Whoa - it is hard to believe that we have not sold out for Nanci Griffith on Thursday April 12. But is a way, that is good because that means there are still some tickets available. Get them while you can because this portends to be an AWESOME concert!

I had heard of Nanci Griffith for years before I heard Other Voices, Other Rooms. I wore that CD out. And the replacement CD. And my iPod got tired of it, but I didn’t. Then Flyer. Clock Without Hands. I was blown away again and again but her songs and her covers. Her West Texas twang has filled my head for many years.

Yes thee are stull tickets available for Nanci Griffith. I hope it sells out so she can see what a monserous welcome Blacksburg can give a fantastic singer!

War Horse is not a great movie but it is a nice movie and a good movie. War Horse is an animal movie straight out of the 1930s and 40s. The acting is competent, the characters well thought out and the story unbelieveable but fun to watch. I remember seeing Lassie Come Home and falling in love with collies. Joey the horse was very much a Lassie with a personality unlike many a horse.

The story is one of a farm lad watching a colt being born, the drunken father with a hidden past using the rent money to buy the horse, a spirited race horse not well suited to farm work, then fighting with the landlord to keep the farm. Sure enough, the horse has a heart of diamonds and plows the turnip field in time to get the crop planted. The movie then follows the trials and tribulations of Joey the horse and the effect he has on many people’s lives in several different European countries as he fights in World War One. I found myself pulling for the horse as he pulled the huge canon, a job that kills his best horse friend.

Is War Horse a cinema masterpiece? No. But it is a film that harkens back to when movies were a great escape from the Great Depression and the Second World War. I heartily recommend you see it!