Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Infrastructure Impotency

| December 26, 2008

TweetLike an aging porn star, Obama’s infrastructure-focused economic stimulus scheme fails to rise to the occasion. One can contemplate any economy as a cube (or a matrix for the computer programmers amongst us). Cells in economic matrices are weakly interconnected. When lagging, an economy should be stimulated so every cell has money to spend, save [...]

Gift Etiquette

| December 24, 2008

TweetIs it appropriate to send a gay man a fruitcake for the holidays?

Mind Me

| December 18, 2008

TweetI suffer from Alzheimer’s … every morning before coffee. I suffer from everybody else’s Alzheimer’s the rest of the day.I suffer from Alzheimer’s … every morning before coffee. I suffer from everybody else’s Alzheimer’s the rest of the day.

Ritual Waterboarding

| December 14, 2008

TweetThe priest flinging water in my face was a little disconcerting. I attended the baptism of a neighbor’s new daughter, in part to be neighborly. In part because the chain of life, family and belief systems still warm my cynical ticker. Also because the mother is Pilipino, the father is one of those gigantic Swedes, [...]

Limited Pain

| December 9, 2008

TweetThe toughest part of writing songs is understanding one’s limitation. Mine are vocals. No kidding Guy? Aside from our ears bleeding, we never noticed. When peddling a song to publishers the recording and mix don’t have to be perfect. Publishers are looking for good raw material done in styles that will make them imagine some [...]