Idea #2 - Apocalypso

Death metal with steel drums. Hey, it could work.

Idea #1 - Journal of ideas.

I needed a place to share my ideas. Good ideas, dumb ideas, confusing ideas- they weren't doing anyone any good all hidden away inside my noggin, now were they? No way, Jose (which I pronounce the English way, thank you)- no, these ideas, they needed to be aired out, let loose, set free to roam the fertile green hills of the online Interweb. So I refit and refurbished this defunct web log, and I will be using it to disseminate the fruits of the rich, loamy, fertile soil that is my brain. So, that's all I have for now, I guess. Idea #1 down.

Wow, I'm really terrible at this whole "blogging" thing...

You know, the reason I started this blog (my fourth...or fifth...geez, I suck) was to give myself a special place devoted to recording and sharing the precious nuggets of wisdom and insight that rattle about in my head constantly. Only, I guess I really don't have any precious nuggets rattling about, 'cause if I did, I'd post more frequently than every 4 weeks.

Well, anyhow...

Hey, it's fall, right? That's cool.

Of course, the start of autumn in the South means a cessation of full-on summer, but not yet the arrival of cool, crisp days, nor the return of frosty, enchanted evenings. Nope, the early fall in the South is more about the decline and end of one season than it is about the start of another. Early fall in the South is really late summer, in the same way that late spring is really early summer. True fall (leaves, wood smoke, cider, pumpkins, crazy blue skies, banjos - yes, banjos: autumn is the most bluegrassy time of the year) is still better than a month away. But, hey, it's not 90 degrees, there's a chill on the breeze, and there are giant bags of Halloween candy in the stores, so we'll take what we can get.

I think this is my new favorite web page...

Best of Craigslist.

Check it out; you will not be disappointed...

Sometimes, I am certain that my favorite song is this:

Other days: other songs.

Some things that were good this week...

*Duct tape wallets.
*Wrestling with Noah.
*Aldi whole wheat pizza.

Submitted for your approval: Nineties-est popular music group

*****To clarify: By referring to this Canadian quintet as the "nineties-est" band of all time, I mean to say that the group in question is the best example I know of a band that could have been successful only during that X-treme, grungy, Ok Soda-guzzling, microbrew-fetishizing, indie, flannel, cynical-yet-strangely-earnest, Starbucks-scented period. So, who am I talking about?
Well, these guys (and gal):







This song hit #4 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart in 1994. #4! No way these folks could ever have been remotely successful during any other decade. The only band that rivals the Dummies (that's what I call 'em) for ninetiesness is, perhaps, The Presidents of the United States of America, but, y'know, I think they were far less precious and twee in that particular 90's kind of way. The Presidents were just straight-ahead funny, plus they rocked. Plus, apparently, they're touring and recording again. so they've still got actual fans. So, no, it's gotta be the Dummies.

By the way, I still really like The Ghosts That Haunt Me. Don't judge me.