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09/17/2011

Becoming a 2011 NAMA Nominee for my song “Frybread;” wow!

Filed under: Mundane Or Sublime,Music and Stuff,News,Pop Culture — admin @ 5:05 am

Woah, now I can now call myself a Nammy nominated songwriter and record producer.

My mind is blown.

I’m so excited about this, but I’m happiest about the fact that this might get even more people singing this song. Yay!

And most excited that even more and more people get to hear the storyline behind the lyrics to this song. Yay! Exponentially more people can share this song now than I could ever have pulled off on my own with normal distribution channels such as labels and advertising firms. Yippie!

When I first heard I got the nomination I ran around my yard screaming, I’m not going to lie. A little bit awkward because it was about 1am on a weeknight. Then I couldn’t sleep which is not a good thing for me right now because I teach 7th graders. You definitely need all the energy 7-8 hours can bring you if you’re going to keep your wits about you with middle schoolers.

So here’s the press release the NAMMYS are sending around and instructions for online peoples’ choice voting and stuff.

Thank you everyone who helped further the non-traditional production and distribution of this song. I’m grateful, humbled and inspired. Winning would of course be extra cool, I’ll know if it does that on 7oct up near Niagara Falls! But I have to tell you, getting this nomination truly is the best thing that has ever happened to me in my life since the day I was adopted!

Peace and love,

marco frucht

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“This year’s nominated recordings span from historical recordings featuring the prison writings of Leonard Peltier, present day questions for the great Ogalala leader, Crazy Horse, to Native youth speaking louder than ever with their powerful raps about their poignant plights armed with a spirit of undaunted perserverence. Music productions throughout our 35 categories reflect an impressive and diverse array of talent and soundscapes from all ages and tribal nations throughout the Americas and Europe as well.

These are the many voices of the original roots music of the Americas and they arrive at their strongest and in record-breaking numbers, with over 200 CD and DVD recordings submitted this year for all to hear. ”

—  Ellen Bello

Founder/President

Native American Music Awards

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Nominees Announced for the

Thirteenth Annual

Native American Music Awards

To Be Held On Friday, October 7, 2011

At The Seneca Niagara Hotel & Casino In Niagara Falls

Featuring Performances By Derek Miller, Gabriel Ayala, Pipestone, Yarina, Janice Marie Johnson, and a national debut by 13 year old Dylan Jennett.

Plus Keith Secola and Nokie Edwards Hall of Fame Inductions

And Jim Thorpe Award Presentation to Ted Nolan

Tickets On-Sale Now At All Ticketmaster Outlets & At The Seneca Casino Box Office

September 16, 2011 – New York, NY.  Nominations for the 13th Annual Native American Music Awards (NAMA) were announced today by The Native American Music Association  reflecting the combined votes of the NAMA Advisory Board Membership Nominating Committee and general public membership.

General Public voting is now open  on the Awards website or by clicking the followiing link: 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NAMA2011W

Winners will be announced at the 13th Annual Native American Music Awards which will be held on Friday, October 7, 2011 at the Seneca Entertainment Center in the Seneca Casino & Hotel in Niagara Falls, New York.

Tickets are on-sale now through www.Ticketmaster.com, all ticketmaster outlets, and at the Seneca box office (716) 501 2444.  Tickets are $25.00 and up.  Special discounted hotel rates are available for NAMA attendees at $189.00 plus tax and fees per night on a first come first serve basis and by calling 716-299-1100 or 1-877-8SENECA (73-6322) and using the code name; NAMMYS. NAMA Advisory members and nominated artists who are attending, should contact the Awards office before purchasing tickets.

Both new and established artists share the list of nominations throughout a diverse array of 35 music categories spanning all genres. A new category was launched this year for Best Latin American Indigenous Recording. This is the second consecutive year that N.A.M.A. has added a new Awards category. Last year’s Awards program introduced a new music category for Best Waila Recording.

