospel songs with Albert E. Brumley called Old Friends. Haggard has also recorded duets with Ernest Tubb, Gretchen Wilson, Buck Owens, Janie Fricke, Hank Williams, Jr., Porter Wagoner, Clint Eastwood, Randy Travis, Dwight Yoakam, Jewel, and many others. In 2015 Haggard and Willie Nelson recorded a video, "It's All Going to Pot," where both are seen singing in a recording studio while smoking joints. [28]
Haggard has endorsed Fender guitars and has a Custom Artist signature model Telecaster. The guitar is a modified Telecaster Thinline with laminated top of figured maple, set neck with deep carved heel, birdseye maple fingerboard with 22 jumbo frets, ivoroid pickguard and binding, gold hardware, abalone Tuff Dog Tele peghead inlay, 2-Colour Sunburst finish and a pair of Fender Texas Special Tele single-coil pickups with custom-wired 4-way pickup switching. He also plays six-string acoustic models. In 2001, C.F. Martin & Company introduced a limited edition Merle Haggard Signature Edition 000-28SMH acoustic guitar available with or without factory-installed electronics.
Personal life
Wives and children
Haggard has been married five times, first to Leona Hobbs from 1956 to 1964. They had four children: Dana, Marty, Kelli, Noel. They divorced, and in 1965 he married singer Bonnie Owens, former wife of Buck Owens, and a successful country singer at the time. Haggard has credited her with helping him make his big break as a country artist. Haggard shared the writing credit with Owens for his hit "Today I Started Loving You Again", and has acknowledged, including on stage, that the song was about a sudden burst of special feelings he experienced for her while they were touring together. She also helped care for Haggard's children from his first wife and was the maid of honor for Haggard's third marriage. Haggard and Owens divorced in 1978. In 1978 Haggard married Leona Williams; they divorced in 1983. In 1985 Haggard married Debbie Parret, but they divorced in 1991. He married his current wife, Theresa Ann Lane, on September 11, 1993. They have two children, Jenessa and Ben.
Haggard has said he started smoking marijuana when he was 41 years old. He admitted that in 1983 he bought "$2,000 (worth) of cocaine" and partied for five days afterward, when he says he finally realized his condition and quit for good.[29] He quit smoking cigarettes in 1991, and stopped smoking marijuana in 1995.[30] However, a Rolling Stone magazine interview published October 1, 2009, titled "The Fighter: The Life & Times of Merle Haggard," indicates that he had resumed regular marijuana smoking.
Haggard underwent angioplasty in 1995 to unblock clogged arteries. On November 9, 2008, it was announced that Haggard had been diagnosed with non-small-cell lung cancer in May of that year and underwent surgery on November 3, during which part of his lung was removed.[31] Haggard returned home on November 8.[32] Less than two months after his cancer surgery, Haggard played two shows on January 2 and 3, 2009, in Bakersfield at Buck Owens' Crystal Palace, and continues to tour and record.
On December 19, 2006, the Kern County Board of Supervisors approved a citizen-led resolution to rename a portion of 7th Standard Road in Oildale as Merle Haggard Drive, which will stretch from North Chester Avenue west to U.S. Route 99. The first street travelers will turn onto when they leave the new airport terminal will be Merle Haggard Drive.
In 2006, Haggard was honored as a BMI Icon at the 54th annual BMI Pop Awards. During his songwriting career, Haggard has earned 48 BMI Country Awards, nine BMI Pop Awards, a BMI R&B Award, and 16 BMI "Million-Air" awards, all from a catalog of songs that adds up to over 25 million performances.[33]
Merle Haggard accepted the prestigious award for lifetime achievement and "outstanding contribution to American culture" from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on December 4, 2010.[34] At a December 5, 2010 gala in Washington, D.C. he was honored with musical performances by Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, Vince Gill, Jamey Johnson, Kid Rock, Miranda Lambert and Brad Paisley. This tribute was featured on the December 28, 2010 CBS telecast of the Kennedy Center Honors.[35] On June 14, 2013, the California State University, Bakersfield, honored Merle Haggard for his contributions to the arts with the honorary degree, Doctor of Fine Arts. Haggard stepped to the podium and said, "Thank you. It's nice to be noticed." On January 26, 2014, Haggard performed his 1969 song "Okie from Muskogee" at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards along with Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, and Blake Shelton
Gary Keck, a chemistry professor at the University of Utah and an ardent fan of Haggard, introduced a series of chemical analogues of a biologically active natural product called bryostatin 1 to honor his idol's legacy.[36]
Haggard's guitar playing and voice gives his country a hard-edged, blues-like style in many cuts. Although he has been outspoken in his dislike for modern country music, he has praised Toby Keith and Alan Jackson. Keith has singled Haggard as a major influence on his career. The Youngbloods responded to "Okie from Muskogee" with "Hippie from Olema", in which, in one repetition of the chorus, they change the line "We still take in strangers if they're ragged" to "We still take in strangers if they're haggard". Nick Gravenites, of Big Brother and the Holding Company, paid Haggard a tongue-in-cheek tribute with the song, "I'll Change Your Flat Tire, Merle," later covered by other artists including Pure Prairie League. The Dixie Chicks paid tribute by recording Darrell Scott's song "Long Time Gone", which criticizes Nashville trends: "We listen to the radio to hear what's cookin'/But the music ain't got no soul/ Now they sound tired but they don't sound Haggard," with the following lines mentioning Johnny Cash and Hank Williams in the same vein. Collin Raye paid him tribute with the song "My Kind of Girl", when he sang "How 'bout some music/She said have you got any Merle/That's when I knew she was my kind of girl." In 2000, Jackson and Strait sang "Murder on Music Row," which criticizes mainstream country trends: "The Hag wouldn't have a chance on today's radio/Because they committed murder down on music row." In 2005, the country rock duo Brooks & Dunn sang "Just Another Neon Night" off their Hillbilly Deluxe album. In the song Ronnie Dunn said "He's got an Eastwood grin and a too early swagger/Hollerin' turn off that rap/And play me some Haggard". Brooks & Dunn also reference Haggard in 1993's "Rock My World (little country girl)" off their Hard Workin' Man Album as they sing "Acts like Madonna but she listens to Merle/Rock my world little country girl." Red Simpson also mentions Merle and Buck Owens in his 1971 song "Hello, I'm a Truck". The last line in the song goes, "Well, I know what he's gonna do now/Take out that tape cartridge of Buck Owens and play it again/I dunno why he don't get a Merle Haggard Tape."
