Let There Be Rawk...

This here video was made possible by Fender, an iMac, Garageband, Quicktime Pro, WireTap Studio, iMovie and of course a guitar player who's still got a little too much 'guitar-ego.'

Enjoy.

Gorilla video

I just got one of these kewl tripods for my camera. So every once in a while, I set the camera on the car dash to record some video of my travels. On my way home from work on Friday, I filmed this on 35W.

Your life or your jewels, fool

A little Sesame Street gangsta rap for y'all.

The Office

No windows. No people. Flourescent lights. This is the office. My workplace. If I had a weaker constitution, I would surely flip-out under these conditions. I am, for lack of a better term, a weekday warrior. I get up early, even though my body tells me to sleep. I get up early, even though there is no boss here to keep track of when I come in. When the walls close in on me, I get out and walk around downtown. When my brain begins to wobble after staring at the computer screen for too long, I put my head on my desk and doze to the serenading buzz of flourescent lights. I daydream about having enough money to do other things. I prefer to walk up and down the six flights of stairs rather than stand in an elevator with strangers. I don't care to chit-chat or listen to the big-assed office ladies bitch about Judy in accounting, "who does she think she is? I turned in those forms three weeks ago."

I'm good at working. I actually have two jobs and work nearly everyday of the week. I'm not a whiner. Don't believe in it. It doesn't accomplish anything. And actually, I like what I do. It's better work than digging ditches. But it's still work.

Band of Brothers

Nate, Billy, Me and Chrispy earlier this week at Cosmos. These guys are, as the Chosen People say, Mensches. I looked up a couple definitions for Mensch and this one, from JewishHealing.com says it best:

A mensch literally means "a person" in Yiddish, but figuratively it means something much deeper. A mensch is a person with whom you would be happy to befriend and associate with, because you feel genuine in a mensch's presence. A mensch is a highly evolved human being.

The night this photo was taken by my lovely Mrs. was a weeknight. I had to cut my celebrating short, but she, Nate and Chris were heading out for more drinking and shenanigans. Now, my wife is a full grown woman and can handle herself. But there are times when I wake up at 7:30 a.m. to start my day and she's still out having her evening, I can get a twinge of worry. In this case, I didn't have a bit of concern. I knew she was with two men whom I trust with my life. And I knew that if any crap went down, that these guys would do everything to protect hers.

That's just what a mensch will do.

Time out

I'm a news-aholic, but sometimes the stuff gets so potent that I just have to put down the sauce. I'm taking a break from news about bank bailouts, about the father who got stomped by six dudes - one of whom pinched his 12-year-old daughter's butt, Iran, Iraq, the presidential campaign etc. So I'm watching nothing but fuzzy bunnies and kittens today.

We're all a bunch of stupids - part one

No one on TV does a better job than the Daily Show of showing how stupid we can be. Check out how Jon Stewart skewers the television media coverage of the New Yorker cover of the Obamas.

After hearing people say they were 'offended' by the cover, I get reduced to ranting like Lewis Black. @#%! You ##$!! idiots! Satire! @@#$%! Liberal magazine !@#%&** Because some !@#%! actually believe this #$^%#^!!

Ow, my spleen.

A few things to like about America...

...besides the Muppets.

NFL Football
The interstate highway system
the pursuit of happiness
wide open spaces
Jimmy Carter was born here
the Constitution
all the best music started here

That's about it.