Inside The Perimeter

No fancy-pants coffee today, just a piping hot cup of dark-roast coffee from Joe’s Coffee Shop in East Atlanta served to me by Ellen.

Ladies And Gentlemen, Start Your Updaters
So far I am the only one that I have seen who has mentioned this, but Apple has released a new security patch for both its PowerPC and Intel platforms. It has a shit-ton (technical nerdy term) of patches in it so I highly recommend going and getting the update.

I Can’t Wait For Vista
Vista. Vista. Vista. The “revolutionary” new operating system from Microsoft is due out at the end of January and I am excited.

I am not excited because I am looking forward to installing Vista on any of my computing platforms, instead I am excited because I am hoping the that price of WindowsXP will drop dramatically once it becomes obsolete. Once this occurs I will purchase a copy of Parallels and run WindowsXP as a virtual machine on my iMac.

I am such a fucking nerd and I love it!

When I Learn How To Use This Phone I’ll Be Dangerous
The inner-nerd in my is also frustrated that I have not successfully learned all of the nuances of my new Samsung BlackJack cell phone. I have figured out how to access my Gmail account (make sure you enable POP3 access from within Gmail) but other things still befuddle me.

- I haven’t figured out if I can upload my own mp3’s and use them as a ringtone. I’d assume that I cannot since Cingular enjoys reaming us for $2.49 for a single song. However, this is still better than the ninety-day rental offered by Sprint for $0.99.

- I can use the camera, but unlike on my last phone I cannot figure out how to send a picture to an email address (like my Flickr account). I can only type numbers in the “To:” field for a multi-media message.

- I’ve yet to figure out if I can upload my “old” Windows-based PDA to my PC and then synchronized the phone in order to get all of my Calendar and Contact data to my phone.

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Part of the Dekalb Avenue mural

I think I want to go back and re-shoot this at a time when the sun and branches don’t create shadows.

Note To Self: Quit Buying Tomato Sauce!
My cupboard now contains six, count ‘em six, jars of Prego Tomato Sauce. Mind you not all of them have the same ingredients, but it seems that I either cannot

1) Remember that I already possess these when I am tooling around in Kroger
or
2) Act like the trained zombie I am when I see that Kroger is selling them 2 for $4

Thankfully I really like tomato sauce and it lasts for-nearly-ever prior to opening the jar, but jeez six jars? Someone want to come over for pizza, or spaghetti, or lasagne, or ….?

Is It Already December 11th?
My Amazon package arrived yesterday and apparently UPS doesn’t understand Italian. From the condition of my box it appears that they were using it as a stepladder even though the box was marked FRAGILE. Thankfully they were unable to damage the incredibly cheap clock contained within.

11 Of 12
Today marks the end of month eleven. I hereby declare 2006 to be a “Shitty” year for me. Sure there are still thirty-one days in which some things can turn around (read “I can find a woman who might allow me to have more than two dates with her”), but then there are others which will require longer periods of time (read “remove spare tire from midsection”).

From now through Dec 31 I will be taking in massive quantities of adult beverages, attempting to perfect some photography skills, collating receipts for my ‘06 taxes, thinking about my “Year End” lists, and determine what goals I will have for 2007.

Thanks, But I’ll Pass On Incubus
Ticketbastard reminds me that tickets for Incubus are on sale. Thanks, but for me Incubus’ name is carved in stone on my monument for Bands I Cannot Stand.

Tonight I’ll be finding out if any other bands will join Incubus as I trot out to The EARL to see a band named Casper And The Cookies. Admittedly I don’t know much about this band, but really liked the songs posted by Rich a few days ago over at Cable And Tweed. Return tomorrow and I am sure you’ll find out more about this band…

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - My knee hurts. I cannot figure out why because it’s not like I’ve been exercising or something.
Current Music - Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 26 playing Bloc Party — “Like Eating Glass”
Website Of The Day - Baby animals are so cute, especially when you don’t have to care for them. Baby Animalz is a website with a gallery of baby animals photos — some of which are so cute you can’t help but want to look away.
Exercise (b)Log - none

Cheers,
Paulie [eatl/ga]

I am still trying to get into the Christmas spirit. I used to love Christmas time, even during the many years I was girlfriendless.

