epitome

It was the wrong decision. I command this family, right or wrong! It was not, what I WANTED!

~ Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part III

last week, i had a great phone call with mike foster, one of my deadly viper cohorts and soon-to-be co-conference speaker when we both speak at ministry com in september.

My patient gave me an Olive Garden gift card a while back. There are only a few locations in Nashville, and nothing remotely near Bellevue, where my sweetie lives.

around 1992, john cougar mellencamp (aka “the coug’”) performed on mtv unplugged. there he sat, gibson dove guitar in hand, engraved with the phrase “f*ck fascism”, dark sunglasses on, playing songs i loved, smoking camels. in a word, he was the epitome of cool.
thus began my love affair with smoking.
say what you will, but [...]

Willie Nelson turns 75 today.

I have always liked Willie. The music and the man. He is one of the few celebrities I’ve ever met who didn’t have an ounce of pretense in him.