Debate this

On Saturday Ruth Levy just stopped by (read: woke me up from a good nap) in an attempt to talk me into voting for her. She's the Democrat running against incumbent Judson Hill (R) for Georgia Senate, District 32.

For those not knowing, East Snobb, stereo typically, leans so far right that they'd need a 12 cases of V-8 per person to get center again. It's not that I'm against right leaning people, just the ones that get Snobb county on national TV talking about creationism into public schools. It's got to be tough on any Democrat to win much less get a respectable percentage of the vote. There was an immediate amount of pity for her. Did that stop me for taking it to her? Nope.

I have never had the opportunity to question a politician or a potential politician so I was not going to let this golden chance just slide by. I asked what her platforms where and the first thing out of her mouth was Health Care. Uh-Oh. I asked if she was in favor of a nationwide healthcare plan that insured every American. She replied with a strong; "Yes". DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER!!!

RRS: Name one national program that covers every American that the federal government runs as well as the United States Armed Forces.

Ruth: *silence*, *thoughtful thinking* Well the government does many things well...

RRS: *Interrupting her* No. (I then apologized that she came by the wrong house) I said; name one large all encompassing program that that covers every American that the federal government runs as well as the United States Armed Forces.

Ruth: *More silence*

RRS: That's because you can't. Health care for every citizen that can't afford it is a very noble idea. But the US government is not the one to run it. That have yet to prove to me that they can do more than two things well at any one time. In addition, I don't want to and shouldn't be expected to give my money to support the destitute, poor or general lazy ass that doesn't want to work. If I did I would give to the homeless people I drive past every day.

Ruth: But shouldn't we help those less fortunate?

RRS: Yes, that is what charities are for.

This portion finished up quickly as she realized that she didn't have an argument. (I'm quite sure that one of you reading this has already come up with something to shoot my point of view down, but for her it worked quite well.)

The conversation moved onto education. She said that education is her top priority. I said I didn't care because I didn't have kids, sorry but there were bigger fish to get to. But, her flier did say that she was a teacher. I asked where she taught. She has subbed all over the area and in Gwinnett as well. She currently teaches at Davis Academy, a private school. Well this raised my eyebrow and she beat me to the punch and asked if I wanted to know her opinion on school vouchers. I said no, but I wished her good luck with that one.

According to her flier and her website she is a veteran of the Air Force, serving 12 years. I like that, I think our elected leaders should know something about the military. So the current war seemed like a good topic. I don't agree with the war, but I also believe that we're already over there, we should finish the job correctly and then bring our men and women home. She believed that they should come home as soon as possible, draw up a plan and withdraw immediately. I looked at her, realized debating this issue with her would be a lost cause. We moved along.

I asked about her opponent and what he stood for. She quickly rattled off the fact that Hill voted for SB3. A new law that limits Georgian's rights to sue. Well that got us going on the rights of it's citizens and how the government, state and federal are stripping away our right one by one. She said that she agreed and brought up abortion. She's pro-choice and so am I, so that was nothing. Morally against it but REALLY against the government telling it's citizens what they can or can't do with their bodies.

We went on and around in circles on a few more issues. Mainly it consisted of me trashing all politicians. How they just want to win to have power and not do what's right for their constituents.

We finished up with gay rights. She said that she is pro gay rights. Well damn it, there's another thing we agree on. I hate that she is for nationalized health care and a democrat. Democrats also generally like large government, I hate that too. She has no experience and if I can shut you down on an issue, you might have some serious home work to do.

With all that said, she's probably a better choice than Judson Hill. According to his website he's pro-life, pro-marriage (read:anti-gay), and he used to be the Senior Event Planner for Promise Keepers. If you need another reason not to vote for him, his website doesn't play well with Firefox. Ok Ruth, you got my vote, but I'm not really happy about it. You're just an alternative to the other guy.

Read this

This might be the most intelligent thing Cynthia Tucker has even written.

