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The Mai Thai spin off may be doing some spinning of it’s own. Rumors of a name change, menu, and style update are bouncing down the alley off of 8th street.

Here is the new sign- Notice the old Koi in the background. Not sure of the ownership/staffing details. Anybody?

First Chris Peterson and the Broncos. . .
Then Dan/Cody Hawkins and the Buffaloes.

Sorry Oklahoma

Took this Tuesday afternoon just east of Americana. In what other capitol city could you fly fish in the middle of the day, seconds from heart of downtown?

For weeks I have been debating on buying an Apple Iphone. . .

Now this info comes from MS. VP, Thanks Viv.

Subject: New Apple Product

For you Apple Geeks!

Apple Computers announced today that it has developed a computer chip that can store and play music in women’s breast implants.

The iBoob will cost between $499 and $599.

This is considered to be a major breakthrough because women are always
complaining about men staring at their breasts and not listening to
them.

Thanks to Apple, everyone is now happy.

They call it an “old Boise Dip”

These folks are working hard in the old Villanos space. Can hardly wait. The menu looks like it is straight off Beale.

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Dave
Sure could use a small note on your blog about the weekly BLUES jam at the Ha’Penny every Tuesday at 7:30. Great host band …(okay host singer) Great guest players…..Super location…well, you know the drill.
Looking forward to playing some blues again in Downtown on a weekly basis.
Wish us luck.

Know why I front a blues band in Boise Idaho? ‘Cuz football, soccer and golf only require one ball.

From Nancy M. McIntosh

Greetings BBS Members and Friends: Tomorrow is jam Sunday at Terrapin Station in Boise - 3 to 7 pm.

Was this an idea from the contest?

Looks wistful to me, you?

Vivian Player sends us this. . .

BSU Radio 30th Anniversary Picnic & Concert!!!!

September 30th in Julia Davis Park (Band Shell)
2-6 pm
Free Admission

Featuring
Kevin Kirk and Onomatopoeia, Curtis Stigers,
Ned Evett and Bill Coffey, Jill Rowley and Tom Tompkins

Got rid of the slow and clunky “calendar” fly. However I hope you still want to be able to buy the calendar. So I’ll keep the post below near the top of the page. Just click and you will go to a page that will let you purchase the calendar with a paypal or a credit card.

Gotta keep ‘ol Boisee.com lean.

Well that big ugly ad at the top of the page is my new “store” Sorry it is so bold. I think I’ll be able to pair it down to something more reasonable over time. Wanted to get a way to buy the 2008 Calendar up and running. So for now bare with me.

Thanks to all the friends that came by the Hyde Park beer garden. What a great time, like the old times. Miss Jo’s crew was out in force. In a world were things change so much it is so good to see so many old coworkers. Over three years after the “BLUES” Bouquet closed we still will show up if Jo calls. At many times the “old” crew out numbered the new guys. Quite a tribute to the bond created in the years we worked together at “ten ten Main.”

Garden Ghosts

I’m thinking Boise Cascade stock may may be going up again.

Yes, it is a refrigerator.

Great news! All of the bureaucratic dragons have been slain and Mitch and Christine are almost ready to open the new City Grill at the corner of Idaho and 8th. Boisee.com is predicting the Pair pair will break the jinx of this location and CG wall soon become a boise tradition. Expect great Sunday brunches, wonderful dinners, and a prefectly crafted martini. All in an easy, warm and classy space that exudes old downtown charm.

OK, I will admit to a bias here, not only have I worked for Christine in a past life, my art will adorn the walls. That said, I have seen the decor and the layout and it is a winner. Just hope the bar will have a bottle of scotch or two.

Look for an opening around the end of the month. Can’t wait!

It’s done and Northwest Printing did an amazing job. The best ever.

Come see it at the market.

I’m working on a way to sell it over the net. Details soon.

Photo Friday-Contest Round two.

Not sure why, but an image came to me for every one word suggestion.

ExceptLee’s “dangly?” bit

Guess I am a simple guy. This is fun. Which picture?
I think I will go with OPPS. Partly because a fellow bartender suggested it. She almost never broke glasses. Me? Well. . .

Thanks Monica your the winner.

So lets play another round of you suggest a theme for Fridays photo. Winner gets a calendar. Only this time you can only use ONE word.

In a world were an insult usually consists of a finger or a swear word here is a list of classics, well though out barbs.

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
Winston Churchill
“A modest little person, with much to be modest about.”
Winston Churchill
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”
Clarence Darrow
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.”
Moses Hadas
“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.”
Groucho Marx
“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
Mark Twain
“He has no enemies , but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
Oscar Wilde
“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend… if you have one.”
George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
“Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second… if there is one.”
Winston Churchill, in response
“I feel so miserable without you, it’s almost like having you here.”
Stephen Bishop
“He is a self-made man and worships his creator.”
John Bright
“I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.”
Irvin S. Cobb
“He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.”
Samuel Johnson
“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”
Paul Keating
“He had delusions of adequacy.”
Walter Kerr
“There’s nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won’t cure.”
Jack E. Leonard
“He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.”
Robert Redford
“They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.”
Thomas Brackett Reed
“He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.”
James Reston (about Richard Nixon)
“In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.”
Charles, Count Talleyrand
“He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.”
Forrest Tucker
“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
Mark Twain
“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”
Mae West
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”
Oscar Wilde
“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts… for support rather than illumination.”
Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”
Billy Wilder

Wanted to see if I could get the feeling of the river photo from last night. What do you think?

75 hours out and back, 25 on the road

Photo road trips are a little like long treasure hunts for me. You never know when a great photo will appear. Here are a few from this last trip.

Water meter

Space needle veiw

It was fun for a while

Another needle

Weiser river, almost home

Son Don took this photo on the way to the BSU debacle. Notiice the Vabdel Sticker and the BSU flags.

OH, and yes I posted this on Sunday. I’ll be traveling back from Washington and wasn’t sure when I would get a connection!!!

A longtime blues favorite Eddie Shaw is workin’ the whole state this week. In addition to his Haggerman performance this weekend(see below) he will be in Caldwell Tuesday. Eddie played at a Sunny Slope Blues Festival a few years back and ripped it up. Take the time to go see the Wolfgang

Here are the details from the BBS and Nancy. . .
Nancy M. McIntosh

Tickets (donation) are $5.00. Come on over to Caldwell for a great time!