In 2005, Railroad Song", references Haggard, "Well I'm a ride this train Lord until I find out/What Jimmie Rodgers and the Hag was all about". They also performed both a cover of "Honky Tonk Night Time Man" as well as their own take on the song with "Jacksonville Kid" (found on the 2001 CD reissue of the album) on the album, Street Survivors.
In 2006, Haggard was back on the charts in a duet with Gretchen Wilson, "Politically Uncorrect".[37] He is also featured on "Pledge Allegiance to the Hag" on Eric Church's debut album.
On June 14, 2013, Merle Haggard was presented an honorary doctorate by California State University, Bakersfield. The doctor of fine arts honor, the first in CSUB's history, was conferred during School of Arts & Humanities commencement ceremonies.
Number one hits
- "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive" (1966)
- "Branded Man" (1967)
- "Sing Me Back Home" (1968)
- "The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde" (1968)
- "Mama Tried" (1968)
- "Hungry Eyes" (1969)
- "Workin' Man Blues" (1969)
- "Okie from Muskogee" (1969)
- "The Fightin' Side of Me" (1970)
- "Daddy Frank" (1971)
- "Carolyn" (1971)
- "Grandma Harp" (1972)
- "It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)" (1972)
- "I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me" (1972)
- "Everybody's Had the Blues" (1973)
- "If We Make It Through December" (1973)
- "Things Aren't Funny Anymore" (1974)
- "Old Man from the Mountain" (1974)
- "Kentucky Gambler" (1974)
- "Always Wanting You" (1975)
- "Movin' On" (1975)
- "It's All in the Movies" (1975)
- "The Roots of My Raising" (1975)
- "Cherokee Maiden" (1976)
- "Bar Room Buddies" (with Clint Eastwood) (1980)
- "I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink" (1980)
- "My Favorite Memory" (1981)
- "Big City" (1981)
- "George Jones) (1982)
- "Going Where the Lonely Go" (1982)
- "You Take Me for Granted" (1982)
- "Pancho and Lefty" (with Willie Nelson) (1983)
- "That's the Way Love Goes" (1983)
- "Someday When Things Are Good" (1984)
- "Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room" (1984)
- "A Place to Fall Apart" (with Janie Frickie) (1984)
- "Natural High" (1985)
- "Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star" (1987)
- 1965 Most Promising Male Vocalist
- 1965 Best Vocal Group – with Bonnie Owens
- 1965 Top Vocal Duo with Bonnie Owens
- 1966 Top Male Vocalist
- 1967 Top Duo with Bonnie Owens
- 1969 Top Male Vocalist
- 1969 Album of the Year – "Okie from Muskogee"
- 1969 Song of the Year – "Okie from Muskogee"
- 1969 Single of the Year – "Okie from Muskogee"
- 1970 Entertainer of the Year
- 1970 Top Male Vocalist
- 1972 Top Male Vocalist
- 1974 Top Male Vocalist
- 1981 Top Male Vocalist
- 1982 Song of the Year – "Are the Good Times Really Over"
- 1995 Pioneer Award
- 2005 Triple Crown
- 2008 Poet's Award
- 2014 Crystal Milestone Award
- 1970 Album of the Year – "Okie from Muskogee"
- 1970 Entertainer of the Year
- 1970 Male Vocalist of the Year
- 1970 Single of the Year – "Okie from Muskogee"
- 1972 Album of the Year – "Let Me Tell You About a Song"
- 1983 Vocal Duo of the Year – with Willie Nelson
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
- 1984 Best Country Vocal Performance, Male – "That's The Way Love Goes"
- 1998 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals with Clint Black, Joe Diffie, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Patty Loveless, Earl Scruggs, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, Pam Tillis, Randy Travis, Travis Tritt & Dwight Yoakam for "Same Old Train"
- 1999 Grammy Hall of Fame Award – "Mama Tried"
Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
- Di Salvatore, Bryan. (1998). "Merle Haggard". In The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Paul Kingsbury (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 222–24
- Di Salvatore, Bryan. "Ornery", The New Yorker, February 12, 1990, pp. 39–77
- Fox, Aaron A. "White Trash Alchemies of the Abject Sublime: Country as 'Bad' Music", in Christopher J. Washburne and Maiken Derno (eds.), Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate, New York: Routledge, 2004 (ISBN 0-415-94366-3)
- Haggard, Merle, with Tom Carter. My House of Memories: For the Record. New York: HarperEntertainment, 1999
- Haggard, Merle, and Peggy Russell. Sing Me Back Home. New York: Times Books, 1981
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Why is my Front Brake Lever on the Right?
