I know there is stuff going on with Bonnie Bishop, I can just feel it in my bones. I looked on MySpace, and Facebook, and Googled her and such, but I wasn't seeing what was really going on, so I picked up that old analog device, the telephone, and I called her. I caught her on the way to hosting the Red Carpet at the City of Hope/CMA Celebrity Softball Tournament. Posts about Celebrity Softball games twice in one week...who'da thunk it? Bonnie said she hoped she'd do OK, as she didn't know anything about baseball. But then she said she is going to channel her inner Chelsea Handler. I told her just ask lots of weird questions, and that she would be just fine. Doing a Red Carpet is one of the stranger things on the planet. The "journalists" on the red velvet rope approximate newborn birds in the nest, caw-ing really loudly to get the attention of "mom," played by the artists and their handlers that are walking the path, stopping here or there to give quotes to tape decks being waved in the air. Exhausting, really. Of course, this game is part of the CMA Music Fest, which is going on this week in Nashville. So if you like your country in the mainstream, that's certainly where you should be.
Bonnie is heading out on the road this week, after doing the Andy Griggs Celebrity Poker Tournament and Jam. Bonnie is becoming quite the celebrity sports woman! She'll be heading back home to Texas on this run, and I can't wait to see her! Meantime, let's revisit her from MusicFest at Steamboat! "Lucky Ones" with the master, Michael Webb.
- Jessie Scott
