HAPPY 28TH ANNIVERSARY OF DISCO DEMOLITION!

RANDOM THOTS UNTIL MY HOUR OF LIBRARY INTERNET ACCESS RUNS OUT

New job starts next week. Looks like it might be fun, or at least interesting. The hours are good, won't interfere with karaoke, and it'll keep the bills paid.

As for the old job, MARITZ IS EVIL. Let no one tell you different. I won't be one bit surprised when they destroy the life of one person too many and get the Virginia Tech treatment. (And no, I won't be the one doing it. I'm a pacifist and I'm no good with firearms. But I can dream.)



Watched the minor-league all-star game last night, from Isotopes Park in Albuquerque. Yes, the team there is called the Isotopes. Further proof that The Simpsons has been on WAAAY too long.

The 'retro' trend continues: Life keeps going in reverse not only for me but those I know. I'm back to doing phone surveys, and just the other night I was helping keep Idiotboy amused during his 3rd-shift gas station job. I can't help but notice how my life has been moving backwards and getting progressively worse over the last 6 years (2001-07), as opposed to the 8 years before that when life kept getting progressively better (1993-2001). Well, I'll be...those two time periods perfectly coincide with the Clinton presidency and the Bush dictatorship! Imagine that.



Speaking of Melissa Etheridge at Live Earth, wow. Right on, sister. Right on. Sadly my DVR failed to record a huge chunk of the whole shebang, but I at least got her stint, plus a nice Duran Duran/Sly and the Family Stone mashup and the Keith Urban/Alicia Keys duet. I missed the Spinal Tap reunion. :( Also I missed the holographic Al Gore, but maybe that's a good thing. But I did catch the Antarctic scientist band performance. Love their band name: Nunatak. Pronounced 'nun attack'. No accident that there were plenty of actual penguins enjoying the performance. Would have been cooler if an established band had made the trip down there for the occasion, because frankly, Nunatak were less than standard garage-band quality. Though they were still far more talented than Glide!



Which segues into the next topic. Note to Silversun Pickups: I dig "Lazy Eye", but I certainly hope not all your songs sound like Smashing Pumpkins. (The last thing the world needs is another Glide. There's a reason those talentless hacks only ever managed to put out half an album! [And BTW, Moron...er, Maroon 5: Please, all of you, die.])



Has anyone else with Buckeye cable checked out the new music channels, supplied by URGE Radio? Lots of good channels on there. My fave is "Dream Sequence", which could've just as easily been named after Pete's bit on the Steve Dahl Show: "Music Snob Corner". Also I've been hearing plenty of Drive-By Truckers on the "Diner" channel as well as "Wide Open Cunt..." [cough cough]...excuse me, "Wide Open Country". And the comedy channel is good too, tho they need another separate channel for novelty music.



Almost forgot Wimbledon. I had to mute the sound on the Venus Williams/Maria Sharapova match. (Perhaps the two worst grunters in tennis since Monica Seles.) Sounded worse than any Dynasty catfight. Even if they were co-starring in lesbian porn, I still wouldn't want to hear them making the noises they were making during that match!

Gotta go now. I still have a solitaire game I invented to pitch to the folks at Hoyle. Until next time, I leave you with this thot? Have you gone out yet and found a copy of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"? If not, read the previous post below.