terrible Halloween costume

dear asshole band,
it was not cute, cool, funny or whatever the fuck you thought it would be to wear columbine high t-shirts with bloody gunshot holes in them. it never will.

fay wrays, the sleepover disaster, geographer & fights monsters

looking for something good to do after halloween? or just because it's saturday? get yourself over to audie's olympic/club fred and see the fay wrays

11-01-2008 21:00 at Audie’s Olympic
w/ Silian Rail,
Geographer,
Fights Monsters,
and Sleepover Disaster.
Cost: $5.00
Fay Wrays, Silian Rail(SF), Geographer(SF), Fights Monsters (Bay Area), and Sleepover Disaster!!!!!!!!!!!

i paid $5 to see the sleepover disaster & light fm on thursday, and i'll probably pay another $5 to see them with the fay wrays.

staff meeting blues

so, i'm 30 minutes into a staff meeting, and the head of the school has been talking. that's fine.

what's not fine is the guy that came ten minutes late, that has commented on everything since he has been here, some things multiple times. there is about fifty people in the room, and I think fourty-six of them haven't said anything. take a hint buddy.

apparently, the daggers i've been shooting from my eyes haven't worked.

fresno rain

it's late, but fresno is giving me something beautiful to share. i'm sitting on my back porch, quietly listening to beautiful hip hop by ibid (from merced) and the rain on my metal porch roof. simply lovely.

halloween costume

so, like many recent years, i've put off coming up with a halloween costume until the last minute, or the last few minutes. at least i'm being slightly proactive and thinking about it today instead of tomorrow @ 8 pm.

i kinda want to do something fresno related. any ideas?

racial slur used against obama during palin speech

i'm a little suspicious of stuff on the internet sometimes, and so i can't guarantee that everything about this video is true. the additional audio could have been dubbed in, and of course the words on the screen have been added by the original poster

have a watch & listen:



if that video is accurate, and you're a politician making that speech you know to stop right there, go off your script, and condemn such language.

especially in light of stories like this one.

mac os problems?

dear computer,
i'm not happy with you right now. i would like you to stop crashing inexplicably. seriously, stop it.

your window makes me wonder

i saw this on the window of a truck the other day and thought i'd share



seriously? you think that little of your wife that you would put that on your truck for the whole world to see? and your wife put up with that crap?

coffee break for cafe corazon

damn damn damn. i read a post today over that made me pretty sad. my fav coffeehouse, the place i buy my beans, and some genuinely good folks in leo & liz are closing up shop for a bit.

it looks like i might still be able to get my fix, but the shop will be on hold for a while. hopefully. if possible, they'll reopen in 2 months or so.

much love out to leo and liz. although only casual acquaintances, i'm sad that the shop hasn't gone as well as they needed. here's hoping it works.

political attack ad against jesus

fusefest recap

i have to think the fuse fest was a smashing success. the venues were all packed, the bands were great and people were out and about downtown, spending money.

josh tehee, one of the event coordinators



cafe corazon during abigail nolte's set



milano during blake jones & the trike shop



the smokehouse during the suppressors



and a little video of the suppressors

campaigning in fresno

so, this morning i went precinct walking for henry t. perea. one of the first things i noticed was that most of these folks weren't "true believers," in fact most very uneducated about perea. that's not good.

to start out, the morning was a little bit of a rally, then some training and then walking. the political guy that was leading part of the meeting talked about a rate increase passed by council w/perea on it to slam swearingen. that doesn't make sense. btw, he looked like fogle/mcluvin from superbad.

in some ways, it was like a bad youth meeting, with very little training. the training we did receive dealt in a lot of stereotypes, which was odd to me because it's stereotypes about the group present, like hispanics have chihauhaus.

the actual precinct walking was pretty good. it was nice getting out, talking to people, and i'll do it again. in fact, i'm signed up to do it the weekend before the election. so, if you're interested, we can use more people.

btw, here's one way not to run a campaign:

joe the plummer

yeah, that phrase is already passe. stop effin saying it. when i hear them throwing it out on espn's nfl live, it's dead. dead.

fusefest - saturday, october 18

you may have seen this on the fresno internets, but i wanted to plug it again here. the fresno urban sound experience festival - fusefest.



2008 FUSE Schedule

Cafe Corazon
4:00 Scats on the Sly
5:00 Abigail Nolte
6:00 Bobby Joe Neely
7:00 David Aus with Andre Bush
8:00 Loveseats
9:00 Roger Perry
10:00 Wheels of Fortune

Milano
4:30 Rademacher
5:30 Blake Jones & the Trike Shop
6:30 Tokyo Death March
7:30 The Neptunes
8:30 It's an Icicle
9:30 It'll Grow Back
10:30 Fashawn

The Smokehouse
4:00 Hellaquent
5:00 Chuck Dimes
6:00 The Suppressors
7:00 Fay Wrays
8:00 Flywright
9:00 Brian Kenney Fresno

Tokyo Garden
10:00 Ibice
11:00 Javon Davis Band
12:00 Patrick Contreras


THIS SATURDAY
October 18th
10 bucks gets you into everything.


