To the Fans of The Dukes

I was headed to bed but a notice from President Jones on his site, gives me a reason to howl and bark some.

First I think that reality TV as a whole is wrong, I don’t watch any of it when I have cable, and now that I don’t I don’t miss it. Now is it good that CMT put the Dukes back on in HD? Sure it is, lets relive those days in Hazzard once again, and I agree that promoting a Party Down South show on CMT during the Dukes, with impressionable minds of young tweens is not a wise placement of ad time. Maybe some more ads from the club and all might help but I doubt it, since CMT and its now head minds at Viacom, have made up their minds. But here’s the slider to get folks in line with a southern culture train of thought they throw the Dukes on so that the follow up can be this new southern styled version of Jersey Shores can air. Now just like Boss Hogg, TV networks and cable systems only know what’s decent, for them decency is for those who pay the most. TV is cash, its all about money. Now if a few things would happen it’d make such media conglomerates grab their BVD’s. First help the Knytes to get Confederate Steele TV going likewise HazzardAyre Radio, so that we can buy the rights to the Dukes so that we can run the Dukes on our network, that would do more than just saying to CMT Viacom ,that ya’ll don’t cotton to them running that sleaze during the Dukes. Dip in or show serious effort to a group that will reach in their back pocket, and take a money maker for CMT out of CMT’s pocket, I’ll bet you a steak at the Boars Nest, that CMT would start a rethink, and cure the problem. However that said , what’d be wrong with a cable/satellite network channel created by Dukes fans and our club, for the preservation of the Dukes as well as southern culture.

Of course I know this will fall on some deaf ears and be read with blind eyes , But again a brew at the Boars Nest, if I ever went to the club’s mail box, and saw 10 checks in there for $100.00 each or even half that to help our club to thwart CMT and all, I’d fall over with a coronary. And if ya’ll think I’m out here in Idaho just barking, about nothing or this issue to make me money I have news for you. Our media efforts will go on, I’m dedicated to all things Hazzard County, more so than probably 70% of all Dukes fans. But the Knytes need your help. Why not sacrifice that new video game, or that one night out with the family, take that same amount and send it to: HazzardAyre Fund, care of the Knytes-of-Anarchy 120 Washington Twin Falls Idaho 83301.

If just 50% of all Duke fans backed us, we’d have the rights to the Dukes, we’d have our network back on, and the Dukes on that network , then ya’ll really will have gave the shaft to CMT and Viacom.

It’s 03:00 here I need sleep, but ya’ll think about this, if ya’ll love Cooter, Bo & Luke, Sweet Daisy and darling Alma and all the rest that is this glue we call the Hazzard Nation. Then pony up. Do more than lip service.

TTYL Ya’ll

Quote of the Day:
The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.
--U.S. Andersen

Galatians 6:7-8“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

To whom this howl tolls

Discussions with your superiors or those in command of your resources can be difficult, if not apprehensive. However I have to have a long talk with Charlie later today and I’m not feeling easy about it.

If I can I’m going to attempt to get Charlie more in tune with an earlier departure than a later one.

In any case the office/studio move is on the HUD for the first give or take a day or so.

Saturday had a bad tire on the WolfSub, aka General Jackson, and while on an emergency I can fly to Ogden, bumb Sam’s jeep and tool around a bit, I need mobility, and Sam needs his ride to get to his vocational duties. And being as today is going to be one of a fast touch and go, from here to Charlie’s for my check, fix tire, cash my check, go out to the airport hop one of our 406L’s and fly to Ogden for the burial of Tim, (Sam’s brother) then back its going to be a big day.

There is though a time when one really needs to stand up for yourself and who you are. While grabbling gears going toewing is a feeling like nothing else, more over leaving the ground at rising to through the clouds to 20,000 feet , then hurling through sky at 400mph, is one of a ultimate adrenalin rush, the fact is I’m both those things, but I also discovered something yesterday and I’m now even more stoked on radio.

