The Empty Nest Bar and Grill

09/13/2023

Remembering Charlie.

R.I.P. Charlie Robison. About Austin City Limits Austin City Limits (ACL) offers viewers unparalleled access to featured acts in an intimate setting that...

09/13/2023

Just an update....

Posted September 8, 2023 by William Garner under Uncategorized Writing is hard. It’s like digging a splinter out of your soul. “Me, Boo and the Goob” was a great success when I released it several years ago. It took a long time to write because three chapters from the end, I encountered writer...

09/11/2023

Just an update on the progress of the sequel

Posted September 8, 2023 by William Garner under Uncategorized Writing is hard. It’s like digging a splinter out of your soul. “Me, Boo and the Goob” was a great success when I released it several years ago. It took a long time to write because three chapters from the end, I encountered writer...

08/01/2023

There is a reason no one ever says "WWBD".

Posted August 1, 2023 by Admin under Uncategorized Roughly five years ago, I released Me, Boo and the Goob: A Southern Adventure. It was my first book, and I didn’t know much about marketing it. In my research I found a template for marking a book. It seemed to make sense to me, so I followed it. ...

06/26/2023

It was an unfortunate incident at the breakfast bar.

Posted June 26, 2023 by Admin under Uncategorized Tomorrow I begin prep for a colonoscopy. I’m not excited about it. I don’t so much mind the procedure as I mind the prep for the procedure. I do not like being hungry. I don’t tolerate it well. I always enjoy a big breakfast and without it, I g...

05/10/2023

Jamaica, Mon.

Posted May 9, 2023 by Admin under Uncategorized May 10th 1994, Landi and I departed Jamaica much wiser than when we arrived there some ten days prior. We were there for our honeymoon. In our ten wonderful days there, we learned much about a wonderful island, its’ people, its’ culture and ourselv...

04/24/2023

Posted April 24, 2023 by Admin under Uncategorized Fifty years is a long time. Sometimes it’s hard to remember details. Sometimes, as we age and dates drift further into the deep recesses of our memory, the details blur together and things become indistinct. Sometimes we can’t remember, and othe...

04/06/2023

Sometimes getting kicked out of ASU isn't a bad thing after all.

Posted April 6, 2023 by William Garner under Uncategorized On a very hot and exceedingly humid September Sunday night in 1977, I lay sweating in an un-air-conditioned dorm room in Beebe Arkansas listening to a radio station from Little Rock as it was about play a new album released by Willie Nelson....

03/11/2023

The day Lynyrd Skynyrd came to town.

Posted March 11, 2023 by William Garner under Uncategorized In early 1974, an unknown band from Florida became famous almost overnight when Free Bird became a southern anthem. With with a monster hit song, the album Pronounced Lynyrd Skynyrd kept selling out everywhere. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Pronounced...

02/19/2023

The Coast.

Posted February 18, 2023 by William Garner under Uncategorized It is in the dead of winter that my mind wanders during household chores. While doing something in the bed room, my eye caught sight of something that sent me back in time. On my night stand there stands a small, lonely trophy. It is the...

01/10/2023

When you've got time to kill.

Posted January 10, 2023 by Admin under Uncategorized There was a time many years ago when exploring new albums meant going to TG&Y at Indian mall, or perhaps KATZ at Caraway Plaza and perusing the bins containing albums. The tiny and sparse inventory was selected and creatively managed by some middl...

07/08/2022

Posted July 8, 2022 by Admin under Uncategorized A Lab believes she can cure you when you are illA lab does not recognize the concept of personal space.A lab considers all bugs to be playmates.A lab will ensure that your beer does not get warm.A lab will joyfully remove your empty beer can.A lab wil...