Wichita Festivals Inc. released its three band finalists for the Wichita Flight Festival in August, and any of them would work fine: Blues Traveler (the front-runner, according to Janet Wright), Kool and the Gang (‚”Ce-le-braaa-tion, come on!”) and the Commodores (er, not featuring Lionel Richie).
Wright said officials were looking for a “party band” rather than a sit-down for the Friday night event, which will cost $30.
The full list of 80 band options published in The Eagle raises some questions.
Eddie Money is really “not available” on that date? That’s hard to believe. Seems like he would be needing a gig. Same for Christopher Cross.
It was annoying, too, that Mr. Heartland, John Mellencamp, said he was “not interested” in the gig. What’s with that?
Whatever, it’s good that festival officials aren’t repeating with something like last year’s cover band of ABBA tunes. Wright admitted that didn’t go over too well.
I’m still holding out for Wayne Newton. Rock the house.
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I can understand why Mellencamp won’t come to Wichita.No thinking person would willingly come to Kansas right now.
I’d pay MORE than thirty bucks to hear CF, Walker and Rage jam again.
Hell, I’d pay thirty bucks just to hear Rage sing John Prine again!
How about that Shania Twain tribute act who “sang” the last night of Riverfest before the fireworks? She was more inadvertently awesome than anything I’ve heard in quite some time. My kid and I were beside ourselves.
Why didn’t they try for the Red Headed Stranger? Everybody loves Willie.
Maybe people in Wichita dont want to hear willie sing “cowboys are frequently, secretly, fond of each other”
Man, was values boy in trouble today or what! I mean, it is only his third column, and if he has to trot out ted kennedy as the boogy man for WICHITA fer god’s sake, he must be scraping the bottom of the barrel. The WE must be so proud.
Cant wait for the next installment of his scintillating intellect and wit. Not to mention his fabulous jr high writing skills.
Squinting to see teddy as the boogy man? Pure desperation.
How about squinting to see the point of values boy’s latest banality? Squinting to see whatever tiny, small minded, bigoted point he might make. But it is obvious he is a cheerleader for whiney fundies, so no squinting required.
Hell, he’s PROUD of his bigotry, and if you question him on it? He will cry like a little girl (sorry to little girls) about how he is part of a poor, (sniff) persecuted (sniff) MAJORITY for cryin’ out loud.
He has written, what, three columns and TWO were about the horrors that will befall us, how civilization as we know it will collapse if hate amendments do not pass to appease the voracious appetite for bigotry of his religious jihad buddies.
The conservative base type beast must be constantly fed, ya know, and demands more and more human sacrifice before finally devouring the very hands that feed it. Go ahead Brent, stick your hand in the cage and offer up a few queers. The blood will wash off.
Predictable and trite, and not even any points for a clever phrase or two.
Nice job.
SO… values boy… tell me AGAIN that ALL the hate amendments are NOT religious jihads! heheh.
He is a characature of himself and the more he spins about his “religious freedoms” the more we see his real agenda. Keep writing dude, and you could raise almost as much money and support for the gay community as your idol, that oh so righteous fred phelps.
Keep publishing his high quality, insightful writing, WE, and maybe even terry, joe and FRED will be ashamed of values boy. You who hire him obivously have NONE.
Would any other columnist get away with such shoddy premises or juvenille writing?
Not if the WE wanted to maintain any credibility. But instead, they pander to the taliban. Journalism and writing standards be damned, the WE is rolling over for terry and fred the way the phone companies rolled over for buschco.
How’s that working for THEM?
Castillo must be part of the WE’s affirmative action program for the poor persecuted majority, the kansas taliban.
Cant he get a job without special treatment? ’cause if anyone else did such a bad job…
…heheh he’d be writing for the Hays Daily News.
I agree KFG, Brent Castillo is the WE’s attempt to pander to the fundies. They’ve (the fundies)been whining for years about the “liberal” media, now they have their own Hannity/O’Reilley/Limbaugh/Coulter on the Editorial Board. I guess we should treat him as irrelevant.
That was a long stretch for you KSFG. You took an article on bands and turned it into one of your raving off the wall antics on gays. At least stay on the subject.
You just cannot get over the vote of the majority of the people in Kansas. They do not support same sex marriages. It does not translate into (as you want it to) a hate for gays. It is about support for traditional family values. It is nothing more and nothing less.
