Showing posts with label karaoke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label karaoke. Show all posts

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Monthly All Alumni Gathering

Missile Toe

Johnny Elton's wife, Johnny Elton, me, Kenneth, my sister Terry, Christel, my sister Bonnie and Cammie


Me, Terry, Johnny Elton and Bonnie (Johnny is a neighborhood friend who we've known since we were kids. He was so proud of the fact that he danced with all three "Ransonette girls" that he had to have a picture. It was also his birthday. Happy Birthday, Johnny!!)



We had our third Thomas Jefferson Port Arthur all alumni gathering last night at the Star Bar on Crockett Street and it was a huge success. We had well over a hundred alumni and guests there and everybody had a great time.

The Star Bar has recently reopened after being shut down for several months and it looks terrific. There's a "VIP room" with couches and a television and a private bar, a ping pong table, another bar and lots of other groovy stuff.

Best of all, my prayers to the party gods have been answered and the Star Bar hosts karaoke on Saturday nights. They're the only place I know of in all of our little corner of southeast Texas that hosts karaoke on a weekend night.







We had dinner at Pancho Villa's Mexican Kitchen which used to be Rio Rita's. The food was delicious except that Kenneth had issues with the color of his cheese or something. The margaritas were strong, but weren't as good as others I've had. I hope they expand their margarita menu. I miss my Grande Supremas.

Click here for a slideshow which includes a video. The video is dark, but it's my sister Terry and our friend Kenneth singing Mustang Sally.

Sunday, December 30, 2007

Things you should know about karaoke


  1. You can't tell by looking at a person or talking to a person or working with a person for years whether or not they can sing

  2. Every singer is a wonderful little surprise just waiting to happen

  3. Karaoke makes people do wonderful things like inspiring my shy, 40-ish year old friend to get up and walk across the room to congratulate a 20-ish year old singer on a touching performance of Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends"

  4. It's an incredible way to re-discover or finally learn the beautiful lyrics of the songs which have been the soundtrack of your life

  5. It's one of the best ways I know to meet new people and have a great time with total strangers

  6. Only in New Orleans does karaoke start at 4:00 p.m....dammit

  7. I swear by The Power of Grayskull that I will one day have my very own Karaoke Palace: kids during the day, adults at night

  8. You're all invited to the grand opening

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Rockin' Around the Computer Screen

It's time for a little Christmas-Holiday-Too-Much-To-Do-Too-Many-Places-To-Be Blog-cation.

This should more than hold you until next week. It will no doubt take you that long to recover and realize you still love me anyway.


Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Guess who this is - Clue: It's not me.

Everyone I work with, I want you guys to try to guess who this is in the comments. I'll post the answer tomorrow.

Thursday, August 23, 2007

With apologies to John Fogerty

After being so mean to John Fogerty on my previous post, I have decided I should give him equal time to hate my voice, too.

Although I still have major tempo problems, this one is much better than my previous attempts melody-wise. If you don't believe me, listen to the others. I don't actually suggest that you do that. In fact, I don't suggest that you listen to the entire "performance" below either. However, some people enjoy this sort of thing. So, off we go...




I think you can get to my other songs (once again, not recommending that) by rating the above song. Please be gentle.