Reading back over the blog from end to end, a question jumped out at me and then wouldn't leave me alone. Why was it such a big deal that the Nightmares covered "Suffragette City?" Well good gawd awmighty, lemme see...I was in the 7th grade in 1974, and me and my one little girlfriend I grew up riding horses with in Kingsport were the only ones in our school who liked T. Rex and Gary Glitter and Lou Reed (oh yes, Lou had a heavy eye make up period) and well, gosh, Bowie too, and "Suffragette City" was a way we defined ourselves to ourselves in a lovely world of androgyny where girls could be boys and boys could be girls in a mixed up muffled up shook up kind of a way, you dig? Now a lot of water HAD passed under the bridge in 12 years, so there was no approximate meaning that could ever be the same, but still...it had to be an omen, like. To walk into a redneck bar called "Cowboys" and hear it? Creapin' fuckin' jesus, how absurdly cool was that? It was a moment of absolute sublimity, surrealness in spades. And guys, if you want to take this as a hint for the set list...I'll make you some cookies? Better yet, I'll tie an apron on you and teach you to make them yourselves, so you never have to be without cookies again. In fact, I think it would look awfully cute if you wore aprons to the gigs...Ah, the good times. Let them roll.

Pen names? Multiple personalities? Lives lived in alternate universes that occasionally converge in terrifying twists of the space-time continuum? Grievous lapses in your own so-called memories? Oh my little brothers, it is better you don't know.

First off James, don't blame me.... you entered "the scene" of your own volition.

Second, as I have said before, it's ok to say "FUCK" here, "Brook" rarely censors; see: F**K, F**K, F**K....Aww come on Brook,

Anyway, in answer to your question, several of us have discussed "Elizabeth Williams" and I have yet to meet anyone who knows her. Based on this I propose that "Elizabeth Williams" is a pen name, or as the french say: "le pen name", for none other than "Brook." Now no doubt Brook and Elizabeth will both deny this, BUT ISN'T THAT JUST WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT A GHOST WRITER AND A PEN NAME TO SAY?????? Also we must examine the possibility that "Brook" is a pen name for none other than JULIE FANN! Ask yourself, have why have you never seen all three of them together???

Finally, Who the fuck are Gretchen and Nina???

that would be

Screaming Brian and the Howling Tomcats

but that would really be "Screaming Brian and the Howling Tomcats of Doom" but we had to shorten... people thought it would be hard to fit on a sign.

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look for great things from the ETSU men's basketball team this year.

Hoo boy! I can't wait for them reunion shows!

We know what happened to the Nightmares,,,what happened to the Bucs???

"Oh, Brook. In November '94 did John have to hide the hari-kari knife?"

what's this about?

Thank you!!!

Aw...you guys are so cute...

Tony, while you are figuring that out take some time to ponder wheather Brook or Elizabeth is the one to be doubled over in Elizabeth's prior request......

That is a tradition dating back to 1992, when Newt declared the Dems to be Totalitarians as a result of Republican losses in the House, Senate and White House. I don't subscribe to that notion now anymore than then. I also beleive that winning by less than 1% nationwide does not a mandate make!


When I was a child in the Boy Scouts I fished the rivers and lakes around here. In high school we would skip out early to get to the Steam Plant in Rogersville in Feb. when the stripes were running out of Cherokee lake to the warmer water by the plant. I once caught a Sauger and it scared the hell out of me as their markings look alot like a rattle snake.... I think the fish around here that puts up the best fight, pound for pound, are the brown trout in the watauga river. Carp and other bottom dwellers are often beaten on the rocks by fishermen locally. Carp were imported from Japan, and are choking the waterways of the south.

Damn that's a hell of an image....... anyway, I disagree Elizabeth, when the Democrat party effectivly reaches out to the middle ground we win. This was the way Clinton wrested the White House from Bush the First. Bush the Second can be beaten the same way, with the same issue. Note I say issue. The Democrat party is a big umbrella, with alot of folks under it. Each wants it's perspective to the forefront, and each has some validity to their position. But when we smother ourselves in issues we lose focus. The single Republican issue in the last election was "We are very American and we should go to war with Iraq because Bush Says So. If you don't support our drug plan/tax break/etc., you are not a very good american."

The issue to beat the Republican Party is, as it was in 1992, "Gee, you guys suck at running an Economy" This should be our mantra as we go forward from now. With it we can claim the middle ground and the left. America always votes it's pocketbook.
Remind Americans that we have in 2 years gone from a $175 billion surplus to a $350 billion deficit (a great deal of which is due to the tax breaks no one asked for, prior to 9/11). If this is how George balances his checkbook, imagine what he will do over the next 2 years!!! And he will have no one to blame it on except Trent "I can't go to Vietnam, I'm a Cheerleader" Lott. It is also fun to note that George "I can't go to Vietnam, I'm AWOL in Alabama to the point of Desertion" Bush has only one veteran on his forign policy team, Colin "I was in Vietnam defending Bill's right to be a smart ass, so you really should give me some respect" Powell, and he is the one who has spoken against going to war in Iraq......but I digress. We will be back, because they have no one to blame but themselves now, and they suck at taking responsibility too. Most are still trying to figure out how the Democrats are responsible for Enron and World Com....

And another thing, I once wrote an article for PST called "Bass Fishing in America"

FISH.YOU CAN.ICON OF RELIGION. CONSUMED FOR NURISHMENT.SERVED MANY WAYS.VARIETY. FISH.

Well fuck me doubled over, Brook...I had to turn off the tv to read your last blog. I know this is really going to raise hackles, but here goes. What you're saying about Dems courting the "middle" being shit for a strategy is precisely why I waved the Green flag last time. My point now as it was then is that the Democratic party needs to turn left to win elections; this "conventional wisdom" of going for the so-called middle has lost resoundingly at least the last two times. The clinical definition of insanity is repeating the same behaviour over and over and expecting different results. I still maintain that leftists or outsiders had no moral duty to jump on a Dem band-wagon headed in the wrong direction to keep them from losing an election; the Dems had a moral and pragmatic duty to move the party in a direction that would secure the vote that was crucial for them to win. But did anybody learn a fucking thing from all this? Not that I can see. I still vote Dem because I think I'd rather have cancer than polio. So "Fuck that!" works real well for me.

Is it just me or does it seem to everyone that the estrogen contingent has issues with the Prudes??? I always liked the shock value presented by any new band, The Nightmares were shockingly slick the first time I saw them, Stinky Finger was shockingly shocking the first time....But after I first saw the Prudes I had to peel my jaw from the floor. They were so different from what everyone else was doing. I agree that they did not take their drinking seriously enough, and they were probably too much Prude and not enough Fucking, but to fault them for being talentless seems, well, kind of mean.....considering that we put up with "The Russ Onks Experience"; or maybe I'm just sensitive to the "Talentless" judgment as it hits so close to home!