People are not happy about gays and many times they are uncomfortable around them but that does not translate into the hate that you spit out on a regular basis. You are totally disrespectful of anyone that disagrees with your view point and many times very hateful while doing so. Outside of the Phelps family (which I have no respect for) there is not another group out there bashing the gay community like you bash people.
You really need to take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself if you are really happy with the person that speaks such hatred as you do about others. People can disagree with one another without the hate. To call someone the Taliban or Jihads is way off base.
You show great disrespect for religion. If you do not believe in a religion that is fine but stop bashing those that do. This country was based on religion and our forefathers died to see that we had freedoms. Castillo is not hiding from what he wants to say. You keep trying to convince everyone that he has a hidden agenda. I think he speaks pretty straight forward.
If someone bashed you the way you bashed others you would we be bouncing off of the walls. I’m sure you are not going to like reading what has been said here but it is the truth and I would suggest that if you really feel the need to be so hateful that you write it down once then read it and put it in the trash and start all over. You may be a very nice person but it does not show in what you put in print. You cannot be taken seriously on a topic when you speak so hateful.
How about the Dixie Chicks?
I hear they are available.
Awwwww apophis…. you mean I cant even make fun of his total lack of writing ability, not to mention his total lack of originality or creativity?
Dont you ever wonder where he gets his talking points? Perhaps Pat “queers are responsible for katrina” Robertson? Or maybe Jerry “gays are responsible for 9/11″ Falwell?
With his lack of ability and parroting the thoughts of others, SURELY someone is giving him his talking points. Joe? Terry? Fred? Brent? The NEW four horsemen of hate.
It would be really funny if it wasnt such a sad commentary on the WE’s standards for columnists.
Maybe I could give one of the barn cats a typewriter and see who wins the pulitzer. My cat or values boy? Tough call.
Heheh and I would care about what ruby, the ann coulter of this blog, has to say about me? heheheh
“mom, ruby is being mean to me. Waaaaaa”
keep spinning ruby girl
And I guess I can mark you down on the side of fred? heheheheh
I dont know williams, since their new release debuted at number one, the THIRD consecutive release for them to do so, and since they set a record for number one consecutive releases by female artists…
…I wonder if they are so available?
Ya know, what with TV, national press, concerts, release parties, etc.
Why would they come to the reddest city in the reddest state? Money? ROFLMAO
People want the Rolling Stones, but the don’t want to pay for Tommy James.
Such a quandry….people are going to complain regardless of the band.. it will either be “too expensive” or “not good enough” or probably, both…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060607/music_nm/dixie_dc_2
hee hee ruby.
“Keep publishing his high quality, insightful writing, WE, and maybe even terry, joe and FRED will be ashamed of values boy.”
But not ruby. SHE isnt ashamed to be represented by values boy and his high quality columns. Heck, she’s PROUD to be represented by a bigoted hack like him. Figures.
“You just cannot get over the vote of the majority of the people in Kansas. They do not support same sex marriages.”
Gosh ruby, and since that is true, maybe you could enlighten us here.
How does it feel to know that gay marriage has higher approval ratings (44-46%) than your republican leader, the standard bearer of the GOP, preznit bush? His approval ratings are at least ten points lower at 33-34 percent.
So no matter how you spin that keeping the queers out of sight and out of mind is a good thing for you… isnt it funny that no matter how many people you think disapprove of gays…
….MORE PEOPLE DISAPPROVE OF THE PREZNIT AND REPUBLICAN CONTROL OF CONGRESS!
And maybe you could also tell us, from the KANSAS gop perspective, how it feels to know that a liberal democrat like governor leadership is gonna kick the ass of the conservative, wingnut republicans AGAIN for another four.more.years?
Could you tell us how THAT makes ya feel ruby girl?
It must be damn hard being a conservative, taliban, republican shill right now. We’ll forgive your upset ruby. In fact, I feel really sad for you.
NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Haven’t read Beaver Cleavers latest, I’ll get to that just before it’s time to change the litterbox.