I have been asked that question since I started posting pictures of my bike on this blog.
It came up again when I posted a picture of my now wrecked bike last Thursday.
Why is my front brake lever on the right?
The simple answer is that I have always had my brakes set up that way since I started riding back in the 1950s, and it is what I am used to.
From the 1930s through the 1950s the most popular side-pull brake was the Swiss made Weinmann 500; the caliper arms were opposite to most current side-pulls today. The front brake caliper arms were on the left, so with the brake lever on the right the cables crossed.
You can see this in the picture of me, circa 1953.
I did not put the front brake on the right just so the cables would cross, but rather followed the style of the day and did what people with far more experience were doing.
As I remember, it had a lot to do with the fact that both front and rear derailleurs were shifted using the right hand, leaving only the left hand to operate a brake.
The front derailleur was operated by a lever whereby you reached down between your legs with your right hand. Now dubbed, suicide shifters, although I don't recall this ever being a problem.
The picture on the right is of a Huret front derailleur that was very popular in the 1950s.
[Picture from The Racing Bicycle.com]
Campagnolo did not come out with a brake set until 1971; when they did, it was opposite to the Weinmann and most other side-pulls of that era. It had the front brake caliper arms on the right.
Campagnolo quickly became the brake of choice among racing cyclists and enthusiasts world wide, and as a result, other side-pull manufactures copied the Campagnolo style.
An observation I have made is that many people who like me started riding in England in the 1950s have their front brake lever on the right. Others who started later in the 1970s have the front brake lever on the left.
There is also a theory that the English, front brake on right set up, can be traced all the way back to the Ordinary (Penny Farthing) bicycle that had a single spoon brake on the front wheel only, operated by the right hand.
Early "Safety" bicycles had the same front brake only set up, so when rear brakes were added later, people were already used to having the front brake on the right.
Old English roadster bikes with roller brakes had the front brake on the right. The explanation for this could be as simple as the rod operating the rear brake went down the left side of the frame to keep it clear of the chain and chainwheel on the right side.
Some could argue a right and a wrong way to set up brake levers, but I only speak for myself when I say I continue to set mine up the way I always have. Simple as that.


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i'm more of a process over product kind of person.
journey over destination.
quality over quantity.
people over project.
which is all kind of funny when i think about how preoccupied i am with tracking my training data.
with so many options out there, my favourite tool for keeping tabs on my weekly mileage is dailymile (you can see the dailymile widget on the left-hand side column on my blog). i suppose that it's because it's a combination tracking site and social media platform, including the option to link up with friends/acquaintances and post comments, encouragements and other notes. it provides me with just what i need in terms of at-a-glance data: distances for specific workouts, for a week or month at a time - even what some of my colleagues are managing to pump out on a weekly basis.
this may or may not be a preferred performance tracking and analysis tool for runners, but many of the athletes that i follow on twitter and facebook have a profile on dailymile.
many others have taken to sites like strava or runkeeper, and to a lesser degree training peaks and sporttracks. again, there are all sorts of alternatives available, and many times i've found individuals to be fiercely loyal to their webpage of choice.
since i use my garmin 305 to record my run data, my first digital stop is normally at the garmin connect website. so imagine my intrigue when i was reading alessandro santuz's blog and found out about tapiriik, an open-source platform for synching multiple performance tracking service streams.
what's great about this is obviously the concept of synching - one touch consolidation of information across multiple software applications. instead of being daunted and/or bogged down by the work of logging into various profiles and inputting information separately into each one, tapiriik offers you the ability to set-up a synching network and then subsequently making your training and racing stats available in each one.
the one notable feature of tapiriik that is especially enticing is the ability to synch to dropbox, a virtual (shared) hard drive. while i'm still working at configuring this so that it works optimally for me, i relish the thought of being able to have a downloadable capture of my training info for my records.
which tracking service have you sworn allegiance to, if any? do you think that a tool like tapiriik might be of use to you?
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I am definitely a dailymile guy...not that I wouldn't find the others useful but I tend to stick with the same thing until it either doesn't work anymore or it disappears.ReplyDelete
Looks like that could be a valuable service, will need to look into it. I'm a Dailymiler, just added you!ReplyDeleteReplies
wow - weird that we hadn't found each other on Dailymile before this!Delete
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I already featured Dave Cook's AMD World Championship winning bike "Rambler". But why not one more time when I get new pictures? these ones shot by friend of the industry Colleen Swartz. I remind you that this custom bike is powered by what Dave mysteriously refers to as a "550 International" engine, a shorthand description of a on-of-a-kind collection of various metric and Dave Cook one-off fabricated components. The engine is based on a stock Honda CB550 transverse 4-cylinder with radically reworked cases to allow the engine to be used longitudinally instead of transversely. In addition to reworking the cases themselves, an auxiliary oil tank and oil regulator was fabricated. The timing assembly is a one-off as is the bell housing and clutch assembly. The transmission housing is an old 3-speed BMW gear case which Dave managed to fit with a BMW R75 four-speed gear set. The shaft drive is adapted from a Yamaha Virago. Cook Custom Choppers .
14 Responses to "One More Time, Rambler By Cook Custom Choppers."
Nov 17th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Great bike & a great girl too.
Nov 17th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Cyril , great website ! Any chance you could maked your photos so you could " click " on them to make them larger ?
Nov 17th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Large photos would be awesome… Gotta check out all those details you mentioned!
Nov 17th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
I have been waiting for more pics and details on that bike!