This year’s top nominees all with three nods each are; Shelley Morningsong’s Full Circle, Pipestone’s As The Rez Turns, Jack Gladstone’s Native Anthropology Challenge, Choice and Promise in the 21st Century, Jan Michael Looking Wolf’sLive As One, Aaron White and Anthony Wakeman’s Handprints of Our People, Derek Miller’s Stoned For Days, and newcomers’, Josh Halverson’s These Timesand October Soul’s Don’t Turn Back.

Tied with two nominations each are recording artists: Aura Surey (Cherokee),  Becky Thomas (Cherokee) , Bobby Bullet (Lac Du Flambeau), Brad Clonch (Choctaw), Desiree Dorion (Cree), Doc featuring Spencer Battiest (Seminole), Don Amero (Metis), Dylan Jenet Collins (Montaukett) , Evan Lee Cummins (Crow), Gabriel Ayala (Yaqui), Gary Small & The Coyote Brothers (Northern Cheyenne), Gilbert Tyner (Comanche), Golana (Cherokee), Jimmy Lee Young (Mayan), JJ Kent (Oglala Sioux), Jonathan C. Ward (Lumbee), Joy Harjo (Muskoke), Lady Xplicit (Navajo), Leanne Goose & Snow Blind (Inuit & Dene), Louis Capchez (Quechua Inka), Marc Brown & The Blues Crew (Huslia), Marcus Briggs-Cloud & Anna Rangel-Clough (Muscogee), Mike Gouchie (Lheidli T’enneh), Mike Hammar and The Nails (Muscogee Creek),  Northern Cree (Cree), Northern Cree Fiddle (Cree), Plenty Wolf Singers (Oglala Lakota), Randy Granger (Cholton/ Mayan),  Rushingwind & Mucklow (Cahuilla), Shane Yellowbird (Cree), Southern Scratch (Tohono O’odham), Talibah Begay (Navajo Dine), Tonemah (Kiowa/Comanche/Tuscarora), Uno (Cherokee), Vince Fontaine (Ojibway), Vince Redhouse (Navajo)and Yvonne St. Germaine (Cree)

“This year’s nominated recordings span from; historical recordings featuring the prison writings of Leonard Peltier, present day questions for the great Ogalala leader, Crazy Horse, to Native youth speaking louder than ever with their powerful raps about their poignant plights armed with a spirit of undaunted perserverence,” states Awards President, Ellen Bello.  “Music productions throughout our 35 categories reflect an impressive and diverse array of talent and soundscapes from all ages and tribal nations throughout the Americas and Europe as well.”

These are the many voices of the original roots music of the Americas and this year, they arrive at their strongest, and in record-breaking numbers, with over 200 CD and DVD recordings submitted this year for all to hear.  The upcoming Awards celebration promises to be unlike any before.

Scheduled to perform at the 13th Annual Native American Music Awards show will be; Derek Miller, Gabriel Ayala, Pipestone, Yarina, Janice Marie Johnson, and a national debut by 13 year old female vocalist, Dylan Jennett. Plus Keith Secola and Nokie Edwards of The Ventures (Wipe Out, Hawaii Five-O) who won Best Instrumental Recording at last year’s Awards show for his solo instrumental effort, “Hitchin’ A Ride,” will be honored with Hall of Fame Inductions.  A Jim Thorpe Sports Award Presentation will be made to former Head Coach of the Buffalo Sabres and New York Islanders, Ted Nolan. Other special guests include Winona LaDuke and Buddy Big Mountain with more to be announced.

Public voting to determine the winner of each category is open to the general public. Music tracks from all nominees are featured on the Awards’ website.

The Native American Music Awards & Association is the world’s largest professional membership-based organization committed to honoring  contemporary and traditional Native American music initiatives.

See below for a complete list of official nominees for the 13th Annual Native American Awards. The Native American Music Awards & Association extends its sincerest congratulations to all the 2011 NAMA Nominees.