Reading this blog for the last year, I could name you a dozen people who may or may not have a journalistic education all of whom are better written than Brent the beav. Known liberal that I am, the first misconception that will jump into the mind of the reader here is “Yeah, they’d all be liberals” Nope. I can name a handful of moderate conservatives who can write something better than the fourth grade theme quality crap that Castillo calls a column. Ah but as kfg points out, substance isn’t the point with “values bouy” (that is not a misspelling)
Funny joe. I especially liked these parts:
“In contrast, the band’s new album, “Taking the Long Way,” sold 526,000 units in its first week, according to Nielsen Soundscan, the third-largest sales week of 2006. The album logged a second week in the period ended June 4, according to sales data issued Wednesday.
Despite those numbers, early ticket sales are clearly not meeting projections. The plug was pulled on public on-sales for shows in Indianapolis (August 23), Oklahoma City (September 26), Memphis (September 27) and Houston (September 30) because of tepid pre-sales in a national promotion with Target stores.
The Memphis show has been pulled off the route and the status of the shows in Indianapolis, Houston and Oklahoma City remains uncertain.
(Snip)
But not all shows on this tour are below projections. “We’re happy (with our on-sale) and comparatively seem to be ahead of most,” says John Page, Global Spectrum COO/GM at Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, where the trio is booked for July 25. A second date was added for the Air Canada Center in Toronto, where the first show sold out in eight minutes.”
Gee, the shows in redneck country music places like Memphis, OKC, NASCAR dominated Indianapolis, and HOUSTON, the home of bushco, are being canceled?
Say it isnt so.
But the shows in philly and canada are selling out at a good clip?
Gee joe, you dont think the nature of their audience has CHANGED do ya? OF course the rednecks arent buying the tickets and the more sophisticated urbanites ARE buying the tickets. No surprise there.
Doesnt seem like the chicks would be too anxious to try and sell out ANOTHER cow town like, say, Wichita.
Not when their real audiences love them, sell out shows in eight minutes, and help them set records for album sales.
I love that link!!!!!!
“Outside of the Phelps family (which I have no respect for) there is not another group out there bashing the gay community like you bash people.”
Oh yeah, the SUBTLE haters like ruby, bonbon huy, susan “I make my money from gambling but you cant vote on it” wagle, are so much better. Terry, Joe, Pat, Jerry, et al, use prettier words, but their hatred and bigotry are the same as Fred’s.
They are just more polite.
Does that make their message any less hateful? I think not. Give me a straight up and honest hater any day. These pseudo christian haters are waaaaaaayyyyy more dangerous. Like a silent snake.
At least the rattler is honest about his presence. But the deadly copperhead? You’ll never hear a thing before you hit the ground.
Which one are you ruby? The rattler or the copperhead?
“This country was based on religion and our forefathers died to see that we had freedoms.”
OMG, that is TOO funny.
Too bad they died for freedoms that only apply to straight people.
And I guess no queers EVER died in service to their country. heheheheh
A very adroit analogy there kfg.
I got bit by a copperhead when I was 8. It usually won’t kill ya. But it hurts worse than any dying you can imagine.
heheh jr. At least the rattler gives you a fighting chance and then you are dead. Not writhing in long term agony.
See any resemblence ruby?
Does anyone but me wonder if values boy sits in on the WE editorial meetings?
Or does he operate independently? I mean, independently other than shilling for the taliban.
I would love to be a fly on the wall when he starts spouting his crap in front of the real journalists.
How can phillip post a thread like “GOP believes in federalism (except when the religious right tells it not to)” comment on the term “values” as used with values boy, (thank you phillip) and then look at that guy, masquerading as a writer, across the table?
How can randy even stand to be in the same room with values boy?
I would love to be a fly on the wall. But then, maybe there is no discussion or dissent at all. Maybe the oh so righteous bosses at the WE have sent down the word from Olympus.
“Leave values boy alone! He is god’s own messenger, and besides, terry, joe and fred will not be happy if you pick on him”.
Hee hee. If I were a REAL journalist? I would be TOTALLY offended by the publishing of values boy.
Acting like he is a real writer when they have a whole STAFF of professionals. Then they bring in an amature like values boy and try to pass him off as credible?
Yep, if I were a REAL editorial writer for the WE, I would be incensed.
But then, that’s just me.
ksfarmgrrl,
Damn! Values Boy’s scalp is gonna look GREAT on your belt!
I’m guessing his testicles have gone north for safekeeping.
