I'll talk to them soon. Regardless of what works out, yay you guys! I love your trips, vicariously.

Which 3 nights are you booked?

Um. My co-worker Lynn hasn't actually met T-Bone Burnett, just hung out a lot with the Palladinos, as the male one is her husband's brother, and heard all their T-Bone stories.

Lynn told me a t snark Cute Kids Story t /snark T-Bone told her BIL about his kids and Tom Waits's kids: A few years ago, all the parents and kids were hanging out at someone's house, with the grown-ups at one end of the living room and the kids at the other. Something youth-relevant popping up in the adults' conversation, T-Bone said something warm and welcoming to his son, trying to draw him into the conversation, and in return got audible cringing and the elaborate pained rolling of eyes. At which one of Tom Waits's sons nodded sympathetically and said, "Oh, God, it's awful when they try to talk to you."

Which is really kind of a relief for any mere mortal parent of a teenager; if T-Bone Burnett and Tom Waits aren't cool enough to talk to their teens in front of other teens, there's clearly no point in anyone else even bothering to try.

Other exciting moment in the conversation: I pimped Buffy bunches and bunches, and Lynn will head off to the local giant video library this weekend to pick up S1.

sara, 23-25.

Santa Fe!

That is the coolest T-Bone Burnett story (who is awesome, btw). I was about to ask you, Hec, if that were the Sam Phillips who used to be Leslie Phillips in the Christian music world, but I googled and indeed it is. She is talented. I didn't know she married Burnett.

I was about to ask you, Hec, if that were the Sam Phillips who used to be Leslie Phillips in the Christian music world, but I googled and indeed it is. She is talented. I didn't know she married Burnett.

Yeah, she's really had an interesting career arc (including being a vicious German terrorist in a Die Hard movie). She writes some very lovely Beatlesque melodies and very tart lyrics. I discovered her through her song "Holding On To the Earth" from the movie Ruby in Paradise (Ashley Judd's first starring role, when she was a teen.)

World's Tallest Man Saves Dolphin

He reached down the dolphin's throat and extracted a plastic toy. With his super long arms.

Did somebody already post this today?

I was going to but didn't. Maybe you picked up on my brain waves?

Kat, are you driving 40 across? 'Cause even if we don't make it to Santa Fe, you'll be driving about an hour north of us. We should totally hook up either way. Have you been to the Petrified Forest/Painted Desert? Do I already know the answer to this question? I can't remember.

Um. Excuse me while I xpost this...

Apparently, my book is available for preorder at Walmart and Books-a-million.

Which is odd, because I'm still editing it.

Um. I wrote a book. And it's for sale. At Walmart.

I need to go have a heart attack.

SO.COOL.