Friday, November 17, 2006

Mother Nature Takes Out TDA's Lawnball


We are sad to post that the beautiful Victorian gazing ball that inspired TDA's 2004 release, "Lawnball," has come to a tragic end. After traveling around the USA and surviving a recent kidnapping by Oregon hooligans, a huge storm in the Pacific Northwest has smashed the glass orb to smithereens.

Reached at home, TDA frontman Paul Rogers was philosophical about the loss. "I came out the morning after the storm and saw that the wind had blown it off its pedestal and broke it into a million pieces. My heart is broken as well, of course, but I've been in the studio working on the new TDA CDs, so maybe it's time to let it go. It all makes sense, when you think about it. But really, I'd rather not think about it right now."

Rogers indicated that he would not be replacing the lawnball. Instead, the pedestal now holds the grout-covered bowling ball that his wife LuAnn made for him during the Oregon heist.

"It's not as pretty, but I'd like to see Mother Nature take that sucker out," said Rogers defiantly. We're not sure it's a good idea to taunt Ma Nature in the Northwest. That bowling ball could end up blowing right through the bellows of one of Rogers' accordions!

7 Comments:

Blogger Lewis said...

Unbelievable! Perhaps the infamous Seaside posse -- some folks call them "lawn-ornament terrorists," others call them "lawnball freedom fighters" -- should have held onto the beloved orb throughout the rainy season.

8:31 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Psssst! Hey, buddy -- wanna hear an ugly rumor about that broken lawnball? Word on the mud rut that passes for a street up there on the Olympic Peninsula is that the lawnball wasn't even puttied in place. That's just downright negligent -- the Lawnball Liberation Front never would have let something like that happen.

9:21 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Me thinks Mr. Rogers is being a little too cavalier about the loss of this talisman. We TDA fans had an investment in the well being of that lawnball. Mr. Rogers was entrusted with it's stewardship. Anyone of us would have done a better job caring for it. The uses of All Weather Gazing Ball Putty has been the standard of care since the 1900's. We demand that Paul Rogers contact the manufactures in OH and replace the ball immediately!

9:48 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The sadness which has enveloped the community of seaside is beyond explanation. As you know, L.B. (as we liked to call it, became one of us during its brief stay. We will be holding a candlelight vigil down by the shore Saturday night during high tide and forty per mile an hour winds. You are all welcome to attend and there are plenty of hotel rooms available in Seaside this time of year. God Speed....

2:48 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dearest tummy troubadours.

I write with a heavy heart to mourn the passing of the beloved lawnball.

Alas, poor Lawnball.
I hardly knew ye.

This terrible tragedy has prompted me to run around my little D.C. apartment to hug each and every inanimate object that I own. One never knows when one will lose one.

Meanwhile, I am also trying to console myself for a disturbing discovery this morning. When I was diligently (and perhaps illegally) copying my Squeeze This CD into my laptop computer today, I was SHOCKED to learn that my computer lists the genre as "EASY LISTENING." No offense to my favourite tummy troubadours, but that album is not so easy to listen to. Why? Because it FRICKIN' ROCKS. This is proof that when the computers take over the world (I give it two years), it will be a very, very stupid, but very, very EASY LISTENING sort of place.

And now, back to "The Story of Lawrence Welk."

Long live Lawnball, now decorating Clyde's lawn.

-- Erstwhile Happenstance

5:41 AM  
Blogger Lewis said...

"Easy Listening"? What program are you using, iSuck? (Just kidding.) Wonder if that's how Gracenote classifies our music now. So ... very ... frightening ...

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