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Nakia Rocked

374528483_d7ef353686Tim and I went to see Nakia last night. I snapped some shots of us on my iPhone and you can check them out in our Flickr feed. I also stole a set list. So here’s the songs you missed:

  1. Playing The Cards
  2. Down In A Pinch
  3. Start The Car
  4. Don’t Fight It
  5. Little Red Rooster
  6. Making It Up To My Baby
  7. Will It Go Round In Circles
  8. Lincoln Continental
  9. Blue Light
  10. Wasted Days
  11. Grits Ain’t Groceries
  12. Take Me Back
  13. Texas Crescent Moon
  14. Broken Spoke
  15. On The Bus
  16. All Over You (or as Tim like to call it “Oliver Yu”)
  17. Touch, Feel & Lose
  18. Drivin’ Wheel

Once again you can check him out at Ego’s Lounge every Friday Night at 8:30 in Austin, TX or check out his website at http://www.nakia.net.

Is something going on in your area? Let us know when it is and how it went. Sent us an email at cubsoutloud@gmail.com.

COL Out Tonight

Tonight, and every Friday at Ego’s Lounge in Austin, Texas you will find a good friend of COL, Nakia. Nakia & his Southern Cousins and the lovely and talented Fresh Up Girls give you 1½-2 hours of fantastic music with a mix of his rock, soul and blues influences – he likes to call it Appalachian soul. Check him out every friday at Ego’s at 510 South Congress in Austin, Texas. Sign up for his news letter and you can get deal such as one free cover with one full cover of $5. Check out more information on Nakia on his website Nakia.net. Buy his CD there and get Nakiawear.

Okay, so I made the Nakiawear term up, so sue me. Go see Nakia. Yeah.

What 8 Years Will Do

The Bear HandbookI mentioned this book in the Pilot Episode of the Cubs Out Loud Podcast. Years ago I bought this book as I started learning about the Bear Community. I have to say that the Bear Handbook was a great representation of what Bears are all about. As Ray Kampf explains in his introduction, this book was not to be taken seriously. However there is truth in those lies. I had loaned my Bear Handbook to a friend of mine several years back and didn’t get it back before he moved from the Twin Cities. I just recently bought the book again and am reading it. Knowing what I know about the Bear Community now, the book is out of date. When the author primary refers all his bear brethren to the BML, Resources for Bears, and talks about Bear Magazine and American Bear as the Bear Magazines, you know there needs to be a volume 2. Technology has grown to encompass more options for the bear community. This includes the many podcasts like mine, the “New” bear sites, bear runs, club mailing list, text messaging, chat clients. I may sound like I’m bashing The Bear Handbook, but I cannot give it anything lower than a 5. For the year 2000 for which this book was published, it was a wonderful representation of the time. Now if only Ray would write an updated version. If you’re a bear, cubs, otter, chaser, et al, you should get this book and have it in your archive.

COL @ TBRU?

tbrulogo We just started up and now comes a major decision in my life. TBRU or not TBRU? That is the question. Tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and lubrication . . . . okay so that isn’t working. In any case, as of today there is only only more days to register for TBRU and get the run package at $90. The TBRU website is stating that the host hotel is already full, but one overflow hotel is just on the other side of the parking lot and the other is only a block away so register and get your hotel rooms now. The only problem now is to figure out if I should go or not.

Anyone want to buy me a Black Macbook?

Bloggers Wanted

While soliciting for some contributors to the Cubs Out Loud blog I got a great questions of what I’m looking for for contributors.

What I’m looking for on the Cubs Out Loud site is a One Stop Bear Shop for the entire bear community. We’re looking for bears to provide insight and news from all over the country, heck we’d expand to all over the world. This information would also be a little bit of a focus with the podcast we’re planning to get with the same name. What we’re looking for bears to help contribute to the blog to feature announcements from their area and even give a article about how a special bear event or bear run went. Or any other content he thinks would be appropriate for the Blog.

I hope this clarifies everything for everyone. You can email us at cubsoutloud@gmail.com if you have any questions.