How much latitude should you give a songwriter-poet?

Robert Earl Keen is one of my favorite pop singers, but every time I hear “The Road Goes on Forever” as I just did on WFUV, I cringe at the lyrics:

Sherry drove the pickup through the alley on the side
Where a lawman tackled Sonny and was reading him his rights
She stepped into the alley with a single shot .410

The road goes on forever and the party never ends

I understand that .410 rhymes with “ends”, but you can’t punch a holes in a postage stamp with a .410, much less kill a policeman. Keen’s a good ol’ boy and knows his weaponry so he must have gotten lazy on this particular lyric.

It’s still a good song, but “Feeling Good Again” is at least as good, and doesn’t have any impossible kills with a sparrow-killer shotgun.

He overpaid at that

Idiot buys Newsweek for a buck. I haven’t read Newsweek since high school, but I bet it sells for more than a dollar on newsstands. Kinda cool to buy the whole company for less than the price of a single copy. Cool, but dumb.

Well this is useful

Our wonderful Multiple Listing service shows 8 sales and 4 contracts recorded today but the system crashes when pressed for details. I’ll try again later.

UPDATE: A whole bunch of nothing by which I mean million dollarish sales and contracts. Fifteen insignificant price reductions, and that was it. Head for the beaches.

Trying out the iPad here at the apple store to see whether it might work for blogging

So far, can’t find a tab function or a way to capitalize letters (I’m not working with a salesman so there’s probably an answer to this). Weird to type on the screen, too.
Anyone out there using this To blog. I don’t think I like it.

Can intrepid Explorer explain this one?

Windows Explorer, which I have to use to access the GML’s POS website, has suddenly started giving me “time out” warnings and then dropping me off the Internet. I’m sure this is “not a bug, but a feature” as Microsoft is so fond of saying, but huh?

I would never pick on Cos Cob

210 Bible Street

But this house on Bible Street sold for $1.525 in 2002, was relisted a year ago for $2.1 and sold Friday for $1.475. Assessment is $1.363.

It’s probably time to retire when you hire a guy months out of prison to handle your finances

Released from prison in April after serving time for fraud, Norwalk man hired to handle billing by 88-year-old owner of Greenwich business, con embezzles.