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Bobby Bullet (Lac Du Flambeau) – Bigfoot

Gabriel Ayala (Yaqui)– Passion Fire & Grace

JJ Kent (Oglala Sioux) – Prairie Meditation

Joy Harjo (Muskoke) – Red Dreams, A Trail Beyond Tears

Vince Redhouse (Navajo)– Hozhooji’ – The Beauty and Blessing Within Us (Navajo)

Yvonne St. Germaine (Cree) – My Jesus I Love Thee

BEST BLUES RECORDING

Blues Joose Vol1 – Joel Johnson (Tuscarora)

Indian Rock ‘n Roll – Marc Brown & The Blues Crew (Huslia) STOPPED

Recipe for the Blues – Mike Hammar and The Nails (Muscogee Creek)

Rez-Bomb – Cornbred (Onondaga)

Table Top Three – Table Top Three (Onondaga)

Thin Line – Graywolf Blues Band (Yaqui, Seminole, Choctaw, Cherokee, Muskogee)

BEST COMPILATION RECORDING

All My Best – Gilbert Tyner (Comanche)

Honoring Traditions Pow Wow (Intertribal) –Various Artists

Live As One – Jan Michael Looking Wolf (Kalupuya)

The Color of Hope – Various Artists

The Red Road: Peyote Way – Various (Intertribal)

Volume 2 – Two Rivers (Tohono O’odham)

BEST COUNTRY RECORDING

Got You Covered – Leanne Goose & SnowBlind (Inuit & Dene)

Native Heart – C.C. Murdock (Shoshone/Piaute)

Sexy Mama – Rodeo Highway (Navajo)

Shattered Glass – Mike Gouchie (Lheidli T’enneh)

Soul Back Jack – Desiree Dorion (Cree)

The Old Road – Hudson Dean (Grand Ronde)

DEBUT ARTIST OF THE YEAR –

Bear Fox (Mohawk) – Rich Girl

Doc featuring Spencer Battiest (Seminole) – The Storm

Don Amero (Metis) – The Long Way Home

Dylan Jenet Collins (Montaukett) – Hear Our Prayer

Josh Halverson (Mdewakanton Sioux) – These Times

Uno (Cherokee) – A Strange Revolt

DEBUT DUO OR GROUP OF THE YEAR

Aura Surey (Cherokee) – Many Roads Home

Marcus Briggs-Cloud & Anna Rangel-Clough (Muscogee) – Pum Vculvke Vrrakuecetv

Mike Hammar and The Nails (Muscogee Creek) – Recipe for the Blues

October Soul (Lac Courte Oreilles) – Don’t Turn Back

Plenty Wolf Singers (Oglala Lakota) – Plenty Wolf SIngers

Wendy Jo Bradshaw & Rose Yazzi Thomas (Nez Perce/Navajo) – A Great Gift

BEST FEMALE ARTIST

Becky Thomas (Cherokee) – Sacred Ground

Desiree Dorion (Cree) – Soul Back Jack

Lady Xplicit (Navajo) – Cali Girl

Leanne Goose & SnowBlind (Inuit & Dene) – Got You Covered

Shelley Morningsong (Northern Cheyenne) – Full Circle

Talibah Begay (Navajo Dine) – Navajo Songs for Children

BEST FOLK RECORDING

Ayosgi (Soldier) – Clear Water Drum (Cherokee/Yaqui/Metis)

Native Anthropology, Challenge, Choice and Promise in the 21st Century – Jack Gladstone (Blackfeet)

Reservation Reflections – Frank “Anakwad” Montano (Ojibwe)

The Long Way Home – Don Amero (Metis)

Under A Different Day – Peter Sackaney (Cree)

You (Understood) – Samantha Crain (Choctaw)