Exsqueeze Me? A Baking powder?.......this

Friday was spent at The Snobb Galleria Centre, my former place of employment, where I manned a trade show booth for a client. In the course of doing my job a visitor to my booth said to me; "I'm not paying 2o bucks to see baby's penis, again." Yup, Friday was interesting.

Light this

A few weeks ago there was a note on our door and it said that Atlanta Gas Light was in our area and needed to switch out out gas meter. They asked that I call and set up a time for them to come out and perform this maintenance. I called. No one answered. I left a detailed message about who I was, where I was, when they could reach me and how they could reach me. They never called back and I forgot all about it.

Until yesterday. I came home last night to discover a pink slip on the front door. No, my house didn't fire me but Atlanta Gas and Light stopped by and turn off the gas. No warning, they just shut off the gas. They swapped out the meter and left our gas off. Off on purpose. They needed to finish up and we had to be there for that. But I was pissed. You just don't go around turning people's utilities off without at least warning them first.

I called and this time I got a woman who after looking up my account and listening to my story apologized over and over again. I told her to stop apologizing because she didn't do anything wrong. Then she said something I had never heard from a customer service associate. She said; "Yes sir, I know I didn't do this to you personally, but I work for this company and my company did this to you, so I am very very sorry we did this to you." At this point, my ears fell off, my penis turned inside out and the ground got really really really cold. After putting on some slippers, she then went onto tell me what she could do to get the gas turned back on.

Bottom line, still pretty pissed that AGL took the liberty of turning off my gas at their convenience. But on the bright side they have at least one amazingly nice customer service person that will do what it takes to make you happy.


On a separate note, what kind of world do we live in where Andrea Yates gets a retrial?
On a related note, what kind of a world do we live in where Andrea Yates is found not guilty by reason of insanity and gets to live in mental institution instead of going to jail for killing her kids?

Watch this

Mac spoof dealing with the new black macbooks.

Weekend this

Much like last weekend, this weekend was filled with horn gigs. Friday night Dave and I sat in with Modern Skirts (which had a spin of New York Song on 99x Sunday night) at the E.A.R.L. They drew a solid crowd and as a bonus I got to see a former co-worker and her finance, Kevin.

Saturday Funkle Ester drove over the border to play Tiki Hut. I arrived early at the venue because I like to take my time getting there and relax. The Tiki Hut gig is good for a few reasons.

1) The pay and camaraderie between the band member justifies the drive.
2) They put us up in a comfortable condo.
3) A generous food and beverage deal.
4) The crowd is always more entertaining than we are.
5) Something odd always happens.

I drove straight to the condo and the door was locked. The club was close so I drove over to get the key. Turns out the owner rented the condo out for the night so we were going to be put up in apartments instead. Not knowing where to go, I followed the club manager to the apartments which are about 500 yards away. What could possibly happen in 500 yards worth of time?

Can you say "dead Bambi"? This stupid although very cute baby deer tried to make his way across the road in front of the manager's very large pickup truck. For a moment it looked as if Bambi was safe. The baby deer stopped and stayed on the side of the road. Then at the LAST POSSIBLE MOMENT, Bambi decided to run directly into the front right tire of the pickup truck. There was nothing that could have prevented this accident except for the deer. The deer made a bad decision. He ran RIGHT INTO THE TIRE. I could understand if he was thinking;

"Look at the really big shiny rock coming towards me at a high rate of speed, I
think I can make it across the road before he gets here."

But that wasn't his thought. It was;

"ABORT ABORT ABORT, I'M NOT GOING TO MAKE IT. Whew.....ok, RUN RIGHT AT IT!!!"

I don't think this is a good thing, I like deer, they're fun to look at and a very beautiful animal, but I'm also not mourning Bambi's passing either. I'm chalking this up to natural selection. The smart survive and the dumb die. The deer bounced off of the tire and back onto the grass where it thrashed quite violently on its back. I figured the manager would have stopped for one of three reasons.

