HOOSIER DADDY?

I just heard back from the Indiana Steve Terrell, whose Hoosier Lawyer blog I stumbled upon a couple of days ago.

In addition to his serious legal-issues blog, he also runs a fun blog called "Hoosier Daddy?"

I haven't been through the whole thing yet, but I laughed out loud at the story of the 3-year-old kid who got stuck inside a "Win a Stuffed Animal" machine at Wal-Mart.

(If I had a quarter for every time I denied my son money for those damned machines, I could buy 100 stuffed animals!)

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, May 29, 2005
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Now Webcasting
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell

OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night by The Electric Prunes
Rich by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Valley of the Saroos by The Blue Men
Dirty Water by The Standells
Burn the Flames by Roky Erickson
Night of The Hunted by Mudhoney
You're Pretty Good Looking by White Stripes
Phantom Dragster by The Bobby Fuller Four
Amazon and Coyotes by Simon Stokes

I Can Make Music by The Rev. Al Green
Only the Strong Survive by Jerry Butler
Ghetto Life by Rick James
Voyage to Atlantis by The Isley Brothers
I'll Be Alright by Terance Trent D'Arby
Love Train by The O'Jays

MEMORIAL DAY SET
Born in the U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen
The Burden by Terry Allen
Bataan Death March by Robert Mirabal
The Big Battle by Johnny Cash
Western Hero by Neil Young
51-7 by Camper Van Beethoven
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda by The Pogues

Soma by The Strokes
Home by Stuurbaard Bakkebaard
Root Smooth Sapling Whips by Jean Smith
Lay Me Low by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

ANOTHER STEVE TERRELL BLOG

Somewhere in Indianapolis there's a lawyer who is in danger of getting getting puzzling e-mails from folks wondering about Bill Richardson's latest doings or asking what band did that weird song last week on The Santa Fe Opry.

And I'm probably lucky I haven't heard from people asking about Indiana real estate law or personal-injury litigation.

Yep, there's another Steve Terrell in Bloggerville. Check out the other Mr. Terrell's Hoosier Lawyer.

And no, neither of us starred in Drag Strip Girl or Invasion of the Saucer Men.

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, May 27, 2005
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Now Webcasting
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Three Foot High and Risin' by Johnny Cash
High Water (For Charlie Patton) by Bob Dylan
The Day John Henry Died by Drive By Truckers
Oh Tired Feet by Terry Allen

KAREN HUDSON LIVE SET
Honky Tonk Merry Go Round (EP)
I Thought I'd Die
Nicotine
Hudson River Blue
Lovesick Blues

You Don't Want What I Have by Robbie Fulks
The Good Ain't Gone by Rex Hobart & The Misery Boys
Ride Me Down Easy by Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison
Get Up and Go by David Bromberg

The Moon is Down by John Prine
Give a Little Whistle by Michelle Shocked
Please Don't Go Topless, Mother by Troy Hess
Up on Mars by Hasil Adkins
Downtown Chicken by Scott Biram
Hotel Hell by The Earl Brothers
Brain Damage by The Austin Lounge Lizards
Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young by Faron Young
Lean on Me by Michael Hurley
Amos Moses by Jerry Reed

My Biggest Fan by Loudon Wainwright III
My Generation's Golden Handcuff Blues by Peter Case
I Love Her, She Loves Me by Ware River Club
Howard Hughes' Blues by John Hartford
The Man in the Bed by Dave Alvin
My Father by Audrey Auld Mezera
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
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NO PAGAN JOY FOR THIS BOY

Talk about "activist judges" ... here's a family-values jurist in Indiana who has ruled that a divorced couple of the Wiccan persuassion can't teach their religion to their 9-year old son. CLICK HERE

According to the Associated Press, Judge Cale J. Bradford followed the recommendation of a court commissioner who presided over a custody hearing for Thomas Jones and Tammy Bristol.

A court commissioner wrote the unusual order into the couple's divorce decree after a routine report by the court's Domestic Relations Counseling Bureau noted that both Jones and his ex-wife are pagans who send their son, Archer, to a Catholic elementary school.

"Ms. Jones and Mr. Jones display little insight into the confusion these divergent belief systems will have upon Archer as he ages," the report said.

The divorce decree said "the parents are directed to take such steps as are needed to shelter Archer from involvement and observation of these non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals."

The commissioner who wrote that obviously knows nothing about Southwestern Indian tribes who have little trouble reconciling their traditional religions with Catholicism.

One little ray of hope here. The head of a conservative Christian group in Indianapolis actually is siding with the Pagans.

"The parents have the right to raise their child in that faith, just as I have the right to raise my child in the Christian faith," said Micah Clark, executive director of the American Family Association of Indiana.