Nov 17th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
That's bitchin' hot!
Really unique and classy!
I'd love to have that in my garage!
The bike looks good too.
Nov 17th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
one of the coolest bikes i have seen in a long time
wish i saw it for real and not just photos.
Nov 17th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
just toooooo cooooooool!
Nov 17th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Nov 18th, 2009 at 7:19 am
I saw it up close and personal at the AMD show in Sturgis. Even Colleen's skill with a camera – and that's some skill indeed – don't do this bike justice. A very worthy winner!
Nov 18th, 2009 at 10:08 am
great vision…great completion…this bike was worthy of the top spot…hat's off to you Dave!
Nov 18th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
We featured it in last month's issue, and it is a phenomenal piece of work. Hats off to Dave.
And Solo Sam, I suspect there's a very good reason for Cyril not making the photos bigger (other than techie stuff like memory and bandwidth). Make a photo available in a larger size and people will download it. Next thing you know it's posted all over the place, sometimes even turning up in print. Folks like Colleen and myself make our living taking photos and writing stuff, and that sort of thing is, bottom line, stealing.
Nov 18th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Thanks Blue .
Nov 19th, 2009 at 6:22 am
You guys think this Cook Custom bike is cool…you should see Dave whipping around on Water Street in downtown Milwaukee on his motorized couch!
Nov 19th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Blue although your comment comes across creditable and not selfserving and I know no reason the comment is not of credit and do think your intent is/was not selfserving, etc.;
I see your point on bandwith and memory and yes Cyril's site did just crash from overload or ? so there may be/could be merit in those points and add to that the pictures may be posted based on what/size may be sent in to Cyril all points could/should be very valid and creditable points.
I do see a bit of negative in your comment that if someone captures and downloads it to view or send to a friend, etc. it may appear elsewhere and/or used commercially and that is stealing and would be a determining factor of the size of the pic posted ?
If said act of theft, your words, is done by one for professional or the revenue driven professional result that would get same a bad rap and in legal e's in a hurry and is surely a very minute act to the average among us that are just looking to enjoy more detail, etc. where possible and to pass on and for the most part give credit to the source of the pic, but could your comment not come across a bit of the pot calling the kettle black or I should better say might be perceived as such when you have gained outreach from this site to advertise/link to your, "Blue link", and your business affiliates for free as I am only assuming you have not paid to have that link and I do not see you as a sponsor, etc. on any of the sidebars on this site?
Do not get me wrong anyone because I like the fact Cyril has made that linking available to follow the business entities that comment on his site but seems like you, Blue, may be trashing one option while making the most of one yourself and I do think, my opinion, Cyril does/enables that linking option to further the overall interest/outreach in and to the industry entities? I surely have misread the possibly negative read on calling out one who downloads a pic from a site as a thief in regards to that of part of your comment.
And for sure I am not knocking the professional/commercial rights of anyone's work.
As most that are concerned about their electroniv presented picture rights have imbedded a script, etc. across the picture to discourage someone else's commercial missuse.
Plus this site as well as others have a link to pass on picture/content, etc.


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The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal's world-wide newsbox, and New York Times all lead with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's demise. The Los Angeles Times, which actually stopped its presses early yesterday morning and caught the news in some of its papers, also leads with Zarqawi but focuses a bit more on the follow-up. USA Todaygives big play to Zarqawi, but the traditional lead spot goes to the FDA approving a vaccine that gives protection against cervical cancers. The vaccine works by giving immunity against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus. Some religious conservatives have opposed giving it as part of routine vaccinations to girls.
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Of course, it happens to be in the military's interest to make jihadists think an insider flipped—after all, that might foment internal bloodletting. A "senior Iraqi intelligence official" is rooting for the latter: "His close circle, his organization, will not agree on one of them to succeed him. There is the prospect for division."
It's impossible to know what the fallout will be. A real possibility is that there won't be much. In a particularly sharp piece, the LAT explains that while the insurgency is murky and ever-morphing, Zarqawi's group is not only a small part of the overall insurgency; it's "just one of several gangs" of hardcore jihadists and foreigners.
The Atlantic just published a long, revealing profile on Zarqawi, and it also makes that point. Big attacks "made Zarqawi the symbol of the resistance in Iraq, but not the leader," said one former Jordanian intel official. "The Americans have been patently stupid in all of this. They've blown Zarqawi so out of proportion." (This TPer made a similar argument two summers ago.)
But as a symbol or not, Zarqawi seems to have done a heckuva job fanning sectarian flames. He's not around anymore, but then the sectarianism seems to be on autopilot. "His work over the last three years has not gone in vain," one Iraqi official told the NYT.
The NYT mentions that some Sunni parties welcomed Zarqawi's death. But the LAT and WP also interviewed Sunnis in the street who had a different perspective. "Zarqawi was the one who put a limit to Shiite influence and all the killing of Sunnis," said one man. "It is a big loss." The Palestinian Hamas also sent a condolence statement, "With hearts full of faith, Hamas commends brother-fighter Abu Musab …"
But Zarqawi's killing does create an opportunity. As Slate's Fred Kaplan writes, it all "depends on what the new Iraqi government does as a follow-up—or, more to the point, what it can do."
Only the Journal gives significant Page One space to Iraq finally completing its government. The WSJ gives it nearly equal play to Zarqawi and suggests it will prove to be the "more important accomplishment in quelling Iraq's strife."
