My new CD of Christian music is winning nice reviews -- and now you can hear clips in an easier-to-download .mp3 format! Click here for details on my debut album. And while you're here, read below for some humorous thoughts about the area I call home.
BURKARD'S BLOG
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10 NOV 03: HERE A LITTLE, THERE A LITTLE
Nothing big comes to mind from the weekend -- but a bunch of little things do:
+ The gas price in parts of Columbus is down to around $1.20 a gallon. That's about 35 cents BELOW the national average! We suggest you express thanksgiving for this by filling up now - because when Thanksgiving Week comes, the price will probably be higher.
+ Peachtree Mall now has large-sized vending machines, selling 20-ounce bottles of soda for $1.25. Well, it could be worse - several years ago, the Georgia Dome charged three bucks a bottle at a Billy Graham crusade.
+ So two brothers from Kentucky allegedly went to the Cellars Lounge in Columbus and allegedly stabbed a man from Alabama. Who could have realized Victory Drive nightclubs would be such a crossroads of the Southeast?
+ It's nice to hear Governor Perdue has appointed Dr. Elizabeth Martin of Columbus to the Georgia Board of Human Resources. Of course, when you learn her husband is Republican activist Colin Martin, the news becomes a bit less impressive....
+ Tonight is "Military Appreciation Dinner" night at Golden Corral. If I was running Ryan's down Manchester Expressway, I'd make an exception to being closed on Mondays - because there's bound to be overflow.
+ Larry Rich Nissan and other businesses already are running commercials wishing me a "happy holiday season." Did those holidays include Election Day last Tuesday? Do they include Veterans Day this week?
+ The "Bishop Bishop" religious telecast on TV-66 featured the preacher warning in the Biblical "Great Tribulation," instead of commercials showing women in bathing suits, "the women are likely to be naked." How many unconverted men heard that and said, "You call that a time of tribulation?"
+ When the Bradley Library parking lot is almost full on a Sunday afternoon in the fall, is that a sign of how badly the Falcons season is going?
+ How about Georgia's Bill Elliott, winning the NASCAR race at Rockingham! And how about NBC Sports hyping "Championship Weekend" at Homestead - only to see Matt Kenseth clinch the points title a week early, with TNT showing the race?