1) To help the deer
2) To put it out of it's misery
3) To put it out of it's misery and add it to the club's nightly specials

He didn't stop. Should I have stopped? I don't know, I'm still debating that one internally.

We went onto the apartments, checked out his truck (it was fine, not a scratch) and proceeded to check out each apartment. We took a tour of each of the units to make sure that the cleaning ladies had been there and to make sure that I had all the correct keys. A quality nap later I head back to the club to load-in. To my surprise there was no deer on the side of the road. When I saw the club manager he said the deer was gone when he drove back to the club hours earlier. So maybe it survived and was badly stunned. If it died, I hope it didn't suffer.

I have no good ending to this story.


This particular gig has its up and downs but I got to spend a few minutes with an old college friend and his wife. For those of you that remember him, B Sproul has just accepted the job of Assistant Director of Bands for Clem's son University. We toasted his job and then I proceeded to make fun of him for having to wear orange. Orange is stupid. End of list.

As far as the gig being odd. It was. Spoonman was there, complete with spoons AND washboard. Spoonman is your typical county grandpa looking creature. Overalls, really bushy grey beard and a pickup truck. But no ordinary pickup truck. It has a gigantic litebright board in the back that has been plugged to form an American flag. And on the very end there is a hangman's noose with a sign above it that says "Terrorist's Swing Set".

The 8 year old punk kid yelling "Free Bird" between every song from last month's gig was also in attendance. This time we decided to shut him down early. While we were setting up (setting up mind you, we haven't even played a note) he started in on us with; "Free Bird!!!"

ME: "We don't know it."

8 yr old: "Learn it"

ME: "No"

8 yr old: "This sucks"

Dave (laughing): "We'll it can only get better from here."

The kid left shortly after that.

If you watched the season finale of SNL a few months back, you might have noticed that Tina Fey was wearing a t-shirt that said; "Thank you". This shirt cause speculation that the head writer, co-anchor of Weekend Update and actor was leaving the series unannounced. No news from SNL, Fey, or NBC about this. Until now. Last Friday night on Skunkhead's late night show, Fey announced that she would not be returning to SNL to fulfill her obligations with her new show "30 Rock".

Eat this

My working lunch today at the Landmark Diner was fantastic.

Then the bill came and I laughed so hard I threw up in my mouth a little bit.

Watch this

Seriously?!?!?!

Heath Ledger as The Joker in the next Batman movie is about as good of an idea as dropping a cocked mouse trap on my balls. This is the worst casting of all time. Except of course John Wayne cast as Gengis Kahn in The Conquerer.




Modern Skirts

Tonight

The EARL

10:45 PM

I don't know him.

I never met him.

Still...Is there anything worse than bad things happening to good people?

Rest in peace.

Sell this

Last holiday season, my youngest brother wanted a specific PS2 game. Great!!! He knew what he wanted and I knew I could find it. One stop and one swipe of the debit card and it was done.
I went home and hid his gift so well that I found it about a month ago. What to do with a game that you can't return.

I mentioned my dilemma to a friend of mine and solution was instantaneous. "Sell it on ebay!" I took her up on it last week with two items. A Gambal drum crank and this PS2 game. The game has yet to sell but drum key sold for 35 bucks in two days!!! That's all it took, I'm hooked on selling things on Ebay.

I have stuff lying around the house that I don't need, use or look at anymore. Clutter bugs the hell out of me. Items don't have to be aligned at right angles, but everything has to have a home.


When I get home the first thing I do is unload my pockets. Wallet, keys, everything in my pockets comes out and goes into a drawer in the kitchen. This is my drawer for that kind of stuff. I have a collection of old cell phones and they have been living in that drawer for sometime. They've been staring at me for a weeks now and yesterday I buckled down. While collecting the appropriate chargers for the phones, I decided to go through the rest of the house seeing if there was anything else that I could live without. Hello Pearl snare drum stand that will never be used again. Hello Microsoft trackball that I won't touch. Hello other things that I'm too embarrassed to write your name. I snapped some photos, emailed them and their description to the ebay pal and up they went.