A few minutes after Zarqawi's death was announced, Iraq's Parliament named aSunni and two Shiites to fill the much-fought-over top three security posts. The new interior minister is a Shiite but, unlike his predecessor, isn't affiliated with a militia. And in what might be evidence of a changing dynamic, the NYT mentions that the new defense minister—a Sunni and former military officer—had been considered a no-go just last week.
In a Post op-ed, Prime Minister Maliki lays out his agenda and says he'll push to disarm militias. He doesn't mention another key Sunni demand: stop de-Baathification.
Everybody mentions that an Israeli airstrike killed a top security official in the Hamas-led government. Israel said it was targeting a terrorist camp and not the official directly. Whatever the case, the WP says he was the "most senior Palestinian guerrilla" killed "in years."
For the second day in a row, Senate Republican leaders tried to go with an oldie-but-a-goodie and were shot down. This time it was a—so far, failed—bid to repeal the estate tax.
Those classy gold frames around the Zarqawi death photos were pretty weird. Weirder still: The Post spent 1,000 words pondering them.
Care for a tinfoil hat? From far down in the Post:
Police and witnesses at the scene told a Washington Post special correspondent that Zarqawi was only wounded in the attack and was whisked away by U.S. forces, dying in their custody. [A military spokesman] said he was killed instantly.


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Magellan Midstream Partners (NYSE:MMP) is thinking about expanding its newly reversed Longhorn pipeline, as demand for pipeline shipments from Texas' Permian Basin continues to grow.
According to CEO Mike Mears, shipper commitments were much greater than the pipeline's current capacity of 225,000 barrels per day. To satisfy the strong demand, Magellan may increase that capacity by 50,000 barrels per day.
If Magellan decides in favor of expanding Longhorn's capacity, the expansion project would take between a year and 18 months to complete and would cost an estimated $80 million, according to Mears.
Permian crude oil output stays strong
Strong interest from shippers underscores the staggering growth in the region's crude oil production and the resultant surge in demand for infrastructure. Much of the growth comes from the Permian Basin, an expansive play spanning western Texas and eastern New Mexico, where new drilling techniques and enhanced oil recovery methods have led to a phenomenal surge in oil output.
The play, which has been producing oil for nearly a century, has seen crude oil production surge by roughly 50% from its 2007 low to more than 1.3 million barrels a day currently – about twice as much as the Bakken's daily production. In fact, thanks to the Permian Basin and the Eagle Ford play – another oil and gas hotspot – Texas crude oil production last year rose to its highest level since 1992.
Other companies expanding Permian infrastructure
Several other companies are also eager to capitalize on surging Permian Basin production by building or expanding pipelines that directly connect Permian production to Houston-area refineries. In the first quarter, Sunoco Logistics Partners, now part of Energy Transfer Partners (NYSE:ETP), started shipping oil from the Permian Basin to Houston-area refineries after reversing its Permian Express pipeline's flow.
And most recently, Plains All American (NYSE:PAA) announced that it is building a new pipeline – the Cactus pipeline – to bring Permian Basin oil to refining markets in Corpus Christi and Houston. The line is expected to start shipping as much as 200,000 barrels of oil per day in the first quarter of 2015.
Even as these and other pipeline projects come on line, expectations about Permian oil output growth suggest that infrastructure will continue to lag production, providing midstream companies ample opportunities to benefit.
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T-shirts with words such as "Dope" and "Get High" are part of a Nike Inc. campaign that has drawn strong criticism, including from Oregon Partnership, for appearing to promote drug use.
The action sports campaign features, for example, a T-shirt printed with the word "Dope" and a pill bottle.
Given the crisis surrounding prescription drug abuse, Oregon Partnership has voiced its objections to such messages that are part of a campaign clearly aimed at young people. Nike has taken an "edgy" campaign right over the edge into corporate irresponsibility.
Normally Oregon Partnership would write and ask Nike to consider a better course of action before calling for action from the prevention community, but in this case the company has already responded. Boston's Mayor loudly complained to Nike. Nike's response: "These t-shirts are part of an action sports campaign, featuring marquee athletes using commonly used and accepted expressions for performance at the highest level of their sport, be it surfing, skateboarding or BMX. Nike does not condone the use of banned or illegal substances."
This is not what we've come to expect from Nike given its history of good corporate citizenship. This sort of double entendre is best left in the "rejected" pile.
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text: It's a classic Catch-22 situation: To really pull off a bank job, we'd need a getaway car as fast and nimble as this 2011 Porsche GT2 RS, but to afford a GT2 RS, we'd have to pull off a really big bank job. Yes, this is a lighter (by 154 pounds, now weighing 3,020 pounds at the curb) and even more fuel-efficient (by five percent) version of the splendiferous 911 GT2. It's currently the fastest and most powerful roadgoing Porsche, with 620 hp springing from its 3.6-liter, twin-turbo flat six. On a set of bespoke tires, it can rush from zero to 60 mph in 3.4 seconds and top out at 205 mph. Carbon ceramic brakes will stop it on the proverbial dime. Talking of money, the GT2 RS will sell for $245,000 apiece and only 500 will be built. One more thing: It laps the Nürburgring in an impressive seven minutes and 18 seconds. See you outside that old bank on Sixth Avenue at midnight; bring a big drill.


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"There is a crack in everything/That's how the light gets in." – Leonard Cohen
One rule we have when writing our West Pacific Supers novels is that our superheros are real people first and supers second. They're super due to the decisions they make and ways in which they use their abilities, not because of inherently perfect personalities. In other words, we deal in Batmans, not Supermans. Our characters have unique histories with likes, dislikes, and experiences that color the way in which they see the world and react to it. They don't automatically make the most heroic choices possible in a situation; instead, they make the choices that are most true to their personalities. Understanding what has shaped our characters helps us to write for them.
