One of my songs ("Miss Rejection" from my Pancho Fantastico album) will be heard at sometime during the final episode of ABC-TV's "Men In Trees" -- and I don't mean that I'll be playing at home while the show is running.  It's actually going to be part of the show's soundtrack and, thus be heard wherever it is broadcast.

The show runs this Wednesday night, June 11 from 10:00 - 11:00 in most time zones.

If you're interested in checking it out and want all the details just click here. 

You can see the Top 50 here.

I've got a couple of awards to give out that are a little overdue.  This first one I found in the NY Times a few weeks ago and it gets my award for "Funniest Thing I've Read This Year".  It also gets my award for "The Worst Analogy in the History of Mankind".  Here it is:

New York Times
Wednesday, July 18, 2007

  "You have to look at why sex was created," Eric Love, the director of the East Texas Abstinence Program, which runs Virginity Rules, said one day, the sounds of Christian contemporary music humming faintly in his Longview office. "Sex was designed to bond two people together."
  To make the point, Mr. Love grabbed a tape dispenser and snapped off two fresh pieces. He slapped them to his filing cabinet and the floor; they trapped dirt, lint, a small metal bolt. "Now when it comes time for them to get married, the marriage pulls apart so easily," he said, trying to unite the grimy strips. "Why? Because they gave the stickiness away."

I just imagine this guy alone in his office slamming strips of tape against the filing cabinet and yelling "You like that don't you filing cabinet! You're a dirty whore aren't you filing cabinet!"

Paul McCartney could fill a warehouse with all the "stickiness" he gave away during the early Beatlemania years and yet he and Linda had a really close and long lasting marriage.  Apparently 30 years of marriage did deplete his stickiness supply as evidenced by the weak bond of his second marriage.

My other award goes to Florida State Representative (and co-chair of McCain's campaign in that state) who got arrested for offering an undercover officer $20 if he would let him blow said officer.  That's funny enough.  But Rep. Bob Allen (Republican, of course) gets the award for "Most Hilariously Sad Excuse That Is Also Profoundly Racist".

For the details on this award I'm sending you to this page on TalkingPointsMemo.com

Enjoy...

'Pancho Fantastico' has received a couple of nice reviews in the local press.  A few weeks ago Robert Kinsler wrote a nice review of the CD in the Orange County Register.  You can read it online here.  If the link expires you can also read it on my site here.

And today a capsule review for Pancho showed up in a number of L.A. & Inland Empire newspapers within an article about the International Pop Overthrow Festival.  It appears in the Friday edition of The San Bernardino Sun, The Long Beach Press Telegram, The San Gabriel Valley Tribune, The Pasadena Star-News and the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin.  You can read it online here.  Again, if that link expires you can read it on my site here.

I promise I'll knock this "isn't he cute" nonsense soon enough and resume writing about me, me, ME. But I couldn't resist this video of Rex.  Shelly recorded this the other day on the digital camera.  This is how he looks in those few moments in the day when he's awake and not crying.  He's got a look in his eyes that makes you think he's ruminating about his mounting credit card debt or whether he should quit his job.  It's a look I know all too well from my late 20s.

Note the Nirvana song in the background and how the "but he knows not what it means" line seems so apropos.

Click here to see photos of Rex. Don't worry it's a post-delivery photo so you won't see anything that you don't want to see.