What a beginning! It's my first MyColumn (Creative name, huh? I'll get to that shortly.) but my last as a Texan.
I'm so creative! :)
Firstly, as the idea of this weekly online column was forming, growing, and bouncing around in my head, I kept trying to think of a really cool, yet somewhat sophisticated (read: not stupid-sounding) name. After a couple days of thinking, I've arrived at: MyColumn. That's what it is. Plain and simple.
Well, in my own defense, I was limiting myself to two-word titles so I could do my cool white/navy title. That made it marginally harder.
O-Town in S-Town @ the W-Mart
![O-Town fans stand in front of a Shreveport, LA, Wal-Mart Supercenter on Jun 23 2001, [ridiculously] proving that I'm not lying about this whole thing! Captured from RealVideo of the concert. Courtesy Babblebox.com.](../Images/OTownWalMart.jpg)
Next, I've had this on the Inside Joke list since it happened, but it's not really "inside" and I still think it's pretty ridiculous so I'm going to mention it here. All last week, Shreveport radio station K94.5 announced that "one of the hottest musical acts in the world today," O-Town (that boy band from ABC's Making the Band), would be performing a concert in, as they put it, "S-Town."
When I heard these promos, I assumed that, being the latest boy "band" off the assembly line, this popular group would be performing in a venue such as the Hirsch Coliseum or CenturyTel Center (even though that's actually in Bossier).
Not quite.
I happened to be listening to K94.5 around the time of the concert, and heard the DJs urging everyone to come out to this free concert.... in the parking lot of the Wal-Mart on Mansfield Road! Needless to say, I found this wildly funny (and still do).
Apparently, these guys aren't as popular as the amount of airplay they get suggests. But, Wal-Mart?! The parking lot?! Even I wouldn't do a concert at Wal-Mart! Even the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame members do their thing at the junior high auditorium which, by the way, they're renaming the "Country Music Theater" for the August show. Even the Country Music Theater is more respectable than a parking lot!
Goodbye, Texas
Finally, our computer is being taken apart as I type to be taken to Phoenix (The mover won't move it for some reason.), so I just want to say thanks to all my friends from Texas who I'll be leaving in two days.
Thanks for all the jokes from UIL (Massachusetts!), threatening to kill me (Carrie, half my Biology class!), and everything else that I can't think of right now... lol. Carrie, thanks for putting the great party together. (Behind my back! lol) Thanks to everyone who came, and everyone who wanted to come but was in Arkansas, Colorado, Japan, outer space, or at home... grounded!
In closing,
In closing, let me answer the questions everyone keeps asking me:
- Yes, I'll keep the same email and screen name. (If you don't know my address or screen names, then email me.)
- Yes, I'll get on MSN and AIM every day... once we get into a house and get the computer going again. (That might not be until August, though.)
- Yes, I'll come back to visit sometime.
Until next Wednesday (Hopefully I'll be able to post! lol), have a great week.