For example, take Camille, a character I've gotten to know through more than 15 years of roleplaying and writing. I definitely relate to her, yet occasionally I find her very frustrating. She's like an old friend who I both dearly love and sometimes want to pound some sense into. Knowing her back story the way I do is what allows me to understand what makes her tick.
Camille had a rough childhood. Her mom moved around a lot, struggling with alcohol problems and bringing a string of loser boyfriends into and out of their lives. As a teen, Camille found some stability at the Hodges Institute Academy for Mutant Youth, but also ran around a lot and was definitely a wild child until Mr. Awesome, one of the founding members of West Pacific Supers, sat her down for a talk about the likely consequences of her behavior. She straightened up and became a key member of the team, getting her first taste of the fame and fortune of professional heroics. She loved it. She also idolized the team leader, Supersonic Cat (aka Sarah Minoli), but felt like a third wheel when Sarah began a clandestine affair with the much older team president, Dr. Hodges.
The death of Supersonic Cat sent Camille into a tail spin; she felt disenchanted and adrift. She met and married a folk singer named Jules, but she didn't tell him she was a mutant – or a famous superhero – until she'd already accepted his proposal. When she got pregnant, she announced her intent to change her name to Nova Woman and replace her sexy miniskirt costume with something that reflected her increased maturity. The West Pacific Supers Governing Board balked, worried that in the very image-conscious Super Industry, the change would mean lost merchandising and sponsorship revenue. Infuriated, Camille did what she always does in a crisis: she acted quickly and thought later. She jumped to the Infinity Team in Chicago, where she did well until she over-committed to a super brawl and was seriously injured. After her second year, the Infinity Team cut her. She, Jules, and their daughter Meghan, relocated multiple times over the next few years. Camille made a disastrous attempt to lead her own charter team and finally ended up working in the Canadian Yukon. All of the moves, many of them due to unilateral decisions made by Camille, put a lot of strain on her marriage.
Everything described here takes place before the start of Rising Tide. It's all baggage that Camille carries with her and it's all part of what we keep in mind when writing for her. These experiences have shaped who she is far more than her super strength, cosmic energy blasts, and ability to fly. Anytime that Camille confronts a situation, the question we ask is whether she's reacting purely on a physical level with her superpowers or whether her deep-seated insecurities, her fears that those who love her will abandon her, and her desire to put on a brave face and confident attitude for the world, are coming into play. To us, knowing all that's she been through and channeling that into her personality, make her that much more of a real character and a believable hero.


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In many respects, writing about ideas is a complete waste of time. I mean, why? Isn't this an idea as I write it?
Word. By. Word.
How did I do that? Well, by wanting to. That's the first, most vital thing, the desire to do. Now, sometimes, and with some people the doing part seems a likely thing at the time, then the usual distractions set in and before you know it, *poof* no more idea.
This all seems perfectly obvious.....except it's not. the difference between having an idea and transforming it into something that other people can utilize is the fact that where some people have on and do what it takes to make it "real" and those who instead let it slip away is the fact that to one person, this idea became to important to lose.
I tend to think that we are drowning in a sea of ever changing, always moving ideas. We are simply put, soaking in them. On the surface of things we live in a rather straight forward three dimensional world. That's what we are taught, that's what science tells us and out 'five" senses conspire to reinforce in us.
It's all a lie. The strange and terrible part about this is that it is so damned easy to believe. It even gets to me know and then, certainly more when I was younger, and doubly strange far far less when I was a child.
In many respects, I have been un-doing my training as a person for a very long time now. Don't get me wrong, I was one of those children who never quite swallowed the whole thing. I was a troublesome kid from birth.
I wanted to know, WHY.
Still do.
Not just why the sky was "blue" but what was the essential skyness in the sky. Not that it was water vapor refracting a certain wavelength of light but rather what kind of idea put a sky there at all. Was the sky I saw the same as yours? I looked very hard an saw something else. I still look very hard indeed. I am never satisfied with what I can see, as the more I look the more I see. If the more I see means that there is more to see, where does it stop? Does it stop?
And if I remember seeing the sky clearly as a child, and I am apparently not a child, what then?
I must be both right now. Well, that fucks up linear time. So, the sky and the child and the sky and the man are all right now. Right now.
How's that for an idea? There is no time.
Try drawing that.
Consciousness is everything. Everything is conscious. Even ideas. I am an idea.
That's what my life's work means...to open windows, to punch holes in reality as we know it and free whoever takes a chance can find something more according to each and every ones capacity. Even me. Every thing I make changes me and my reality while I make it. After I am finished it's your turn, I am already off into another reality, one I changed for myself as I did things. So, in a very real sense an idea changes everything.
Divine madness.
Oh, dear, you will have to excuse me, Rossetti just came downstairs and would like a cuppa.
Good as an exit line as I ever had.
Love to you all.
ps: hmmm....what about those bad ideas? oh, well, another time perhaps.


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|Carlos Martínez
When Carlos Martínez, who was recently elected public defender for the 11th Judicial Court, found out that he was the first Cuban-American to be elected to this role in the U.S., he was surprised.
"There are Hispanic public defenders in Texas and California, but it came as a surprise that none were Cuban-American," he said.
Martínez came to Miami in 1969 on the Freedom Flights when he was only 9 years old. He remembers when the thought of going into law first entered his mind: As an altar boy, a priest suggested the career for him because of his argumentative nature.