One of the phones sold overnight for an amount of money that is flat out ungodly. This is way too easy.

I realize ebay has been around for a while now and I feel like I'm coming about 10 years late to the party, but this is freaking great. It's like having a yard sale without the effort, time, and strangers giving you funny looks for what you own. If you aren't going to buy the 13" black vibrating dildo that sings "O come all ye faithful" then put it down.

Elect this

I'm really split right now. Part of me is so proud to be a Georgian and part of me wants to start telling people I'm from Alabama.

First, the good news. The voters of Georgia saw through Ralph Reed and he is gone. I wonder how many Democrats voted in the Republican primary just to get Reed out of the race.

In mediocre news, John Crooks, Minister of Administration at Roswell Street Baptist Church, did not win the Post 6 Cobb County School board seat last night. That's the good news. The bad news is that he received most of the votes with 44%. Second place Kathie Johnstone had 28%. So, they're heading to a run off. For the record, I think Kathie is a pretty shitty member of the school board, but I'll take her over the self-centered religious jackass, John Crooks. Unfortunately I can't vote against him. I'm in the wrong School district.

The bad news. Cynthia McKinney is also heading to a run off. Who keeps voting for Cynthia McKinney? Do these people not own a TV? How can anyone watch her and think that she represents Georgia well? Cynthia is like the 80s TV show, My 2 Dads, without the laugh track and worse writing. Nothing good happens around Cynthia McKinney.

Bet this

I got my chips in with AK.

My opponent had 10-9 suited.

By the time the river came I had 19 outs. 2 overs with a flush and straight draw. I didn't catch.

I lost.

I won $200.

He won a grand.

I'm still pissed.

Yes, I being greedy. "Found" money is "Found" money and I should be and am thankful.

But losing sucks. This might be hard to understand, but it's not about the money. It's about winning. It's about knowing that for one night, you played better than everybody else. I FUCKING HATE LOSING.

Let me say that again. I FUCKING HATE LOSING!!!

I went in all in with the best hand and got very unlucky.

I'm not saying that I *should* have won, I am saying that I was statistically ahead. 66% to 34%. He got lucky. That's poker.

I'm just pissed I lost.

You would be too.

I played well. I got unlucky.

But I added $100 to my bankroll and by coming in second in the quarterly tourney, it gives me a free ride to the next quarterly tourney. So in 12 weeks, we're going to do this all over again. Playing for a free grand.

The pros...I learn something every time I play and if I could do this for a living, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

Thank you Kit and Stacy for your support.

Receive this

Last night I got a little bummed. I went to itunes to upload my weekly podcasts and I was shocked, SHOCKED, to see that the Penn Gillette podcast was gone. Not totally gone but there were only a few tracks available for upload and I had listened to all of them already. This podcast is a condensed (read: no or very few commercials) version of the FreeFM radio show that is broadcast in about 7 cities nationwide but not in Atlanta.

The radio show started back in March and I didn't start listening to it until about 5 weeks ago. So I still have two months worth of radio left but regardless, WTF?!?!? I fired off an email to pennradio@gmail.com asking about the lack of podcast. Penn doesn't check this but his co-host Michael Goudeau does. Michael is also the opener for Lance Burton at the Monte Carlo.

I just got a response from Goudeau. He didn't tell me what happened but he did tell me where I can find bootlegged podcasts of the show. Woo-Hoo! If you care, you can subscribe through pennfans.net.

Next part of the kickass day today...Free CD day at work. It turns out that one of my co-workers used to work at a music store and after years of retail album slinging and becoming good friends with the owner; she accumulated a large selection of CDs. By large, I mean massive, and by massive I mean A FUCKING LOT OF CDS.

