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Do you Squidoo? We do!

Have you discovered Squidoo yet? The cyberchild of marketing guru and bestselling author Seth Godin, Squidoo is part blog, part personal Web site, part e-commerce portal, and part .... Well, just look at the official definition:

Squidoo: SKWID-OO, n. v., adj., addiction. 1) thousands of people creating a handbuilt catalog of the best stuff online; 2) a free and fun way to make your own page and get traffic; 3) a place to find what you're looking for, fast.

T-Bone's tribute to one of his favorite bands, Drive-By Truckers, was originally posted on Squidoo. Our page there is a work in progress, and we'll be adding more content and links in the coming weeks. If you like the stuff here on Blogabillies, then click on over to our Squidoo lens, Southern Writers and Humorists, where you can find links to the Truckers' music online, and other fun stuff.

Check it out. Once you do ... you'll Squidoo too!

Me and Forrest Gump

by T-Bone

Several years ago, when Winston Groom’s Forrest Gump (I give the author more credit than the movie producers did) was raging through the movie theaters, I was chagrined to notice an awful lot of similarities between my past and the fictitious Mr. Gump’s. Can’t say I saw that observation as a compliment. Yet I did have a way of unknowingly getting into historical Southern situations on a regular basis, and my path has crossed with more than a skosh of famous characters and figures.