Musical Acts I’ve seen live, as they occur to me (Idea swiped from penguinboi) Some I’ve seen more than once.

I’m sure I’m forgetting some…I’ve enjoyed all of the ones below.

• Cyndi Lauper
• Styx
• Talking Heads
• Grateful Dead
• Devo
• Paul Simon
• Lenny Kravitz
• Bob Dylan
• GWAR
• They Might Be Giants
• Depeche Mode
• Genesis
• Phil Collins
• ELO
• REO Speedwagon
• Concrete Blonde
• B-52s
• The Who
• Wall of Voodoo
• Steppenwolf
• Aerosmith
• The Three Tenors
• The Beach Boys
• Phish
• George Benson
• Meat Loaf
• The Cranberries
• 10,000 Maniacs
• Violent Femmes
• Stomp
• String Cheese Incident
• R.E.M.
• James Brown
• Rusted Root
• Chubby Checker
• Soul Coughing
• Ziggy Marley
• Pearl Jam
• Midnight Oil
• Cake
• The Police
• Weird Al Yankovic
• AC/DC
• Tom Petty
• Cowboy Junkies
• Boston Philharmonic
• Florida Philharmonic
• Manhattan Transfer
• Marie Osmond (At a Fair. Yes, she was good.)
• Fleetwood Mac

a year ago – gray pumpkin, new years resolutions, frankenquirrel, pig eyeballs, spam, new years wishes

two years ago – watching spongebob with mah sweetie, D&D movie, fresh birks, shopping, saw Andy, chilly night

Wanna see what I look like on the inside?

Trip didn’t go very well…I’m going to have to look into other methods, it seems. We’ll see how I feel after a few hours have gone by.

RFL – Having that done today at 3:45, and if all goes well. I’m hoping that this will solve the majority of my problems.

Fasting right now. I’m going to be a hungry boy…looking forward to going out and getting something delicious and celebratory afterwards.

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Woke up at a reasonable time this morning…only slept for about four hours.

I want to bring the term “Jive Turkey” back into regular acceptable usage.

It’s not racist, sexist, or vulgar (as far as I know)… and it’s goofy enough to make sure that there is a minimum of hard feelings.

If I annoyed someone with my opinion, and he or she petulantly muttered “Jive Turkey”… I don’t think I’d mind much. I’d probably laugh, and ask for their take on what was being said.

Another term I’ve not heard in a while is “Neutron Bomb”. Has all research into those things stopped? Are they still feasible, but just not the trendy weapon of destruction, now that bioweapons are popular?

a year ago – how to diaper a monkey, (dead link), newt meds, holiday prezzies, hoogerbrugge, midget village, shopping, eclipse.

two years ago – noodles, sweetie showed me bejeweled, Dan stress, Jell-O flavors, snot production.

Feeling creaky… off to the showers with me!

Can’t sleep. Making up for my snoozing late this morn?

Wishing I had some square sheets of paper, to make some star wars origami for Newt to fetch.

“Get the X-wing! Git it! Git it! There’s a Porkins-shaped treat in that one! Yum!”

Not wanting to read, which is what usually knocks me out.

I’m looking for patterns in the shadows, window-shopping on ebay for weirdness, Newt’s sleeping at the foot of the bed.

Well, I’m going to try to turn in again. Nigh nigh, dear journal.

I’ve got a craving for a homemade bierock sandwich and a glass of beer. I haven’t had one since the early 80s… I would lunch at Brent’s Gramma & Great-grandma’s house (with Brent, of course) on the odd Saturday, after helping out around the yard and doing assorted chores. Faux-Gramma Ashland made a sandwich in a bread pocket with a filling of ground beef, sauerkraut, onions, and seasonings. It was fantastically filling and tasty meal, especially when she’d slip some swiss cheese in there (infrequently). I probably ate a thousand of those things over 1983/1984. Note…I’ve never had one with a glass of beer. She served ’em with milk. That woman took great joy in feeding me, and I enjoyed eating what she set out, a sweet arrangement all around. (Best food I ate that decade, I’d wager.) She’d chide Brent terribly about how picky he was… He would always have grilled cheese or a grilled bologna sandwich with tomato soup. That was it. No bierocks, no homemade liverwurst, no goblin-fart bread, no cabbage or kraut. He wouldn’t even eat potato pancakes. Little wonder he was so thin.