I’d not wish the experience on anyone (well I might but I wouldn’t admit it) but you would have to had my perspective. That snake analogy is almost painfully good. In the movies, you always see a rattler do a quick strike. In my experience, that copperhead latched on and chewed. It is fair to note that I stepped on him first. But I definitely got the worst of it. Ow.
Maybe one reason the WE does not acknowledge us bloggers much is that some of us (not me) are better writers than some of them? I speculated to that before.
I also mentioned that they used to run excerpts from the blog and then stopped. Right after I mentioned that, they posted one again. Reminder time?—–
Glad you liked the link. Just wanted to share that. Nothing partison about it.
Just saying, there might be room for them to play here.
I wouldn’t see them, that’s because I don’t particular care for their genre of music, country music and etc.
They’re having success. More power to them. I’m always a pro-business person. I hope they make tons of money.
Of course JR, I had a thought yesterday that the tiahrt tussle would be the next one they would excerpt and post.
Hey, if ann coulter can sell books that way, why wouldnt the WE sell papers that way?
Other than the pesky lawsuit thing and the making chuck mad and getting a lecture thing…
And terry, joe and fred would be really mad.
Ruby,
Sorry to have to crush your misunderstandings about the founding of this great country, but here’s something you probably haven’t stumbled upon, since I doubt you’ve even bothered to read the Constitution. Read it and weep.
U.S. Treaty with Tripoli, unanimously approved by 5th Congress, 1796: Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion
“Authored by American diplomat Joel Barlow in 1796, the following treaty was sent to the floor of the Senate, June 7, 1797, where it was read aloud in its entirety and unanimously approved. John Adams, having seen the treaty, signed it and proudly proclaimed it to the Nation.”Need the link?http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/treaty_tripoli.html
ARTICLE 11
hee hee CF.
“I’m guessing his testicles have gone north for safekeeping.”
ALL his body parts are safe with me. Feh, as you so eloquently said. I have no use for ANY of them!
But I never thought about the scalp. And I am 1/4 cherokee…
But I am really thinking of something more along the lines of ant hills, honey, and tie down stakes!
THEN the scalping.
heheheheheheh. roflmqao
You GO RD!!!!!!!
RD don’t bother the flack with facts!
How about this. The WE could give us the “Coulter” thread that XXX asked for and let us know in advance that we will be excerpted?
Where are my darts and sharpener? heh heh heh
KFG,You could always do other Native American traditions – keeping of slaves, human traders, or intertribe adoption. He could be your little house boy – oh wait I guess you’d have to be straight to enjoy that – well maybe he could water the crops or something.;)
Perhaps shovelling bs LITERALLY as opposed to lititureally?
I must go to sharpen my darts and clean house. If Ruby comes back step on her. Just make sure ya got your boots on!
heheheh julie and jr
OK so I know I am dreaming here….
….but say, for example, the WE really did have editorial standards.
…and say, for example, they finally wised up to what a joke and an embarassment this guy is.
…and say, for example, they politely told him it wasnt working out and they no longer needed his “services”.
What, in the name of all hissy fits, do you think the wichita taliban leaders would do?
Heheheheheheheheheheheheheheheh.
I bet all the way out here we could hear the screams of righteous indignation, religious persecution, liberal bias, and any number of other really ironic lamenting and rending of clothes.
Of course, it couldnt be because he is a really horrible writer. NOOOOOOOOO, it would have to be the mean old lefties bullying the oh so righteous taliban once again.
They would NEVER admit he is just another mediocre writer with an ax to grind. And hat tip ruby, you are correct. His agenda is as plain as the smirk on terry and joe’s faces.
So, it seems now, that the values boy camel has his nose under the tent, the WE brass wont be able to get rid of him no matter HOW ridiculous his columns, no matter HOW transparent his agenda, no matter HOW inane his points…
… and no matter HOW bad it makes the real writers on staff look…
they wont EVER be able to get rid of him!
I mean, can you just imagine the shit storm if they even hint that he isnt the second coming of the gospel writers?
Check and check mate for the taliban. They just kicked the WE’s ass.
You must be in constant pain to have to hear the other side of things.
ROFL
Yeah ruby, I am HOWLING in pain.
Jr, quick, where are the boots? Where is my damn hoe? (ho?) Where is the 20ga?
I got a bullsnake yesterday with the double barrel.
“Be bewwwy bewwwy quiet. We awe hunting snakes here.”