FLUTIST OF THE YEAR –

Anthony Wakeman (Pottowatomi/Oglala Lakota) – Handprints of Our People

Cody Blackbird (Cherokee) – The Journey

Brad Clonch (Choctaw) – Live At The McSwain Theatre

Jason Chamakese (Cree) – Native American Flute Songs Volume 2

Jonathan C. Ward (Lumbee) – An Epic Ride

Vince Redhouse (Navajo) – Hozhooji’ – The Beauty and Blessing Within Us

BEST GOSPEL INSPIRATIONAL RECORDING

God is With You – Echoes of Faith (Lumbee)

Hymns – Golana (Cherokee)

Likanii Tse Bii Holo – Larry Kaibetoney ( Navajo)

My Jesus I Love Thee – Yvonne St. Germaine (Metis)

Passionate Love – Evan Lee Cummins

Sacred Ground – Becky Thomas (Cherokee)

GROUP OF THE YEAR

Marc Brown & The Blues Crew (Huslia) – Indian Rock ‘n Roll

Nake Nula Waun (Rosebud Sioux) – Scars and Bars

Northern Cree (Cree) – Temptations

Pipestone (Ojibwe) – As The Rez Turns

Sayani (Cherokee) – Breakaway

Wind Spirit Drum (Lenape, Mic Mac, Cherokee) – Ancient Winds

BEST HISTORICAL LINGUISTIC RECORDING

Alowanpi: Songs of Honoring, Lakota Classicss Past & Present – Porcupine Singers (Lakota)

My Life Is My Sun Dance: Prison Writings of Leonard Peltier – Harvey Arden w/Rev Goat Carson & New Orleans Light

Native Anthropology, Challenge, Choice and Promise in the 21st Century -Jack Gladstone (Blackfeet)

Noble Red Man: Lakota Wisdomkeeper, by Harvey Arden & Mathew King (Noble Red Man – Lakota)

Pum Vculvke Vrrakuecetv – Marcus Briggs-Cloud & Anna Rangel-Clough (Muscogee)

What Would Crazy Horse Say? – Shadowyze (Muskogee Creek)

BEST INSTRUMENTAL RECORDING

Corn & Boots – Northern Cree Fiddle (Cree)

Where the Sun Rises-Estun-Bah (Apache)

How Sweet The Sound – Southern Scratch (Tohono O’odham)

Passion Fire & Grace – Gabriel Ayala (Yaqui) & Will Clipman

Songs For Turtle Island – Vince Fontaine (Ojibway)

Spider Brings Fire – Nashville String Machine (Chickasaw)

BEST LATIN AMERICAN RECORDING

Great Spirit – Jimmy Lee Young (Mayan)

Indians Colour – Luis Capcha Vilchez (Quechua Inka/Peru)

Pura Vida: This is Pure Life – Randy Granger (Choltan/Mayan)

Sanchito – .Luis Capcha & Naomi Torres (Peruvian Indigenius Quechua Inka)

Tribal Thunder – The Blessed Blend (Taino, Creek, Cherokee)

Taino Prayer Song – Aura Surey (Echota Cherokee, Taino)

BEST MALE ARTIST

Aaron White (Dine) – Handprints of Our People

Derek Miller (Mohawk/Ojibway) – Stoned For Days

Gary Small (Northern Cheyenne) – Wyoming (For Dummies)

Jan Michael Looking Wolf (Kalupuya) – Live As One

Opie Day Bedeau (Chippewa) – One Love Round Dance Songs

Shane Yellowbird (Cree) – It’s About Time

BEST NATIVE AMERICAN CHURCH RECORDING

All My Best – Gilbert Tyner (Comanche)

Greatest Hits – Meewasin Oma (Cree)

Love Songs of the Native American Church – Kevin Yazzie (Navajo)

Old Style Native American Peyote Songs – Antonio Woody (Navajo Dine)

Renewed Spirit: Harmonized Church Hymns of the Kiowa – Cheevers Toppah (Kiowa)