One of those that I interned with at KEEP AM 1450(now KEZJ AM) is now President and station owner for one of Cox Media’s stations. Paul J Wilson, and I ran overnights at KEEP him weekends , me weeknights. Sometimes me doing news duty him playing tunes. Paul stuck in there when I retreated and went on different career paths. Paul went to Salt Lake City, worked on KCPX a station I did in its early days, but the wrap is, ever since I was about 8 years old I have loved radio, being on it, being in it, always looking for a way for both my radio aspirations and my OTR Trucker ambitions to come together. Which did eventually came together through the TeenAge Truckers Association and into the Knytes. Strangely , my cousin Richie Montgomery, played the DJ radio person on the Dukes of Hazzard on WHOGG AM 1090. Which by the highway is KDOH AM 1090 West Point Idaho. I love radio. I’ve seen what it can do if deployed wisely . Example at the formation of the TeenAge Truckers Association, it was a small 45 minute gig at 11:00AM on KLHS FM 89.1 called Long Haul Radio, the seed of Dixie Diesel Radio, that brought in the members for the TTA. I saw our small outlaw station garner in tons of members and sponsors through the late 70’s early 80’s into the 90’s. I was there when Dixie Diesel, pulled a Grammy for most innovative radio program for a vocational radio show. Of course the written press crawled over that like maggots over a fresh kill, but the fact is we got somewhere. Sure there are downsides. I was jailed over a weekend and a day, when I muttered a joke about running for Sheriff of Power County, and making one certain deputy main under Sheriff , during an election, but radio has power. Your going to get backlash and people who want to ridicule.

Of course there is now. Over the last year I have undergone not only ridicule , but hazing from a few of Charlie’s people , to being delayed, upon delay on launching HazzardAyre OTA, as well as refyring online. But here’s the thing there is a better way. Ogden is not the panacea that people think that I think it is. Utah has its draw backs, likewise its problems. But it does have several things two of which is good for the station, likewise the club, and a booster that I’ll get into in a few here.

Ogden has a office/studio for $175.00 that we have except for a few dotting of the I’s and crossing T’s, is ours. Two Ogden gives us and I can’t say enough of her, not that I have any fascination here, with her, but her professionality, as well as efficiency. Laura at Comcast is riding right along, with the club, to enable us to get the kind of web connection and all that HazzardAyre Radio/TV needs to be the rising phoenix she can be. It’s one thing to try and coax, a signal up at 1mbps or get music, news and such down at barely .09mbps , but I’d rather take my chances running over a stream of 100mbps, and a up of 50mbps. And third , being out the back door of a regional military aviation hub, like Hill Air Force Base, is a plus. Finally having a hangar over near Morgan that we can rent for six months to a year, and the AyreWolvez being able to buy, shortly after means a grand facility, that can be ours for the long flyte. So It all makes sense.

Then there is the simple things, like my Mexicali neighbor next door and his fancy white blazer. I have to do one helluva mule skinning job just to get in and out of the parking spot, because he can’t move that thing back two or three feet. What would happen if I backed into that Blazer? I’ve got Wolf-Pup, backed to the sidewalk, and I have to park LexiBelle two miles down the street. Bullstuff.

But I remember one night a year and a half ago, in September 2012. After the thugs had to steal from LexiBelle, poke a hole in the fuel tank and smash her NEW windshield in Burley, which is why I moved out there to sleep. There at the shop, amongst no cable, no internet and all woke up one night went to the potty with a newsrag that I snaked from radio former pal Kim Lee, he ain’t no pal any more. His Dad is kool, but Kim screwed the club over on a $400K buy of KBAR and well most of you know the rest. Any mile it was sitting on the potty, and knew that night, it was time to get serious about HazzardAyre, more than ever.

The political turmoil in this nation, the desecration of our rights, freedoms and liberties. The overwhelming need of the government into our daily lives, even such things as a FCC agency saying you can’t put a station there because it might step on someone’s signal, when there is no viable signal anywhere on a channel we picked. That’s a subject for another time, but the short fact is, for reasons beyond good reasons I am not a Twin Falls lover anymore. Not saying Idaho sucks, there are many pristine areas all over Idaho. The outdoors, the vast canyons, and all are breathtaking. But when I get some snot nosed girl just barely dry behind the ears calling Charlie’s better half bitching about me. When delays are created by Mandy’s, Joni’s, and others, and when idiots jack the price of a shop from $250.00 a month, to $750.00 a month, that last one forced the elections of a whole new bunch of people throughout the club. Hell I almost lost my slot in the chain of command. It was only when I volunteered to command the AyreWolvez that I got to retain my authority in both the Knytes as well as the sibling AyreWolvez.

