Elvis

Saturday.

Elvis would have been 70 today. Happy 70th Birthday to all the people who are still raking the dollars out out his name and tracks. I was 12 when I got my first Elvis 78. It was Hound Dog with Don't Be Cruel on the flip side. The Sun recordings for Sam Phillips were great - and the early RCA recordings but I lost interest after Jailhouse Rock.

It was all a very long time ago anyway.

New Hands On The Pumps

Visited the Hole in the Ground bar with Merl last night. By Hole in the Ground standards it was very busy. No one seemed to know where the extra bodies had come from but they had probably come in from one of the further out of town bars that has changed its image by discouraging bottle swiggers and the pool crowd.

The Hole in the Ground has just installed a pool table to attract the very people that the other bar has successfully got rid of.

The bar staff has changed too. They have fired the young lady who didn't seem to think that being polite and serving drinks was part of her job description.

I just hope that someone they've hired knows how to clean the pipes out.

Their beer sure does that to mine.