I bet I could make some outstanding (and far more healthy) ones with “soy beef”. I’m not sure what seasonings she used…let’s see what the internet says…quite a few hits just say salt and pepper to taste…. some less palatable looking than others. I’m going to go with this one. Looks pretty simple, though I’ve never made anything inside a bread shell before.

Recipe

Harpo Marx was an undercover agent for J. Edgar Hoover, running secret documents out of the Soviet Union.

full text for later ref

Hmmm…I’ve been so out of the loop, I don’t know what the “hot item” was this year, toywise… The Cabbage Patch Kid / Ninja Turtle / Power Ranger / Tamagotchi / Furby / Tickle Me Elmo of 2002?

Watching Terror of Mechagodzilla with Newtzilla asleep at my side, getting belly rubs… Dave loaned the DVD to me yesterday. It’s been a while since I’ve seen this one. A fun giant rubber monster show, certainly. Psychic powers, three monsters, space aliens and 70s clothes. Not too shabby.

I’m of a mind to curl up with my sweetie and watch Gamera movies.

Sasquatches on the Dinner Table?

The Issue
In a bid to provide a new revenue stream for Scottovia’s Agriculture industry, it has been suggested that sasquatches could be added to the menu.

1. The fact is, the sasquatch population is out of control,” says Beef-Based Agriculture spokesperson Jazz Spirit. “We have to do something about them anyway, so why not market them as tasty snacks? We could have sasquatch kebabs, sasquatch pies, sasquatch-on-a-sticks–the possibilities are endless! Let’s not pass up this golden opportunity to provide a feast, if you will, for our economy.
2. “I agree that something needs to be done about sasquatch over-population,” says random passer-by Miranda Jefferson, “but eating them? That’s kind of gross. Let’s just shoot the ones we have to and shovel their bodies into ditches like normal.”
3. “I am shocked and appalled!” declared SPCA President Al du Pont. “If anyone needs to be culled, it’s us humans. The sasquatches were here first, remember? We need to take this as a sign to get our industry–agriculture in particular–to back off. The sasquatch is part of what makes Scottovia a great nation!”

#3 Accepted, of course.

Girl to sue over detention “The family, who want compensation, will argue that the detentions were unlawful because they took place in Freya’s free time. ” If you can’t give kids detention, how else are they going to be punished for breaking school rules?

different strings of opinion

Wow…I slept like a log last night…went to bed at 3, and didn’t awaken until the phone jangled me at 11. Usually, I’m up by at least 9ish. Bro says that it got cool again last night…but it doesn’t seem that brisk. Maybe the upper 50s. Not like that day midmonth when it hit the 40s. Just checked. He’s full of beans.

Ushering in either a brave new world or a spectacular hoax, a company linked to a religious sect that believes in space aliens announced Friday that it has produced the world’s first cloned baby. A healthy 7-pound girl, nicknamed Eve by scientists, was delivered by Caesarean section Thursday somewhere outside the United States, said Brigitte Boisselier, chief executive of Clonaid. Boisselier said the girl is an exact genetic copy of the American woman who gave birth to her.

Hollywood Florida is a stone’s throw from here…regarding the clone; I’m going to wait and see, but it smells of fibs to me currently.

Neat. Quiet American, a site dedicated to field recordings from around the world.

A place you can just go, and listen. 60 second vacations. (from this MEfi thread)

I want to mirror the whole site onto a CD.

Magnetic Babies!! – They pulled “Pregnant Barbie” off the shelves. The pregnant Midge wears a wedding ring and comes with doll-sized crib, cradle, changing table, baby toys and a baby monitor. The husband and son are sold separately.

That’s a bummer… I’d like kids to have mommy dolls, if they want ’em.

I’ve not heard or seen hide nor hair of Sappho this week… I wonder how she’s hanging in there? I know Kev and Island boy are doing reasonably well.

I’m craving salty snacks, and relaxing on the laptop.