This morning I stopped into the Caribou Coffee near my office (note that I have not been dropping in at Joe’s much lately — the lovely Ellen seems to work but one morning a week now. As much as I’d like to support the hood I miss her friendly smile) and bought a Gingerbread Latte and a slice of gingerbread. Do not try this at home, I am a trained coffee drinking professional and would hate for you kids to emulate me just because I look cool. Furthermore, such behavior will have adverse effects upon your waistline.

Dear Major Credit Card Company
Your gesture of raising my credit limit was generous, especially during this spending season. However, if you ever send me another letter containing my name, address, and entire credit card number again I will drop you so fucking fast it will make your head spin. You see the kids today have a name for such stupid behavior, it’s called “enabling identity theft” and I just won’t stand for it. This notice comes from the person whose credit card number you had to change earlier this year because someone made a fraudulent charge using it. Remember me now?

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Do we have manatees in Georgia?

Are there any at the aquarium?

Toad In The Hole
Those wacky Brits and there culinary escapades! Every once and a while I am tempted to make something bizarre and last night was one of those times.

A quick stop at le Kroger last evening provided me with all of the missing ingredients to make Toad In The Hole.

btw - I don’t care how good Spotted Dick is supposed to be, that’s one dish I will never attempt to make.

Whatcha Doing For New Year’s Eve?
Made plans yet? I just did. With most of my partying friends now living in the world of parenthood I figured that I’d head out to one of my Safe Places : The EARL. For a mere $12 entrance fee I will be getting to see two of our better local bands, The Selmanaires and Tenement Halls, perform.

If history is any indicator then I will be single and perhaps even attending this solo, therefore The EARL will be a great place to get staggering drunk and then drag my ass home.

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - ginger snappin’ — which is my new phrase for lonely, bored, and wish I was someone or somewhere else.
Current Music - Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 26 playing — “Bang Bang, You’re Dead”
Website Of The Day - The internet is hilarious. All you have to do is type in some word for a domain name, let’s say Gingerbread and someone has parked a website there.
Exercise (b)Log - none

Cheers,
Paulie [eatl/ga]

I am becoming a master at ditching out of parties early. Last night was a fun time celebrating my friend Andy’s 40th at Manuel’s Tavern but at some point my mood went completely south and I headed for the door. I am sure that I wasn’t missed as there were many people there. Thanks to Stacey for the invite it was a really nice party.

Is That A Gigantic Candy-Cane In Your Bicycle Shorts, Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
I am blog-scraping this bit, but it is something that everyone Inside The Perimeter should know about…

Someone has made a two-part documentary about Willy Terry, better known by me as “Elephantitis Man”, or “The Guy That ‘Hangs Out’ On Briarcliff Near Ponce.”

Part One
Part Two

I dare you to go watch it.

Are Amazon And UPS Canadian Companies?
Last Friday I joked about Canadians having poor calendar skills. This morning I received a confirmation email for an order from Amazon.com that I placed on Sunday

Shipped via UPS Second Day (estimated arrival date: 11-December-2006).

I’m sorry, today is November 28th and you are telling me that an order shipped yesterday using UPS‘ Second Day Shipping will arrive on December 11th? Something seems amiss here.

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I am trying to put myself in a Christmas mood

It’s not working.

To The Person Who Programmed The 5am-6am Time Slot On WRAS This Morning
Thank You!
Thank You!
Thank You!

Like every other morning I awoke to the sound of my alarm clock at 5:00am. Most mornings I shut off Alarm 1 and wait for Alarm 2 to sound at 5:30am. This morning was different however…

From 5:00am-6:00am WRAS aka “Album 88″ played uninterrupted hardcore/punk, including three Husker Du songs in a row. Fuck. YEAH!

