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I didn’t make it to the Ultimate Texas Bash at Eddie Deen’s Ranch<\/a>, but Joe Haley tells me that it was a blast and that quite a few industry cowboys and cowgirls rode a mechanical bull. He predicted that there would be more than one person waking up with a Texas-sized hangover this morning.<\/p>\n After the show today, Ron Ball, Rich Fairfield — publisher of ASI’s magazines and the poor soul who Ron and I both report to — (Rich often laughs and tells people that while he loves us, we’re “unmanageable”) are driving three hours to Austin, TX, to meet with one of Rich’s favorite people in the industry, Herbie Piller, the owner of GroLine.<\/p>\n Hey Y’all — The first day\u00a0of the\u00a0ASI\u00a0Dallas Show was a good one, with lots of happy, friendly Texans and some awesome new products. My favorite? Selco’s new “Hardcore”\u00a0watch line (see photo), which is hip, edgy and totally cool. After the show\u00a0Christian Brandt, ASI’s executive\u00a0director of catalog sales and my show “handler,” and I went out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asi-shows","category-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellwether-asicentral.com\/bellblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellwether-asicentral.com\/bellblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellwether-asicentral.com\/bellblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellwether-asicentral.com\/bellblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellwether-asicentral.com\/bellblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bellwether-asicentral.com\/bellblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellwether-asicentral.com\/bellblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellwether-asicentral.com\/bellblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellwether-asicentral.com\/bellblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/bellwether-asicentral.com\/bellblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/dallas2-011.jpg\")
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\nBeing in a car with Ron and Rich for three hours is an experience… Rich has no sense of direction and a tendency to veer off onto the shoulder of the road because he has the attention span of a gnat; Ron at the wheel is a delight because he’s obsessed with his GPS device and plays with it constantly while driving. When the sexy woman’s voice instructs him with directions like “make a\u00a0left in 2.5 miles” he launches into profanity laced tirades. Consequently, whichever one of them ends up driving, I will be in the back seat curled up in the crash position.More next week!<\/a>Cheers!!!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"