We went down around one to peruse the selection and I was enthralled by the selection, volume, and variety. It took over an hour and a half just to skim over every box and there was something for everyone. I walked out of there with 40 CDs and looking at everyone else I was below average.

It was a Funkle filled weekend.

There was Tasty World Friday night where the only remarkable thing about that show was Cindy Wilson from the B-52's shaking her groove thing by the bar. I told her thanks for coming out and she responded with a compliment. That was nice of her. I won't point fingers at anyone here, but one of my friends was more than star struck with Cindy. The phrase "drooling all over herself" was used to describe her reaction.

Saturday's gig in Eatonten was an outdoor gig that was a fund raiser for a new concert venue for the city. So far this season we've been lucky with the weather. Not too hot and rain has not been an issue. That ended yesterday.

Saturday was hot. Very hot. And before I get a comment about how Vegas was 15 degrees hotter on Saturday; let me tell you that I can't wait to be in Vegas during August because there is no God Damn Humidity. Bring on the 115 degree highs and the 88 degree lows with less than 10% humidity. I can't wait!!!

This week, go ahead and make plans to see Modern Skirts Friday night at The EARL. It is a co-bill with Y.O.U. and I don't know who is going on when. Just show up early.

Arrest this - UPDATED!!!

One of the people linked on the right is a woman named Bunny. She used to write for Flagpole and I've run into her a few times in Athens, mainly at Modern Skirts shows. If you don't read her, you should, it's a little ADD and odd at times, but that makes her fun to read.

She just got out of jail. She and her husband (who is about to start OCS) put their house up as collateral to post her bail. What did she do? Go read this and then help her out by buying one of her overpriced t-shirts. Could the story be fake? I wouldn't put it past her. But I like a good fake story more than a good real one. Moral of her story, buy car insurance.

Judging by the quality of my hangover, we had a pretty good time last night.

***The updated part***

OHHH!!! I will pay $20 (actually it's Brett's $20 that I won from him last night) to anyone that does this today and sends me a picture of it.

Funkle tonight at Tasty World

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Somebody's kicking ass

Brett and Gunner pass through town tonight for one last hurrah before Gunner drives up north to start his new job.

Cards tonight.

Funkle tomorrow night in Athens at Tasty World.

Funkle Saturday night in Eatonton for something that pays better than a club gig.

And on the sabbath I will rest my ass off.


This is ridiculous.

and

This gives me hope that maybe one day I can trade my toe nail collection for a ride in the Space Shuttle.

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Is there anything worse than a person that attempts covers their incompetence with a rude and arrogant disposition?

Not to get to deep on you or anything but Matt Damon said it right.

"Listen, here's the thing, if you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker."

No, I wasn't the sucker, but I did feel like a ping pong ball tonight. I got shoved in and out of ass holes all night long.

That's not what you do with ping pong balls?

Oops.

Answer this

Damn it!!!

I just watched an episode of VH-1's World Series of Pop Culture that we auditioned for back in March and I'm pissed. The questions on the show were easier than the audition questions. We are sooooo trying out again and this time we will do something different to get on the show. I'm guessing we need to show more cleavage.

After sleeping in and waking up still amazed by my new vision I made my way Atlantic Station to take in my first live AVP tournament. I normally spend an hour on Sundays watching the finals of the AVP tournament that was taped two weeks prior so I was pretty tickled to have courtside tickets for a live final.

Although the semi-final action started at 9 this morning, I was only interested in catching the matches that went down this afternoon; the men's final and the women's final. As I get older I find myself not screwing around with tickets. If I'm going to spend the money to go to a show, a concert, a sporting event; I'm going to spend the extra money to have really good seats. In this case the difference from the standard gallery ticket price to courtside was ten dollars. The seats ended up being four rows back and right on the action. I could call the outs and ins just as easily as the refs.