CD Pick Of The Week
Nothing but crap comes out today. Do musicians know that Christmas is but scant weeks away?

Since there is nothing worth buying I am going to suggest that you go and scour the cut-out bins for that piece of shit CD that K-Fed dumped earlier this year and wrap it up for a White Elephant Christmas party. Sit back and watch the comedy unfold as that gets dumped on someone else.

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - sullen
Current Music - Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 26 playing The Afghan Whigs — “Gentleman”
Website Of The Day - AppleGeeks is an online animation site. These guys have some mad artistic skills, you should check them out.
Exercise (b)Log - nothing

Cheers,
Paulie [eatl/ga]

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During yesterday’s Falcons telecast I thought I heard Dick Stockton say that the locals call Atlanta the “empire city of the South.” In my twelve years of living in Atlanta I have never heard this. Am I the only one who thinks that this is bunk?

Strollin’ Strollin’ Strollin’
On Saturday I made the decision to forgo the annual Fat Boy Athletic Club hash and join the Flickrites for a photostroll through Decatur. The weather was absolutely fantastic and I seized the opportunity to get some blue sky photos.

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The Decatur Foodie In Me
With my friends Randy and Lisa in town for the Thanksgiving weekend, and meeting up with the Flickerites on Saturday I got to eat out more than usual this weekend.

Taqueria del Sol (in Decatur): A really good meal, especially after walking for over an hour during the stroll. I ordered two tacos (one with pork, the other with fried chicken) and a basket of chips with three types of salsa. All items were quite tasty. The only downside to the meal was that TdS gets so crowded that you feel pressured to eat quickly (even by my fast-eating standards) and turn your table.

Figo (in East Decatur Station): Perhaps the best meal I ate all weekend. I ordered a gimelle (sp) pasta with a tomato-based sauce containing ground lamb. The meal was delicious and quite filling, especially when you eat a few pieces of bread and split an appetizer with friends. The only demerit I’d give Figo is their minimal selection of beer. The only beer that appealed to me was a Hoegaarden.

J. Christopher’s (in Decatur): The most disappointing meal of the weekend. After eating there a while back I was excited to go back. We beat the Sunday church crowd which should have made things much better, but did not. The service was sketchy at best, coffee too far too long to arrive once ordered and we wondered if things we requested would arrive before the meal’s end. I ordered a skillet with corned beef hash (okay), potatoes (not hot enough and dry) and eggs over-easy (not cooked to perfection), all of which should have been hotter. The oddest thing during the meal was when the waitress came to our table and asked us all how our potatoes, which most of us had in one form or another, were. It immediately made us wonder if something was wrong with the potatoes. I’ll go back to a J. Christopher’s but just not with the same optimism that I did yesterday.

A Blonde Farewell?
Oh those cagey blondes… They have fought so hard to be the first all-female team to win The Amazing Race and have ruffled at least one set of Alabama feathers. It amazes me that something like driving can take a team from first to last. I am still hoping that ‘Bama is the next to go. I can’t remember their names but I have narrowed it down to the one who seems to be the team’s navigator that irritates me to no end.

Next week’s episode looks good. I wish I had been around to throw tomatoes at the racers.

I forgot a Survivor wrap-up on Friday. Alan Alda Jonathan flip-flops more than a fish on shore. I thought this might work to in my favor and the newly-merged gang would vote out the Prom King (aka “Adam”) namely the person I picked in my pool this week. But alas, it was poor old uber-controlling Nate who got ousted. It will be fun to hear his line of questioning come jury inquisition time, no?

Thank You For Sucking Falcons’ Secondary
The official ending of the Deadbeat Dads’ season occurred yesterday because not only was I playing the best team in our league, his quarterback Drew Brees got to play against one of the worst secondaries in the NFL : the Atlanta Falcons’.

As the NFL’s season has progressed I have felt smarter with my decision not to spend $750 for a season ticket.

Happy Birthday Andy
My friend Andy crosses over into the 40+ Club today. I always enjoy inviting people into my advanced-age bracket. Given that you already have a beautiful, wonderful wife and precious new(ish) baby girl this greeting is nothing than more than icing on the cake.

