She’s a close friend of my friend, Mark Lowry, and she was Vestal Goodman’s best friend. I wish I could be in heaven right now because I can only imagine the duets.

We’ve lost a lot of Southern Gospel greats in the past few months. This one is hard because it was an accident. Dottie was extremely sick for many years, but for the past few years, she’s been healthy and touring. For some reason, this one has hit me the hardest.

Dottie wrote a number of Gospel hits including We Shall Behold Him and He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs. Her song, I Go the the Rock was influenced by Black Gospel, and it was the first song that thrilled me as a kid.

Here’s Dottie singing about what I imagine her doing right now.

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Twitter Guests on this TNS were:

@dpaddock

@jeffmccord

@LyleDAL

@jfritsche

And, the birthday man, himself, @williamedia

Geoff tweeted that he was going live on ustream while he worked in his studio. Cali tweeted we were going to watch, and she invited twitter friends to join us. Geoff started taking requests and about 40 people had an unforgettable private concert.

That accident inspired Cali’s Streaming Christmas Party and at least two other Geoff performances that were equally as exciting.

The first couple of times, Cali did a lot of twittering throughout the show to encourage more people to join us. It felt like people were missing out on a great time. Last night about 20 people I follow on twitter were doing the same kind of promotion.

Geoff’s live shows are pretty difficult to describe to anyone who hasn’t clicked through to watch. He plays piano and guitar while singing and taking requests via chat. One guy who didn’t know Geoff showed up last night and couldn’t stop talking about how amazing Geoff is.

For the Big Trip, I have to sell my piano. It’s a digital baby baby grand (really short). It’s beautiful, but since it’s digital, it doesn’t have much resell value. Rather than selling it, I think it would be awesome if we could get it to Geoff to use for Ustreaming shows, but I don’t know how we could get it to him.

The legs come off and it’s about half the size of a baby grand, but it’s also extremely heavy. Have any ideas for getting it from Dallas to Geoff in Nashville? We have about a 3-week deadline before our lease ends.

I was using the Heil Classic Pro. It’s a mic I love, but without a shock mount option, it is too impractical for me. I take back what I said about liking the way it makes my voice sound.

Instead of wasting 7 minutes listening, you COULD just go read Jeff’s Blog.

Cali was shooting a video for The Big Trip about Arnie, a motorman who volunteers with the free trolley system in Uptown Dallas. Arnie asked her to put her camera down, and then he had her come up and drive. I got to drive it too, but the footage of Cali is more fun.

It was scary because there were passengers on board, but it was surprisingly easy since there is no steering involved. One handle clicked from point to point to speed up, and one handle moved slowly to slow down.

Beyond that, it was nice to have William the Graduated Geek Brief Intern (aka, Dr Pepper) join us to talk about the Dallas WordPress meetup this Saturday.

Details are on William’s Blog.

I still cannot recommend listening to this, but here’s the link.

The show should be available in iTunes within a couple of days.

It’s a 100% Ringspun Cotton Preshrunk American Apparel Fine Jersey T-Shirt. The logo is distressed. The samples should arrive in a week. What do you guys think?