I won't get into the who played who and the AWESOME rallies but the entire experience, except for the sweltering weather, was great. Although I didn't get a good look at him, Karch Kiraly was in the booth calling the action, his former Olympic gold medal partner Mike Lambert won the men's title and I got to confirm that Kerri Walsh is indeed a super hottie. But that's probably because she's six foot three inches tall, has earned over a million dollars playing volleyball, and could kill me with her overhead spike.

Some pics for your amusement.


Overhead serve from Elaine Youngs. The gallery watching under the Jose Cuervo banner are a few of the other teams that were knocked out throughout the tournament. To the right (their left) is the live production booth.



This next shot happens all the time if you're wearing a bikini, constantly running all over the court and diving into the sand, but I couldn't help snapping a pic. It's of eventual winner Rachel Wacholder.



Kerri Walsh preparing to serve



Kerri Walsh serving



Kerri Walsh taking it to the ref



Kerri Walsh and Misty May anticipating the ball



And finally, I found this funny all afternoon. The ball girl had to stand right up the ref's ass all day. And all day I found myself wondering what he ate for lunch and if she was being forced to smell it.

Lasik this

Yesterday I left work early, went home and changed into more comfortable clothes. I arrived at LasikPlus Galleria location promptly at the 4 PM. During the course of the next hour I was gradually taken into different rooms for some final tests to make sure nothing major had changed with my eyes.

When preparing for Lasik, you learn that one test has to do with the thickness of your corneas. If your corneas are too thin you are ineligible for Lasik and if you want corrective surgery you have to have PRK instead. PRK can be very painful and takes about a month to recover, while Lasik is much less painful and it take just a few days to rebound.

About 5:20 I met my surgeon, Dr. Smith. He looked over my charts one last time and then inspected my eyeballs just to make sure everything looked good enough to slice open. Dr. Smith was incredibly nice and down to Earth. His resume is quite impressive and he's a Dawg fan to boot. After a brief chat, I took my glasses off for the last time and a nurse put a hairnet on my head. I asked what the purpose of a hair net on a bald guy was but no one had an answer. I laid down on the table and they slid me under the laser machine.

My left eye was covered and once my right eye was sufficiently numbed it was held wide open by some type of metal clamp. Eye drops, more drops, more drops. Then a circular suction device was clamped to my eyeball. This portion of the surgery would be considered odd to say the least. The suction was turned on and it got very dark. Then there was the clicking noise which was the saw cutting a flap in my cornea. It is very odd to know what it happening but you can't see it and you can't feel it.

The suction was removed, light came back into focus, and then the doctor opened the cornea flap opened. He just took some tweezers and opened my eyeball. It was very strange to watch this from the "inside". Life got really blurry at this point and I was told to stare at the red light which was the laser. The doctor spoke to the nurses in numeric code, the laser turned on and then it was over. More drops, more drops, more drops. He closed my cornea back, more drops, more drops, more drops, and then I closed my eye. The patch was removed from the left eye, placed over my right and the entire process was duplicated. Still with me?

The entire process took about 4 minutes per eye and was pain free. There was some uncomfortable moments, but no pain. I got up off the table and could tell there was already an improvement. But it was still very blurry. I was told that was due to the cornea flap and the swelling around it.

Doctor Smith took another look at my eyes and deemed me good to go. A nurse gave me the run down on what I can and can't do over the next few weeks and instructions on my eye drops.

I got home about 6:30 and as instructed, took a nap. I woke up at 9:30 and my eyes were very sensitive to light. I ate some dinner, took a sleeping pill and went to bed. This made for the least exciting Friday night I can ever remember.

This morning was amazing. I woke up and I could see AND read the clock on the other side of the bedroom. I know for those of you that have 20-20 vision it's hard to imagine not being able to see without any help. For me, this marked the first time in 22 years that I could see without the use of glasses or contacts. This surgery is life changing. I have found myself tearing up throughout the day because of the results.

I went back to the doctor this morning for my follow up. I have 20/30 vision in my right eye and 20/25 in my left. Combined, I have 20/20 with some haziness. My sight will continue to improve over the next few days and weeks while I heal and the swelling continues to go down.