My gifts to you may include a fire extinguisher to help put out all of those candles on the cake and the paperwork for AARP.

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - the window of depression has opened and given that I had a head start this year, I already have one leg through
Current Music - Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 26 playing Cold War Kids — “Hang Me Up To Dry”
Website Of The Day - If you miss your favorite Christmas special don’t blame me because I am now giving you a link to all of the Christmas specials. All you have to do is bookmark this page on HolidayPages4U.
Exercise (b)Log - nothing worth mentioning

Cheers,
Paulie [eatl/ga]

Today is “Black Friday.” For the first time in many years (read “since I worked for Toys ‘R’ Us in college) I am working on Black Friday. I was stunned to pass by shopping center parking lots and see them filled at 6am. Crazy fucking people!

I Saw It On The YouTube!
Because I watched a television program Call For Help I learned about an intelligent, yet stunning Canadian nerd named Amber MacArthur .

On Amber’s blog this week was a link to this YouTube video from a group of people known as Don’t Be That Guy Films. For those of you who live in the Atlanta area, give the video a watch and see if you can recognize where it was filmed.

Oh Tofurky, You Try So Hard
Last night was the first time I’ve been to a Thanksgiving dinner at which vegetarians were present. I’m sure that I’d have recognized this in the past because of vegetarians’ unwillingness to shake my hand in fear of bone breakage.

I watched my friend Randy pull the Tofurky from its box. To me it looked like an oversized liverwurst. They had gone as whole-hog as vegetarians do and gotten the Tofurky Feast containing

* One Tofurky Roast (made with organic non-genetically engineered soybeans)
* Eight Cranberry Apple Potato Dumplings
* Tofurky “Giblet” & Mushroom Gravy
* Herbed brown and Tofurky Wild Rice Stuffing
* Tofurky Jurky Wishstix

The Tofurky Jurky Wishtix made me laugh the loudest because they looked like two little strips of beef jerky. Why continue to make vegetarian food look like meat? I obviously just don’t understand…

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Birthdeh!
Today marks the birthday of one non-American friends Tamara. Given the fact that Tamara is non-American she didn’t get to celebrate our Super Fantastic Thanksgiving yesterday. Canadians are silly, they don’t know when to celebrate holidays. They celebrate Thanksgiving around Columbus Day, and they even manage to celebrate Independence Day (July 4th) on the wrong day.

For all I know today is not really Tamara’s birthday because she is Canadian and as I just pointed out Canadians are calendar-impaired.

Either way I still want to wish my best non-American friend Tamara a Happy Birthday and if she was still in Atlanta I’d buy her a beer and some french fries smothered in gravy.

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - blah
Current Music - Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 26 playing Pulp — “This Is Hardcore”
Website Of The Day - Black Friday the website with all of the deals. You are probably reading this sometime after Friday so this site might be of little use.
Exercise (b)Log - none

Cheers,
Paulie [eatl/ga]

To those of you celebrating in the United States.

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - fair
Current Music - none, listening to Adam Curry’s “Daily Source Code” podcast
Website Of The Day - Thanksgiving.com of course.
Exercise (b)Log - running/walking (in 5 min run/1 min walk intervals) 5.3 miles

Cheers,
Paulie [eatl/ga]

Tour De Georgia Rides Again
Our local fish wrapper is reporting that the Tour de Georgia bicycle race is returning in April 2007. And even better, the race will be occurring on the streets of Atlanta for the first time. I am really psyched to hear this and look forward to seeing it next year.

Free At Last, Free At Last
Well, my decision to finally break down and purchase a BlackJack phone from Cingular actually wound up costing me more money than I was spending before. However, I am glad that the process is done, at least for the near term.

I promise to stop blogging about which phone I want, however will make no such guarantee for the new current phone.

Why Would You Want To Live On The Back Side Of A OfficeMax or Kroger?
This is the question I ask myself every time I drive on Moreland and see that they are building a row of townhomes directly behind these two stores?