Long story made short enough. But considering the time of 02:16 hours I need to hit the rack. But I am having the conversation with Charlie today, fixing tires , and then headed to Ogden for Tim's burial.

L8R Aviators, TTYL

 

Quote of the Day:
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
--Wilson Mizner

Galatians 6:7-8“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

Flying is the secret

I got an unintended backdraft from a former thorn in my side about how can you be in Utah at a funeral, with both your rides in front of your house? Simple, remember I fly. A quick ride in a TAXI company car that we toew for, to the airport here in Ogden, a flyte plan filed and our Bell 406 is in the air. Land at Twin Falls, again a car ride to the house, do what I need, then do it all in the same order in reverse.

When you learn to fly the world opens up to possibilities that you never imagined. Be it fixed wing or chopper and I’m not talking choppers with two wheels. Two maybe 3 hours at the most depending on weather, and its breakfast in Scottsdale Arizona, or lunch in Burbank that is if you can afford the fuel which is right at $8.50 to $10.00 a gallon. It takes just under $1,500.00 to fuel our birds. The one 406 Bell is on alert for med flights the other for SAR missions. The rest are open shell choppers made for chemical application of farm products. The fixed winged byrds are three Air Tractors, with a new one just ordered. The final is one that is flown the least, except for air shows. LuciBelle>not LexiBelle> is a WWII F4U Corsair we built at our hangar at Bountiful SkyPark, three years ago. It is owned in part by AyreWolf Aviation, and the AyreWolvez Aviation Association.  But that’s how I’m able to transverse the two areas without running in a car. Oh and if your wondering why I don’t just fly to see Eli, I don’t know where the closest airport is to him, and both 406’s have to remain in our area for their intended SAR work. The other reason, both the Air Tractors are not set up for passengers, nor cold winter flight. It damn cold up there. But a brisk flight on a bright morning just as the sun crests the Wasatch range at 10,000 feet is an experience one has to be hold.

I discovered a Canon GL-2 on Ebay, and am looking for another. The reason? So I can take good video to show ya’ll I’m not blowing smoke that I fly. Those members of the club know better, but we have doubting Thomas’s and Betty’s out there that call such things into question. My weight restriction has been lifted for regional flight, but not trans-con flight until I get a review from the FAA on both my diabetes and sleep apnea situation. That’ll require some seat time with a CFI, and that’s numero uno why I’m frothing at the prop, to go to Utah to Upper Limit Aviation there. To qualify, for all my flight upgrades I have to loose 40 to 50 pounds. So on a very strict diet.

But now you know.

Next entry the ayre show for 2014 and the Ayre half of HazzardAyre.

L8R Aviators,

Quote of the Day:
One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.
--Jeffrey Bernard

James 1:2-3“[Trials and Temptations] Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

It’s nice to have more than one place to have breakfast on a Sunday morning.

I woke up just a few ago here at Sam’s house. The guest house he put me in is nice. Not as spacious as my domicile in Tweaker Flatts, but livable. Not that Sam is ready for me to rent it as his son lives in most of the time, but for Tim’s burial and all here I sleep.

It’s nice to have multiple places to get a egg and toast than one lowly dive like in Tweaker Flatts.

So I was having my meal, and was tuned in on a conversation in a booth just over my shoulder. Something to do with a gifted teen, asking is there such a thing as a real ANT farm, program in any school?

So I went home and Googled, I know a information source that has become a mission of ignorance since there was no results, except reviews of the Disney Channel TV show.

I can remember in the mid to late 60’s early 1970’s, Hazzard High had something like the gifted program, Supplemented by a Montgomery Foundation grant and funding from the Department of Education from the Feds.

The main source there was albeit prehistoric by today’s standards, but a visual production facility with enough gear to establish a TV station. Funny that never happened. The real reason that program, succeeded was Mrs. Hobson. She ran that facility ran better than the proverbial Swiss watch. The end here of this story there was one. The question is, is there real ANT or Advanced-Natural-Talent programs in today’s schools. if not , why not?

With a Federal holiday, and I can’t imagine why, but Martin Luther King Junior day is Monday, so no funds available from Charlie, and even if he cut a check couldn’t cash it anyway, so I am staying here another day.

For those that need to know, Tim’s Funeral is Tuesday 2:00PM(14:00_) at the 11th Ward LDS Church on Gordon Avenue in Layton. Let’s see a full showing guys, Tim was a cool guy in many ways.

