Gary Cole joins the Good Guys

Gary Cole
Gary Cole | Via Wikipedia

Gary Cole will dawn a new stache and join Bradley Whitford and Collin Hanks on the The Good Guys for this week’s episode.

Cole will play the role of Dan Stark’s (Whitford) former partner.

I’ve really been enjoying this series — if for nothing else than trying to pick out the locations of a lot of the scenes in the movie — which primarily take place near mine and Laurie’s offices — just outside downtown Dallas.

It’s also been fun to see how they re-purpose buildings and locations at Fair Park throughout the series.

Plus Bradley Whitford and Collin Hanks are a lot of fun together.

Here’s to another fun episode with Cole — and hoping the chief doesn’t turn him into a paper-pusher filling out TPS reports all day.

Giveaway winners

Charlie Hall Band
The Charlie Hall Band

Thanks to everyone who entered the contest to win a collection of Charlie Hall CDs.

I appreciate everyone who took part and blogged about it.

Using a random integer generator, the four 2nd place winners are….

Alexthegreen
LizDyer
Headphonaught
Rachel

Congrats!!

And the winner of the Charlie Hall CD Pack…

Random.org
Random.org

Josh Estes

And in case you’re wondering… of all the comments, only one of you preferred Crowder’s facial hair over Charlie Hall’s.

For the winners, drop me an email with your mailing address and I’ll be sure the prizes are sent out ASAP.

Congrats again to the winners and thanks to everyone who entered!

Charlie Hall The Rising: Giveaway

Charlie Hall Band
The Charlie Hall Band

Oklahoma native — Mr Passion himself — Charlie Hall, has just released a new album – The Rising.

It’s a pretty sweet album (if I do say so myself).

As part of the album release, Sparrow Records has generously offered up a giveaway for the readers of my blog…

A COLLECTION OF CHARLIE HALL’S ALBUMS FROM SPARROW RECORDS!

Includes:
The Rising
The Bright Sadness
Flying Into Daybreak
On The Road To Beautiful

There will be one Grand Prize winner who will receive a copy of each of these albums! Four brand new albums to add to your collection.

Along with the Grand Prize winner, there will also be four second place winners who will receive a copy of Charlie Hall’s latest CD – The Rising.

Charlie Hall - The Rising
Charlie Hall - The Rising

To enter, simply answer the following question in the comments below:

Who has the best “chin beard” — Charlie Hall or David Crowder?

Charlie Hall
Charlie Hall
David Crowder
David Crowder

Or for an additional entry, simply Tweet the following:

“Win a collection of Charlie Hall’s albums http://ow.ly/2PuRF (via @jdblundell). Please RT.”

Be sure you include the link and my Twitter username so I can track all the entries.

The contest will end at 10 p.m. on Sunday evening (10-10-10) and I’ll chose one Grand Prize winner from all the comments and Tweets and four 2nd place winners at random on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010.

So be sure your comments and Tweets are posted before 10 p.m. CST on Sunday, Oct. 10.

Please, only one comment and Tweet per person.

Thanks for entering… and thanks even more for reading!

From Austin to Kenya: JC music video

My friends Russell and Elora recently returned from a trip to Nairobi with the students from Reagan High in Austin.

While on the trip one of the American students, Ni-D (Nijalon), connected with one of the Kenyan students, Daniel, while the two “battled it” out on the soccer field.

A brotherhood was formed, a song was written, recorded there in Kenya and then a video was shot in the largest slum area in the world, Kibera, Kenya, during the last few days of the trip. The video was later edited back in the States.

I love the collaboration between not only the two cultures but also everyone involved in the process.

Beautiful!

Read Russell’s post