If you are thinking about having this done; I would highly encourage it and additionally I would give LasikPlus, Dr. Smith and his associates a huge recommendation. They were professional, friendly, and most of all they are genuinely concerned for what was best for me. This surgery will change your life.

Waiting on this

The Final Countdown is on (and I'm really glad that I've never gotten so drunk and inspired to make a video that could be posted on the internet). T-Minus 6 and half hours or so until eyeball slicing time.

I'm leaving work early today so some of my co-workers know that I am having Lasik done. I thought it would be funny to show up on Monday for work in dark glasses with a cane. Stacy said that I would be pushing my luck/tempting fate/bad karma, etc, etc.

I've only had one other surgery in my life. I didn't get nervous for that, probably due to the limited amount of time I was allowed to get nervous. Plus anesthetic is really really cool. This surgery although I not "going under" is a little nerve racking. And don't think I'm being a wuss about this, they are going to CUT OPEN MY EYE. No, I'm not wigging out, just a little anxious and I think that's probably a good thing.

Deep breath; in with the good air; out with the Javier.

Countdown to Ecstasy plays Andrew's Upstairs tonight. When I heard someone was going to do a Steely Dan cover band, my first thought was; "Riiiggghhhhttt, Good luck with that suckers." Once again, I was wrong. They are really really good. Go see them, but only if you like Steely Dan. If you don't enjoy Steely Dan you will be miserable.

I just heard that Gunner passed his Orals.

By the way...Did you know that the "Tom Cruise" episode of South Park was just nominated for an Emmy?

Preparation this

The Lasik preparations are in full swing. It doesn't take a whole lot to prepare for it but I am now fully prepared. Post surgery I am supposed to wear 100% UV blocking sunglasses anytime I go outside and the sun is present. After work I went over to Cumberland Mall to secure the appropriate eye protection. Check.

After that is was to Walgreens to pick up the proper prescription drops. Check.

Anything else? I have secured a driver for post surgery and I have cleared the schedule for Friday night and all day Saturday for rest and recuperation. Sunday however, I better be ready to go.

I have been a fan of beach volleyball for a very long time and for the first time that I can think of; the AVP tour is coming through Atlanta and I have good tickets with my name all over it. So no pressure eyes, but you have got to be good to go. If not, someone in the Atlanta area better be prepared to take the tickets off my hands and have a good time in my place.

Anything else? Nope. I'm ready for the slice and dice. Am I worried? A little bit. Is that normal? I think so. Is anyone else sick of the Q and A format that this post has taken? I think so.

A couple of upcoming shows to mark your calendar for. Radio Cult plays Peachtree Tavern tomorrow night. Countdown to Ecstacy, a fantastic 12 piece Steely Dan cover band, is playing Andrew's Upstairs Friday night and Friday July 21st, Modern Skirts are back at The Earl.

Dock this

For you Apple geeks out there, this link was posted on Engadget this morning.

This

I just lost my two page post due to an ABC website that locked up Firefox. If I was one of those live journal people, my "Current Mood" would be "Fucking Pissed Off"


So here's the summary.

Vacation was fine, I caught 8 fish in one day. Not big fish, but fish none the less and that's something.

Funkle went to South Carolina this past Saturday for a show and I had a ball. For the first time ever, I had to play sans Dave and Dave and I wasn't looking forward to it. However, I played very well and had a blast. It's amazing what you can do when you can hear yourself in the moniter mix.

Go watch this trailer and if you're still interested in America: Freedom to Fascism then visit their website and watch the fourteen minute trailer or the hour long interview with the director. The movie is a documentary about finding the law that makes us pay income tax.

Three days until Lasik. Apprehension has arrived.

When the launch clock hit 1:00, I said out loud; "One minute, one minute remaining". Kit laughed, the rest of the room was silent.

Firecrackers are awesome.