When I first noticed the construction I also thought to myself “You’re kidding, they are actually going to build something on that tiny plot of land? I thought that’s where a retention pond would occur.”

I have underestimated the greed of both the American Home Builder, and the potential stupidity of the American Home Buyer.

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Looking through my stream I saw than I never published any of the pictures I took while at Masquerade last week. Here’s one. Forgive the crummy quality, my point and shoot doesn’t handle low light very well.

I May be at George’s Tonight
And I may also run… albeit alone because my running has degraded so much that I cannot keep up with a crowd any longer.

And to all of you runners who are getting up early tomorrow to run either the half or full marathon — good luck. I’ll be at the end drinking a beer or two taking snapshots. Don’t forget to carbo-load tonight (with beer) and hydrate tomorrow (with beer).

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - bummed
Current Music - Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 26 playing Camera Obscura — “If Looks Could Kill”
Website Of The Day - Have to bring something to a Thanksgiving Day dinner but are lacking ideas? Check out What’s 4 Eats to see if you can find anything interesting. Pass on green bean casserole, you can bet that someone else will be bringing that.
Exercise (b)Log - none, things got a bit screwed up last night

Cheers,
Paulie [eatl/ga]

All of the Christmas CDs are resurfacing. I just hope that retailers knock some of the dust off of last year’s stock.

I’d Buy That For A Dollar
I’ve read that in-store stamp machines at the post office are going the way of the friendly postman who delivered mail on foot. Like the Do-Do birds and dinosaurs, that is.

Realizing that my trips to the post office are as frequent as those to banks and grocery stores I decided to try my hand at ordering stamps online (oooh, how 1998 of me!) I logged onto the Post Office’s site and purchased a couple of booklets for my annual Christmas Card Dispersal Plan. (btw- if you desire a Christmas card from me, shoot me your address via email — look at the right hand galley if you don’t know my email address — and I’ll add you to the list) The immature little boy in me couldn’t resist buying the Super Heroes (it’s too bad that you no longer have to lick stamps, I’d certainly like to lick Wonder Woman’s ass) and Baseball Sluggers (because it never hurts to learn a little trivia with your stampage) stamps.

The stamp service is provided with a $1 surcharge. Hell, that’s less than the price of three first-class stamps!

A Chink My Phone Purchase Plan?
Just when I’ve settled on buying (with one failed attempt already) the Samsung BlackJack as my next cellphone I hear rumors that Apple is producing an iPod phone that will be announced in January. Now it’s just a rumor at this point. And, there is no mention of the smartphone functionality that I am drooling for either. But it’s a goddamn iPod phone! How much do I want to wait and see, that is the question…

You Got Me Until 2010, Baby
I just renewed registration for the domain www.InsideThePerimeter.com for another three years. That’s right, it’s all mine until Feb 2010! W00t!

Some of you might wonder why I had not locked it up longterm previously. When I first acquired the domain registration prices were silly and the best deal I could find was $25 a year. As prices dropped my domain registrar for InsideThePerimeter.com (Domain Discover) was slow to follow so I maintained one-year renewals. They have finally seen the light of day and dropped their price for .com registrations to $9.95, which is still higher than some of the other players, but low enough for me not to have to dick around with a domain transfer.

Three More Years!
Three More Years!

CD Pick Of The Week
I’m just going to take the easy way out today and pick Sufjan Stevens’ “Songs For Christmas”. This release contains five, yes five CDs worth of Christmas goodness. Jesus H Christ, I didn’t even know that much Christmas music existed!

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - cold
Current Music - Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 26 playing Billy Bragg — “A New England”
Website Of The Day - Want to be part of the next blogging social network? Then get your ass over to MyBlogLog and sign up.
Exercise (b)Log - um, none?