That skill came in handy when he enrolled at Miami Dade College and took an English course that stressed not only writing, but speaking.
"You actually had to speak and support your paper," he said. "That was very memorable because it was an opportunity for me to realize that I could actually present arguments and explain what my thoughts were, not just on paper but also speaking. We were challenged, so that was very valuable."
Martínez, the chief assistant public defender under Bennett H. Brummer, will take office in January 2009 when Brummer, the longest-serving elected official in Miami-Dade County, steps down after serving eight four-year terms in office.
He hopes his election will inspire other minorities to seek careers in public law and fight for people's rights.
Known widely for his efforts for juvenile justice reform, his work on drug courts, offender rehabilitation and children's legal needs, Martínez plans to also tackle mental health and veteran trauma rehabilitation issues.
He said he's focused on protecting the role of public defender after a 9 percent budget cut last year resulted in a loss of employees in the public defender's office.
"The public defender role is a constitutional role – to protect the individual that cannot afford an attorney," he said. "Right now we're fighting to stay alive and ensure that the right to an attorney really means something."
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*(Via Inside Bay Area) – An unusual nasty mix of a hurricane and a winter storm that forecasters are now calling "Frankenstorm" is likely to blast most of the East Coast next week, focusing the worst of its weather mayhem around New York City and New Jersey.
Government forecasters on Thursday upped the odds of a major weather mess, now saying there's a 90 percent chance that the East will get steady gale-force winds, heavy rain, flooding and maybe snow starting Sunday and stretching past Halloween on Wednesday.
Meteorologists say it is likely to cause $1 billion in damage.
The storm is a combination of Hurricane Sandy, now in the Caribbean, an early winter storm in the West, and a blast of arctic air from the North. They're predicted to collide and park over the country's most populous coastal corridor and reach as far inland as Ohio.
The hurricane part of the storm is likely to come ashore somewhere in New Jersey on Tuesday morning, said National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecaster Jim Cisco. But this is a storm that will affect a far wider area, so people all along the East have to be wary, Cisco said.
Coastal areas from Florida to Maine will feel some effects, mostly from the hurricane part, he said, and the other parts of the storm will reach inland from North Carolina northward.
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Friday, 10 May, 2002, 21:18 GMT 22:18 UK
WorldCom dives on debt downgrade
The stricken US telecom giant WorldCom has suffered another blow after its debt rating was cut, sending its shares into free-fall.
US rating agencies slashed their assessment of the long-distance telephone company's debt to "junk" status after becoming concerned about its performance.
The company also said that it would cut its investment program by $1bn in an attempt to shore up its shaky finances.
WorldCom has about $32bn in both bond and bank loan debt, amassed during an acquisition spree over two decades.
Shares in the company fell by as much as 15% on Thursday, before recovering some of their value.
The shares closed 43 cents down on Friday at $1.58, a decline of 21%.
Putting on a brave face
WorldCom maintained that the ratings cut would not affect its liquidity - in other words the cash it has at its disposal.
But analysts said that the ratings downgrade was a problem for the company because it would push up borrowing costs.
The move could also force some investors to sell WorldCom bonds because investment restrictions may prevent them from holding junk-rated debt.
"This is a real blow to WorldCom," said Patrick Comack, an equity analyst at Guzman & Co. in Miami.
"This could be the first domino of a liquidity crisis."
Just junk
Moody's Investors Service cut the company's senior unsecured debt by three notches to its second highest junk grade of "Ba2".
It cited the company's deteriorating operating performance, enormous debt load and expectations of further weakness.
Last month the company's colourful chief executive, Bernie Ebbers, resigned following a collapse in the company's share price and investigations into his personal finances.
The shares have fallen 89% in the last year.
He was replaced by WorldCom's vice chairman John Sidgmore, formerly the head of the company's internet unit UUNet.
Fitch IBCA also cut its debt rating on Thursday and Standard & Poor's is threatening a downgrade.
WorldCom's shares closed down 6.5% at $2.01 on Thursday, after falling as low as $1.82.
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We are blessed with having wonderful neighbors. When we moved here, I wouldn't have guessed that the family across the road would also be Christian homeschoolers. And that they would become my children's best friends too! They are the sweetest children and we are very blessed to know them.
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With Luke too!
Their oldest – "Miss Sharon" has become our babysitter and we are sooo thankful for her! She is amazing with the kids, they all adore her, and I trust her – that's quite a combination! If all goes well, she's going to watch them (yes all 4!) on Friday evening while Nate & I go on a date night! Woohoo!


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- ingramAsked on May 08, 2014 at 12:53 PM
Is there a way to clear the jotform inbox? There is an automatic email response sent to an Ingram associate when they submit a referral form to our email@example.com. It looks like it isn't getting back to the associate, but not sure why the reason would be that the 'recipient mailbox is full'.
Our IT department says "It looks like that whatever website this is might be bringing across email@example.com as the applicants email address. There is not really anything we can do I believe you will have to contact jotform. It appears that either the mailbox is not setup to receive mail or it is full."
- EliezerNAnswered on May 08, 2014 at 02:53 PM
So, according to my understanding your issue is that when someone submits your form, the autoresponder you have setup is not sent to the person who submitted the form, but in the inbox of your email firstname.lastname@example.com appears you have receive the notifications. Is that correct?
Could you please if this is the form you are talking about? http://www.jotform.co/form/33038086271856
I checked it and it does not have any existing autoresponder:
It only has a Notifier, which is sent to you everytime the form is submitted.
