Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Seductive Servitude

Guy Smith | January 25, 2009

In reaction to George Bush escaping the presidency, House Speaker and San Francisco escapee Nancy Pelosi said “It felt like a 10-pound anvil was lifted off my head.”
Ignoring for a moment that Nancy doesn’t have the foggiest notion of the working weight of your average anvil, we witness two distinct political pressures at play. [...]

The Upside

Guy Smith | January 20, 2009

Regardless of your political beliefs, party affiliation or who you voted against in the last election, there is one pure, heartwarming and beautiful event occurring today.
Somewhere in a dingy shack, an unbathed, shell-shocked and bleary-eyed Klansman is starting  at his television and slugging back glassfuls of Jack Daniel’s until he spirals into an alcoholic coma.
Now [...]

Times Changes

Guy Smith | January 19, 2009

The financial news has initiated their death watch over the New York Times.
The AP reports that the yellowest of journals has a mere $46 million in cash, which does not begin to balance a whopping $1B in debt. If the Times were a profitable company in a growth industry, this situation might be survivable. [...]

Pimping HJ

Guy Smith | January 15, 2009

I want to brag about a local band, not because they are good great musicians, but because they write honest songs.
The outfit is called Houston Jones, and their music is as they bill it “high-octane Americana.”  Fitting description as they rather seamlessly weave together sounds from blues, folk, country, gospel and their own cosmic connections.  [...]

Opting-out Obama

Guy Smith | January 11, 2009

Reality is a harsh dominatrix, as the President Elect is discovering. The question is will Obama become a bottom.
A pathetic pas de deux was done between Obama and the media most suspect man, George Stephanopoulos. It is worth recalling that George – a Disneyesque proto yuppie and suspected animatron – was a strategic [...]