THE TRIB'S LOSS IS OUR GAIN

Here's a little shop talk:

The New Mexican has taken advantage of the Albuquerque Tribune's situation by hiring two of its reporters.

I'm especially pleased that we've hired Kate Nash to help out at the Capitol Bureau. She's done this for years for the Trib and that other Albuquerque paper and knows as much, if not not more, than I do about where the bones are buried at the Roundhouse.

We've also hired Sue Vorenberg, who covers science and health for the Trib. She'll cover science, technology and energy for the New Mexican, and will cover health while Diana Del Mauro remains on maternity leave.

Both Kate and Sue will start in January.

We've been short-handed at The New Mexican. In recent weeks we've lost my bureau partner Dave Miles, Andy Lenderman and Wendy Brown. Things are looking up.

HEY KIDS, STAY IN SCHOOL!

My son dropped out and now he can't count and he has conversations with inanimate objects that mock him.

"Coulda, shoulda. woulda stayed in school.
James Brown was right.
I was a fool."

Peter Case

NOT AT WORK

I'm off work this week, but political junkie that I am, I'm still trying to keep up with what's going on in the political universe around here.

Tom Sharpe has a story in today's New Mexican about three new possible Democratic candidates jumping into -- or considering jumping into -- the Third Congressional District race.

There's Derrith Watchman-Moore, Teresa Ledger and Jon Adams, who apparently is dropping his bid for the First Congressional District race, renting an apartment in Santa Fe and running in CD 3.

Reports Sharpe, "Adams did not respond to messages seeking comment on his bid."

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but wouldn't it make sense if you want to switch districts and run for Congress you should return phone calls to the local paper? Call me crazy.

Speaking of phone calls, former State Rep. Patsy Trujillo called me tonight to say that she's not going to run for the Congressional seat and that she's supporting Public Regulation Commissioner Ben Ray Lujan for the nomination.

Back to "vacation" for me. There will be no Roundhouse Round-up this week, though I retain the right to make wisecracks from the sidelines.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, December 16, 2007
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
Now Simulcasting 90.7 FM, and our new, stronger signal, 101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Hombre Secreto by The Plugz
Double-0 Bum by Gas Huffer
Lightning's Girl by Nancy Sinatra
Do You Swing? by The Fleshtones
D is For Dangerous by The Arctic Monkeys
You've Got Good Taste by The Cramps
Nothing but a Heartache by The Detroit Cobras
Buried and Dead by The Gore Gore Girls
Hot Aftershave Bop by The Fall
Punchbowl by The Rockin' Guys
Harry You're a Beast by The Mothers of Invention

Catch Us If You Can by The Dave Clark Five
Bits and Pieces by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Giddy Up by The Hives
Rag and Bone by The White Stripes
Navajo by The Black Lips
Yata Hei by Keely Smith
Chief Whoopin' Koff by The Fireballs
Golden Shower of Hits by The Circle Jerks
Fat Daddy by Fat Daddy
Let's Make the Water Turn Black by The Mothers of Invention

I Hate CDs by The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
Are You For Real by Question Mark & The Mysterians
Switchin' in the Kitchen by Don "Pretty Boy" Covay
Hey Mrs. Jones by Long John Hunter
Stop It Baby by Roy Loney & The A-Bones
A Certain Guy by Mary Weiss
Surfside Date by The Triumps
Hotrod Millie by The Hentchmen
Shortnin' Bread by The Ready Men
I Hear Voices by Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Puddy Cat by Wade Curtiss & The Rhythm Rockers

The Fishing Song by Alex Maryol
Fattening Frogs for Snakes by Sonny Boy Williamson & The Animals
Death of a Socialite by The Pretty Things
Room Thirteen by The Dirty Projectors
In Germany Before the War by Randy Newman
Happy Christman (War is Over) by Lorette Velvette
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

BAD ALBUM COVER ART: 2007 EDITION

For you bad-album-cover-art fans, Pitchfork has compiled a list of the worst of 2007. And yes, Swamp Dogg is there.

Nothing here quite matches Devastatin' Dave or Julie's 16th Birthday . (You can find the classics HERE)