Memo to Jerry Jones: Start McGee

Start Stephen McGee next week at Green Bay. Some reasons:

1. Kitna may be a better choice for a half or one game if Romo was coming back, but at 38, lack of mobility and rust are what you will get. If you can't run the ball, the other teams will tee off to sack Kitna and knock him out.

2. You are out of the playoffs, but you can't rollover the rest of the year like some other teams could. You have seats to fill and you don't want to look awful on TV for two more months. McGee is your best chance to win.

3. With McGee you lack NFL experience, but have a good arm, very good running ability, and a tough competitor. You should have been using him anyway in a wildcat or Tebo/Burton running QB type offence. If McGee shows promise, he is your back-up next year and you dump Kitna.

4. What else are you going to do? At least McGee should know the offence. It would at least make the games at little more interesting.

Semi-true Stories (Believe it or not)

Semi-true Stories

Jimmy Buffett

With his head out the sunroof
And his heart in the right place
Plan B was fool proof.
He drove off to her place,
And yelled out his feelings
Among other stuff.

It was too much tequila
Or not quite enough
It was too much tequila
Or not quite enough.

It's a semi-true story
Believe it or not
I made up a few things
And there's some I forgot.
But the life and the tellin'
Are both real to me
And they all run together and turn out to be
A semi-true story.

Well, the picture is fuzzy,
And the details are sordid.
It was on the same day
God's Own Drunk was recorded.
A walkin' tall sheriff
And a big Cadillac
And me and my golf shoes
On the hood makin' tracks.
This daring young singer
Was under attack.

It's a semi-true story
Believe it or not
I made up a few things
And there's some I forgot.
But the life and the tellin'
Are both real to me
And they all run together and turn out to be
A semi-true story.

Well, the things that I've lived
And I've dreamed
And I've seen
And I've heard
You take the good with the bad
And be glad to have every word.

It's a semi-true story
Believe it or not
I made up a few things
And there's some I forgot.
But the life and the tellin'
Are both real to me
And they run like the rain
All the way to the sea.
Semi-true stories.

The Year of Still Here

I am sure Jimmy won't mind me borrowing a tour name so starting October 22, 2010 is Big Al's Year of Still Here Tour. Roll with the punches, make the best of whatever comes your way, plowin straight ahead, come what may.

Thanks to my wonderful family and friends.

Today's Philosophy of Life From Jimmy

COWBOY IN THE JUNGLE
Jimmy Buffett

There's a cowboy in the jungle
And he looks so out of place
With his shrimp skin boots and his cheap Cheroots
And his skin as white as paste

Headin' south to Paraguay
Where the gauchos sing and shout
Now he's stuck in Porto Bello
Since his money all ran out
So he hangs out with the sailors
Might and day they're raisin' hell
And his original destination's just another
Story that he loves to tell.

With no plans for the future
He still seems in control
From a bronco ride to a ten foot tide
He just had to learn to roll.

Roll with the punches
Play all of his hunches
Made the best of whatever came his way
What he lacked in ambition
He made up with intuition
Plowing straight ahead come what may.

Steel band in the distance
And their music floats across the bay
While American women in muumuus
Talk about all the things they did today
And their husbands quack about fishing
As they slug those rum drinks down
Discussing who caught what
and who sat on his butt
But it's the only show in town.

They're tryin' to drink all the punches
They all may lose their lunches
Tryin' to cram lost years into five or six says
Seems that blind ambition erased their intuition
Plowin' straight ahead come what may.

I don't want to live on that kind of island
No, I don't want to swim in a roped off sea.
Too much for me, too much for me
I've got to be where the wind and the water are free.

Alone on a midnight passage
I can count the falling stars
While the Southern Cross and the satellites
They remind me of where we are
Spinning around in circles
Living it day to day
And still twenty four hours, maybe sixty good years
It's still not that long a stay.

We've gotta roll with the punches
Learn to play all of our hunches
Makin' the best of whatever comes your way
Forget that blind ambition
And learn to trust your intuition
Plowin' straight ahead come what may.
And there's a cowboy in the jungle.

Gary P. Nunn at Dosey Doe

Gary P. Nunn

The Bunkhouse Band

With Gary P. after the show

Excellent show, played a lot of songs from the new album. An interesting story about how he met his wife in Switzerland after playing the place she worked for 28 nights in a row, three times.

Truly a Texas music legend.

Gary P. Nunn Set List

Dosey Doe

September 30, 2010

Nobody But Me

A Two Step Away

Its Not Love

Why Don’t You Meet Down In Corpus

Down To Lousisiana

The Girl Just Loves To Dance

Denver

Lonesome Lone Star Blues

The Likes of Me

My Kind of Day in Padre

The Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning

What I Like About Texas

Redneck Riveria

Adios Amigo

Friends For Life

London Homesick Blues

Taking Texas to the Country