The Red Road: Peyote Way – Various

BEST NEW AGE RECORDING

Ancient Elements – Rushingwind & Mucklow (Cahuilla)

Flute Meditations – David Searching Owl (Abnaki)

Hymns – Golana (Cherokee)

It’s About Time – Herman Edward (Okanagan/Similkameen)

Prairie Meditation – JJ Kent (Oglala Sioux)

White Cloud Black Thunder – Black Thunder Singers (Oglala Lakota/Inupiaq/Micmac)

with Randy Armstrong and Volker Nahrmann

BEST POP RECORDING

Bigfoot – Bobby Bullet (Lac Du Flambeau)

Full Circle – Shelley Morningsong (Northern Cheyenne)

Great Spirit – Jimmy Lee Young (Mayan)

Hear Our Prayer – Dylan Jenet Collins (Montaukett)

Scars and Bars – Nake Nula Waun (Rosebud Sioux)

These Times – Josh Halverson (Mdewakanton Sioux)

BEST POW WOW RECORDING

As The Rez Turns – Pipestone (Ojibwe)

Black Thunder – Black Thunder Singers (Oglala Lakota/Inupiaq/Micmac)

Chasing The Sun – Midnite Express (Sioux, Ojibwe, Menominee)

Plenty Wolf SIngers – Plenty Wolf Singers (Oglala Lakota)

Temptations – Northern Cree (Cree)

XI Pow Wow Songs Recorded Live @ San Manuel – Bear Creek (Ojibwe)

BEST PRODUCER

Brad Clonch (Choctaw) – Chickasha Alhiha’

George Morgan – The Water Place

Kevin Charbo & Bob Frank – Shattered Glass

Michael Mucklow– Ancient Elements

Stephen Butler – Handprints of Our People

Vince Fontaine – Songs For Turtle Island

BEST RAP/HIP HOP RECORDING * Three way tie for last nominee slot

A Strange Revolt – Uno (Cherokee)

Cali Girl- Lady Xplicit (Navajo)

Lowlife – Rezhogs (Yakama)

Passionate Love – Evan Lee Cummins (Crow)

Scars and Bars – Nake Nula Waun (Rosebud Sioux)

The Rapture – Buggin Malone (Oneida)

The Storm – Doc featuring Spencer Battiest (Seminole)

RECORD OF THE YEAR

As The Rez Turns – Pipestone (Ojibwe)

An Epic Ride – Jonathan C. Ward (Lumbee)

Full Circle – Shelley Morningsong (Northern Cheyenne)

It’s About Time – Shane Yellowbird (Cree) (US Release)

Mulligan – Tonemah (Kiowa/Comanche/Tuscarora)

Stoned For Days- Derek Miller (Mohawk/Ojibway)

BEST ROCK RECORDING

Alaska Jazz – Archie Cavanaugh (Tlingit)

Don’t Turn Back – October Soul (Lac Courte Oreilles)

Mulligan – Tonemah (Kiowa/Comanche/Tuscarora)

The Red Album – Original Xit aka Ox Boyz (Taos, Santa Domingo, Laguna Pueblo)

Tribal Thunder – The Blessed Blend (Taino, Creek, Cherokee)

Wyoming (For Dummies) – Gary Small & The Coyote Brothers (Northern Cheyenne)

SONG SINGLE OF THE YEAR –

“All My Relations” – Duane Deemer Wind Horse (Choctaw/Cherokee)

“Cybergirl” – Raphael Deas (Apache)

“Heavy” – Nake Nula Waun (Rosebud Sioux)

“Hometown Hero” – Dark Water Rising (Lumbie/Cohorie)

“I Can Help You With That” – Shane Yellowbird (Cree)

“Out of Many We Are One” – Joseph FireCrow, Thomasina Levy & Others (Northern Cheyenne)

“The Storm” – Doc featuring Spencer Battiest (Seminole)

SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR

Dawn Avery & Janet Rogers (Mohawk) – Our Fire

Jack Gladstone – Native Anthropology Challenge, Choice and Promise in the 21st Century

Kyra Climbingbear (Eastern Cherokee) – Kyra Climbingbear

Rona Yellow Robe & Bruce Witham Robe (Chippewa Cree) – Voice of the Trees

Jamie Brace (Lac Courte Oreilles) – Don’t Turn Back

Josh Halverson (Mdewakanton Sioux) – These Times

BEST SPOKEN WORD RECORDING

Just For Kids – Deborah New Moon Rising (Abenaki)

Moccasins and Microphones: Modern Native Storytelling through Performance Poetry – Santa Fe Indian School Spoken Word Team (Intertribal)

My Life Is My Sun Dance, by Harvey Arden and Leonard Peltier with arrangements by Rev. Goat Carson and the New Orleans Light

Noble Red Man: Lakota Wisdomkeeper, by Harvey Arden & Mathew King (Noble Red Man)

Red Grass – Terry Lee Whetstone (Cherokee)

BEST TRADITONAL RECORDING

Faith, Hope, Charity, Compassion – Nantaanii Nez Yeis The Eteittys (Navajo)

It’s A New Day For Love – Oshkii Giizhik Singers (Anishnaabe)

Keshjee, Navajo Shoegame Songs – Porcupine Singers (Navajo)

Navajo Songs for Children – Talibah Begay (Navajo Dine)

The Gift of Love – Randy Wood (Cree)

Wiohinhanble The Dream (Rosebud Sioux) – Kashnapi The Mystic Elk Dreamer (Rosebud Sioux)

BEST SHORT FORM MUSIC VIDEO –

Can’t Change The World – Shy-Anne Hovorka (Metis)

Grandfather – Wind Spirit Drum, Karla La Rive, Chris Crosby

Live As One – Jan Michael Looking Wolf & Various Artists

Pick Up Truck – Shane Yellowbird (Cree)

Stoned For Days – Derek Miller (Mohawk/Ojibway)

XI Pow Wow Songs Recorded Live @ San Manuel – Bear Creek (Ojibwe)

BEST LONG FORM MUSIC VIDEO

Blake & Tracy Nelson and The Native Blues Band & Guests (Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians)

Injunuity (Chickasaw/Choctaw) – Live At The McSwain Theatre

Journey To Soul Blessings – Tony Redhouse (Navajo)

Live At The Winsted Green – Joseph FireCrow (Northern Cheyenne)

Questions For Crazy Horse – Oliver Tuthill

Pow Wow Music -Cree Confederation

BEST WAILA RECORDING

A Little Beat of Something For Everyone – Native Pride (Tohono O’odham)

Corn & Boots – Northern Cree Fiddle (Cree)

How Sweet The Sound – Southern Scratch (Tohono O’odham)

PD – Live – Papago Warrior (Tohono O’odham)

Pure Nativez – Pure Nativez (Tohono O’odham)

Timeless – Native Thunder (Tohono O’odham)

BEST WORLD MUSIC RECORDING

Indians Colour – Luis Capcha Vilchez (Quechua/Peru)

Kayas – Rhonda Head (Cree)

Many Roads Home – Aura Surey (Cherokee)

Pura Vida – This is Pure Life – Randy Granger (Choltan/Mayan)

Red Dreams, A Trail Beyond Tears – Joy Harjo (Muskoke)

Valley of Thunder – Gvwi (Cherokee)

NATIVE HEART

Bernhard Wolfsheart Weilguni – Call of the Canyons

Harvey Arden – Noble Red Man: Lakota Wisdomkeeper, by Harvey Arden & Mathew King (Noble Red Man): Lakota Wisdom Keepers

Jonny Lipford – Breeze @ 72 Degrees

Marco Capelli Frucht – Frybread

Peter Phippen – Summerland

Terry Frazier – My Spirit Voice

09/06/2011

Humbled by my friend Aaron and so many others!

