BILL BLOG
Friday, October 31, 2025
It’s Friday morning, it’s Halloween, and it’s the last day of October…already. 62 for the high today in Nashville, and we will sneak back into the low 70’s this weekend. Not bad.
YESTERDAY
Lazy Wednesday at the Whyte House, but I did cross off a couple of overdue “gotta do” things on that long list of “gotta do”. That’s pretty much the end of those kinds of days for the next couple of weeks, with a show on Saturday night, and then a long road trip taking me to North Carolina, to Georgia, and back to Gulf Shores again.
WEIRD
On X today, some users nominated my song “The Dipstick Song” as “Song of the Year”. And I don’t know the person from Adam. But somehow, they found that song from my album “Off The Wall” and posted that thought on X. That’s a first.
That song is all about the high price of gas. And right now, gas prices are coming down, so it’s a bit of odd timing. But, I’m flattered…I think. Click the link above if you’ve not yet heard that tune.
SONG OF THE DAY
Today I’m choosing “An Old Gray Stone” that I wrote with bluegrass great Tim Stafford, that a young bluegrass band named Pythagorus, after the mathematician. A band of college kids from Eastern Tennessee University, where kids can major in bluegrass, believe it or not. Tim Stafford is one of the on-call professors there, and he pitched our song to the kids. Thank you Tim.
HEALTH NOTES
A new study says that autism diagnosis rates are higher among children born to mothers who had Covid-19 during pregnancy.
People are paying $200 to hold each other in the dark. Therapeutic…I guess.
Research suggests that the cold and flu can triple your risk of a heart attack.
HERE’S YOUR SIGN
Well dang. I’m usually in bed by 9 pm.
DOLLY’S HOTEL
They built this one here in Nashville. The Dolly Parton SongTeller Hotel, that is 12 stories high in downtown Music City, and you can reserve a room now for 2026.
And there’s a lot of pink to be found.
The Hotel will also house a Dolly Museum, where you can look at “Dolly” stuff, and a film on Dolly’s career. But I think they only take reservations from “9 To 5”. (I think)
CANDY
According to the publication Food and Wine, the most popular Halloween candy this year will be Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Followed by Peanut M&M’s, Regular M&M’s, and Kit Kats. And, Utah orders 50% more Halloween candy than every other state! Wow.
Me? Drop a mini Nestle Crunch bar in my bag if you will.
FUNNY CARTOON
AN AI CONVERSATION
AI has been filling out legal forms for lawyers, and judges are complaining that the forms are filled with mistakes. AI is everywhere folks.
I had a Doctor appointment yesterday, and asked the Doctor if AI would be affecting their jobs. He agreed it would, but noted that even though airplanes can basically fly themselves, customers would not be comfortable flying if there was no human in the cockpit. And that anyone having surgery would not feel comfortable if a Humanoid, or AI, was performing their surgery with no real Doctor in the room.
I thought that was a really interesting take on AI.
RATS
This restaurant in New York, Bobo’s, has a giant inflatable rat standing outside its doors. Been there a while. Someone just stabbed and deflated the rat.
It’s being patched and re-inflated as we speak. Which leads me to my New York rat experience.
I was in New York covering the CMA Awards that took place there for just one year for WMIL Radio in Milwaukee, where I was doing the morning show with my partner Scott Dolphin. They set up a broadcast table in a big empty room, and we turned on our microphones at 5:30 AM to start the show. The room is half lit, but as I’m saying “good morning” from New York, Scott and I see a big rat run across the back of that room. I remember saying, “Well…we really ARE in New York.”
RIDING AND SHOOTING
Country star Miranda Lambert is into riding horses…AND…shooting a gun at the same time. It’s a thing. They have competitions. It’s called “Cowboy Mounted Shooting.” Riders navigate a course on horseback and shoot balloon targets. The riders use .45 caliber single-action revolvers loaded with specially powered blanks.
No wonder she had a hit titled “Gunpowder and Lead”.
REAL ESTATE
An expert in Real Estate is telling first-time buyers that if they want to be able to afford a down payment on a home, they should stop buying Starbucks. At 5 or 6 bucks a cup? It adds up. And they still make these kids.
TODAY’S QUOTE
From comedian Ron White:
“I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade…And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.”
TODAY
I’m back at the songwriting table. I’ll be headed to my publishing company this morning to write with Jerry Salley and Alex Miller. Jerry is not only a talented songwriter-singer, but he’s the head of Billy Blue and Billy Jam Records, and he produces the albums that Alex makes. I’m pretty sure we’ll be writing something that might fit Alex today, like THIS SONG did, which was Alex’s first ever single for the label after coming off the American Idol show, “Don’t Let The Bar Door Hit Ya”.
This evening? Game 6 of the World Series will get my attention as the Series moves back to Toronto.
THE WEEKEND
I have a show tomorrow evening in Pulaski, Tennessee, for the Rotary Club there with songwriters Steve Dean, Bill DiLuigi, and Bobby Tomberlin. Looking forward to that.
And then Sunday? We fall back an hour. Geez. It’s going to start getting dark WAY too early for me.
Have a great weekend!
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