Cheers,
Paulie [eatl/ga]

RTFM Week, Day One
I had opportunity to take photographs this weekend and I didn’t. A few weeks ago when I did the nighttime stroll in midtown I realized that I own a very complicated flash unit (a Nikon SB-800 whose manual is 127 pages!) and didn’t know how the hell to use it properly. With a (hopefully) slow week ahead of me I am going to try read some of the manuals for my equipment so that I can use them better.

ING Half Marathon Training, Day One
I haven’t enjoyed running for some time. I think that my enjoyment has gone down as my weight has gone up. While I didn’t run with the crowd yesterday I did pick up some interesting information. We are now eighteen weeks out from the running of the inaugural ING Georgia Marathon (I’ve signed up to run the half-marathon). Yesterday’s host had printed out an eighteen-week training schedule from Hal Hidgon’s site. Last night I went onto to the site and downloaded a twelve-week training program for the half-marathon.

My current hope is that if I run a regimented schedule I will not only be well-trained for the half-marathon, I will lose weight in the process.

My Patience For Traffic Has Diminished
For nearly the entire year I have driven to work instead of taking MARTA. The morning drive in is on the order of thirty minutes, while the drive home ranges from forty-five to over ninety. Recently the drive home has hovered around the top end of that range and my patience has felt its effects. On Friday evening I drove to Decatur in hopes to snatch up some of the deals going on at Decatur CD during their anniversary weekend. When I arrived I found out that The Selmanaires were playing there Friday instead of Saturday as I thought. I learned that the last thing I want to do after sitting in traffic for ninety minutes is be crammed into a small CD store with a bunch of people. I was out of the store in fewer than two minutes.

The Early Bird May Get The Worm But Little Else
I was up early Saturday morning to run some errands, one of which was to buy my new phone, another of which was to complete the Decatur CD trip I aborted the night before.

I am an early riser and I figured that all stores should be open by 9am, or at latest 10am on a Saturday. As I found out that morning the Cingular store opened at 10am while Decatur CD doesn’t open until 11am.

I loitered around Decatur long enough to make it into Cingular only to be disappointed that the only Black Jack phone they had in stock was being held for someone else. When I saw that Decatur CD didn’t open for another hour I headed to my car and go the hell out of Decatur.

The Hood Is Alive With The Sound Of Music
My impatience on Saturday paid off to some degree however. I headed to Criminal Records and picked up some CDs

- Manchester Orchestra — “I’m Like A Virgin Losing A Child”
This is a very good release which builds upon their previous EP, even “borrowing” one song from it. I look forward to seeing the songs performed some day in the near future, especially since I recognized a few of the tunes from the last time I saw them live.

- A Hawk And A Hacksaw — “The Way The Wind Blows”
From one of the former Neutral Milk Hotelers this is an eclectic CD with rambling percussions and sparse lyrics. This will definitely something that gets played when I am in the mood for “something different”.

I was also told that I should check out Beruit.

- And You’ll Know Us By The Trail Of Dead — “So Divided”
I’ve yet to listen to the disc. I heard many apparently only one of the songs the other evening when I saw them play at Masquerade. I wonder if I have to thrash about moshing when I first listen to this CD.

- The Numbers — “The Numbers” (a freebie thrown in by someone who I believe as Tessa)
Never heard of them and wouldn’t have bought the CD if their was a cost associated with it. I listened to part of the disc on Saturday, but not enough to form a complete opinion.

Rat Bastard Amazing Race!!!
Before I begin, do any of you watch Drawn Together? On last week’s episode the housemates were sitting around watching The Amazing Race Riots. I busted out laughing…

The Amazing Race is really becoming amazing.

Who knew that it was acceptable to scrape your helmet when repelling down a wall? Not me.

Who knew that Kiev had a Hip-Hop scene? Not me.

Who knew that two blonde beauty queens could rap better than two single mothers from Alabama? Not me again…

‘Bama continues to get on my nerves. If they were going to whine about the Cho brothers stopping so much for directions, why did they follow them for so long? I also have a feeling that the “friendship” between Bama and the Chos is a bit one-sided. I really hope that their turn for elimination is next.