Filed under: Food,Music and Stuff,News,Pop Culture — admin @ 10:00 am

My friend Aaron saw me in a Starbucks the other day and said “I really love your ‘Frybread’ song.” I blushed and said thanks. “No, you don’t know. I mean I really really love it. My girlfriend loves it, the kids love it, we play it in the car constantly.” I’m so grateful he loves it, and I’m also quite happy that these lyrics are being sung along to. That means the world to me.

Congrats on your submission this year! Good music!

— Jan Michael Reibach

This song brings me back to my grandmothers cooking..YUMMY. Thanks Marco and God bless.

— Silver Starr Sargent

I’ll always remember frybread.. (and the versions of Sean singing it while we were married omg) lol and the kids LOVE the song I hope it gets you that nammy… you really deserve it!!

— Charlene Mills

This post is essentially an extention of the earlier one down there:    http://muffinbottoms.org/?p=872

So much is happening so swiftly in my life, I need to figure out on the fly how to combine these two into one post. 😉

09/01/2011

Enjoy yourself; it’s later than you think.

Filed under: Academic,Mundane Or Sublime,News,Tech — admin @ 5:48 am

Wake up people, Connecticut Light and Power, United Illuminating and others left you in harms way and things are far worse than you can ever imagine.

CL&P and UI are sure going to have to answer to this once everyone’s safe. It’s painfully obvious there was fraud and negligence involved. We the people should’ve known better after Exxon Valdez, Enron and BP, but what have we done? Remained asleep, simply shifting our addictions from Netflix and Blockbuster to Redbox and Hulu!!!

— Anon.

I refuse to blame the linemen in this. UI and CL&P have become mulitnational conglomerates that don’t care about our nation, our saftey, or our comfort. People, our lives have been enangered this whole time. WAKE UP. I refuse to merely give Malloy a hard time, this is not about (R) or (D) it is about privatization of water, oil, electricity and life.

You know, most of my European and Asian friends just ask me constantly how I can keep admitting publickly after all these years living in the laughingstock of the planet that I’m an American. You know, I really don’t have an answer.

Maybe I’ll just sing ’em a Lee Greenwood song and tell them to STFU

This blog entry started as many posts on my personal facebook. Here are the earliest comments. My first impulse is to develop this into one cohesive essay. But frankly I don’t want to take the extra time required to form that. I’d rather put this out there raw like this and get the dialogue going.

Please discuss.

—————

Bob — (fictitious first names only, sorry)  I noticed all the trucks in my area are from Michigan. Heard something on the news about it being cheaper to hire crews from out of state than to pay its own employees overtime. There’s you days long power outage!

Gloria — My brother was talking to some of those out of staters while they were just sitting around. Apparently they were waiting for someone to tell them what to do. So, even when we HAD the willing linemen, no managers were organized enough to use them consistently. Argh.

Andrew — hopefully you will get it soon. I know Groton Utilities has just finished their area and pretty soon they are going to start helping CL&P customers. Also I know some companies in Canada are lending a hand as well. They have driven down to help out. Last I heard CL&P still have about 400,000 customers state wide without power

Agnes — Linemen rock. You nailed it.

Donna — we were down a bit over two days. My sister in Saybrook is hearing restoration by Sunday…i didn’t notice where our linemen were from, Wichita? ‘Dit-dit-da-dit’….’

Grace — Private enterprise can’t run health care and they sure can’t power my home right. The Stockholders come first

This is all so dark, I must drop a metaphor on ya…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSm2llQLCH4

The music is Carl Sigman and Herb Magidson. 1949. I honestly don’t know if I like Keb Mo’s version or Taj Mahal’s better. Or maybe Manu Chao. Guy Lombardo?

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Enjoy+Yourself%22+%28It%27s+Later+Than+You+Think%29&aq=f

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