But then, we wouldnt want to get rid of ruby. Next to values boy, she does a lot of good for my community.
And who else could provide us with such laughs? Other than values boy I mean?
Does anyone but me wonder if he even had to submit a WRITING sample to get this gig?
Or do you think it was just a divinely inspired, divine appointment?
Maybe we should ask ruby? or barb? or gertie? or one of the price boys since they have god’s ear?
I know, let’s just go directly to the source.
WWTJPD?
What would terry, joe, and pat do?
Fred probably wears a bracelet that says “what would brent do?”
Wayne Newton? But Mr Schofield, you wrote an editorial about speaking only English! (Dankershen)
kfg – don’t go shooting bull snakes! They help control vermin.
Spare the snakes!! Let us shoot the Bull, or stab, or strangle.
As I read KFG’s rants (I must learn to treat them as I do Ed and Ian’s and just skip them), it has occurred to me where I have read that kind of vitriol before.
I understand why KFG likes to reference terry, joe, and fred so much.
After reading her streaming rants, it has become perfectly clear. Certainly in fred’s case. I’m less certain terry and joe deserve to be in there; hell, Satan himself doesn’t want to be seen with fred. But certainly fred fits better than any of the three.
Why is she so taken with fred?
Because she’s just like him.
In tactics, if not in ideology. Full of hate, spewing nothing but venom, recognizing NO world view, NO point of view, as reasonable or legitimate except hers. Nearly every thread, no matter the subject, SSDD. In that respect, just like Ed and Ian. And fred, if he wrote here (No, that is not an invitation!!!).
KFG and fred. Peas in a pod. Unlikely peas, but peas nonetheless. VERY strange bedfellows (no pun intended).
Let the ranting begin.
GMC is proving to the few left that require proof that lawyers are a$$holes.
KFG is the best thing on this WEBlog.
You on the other hand bring to the table the scintillating observations of the banal.
I thought the same thing when I read this new guy–ragging on Ted Kennedy? We’re mired down in a war without end, deeper in debt every second, and this intellectual giant takes on the problem of . . . Ted Kennedy.
As for RUBY: “Outside of the Phelps family (which I have no respect for) there is not another group out there bashing the gay community like you bash people.”
Hey Miss-I’m-So-Persecuted-Cause-I’m-Sniff-Christian?
Ever heard the name Matthew Sheppard?
Question:
What do you call a busload of GMC’s at the bottom of a ravine?
Answer:A good start . . .
TPIW
I’ll stand by it. One only has to read KFG’s rants over the last 3-4 days, on every thread, to see it.
Prove me wrong. Go ahead. I dare ya.
As an earlier poster put it, sometimes ya gotta just call a spade a spade. Trite, but true.
Assholes are like opinions: Everybody has one.
Editors, I see you’ve got new porn links in the archives. Take a look. I’m not going to link to them, for obvious reasons.
I will generously assume that’s why my last post disappeared.
“Hell, I’d pay thirty bucks just to hear Rage sing John Prine again!”
If can’t make it out your way, I suppose I could eventually record an MP3. . . :)
Waaaaaaaaaa gmc is being mean to me. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Too bad I cant make as much money as Dennis Miller for rants.
Now if the WE would only give me as much ink as fred, I’d be as happy as dead eye dick on a chick chasing, beer swilling, law enforcement dodging, canned quail hunt.
If you can pick up my subtle points there gmc.
heheheheheh
And BTW gmc, how big is that stick up yer… well, where ever the irony recognition receptors are?
Or is it a gun, not a stick?
Hateful is as hateful does.
Ya gotta admit, I am way funnier than fred, even if I dont rate my own column like values boy. Fred’s irony receptors must be jammed too. Just look at his expressions.
It almost brings gmc’s “gravitas” to mind.
heheheheheheheheh…heh!
And on your strolls through mortal land down here with the little people on this boring blog, as you called it, please feel free to stroll by, er, I mean, scroll by my posts.
It’s not like I write them with YOU in mind.
I have absolutly no idea how a Neil Sadaka thread turned out this way, but I must say:Yo, Rage and CF . . . let’s get a session planned so we can take $30 OF kfg’S DINARO:-)
wanna play our grand opening?
fried chicken and ‘tater salad…
AND dinero!
“she was a level headed dancer, on the road to alcohol, and I was just a soldier, on my way to montreal…”