If you wish to create an autoresponder so that you your form users can receive an email with his answered, here is the guide to know how to create it: Creating a form autoresponder
Please let me know if I am misunderstanding your query.
- ingramAnswered on May 08, 2014 at 05:57 PM
Hi , thank you for your response. That is the correct form in question. My understanding of the issue is that when someone fills out the jotform and hits Submit, the information goes to a general mailbox that is monitored called firstname.lastname@example.com. This email@example.com box generates an auto reply message that is supposed to go to the person who submitted the form, but since the form is coming from firstname.lastname@example.com they are going into some other mailbox somewhere. Apparently that mailbox has become full so it is sending another message back to the firstname.lastname@example.com inbox that says the box is full, causing multiple and unnecessary communications. So it seems I would need to empty that mailbox, but I have not idea where it exists. Does that make any sense? Your information on setting up a form autoresponder will be helpful also.
- JotForm SupportjonathanAnswered on May 08, 2014 at 09:05 PM
Just to be clear, the mailbox inbox actually is not at JotForm. If I am not mistaken, you must be referring to your e-mail inbox.
There are several method how clear the e-mail inbox depending on the e-mail client application you are using. Example, if you are using MS Outlook this guide should help.
If you can share to us which e-mail client you were using, we can provide you more with better suggestion
As for how to create Autoresponder E-mail please use this guide
Hope this help. Please inform us if problem remains.
- ingramAnswered on May 09, 2014 at 04:31 PM
Yeah, I thought that too, but when I think about it, the process is that an associate fills out the jotform and clicks Submit, then Jotform sends an email to our Outlook inbox firstname.lastname@example.com which is set up to generate an auto reply. Since the email with the Jotform information is coming from firstname.lastname@example.com, that is where the Outlook inbox is sending its automated response. So then it seems that the jotform inbox is sending back a message saying that the box is full . Where would the inbox firstname.lastname@example.com live? Wouldn't that be on a Jotform server? It seems that that is the inbox in question. I could easily be confused though. Thanks.
- JotForm Support ManagerJeanetteAnswered on May 09, 2014 at 06:26 PM
firstname.lastname@example.com is inttended to not be replied, because there is no enough room for it. This email address resides in our servers.
To really fix the issue, you should delete the autoreply in your Outlook , there is no need for this autoresponder. Instead, please create an autoresponder in Jotform, using the same sort of email body.
- BryanPauloAnswered on May 09, 2014 at 06:35 PM
Hi Ingram,
If disabling your auto reply is not an option for you, and you have an email field on your form where your submitter enters their email address, then, I suggest setting the Reply-To field of your email notifier to the submitter's email address. This way, when your system sends out an auto reply (like autoresponder counterpart of your system), it will be sent out to the email address of the submitter not to email@example.com. See image below:
Let us know if this resolves your issue.
- ingramAnswered on May 13, 2014 at 06:27 PM
Thank you for your response. While I did follow the instructions you provided to add an Auto Response through Jotform, we can't turn off the auto reply on the general mailbox because we also have applicants that come in there that we meet at job fairs and the auto response is really set up for them, rather than the forms that come in through JotForm. Do you think if I pull the submissions into an Excel report and give it to our HR group then clear them from JotForm it would fix the problem? I've never heard of this happening, but getting mulitple unnecessary messages is annoying.
- JotForm Support ManagerJeanetteAnswered on May 13, 2014 at 08:13 PM
I think the best way to resolve this is to setup another email recipient. This means having a different address at the email notification in teh form. There is no other way in my opinion.


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I'm a long time artist who started out with pencils and brush pens, I've branched out into fursuits, fursuit performance, prop making colored pencils and I am going to start on video editing. I have also done some acting in self made fursuit movies along with writing, folly, script work, voice overs and the like.
I will be putting up only the best of my older art here and some links to video projects and performances. Everything else will be new.
I love tutorials, art books, pinball, working on pinball machines, mechanics and the like.
Current Residence: San Jose, Ca
Favourite genre of music: Rock, Hair metal, Singer Songwriters
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- Our cat clinic offers full service veterinary care.
- Our Nibbles 'n' Kibbles food bank offers food and cat litter to people who temporarily need assistance providing for their pet cats.
- We offer spay and neuter assistance and - for people who qualify as low income - we offer veterinary services at a discount.
- We also offer temporary care for the cats of people who are temporarily unable to care for them, perhaps due to foreclosure, natural disaster (fires, floods, etc.), or an extended medical stay.


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Zoo Vienna Welcomes A Playful Porcupette
September 03, 2013
Only a few weeks old and already thousands of quills! On August 4, Zoo Vienna welcomed a baby North American Porcupine. The porcupette is a female and weighed in at just about 1.3 pounds (600 g) at her first medical checkup. The gestation period for porcupines is relatively long, around seven months, so the juveniles are already well-developed at birth. They come into the world with eyes open and can run immediately. At just a few days old, the porcupette had started to practice climbing. Now at one month old, she still drinks milk but also nibbles on carrots, apples, beetroots, and branches. She will be weaned at one and a half months old.
Although North American and European Porcupines might look very similar, they are actually not very closely related. North American Porcupines are the second largest New World rodent, after the North American Beaver. Commonly found from Alaska to Mexico, they are excellent albeit slow climbers and spend most of their lives in trees. These herbivores are crepuscular, meaning that they are mainly active at dawn and dusk. A single North America Porcupine may have up to 30,000 barbed quills for self-defense. At birth, the quills of a porcupette are short and soft, but they harden after a few days.