Family and I are getting ready for church, first time I been in an LDS Church in ten years. Hope the roof don’t fall in and no lightning strikes.

Talk at ya’ll in the PM.

TTYL

Quote of the Day:
God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
--Publilius Syrus

Matthew 7:12“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

The Reaper is gone, we live the life of Qunos

As I sit here this morning while this house is silent and I slave away at the keyboard, holding my head with one hand, too much of a warriors departure to Stovacore, at Warren’s Burgers in Roy Utah last night and way too much at the Sheep’s Pen last night, the yearly Knytes-of-Anarchy Officers Summit for the Mountain West Charter, took place and I’m excited of some of the changes, although its going to compound my work load. I really need office help. Any mile, the one thing that we all agreed on was that its time to push out of the shadows of a soon to be exhausted TV show, and its imagery.

In a year, Sons of Anarchy will be done. About a year or so after for many it will be forgotten. While the image of the Reaper is and has been center focus of much of our clubs graphics its time to shed that.

The real organization is more aligned with the philosophy of Quonos or for the unknowing Klingon thread. Our rights of passage or escalation of members to points of power in the club, our blood ceremony, all of that is of Qunos teachings and folklore. So we are recreating our center image from this> to this>. Beyond the symbolic changes coming to the club, is it has been tried before without much success but again we will grind away, to make it happen this year. The club even as the Hazzard Knytes, never has had a set of bylaws, or constitution carved out nor a written code of ethics or even club history. To whit we shall begin that process. Much of this is to obtain a real to life 501-3-c none profit tax structure. Reason being the club in all its aspects and aspirations and subsidiaries, is aiming to get away from the so much outlaw ways and more in tune with legitimacy. While some protectional and honor guard procedures will remain , there are some things we as a whole organization of 50,000 want to begin to distance ourselves from. Additionally re-establish our young Knytes group aka, TeenAge Truckers Association, to begin bringing in a new crop of young Knytes from off spring of current club members.

I will say that after 8 baskets of those luscious beer battered onion rings at Warren’s my inner stomach wants to put much of my insides into the bog.

Before I go, this morning to get some sleep for the run back to Idaho. First as I have been reporting the club’s radio media werx is still poised to move to Ogden next month. However due to my commitments here and some mechanical vehicle restrictions for a few months I wont be. I’ll just commute betwixed Tweaker Flatts and Ogden.

Last, yesterday while I waited for Wolf-Pup to get back to Tweaker Flatts from Buhl so I could come here to Layton to help arrange things for Tim’s burial , I took the General over to Charlies, mainly looking for an empty gas can to get some go juice to fire LexiBelle up with. Once I got to the yard, Charlie needed a cb R&R’d to a truck along with antenna and all. The wiring was simple, but the getting up and down in trucks with all to narrow steps, and contorting to get hands into places for wiring, I used body parts and muscles I haven’t used in months. To whit body is sore.

Any mile need to catch some z’s , see you in the eve, Oh and to Eli; need to do our test fire Monday, as I need to catch some $’s from Charlie to buy that wire we need.

So lets do our HazzardAyre test fire Monday evening.

TTYL

 

Quote of the Day:
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
--Herman Melville

Matthew 7:12“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

When death comes cheer the reaper, don’t be sad.

Its finally still here at Sam’s house. Madge, Sam’s old lady is making something good on the stove for night meal, and I finally get to chat at least through this medium with ya’ll.

In our way of thinking. A Knyte always cheers the day of death. As we say , today is a good day to die. Why be bitter about it? After all we all are going to Stovacore someday, might as well have a good trip. As far as those we leave behind? They should celebrate our life, as best as they can, cheer and howl that one of our brave warriors is on his way, and then drink red wine as a symbol of our friends departure and his next great ride in the other dimension.

Okay then , I’ll dispense with the situation for a few centons and get into a bit of personal reflecting.

