Help! Get Me Out of This Rabbit Hole!!

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Yes, that’s not a rabbit in the photo, it’s a rooster. I saw that in front of a restaurant when I was in Pigeon Forge last week, and I just had to take a picture of it. I’ve been MIA here, and I apologize. But wow, when I get into a rabbit hole…. Which one? Well, it started when I saw that Nitto Santapaola died. Yeah, who’s that? He was an Italian mafioso. So I started reading up on the Italian mafia (as opposed to the American mob, which gets endless coverage here). Somehow (I guess the “outlaw” bit) YouTube got me to the Wild West Extravaganza videos. I subscribe to the videos and to the podcasts. I love those things. Josh Taylor is the host, and he’s two things: detailed in research, and funny as all get-out. One of the podcasts was talking about outlaw Billy Brooks, and Josh started in on how he was the great-great-great-grandfather of Garth Brooks. He does that a lot, pulling jokes like that (most of which are obviously lies, like saying one outlaw was the inspiration for a novel written a hundred years before the outlaw was born ). Of course, researching the most covered songs didn’t help, given that Bob Dylan shows up on that list frequently and he did a song about John Wesley Hardin. So anyway, I’ll be back at the music next Monday, with a double-barreled tribute to Sir Paul McCartney for his 84th birthday. One list will have songs that mention (directly or indirectly) either the Beatles or one of the Beatles, and the other will be my favorite Paul/Beatles/Wings songs. I can hear you screaming “stay in the rabbit hole” already. So now I’m stuck in the Wild West.