James Brown Announces Breakup Of Marriage

You may have not noticed this unless you live in LA (Los Angeles) or LA (Lower Augusta) but in today’s newspaper there appeared this blurb in the people in the news section of page 2:

The “Godfather of Soul,” James Brown, has announced his breakup from his wife, Tomi Rea Brown, with a full-page ad in the show-business trade newspaper Variety.
In the July 21-27 weekly edition of the paper, the ad features a photo of the couple and their 2 year-old son, James Joseph Brown II, smiling at Walt Disney World while posing with the costumed character Goofy.
Above the photo, a statement said that because of their “heavy, demanding tour schedule, they have decided to go their separate ways. There are no hard feelings, just a mutual show business decision made by both parties.”
Mrs. Brown is one of Mr. Brown’s background singers.
The pair is touring together in Europe, the newspaper added, and may continue working together despite the breakup.

They are splitting up because of the heavy touring schedule? They’re together! I could understand it is she was home while James toured the world.

They are going their separate ways? Yet she is one of his backup singers and may continue to work together!

I glad to see I wasn’t the only one to find humor in this announcement, why else would have the copy person who culled this from the Variety ad have made room for the part about the whole family posing with Goofy.

When Will I Watch A Movie Again?

It has been two weeks at least since I’ve watched a DVD. Right now there are 4 Netflix rentals on the coffee table waiting a spin. ( Rabbit-Proof Fence, Moonlight Mile, Spirited Away and Adaptation ) Also stacked up there are 3 other movies from my Co-Worker DVD Swap Club: Pork Chop Hill, Tuck Everlasting and K-19. Plus on top of those I have A Brother From Another Planet that I picked up in a truck-stop in rural North Carolina for $4.88. I guess I’m going to have to take a break from writting in 3 blogs and reading 10 for a night or two…

House Cleaning Day

Did a little sprucing up anound here, very little, but I feel better.
1) This site is now a proud member of the Blogging Brians, so I added a link to the left.
2) I got rid of a stale weblog that hadn’t been updated since like March from the Mortal Blog list and added Blogumentary, go check it out.
3) This page’s extention is now PHP instead of HTML. I snagged a script that allows me to keep a constantly updated set of stats in my search for ET and installed it on the left. Thanks Sam Ley.

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First Class Mail

Mailed off 6 home made CDs today. Three to Texas and one to Canada as part of the Burn It – Summer Edition. (Wonder if I need to make a little page with the song list and such like I had for Josh’s CDMOM?) One to the state of Washington for the People’s Choice Award winner in the Barndoor Fan Club Flag Photo Contest and one to Merry Ol’ Scotland and Sinclair as a payback for sending me a CD of the Scooter’s latest.

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Sunk To A New Low

Tonight we needed to run to the store for a few items. It had just quit raining and the radar showed more showers in the area, so instead of taking the Miata, which would have meant putting the top up, we borrowed my mother-in-law’s MSV (Miata Support Vehicle, in this case a Honda Civic.) Next thing you know we will be borrowing the car if it is going to rain and I just washed the Miata.

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There Is No Place Like Home

Left from Martinsville, VA at 8:00 PM and didn’t arrive home until a little after 2:00 PM, 6 hours on the road and it seemed longer than that. Every way we turned we thwarted in our quest for a two lane back road route back from Virginia. We were glad that we were far enough east so as not to have to retrace our Thursday evening route of I-77, but that placed us near a group of the large cities of Raleigh, Durham, Winston-Salem, etc. North Carolina. After trying a couple of roads we gave up and traveled the near Interstate four lane divided roads that populated the area. Then hooked up with I-85 and then I-77 near Charlotte.

I’ve other stuff to take care of before I can transcribe the analog blog of the other 3 days to here, so if you are interested (and I can’t believe you wouldn’t be) check back tomorrow evening as I probably catch up blogging instead of working Monday.

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