sadly, like many festivals with multiple stages, you've got to pick and choose who you'll see. i'm thinking i'm going to milano @ 4:30 to see rademacher, then blake jones & the trike shop, then tokyo death march. but, i'm probably going to leave mid death march to walk over to the smokehouse to see the fay wrays play @ 7. or, i might even leave before 6 to see the suppressors and their skankin music. 9:30 maybe find me back @ milano for it'll grow back, you got to love old school punk. local hip hop phenom fashawn is up after that @ milano, @ 10:30.

however, it's possible that i also might completely cut out before fashawn to head back to the tower district. there's a good show @ audie's olympic/club fred.



that's right, abigail nolte is playing with the sleepover disaster. abigail's playing @ the fuse festival, but it's mid-rademacher. so, i think i'll catch abigail & sleepover, and be almost close enough to throw a rock at my house.

things that i'm enjoying right now

every so often i like to run down some of the stuff that i'm digging:

-dear and the headlights - drunk like bible times. i'm not exactly sure how i heard about this band, but i am really enjoying this group. they have lighter indie sound, sort of poppy. they're catchy, fun, and worth finding. and really, how great is that album title, not to mention their band name.

-it's always sunny in philadelphia - this may be the funniest show on tv. I enjoy the office, but sunny is darker, more cutting, and gets away with a lot more stuff because they're on cable. if you've never seen an episode, go to hulu and watch as many as you can.

-fantasy football & the nfl - it's fall and that means football. i don't know what i did before ffl, but it makes football so much better and more interesting to follow. before, many of us just followed our team, now we're following everything. and, it gives more opportunity to talk smack.

- ruth's chris steak house - great restaurant that i wish i could afford to eat at more.

dinner review - hooters

so, i went to hooters tonight with some friends for dinner. i've never been to a hooters before, and i doubt i'll go back. the food was mediocre and the beers were pretty expensive.

also, the environment is really strange. outside of the waitresses, there were 4 other women in the restaurant. not that i need a lot of ladies in a restaurant, but it's sort of creepy being in a "family" restaurant with about 25 dudes, waitresses in bizarre shorts & tights, and three women.

however, the fried pickles were decent, although not something i could eat in large doses. they were, in fact, better than the ones @ sequoia. they were sliced thinner, so they weren't mushy like sequoia.

update on life

it's been a good run these last few days.

the fair was fun.

i sold a painting (check my seldom updated art blog). and, it's not just one of those, i want to buy that painting, which i've actually had a few times on this particular painting without actually finishing the deal. i've got a down payment, and am supposed to get the rest next week.

i subbed an extra class today and earned some more $.

die hard is on tv. sadly, it's only the tbs version, but of course i'm watching it.

he's a cat, flushing a toilet

fresno fair finale

today was the last day of the fair, and i was headed over once again, this time with some friends. sadly, not as much of crew could come as had initially wanted, but mike, adam and i had a decent enough time.

the first place we went was the junior's exhibits. as i wandered through the student art, which once again was better overall than the adult exhibit, i saw a drawing of a familiar face. ken wilkinson, grinning away at my. ken and i were seat buddies on the track bus when he was on the team, and i was in his wedding. adam lived in the same dorm for a year with ken, and mike knows him through all our friendships. funny stuff. and, you can't really tell, but the drawing is made up of all these little symbols, which is a cool touch.



adam and i were hungry, so we parambulated around in search of grub (not grubs). adam went witht the old fair corn dog, but i'd had one on my first trip to the fair so i didn't feel the need. instead, i went with a bbq beef sandwich. it was pretty good, but i actually had to eat a good portion of the meat out of the bun before i could actually eat it as a sandwich.



we saw dan taylor & warren armstrong from channel 30. yes, it's a terrible picture.



mike was super excited to see barack obama. obama seemed like a jovial enough guy, but he was a tad stiff.



after obama, mike ran into john mc cain. mc cain seemed a little sad, maybe because he's trailing in the polls as well in most of the pivotal states. from where i saw him, he also seemed a little wooden.



mike actually managed a tri-fecta by getting a pic with sarah palin. she's a little taller than i thought, but i only saw the picture. while mike was getting all political, i was talking to the guy from tuff sheds.



while i learned about sheds, adam ate a cinnamon roll. to keep up, i needed to find something to eat. i decided to go the healthy route, and ordered up some fried zuchinni. i only managed to get down 2 1/4 of the 4 that i had, and was a little ticked because i burnt the roof of my mouth.



after that, i decided to endanger the crowd with chance of a vomitous eruption on the swings. i love the swings. it seems every year the seats are smaller. or maybe i'm bigger. i don't know. perhaps i need less fair food in my life.



swings, check. at this point, i could pretty much go home. we wondered through one of the exhibit halls and i almost got sucked into buy the shamwow. pretty cool demonstration, seems like a good deal, but when would i use it. instead, i spent some money on a funnel cake. in fact, adam and i both had funnel cakes, which is a bit surprising since he'd already saturated his sweet tooth, whereas i was just rolling on grease.



damn it all if adam didn't come within two small bites of finishing his, where i quit with about a 1/4 left.

another fair, come and gone.

big fresno fair monday

tomorrow is the last day of the fair, and we're headed to it. you're welcome to join us after work for some viewing of animals, plants, etc. we'll also be eating some fair grub, and hopefully riding the swings.

sadly, we won't be visiting corin hoggard @ the channel 30 booth, his shift has been moved up to 12-3 or something like that.