The tank driving looked really fun. I may have to add that to my list of things to do before I die.

However, I predict a blonde slip-up next week and they will be ousted. I just think that they are ready for a misstep that will cost them the race.

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - crummy
Current Music - none, I am listening to the Penn Jilette podcast
Website Of The Day - Giveaway Of The Day lets you download a piece of software for free each day. Most days you get what you paid for, but the price is right.
Exercise (b)Log - hashing on Saturday

Cheers,
Paulie [eatl/ga]

These have been the three of the gloomiest days that I can remember in some time. I am starting to doubt that the sun will ever return. I don’t see myself moving to the Pacific Northwest any time soon.

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With all of the gloomy weather, I’ll look at this picture to make me happy

Mosh Like It’s 1989!
I knew this wasn’t going to be a concert like I’ve become accustom to in recent years when I was talking to a kid in line and he said that he left his glasses home…

The opening act of the four band (again?!) night was a seven-piece known as Brothers and Sisters. They were a little to light for my ears, which surprised me considered the comment made by the kid in line, but at least the girls singers were easy on the eyes.

Next up was a three-piece known as Celebration. Their music was alright, more rocking than Brothers and Sisters, but still not much up my alley.

Third on the bill was The Blood Brothers. Now I was begging to understand… The Blood Brothers are a five piece which included two singers/yellers (one being very glam punk), a decent guitar player, a great bass/keyboardist, and the sickest motherf*cking drummer that I have seen in a long time. Back in the day I would have categorized these guys as punk, I’m not sure what the kids today would call it. I quickly determined that I was at the edge of the mosh pit and made sure I stayed there. The amount of testosterone which flowed was something I hadn’t seen in years. I’d never heard of The Blood Brothers, but all those around me seemed to know all of their songs.

Finally it was time for the band I was there to see, …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead. Assuming the mosh pitters were headed for the door I made my way to the front of the venue. I got to see about four songs or so before I started getting slammed into from behind, so I moved away from the center of the stage. In hindsight I might have also been better off moving further back because the sound quality up front was pretty lousy.

The show wrapped up by midnight and it was time to return home to catch up on some television.

Message In A Bottle
Oh Survivor you are trying so hard to change things up…

I’ll start off by saying that I picked Jonathan to get ousted this in my friendly pool this week and I was so happy when the message in the bottle forced the tribe to vote off another member. I thought I was so money. It was doubly frustrating when the voted off Jenny because I had been picking her earlier on.

Poverty or Candyass, I can’t decide which one I like better. Poverty has a smile that melts me, and at least in the editing which has occurred in recent weeks she doesn’t seem to be flaunting her sexuality in order to stay. Candyass has Jennifer Gardner quality about her, and I think that there was love at first sight earlier in the season.

I really like Yul and Ozzy. I doubt that either will win, but I am sort of rooting for one of them now.

Back In The Office
I started to watch last night’s SuperSized episode of The Office when I realized that I never got around to watching last week’s episode. I have to admit that I am really hooked to The Office now, although I think it will be painful for me to watch the plot line about Jim, Pam and oh what the hell was her name?! It’s not because I face the same situation often, it’s because I don’t!

Decatur CD Turns Three, My Friend Betsy Turns **
Tomorrow night Decatur CD is throwing its own birthday party. Word on the street, aka their blog is that they will be having Terrapin beer and a live performance by Atlanta’s own The Selmanaires.

Also celebrating a birthday this week is my friend Betsy! Not willing to divulge a woman’s age, I will have to divulge something else about her — she is still on dialup. Yes Betsy, I will help you change that, assuming you haven’t done so already. Oh, another embarrassing tidbit about Betsy is that she is from New Jersey.

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - I’ve had better days
Current Music - Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 26 playing The Thermals — “Returning To The Fold”
Website Of The Day - Always Known As is an interesting new online contact manager. Sign up and you can add me, my handle is Paulie.
Exercise (b)Log - none, unless you consider standing and pushing away mosh-pitters

Cheers,
Paulie [eatl/ga]