I myself am still looking at a move from dear bassackwards Idaho, but not now. Oh yes the radio werx will as planned, be transplanted to Ogden, wired to Comcast, and a microwave link to a big stick, next month, but right now from many areas I can’t just pull up stakes and vamoose. First there is LexiBelle, that while albeit marginally , but is legal to run in Idaho. Both mechanically, as well as structurally. But she needs some tweaking first to run 300 miles. 4 times to move everything and that’s if I can find a place large enough that I can afford to live in that I can have all my rides in one place. Next is Wolf-Pup. Still good for the go, but a leaking main seal, no muffler, no parking brake, and really fuggled up windshield, I’d make it 20 miles in metro Utah traffic before I’d get cited or put out of service. Then there’s the General Jackson. And that’s the short list. Plus by government requirements, need to find a bean counter in metro Utah, to handle my funds. I’d rather be under Charlies roof locating that, rather than just dump him and be SOL. So in order, move the radio werx in February, then me in late April early May. Commute between the two either by the General Jackson or via The Lady.

One has to understand, of all the people I have known, been associated with, and have done business with. Charlie is not only my boss, on his clock, my bean counter, but Charlie is one of if not my best friend. In a year, albeit through hell and back, I’m a hellova lot better than I was in some ways, except for not having my own shop, but better off than I was in Burley. The club is beginning to heal, and don’t forget, DukesFest West/Hazzard Nationals end of next year.

I’ll be back online at around 21:00, but I’m going to eat, put my feet up, and get some shut eye.

Oh and yes I’ll get into the Nurse GoodBody going Jewish.

And if ya’ll really want to know a plus, Charlie hired this really hot fox to drive rollback for him. She’s a real hottie. I want to see where that could go as well.

 

TTYL

Quote of the Day:
Light travels faster than sound so some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
--Joe Messmore

1 Corinthians 10:13“No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

Back on board on HazzardAyre

Back on board HazzardAyre. Seems like the last few weeks been bouncing all over the different news outlets of the club. But dig this every one of the entries were once a section or column in the Hazzard County Gazzette, that today we simply call HazzardAyre News.

Year was 1998 , I had stupidly moved back to the Tragic Valley becuzz the Montgomery Foundation had the slim shot at regaining the old homestead near Hazzard. I was drowning the dust off of the roof of my mouth at the Y, now Outlaws and Angels, and caught this little want ad paper, called Monkey Bizzness , printed out of Gooding by 3-0-3 Printing, for a sweet heart named Mickey. Mickey exchanged ad space for the club and my shop for articles. When the chance to buy Monkey Bizzness came around, I did, and changed it to our original printed paper the Hazzard County Gazzette and that’s the end of that story.

Made the connection for the new HQ for Confederate Steele Media the clubs, media werx, but am finding difficulty in moving me fully to Utah. The first thing that hinders that, I move, I loose Charlie. As it is, Charlie is my main bean counter and distributor. Which is why if someone wants money from me, it comes at the 1st, when the Marines pay me, the 5th when Social Security pays me, or the 20th when I split Dixie earnings with A1 earnings and pocket the difference. Now this month was none too good. First I spent way too much on a seatcover that I thought would be good eye candy and on air, person, but turned out to be a real vixen in denim. Bought her 4 packs of smokes, but she did have this radio board in her basement. I got a full featured console for $20.00 , my question is, is it hot? Gave the serial number to a cop pal of mine he’s checking. Once I know, finding a box big enough then sending it to Eli.

But that $20.00, plus the $116.00 I had to pay to Syringa, that I’m looking at not doing anymore, since the damn service is damn selective as to who can text me and who can’t, maybe its time for a new phone. So been on the lean side. To the point I’d kill for $5.00 right now nicotine withdrawl and all. Oh well Pay day Monday. Then I can get that wire that Eli needs me to get and Monday night we might just have a test fire of HazzardAyre Radio.

I’d do it today, but as soon as I get my car back from down in Hazzard, where a gal pal is using it, I’m headed to Layton. Sam’s brother Tim, bought the sand last night. No I’m not being disrespectful, but here was two people sharing I-80 west of Tooele, Tim had done a gig at a party at Skull Valley, was on his way home, one of our other members didn’t see him in his mirror, and caught Tim between his hind tires on his rig. Both Knytes, so its hard so I’m being smug, you can’t be mad at either one, shit happens, especially out there. Maybe the club needs to breathe life back into Teddy Bears there.

Any way what can you do.

Next time, Nurse GoodBody goes from Christian to Jew, maybe that’s the problem.

TTYL

 

Quote of the Day:
If at first you don't succeed… make sure nobody finds out you tried!
--Unknown

1 Corinthians 10:13“No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.