Updates and What Not
First: Happy Birthday MOM!
Second: I'll be headed to Aruba for a week and won't be around. This will be my 3 rd return to the home of the Bon Bini tree of whatever it is called. I guess it'll be ok to go and relax and do nothing on the most boring tropical island in the fucking world. Anyway - here's to not dying while Parasailing or SCUBA diving.
Third: The City Paper's Best of Baltimore continues to get worse and worse and worse and bigger and dumber and more flamingly pro-everything crappy every year. Retarded fucking subjects this year include Best Tofu, Best Place Where Black and White People Drink Together (And how does Turners not win this?), Best Place Where Old School Players Still Kick It, Best non-museum, Best Drink Using a Salad Item...
Anyway - they are getting a tad too full of themselves and even though I enjoy my brethren Brett McCabe's stuff on music and art and far and few between enjoy the cover story on some poor slob shot or some tax dollar raped - I still hate the annual
Best of Baltimore edition of the City Paper like the plague. Well not the plague - but damnit it lets people know where all the cool shit is and sometimes...man that just ain't cool.
I guess what I really hate is that sometimes they reach with their choices. Reaching can be good - but just because a bar or restaurant is in Federal Hill doesn't mean it is doing well - and if you are going to throw a publication bone to a bar or restaurant to try and give it business please hear the story or all bars and not just the one's where there is a drunk passed out on the corner and you like that they have 2 Patsy Kline albums on the juke box.
Fourth: I'd like to thank Mandy for her very thoughtful birthday present and I will now be seen parading in mid November in my Iowa State sweatshirt.
Fifth: I would like to thank Mr. Crisp at Sound Garden for allowing me to do a review of my top 10 albums: thus far for the newly released magazine that the CD store is releasing. I think I fit under the category of... well... lame fat kid with office job wants to be hipster drunk / Ryan Adams.
Sixth: Go Tim Go!
Seventh: Boo the Ravens. It's bad enough the Oriole's cock teased up through July - now - and I don't know if this town can take a bad football season - we have a football team that looks in disarray. I'm not that huge of a football fan but I know what it means to this city if this team doesn't win. I don't want to see the suicide rate in Dundalk shoot through the roof because those sad bastards have nothing to root for any more. Anyway, Go Ravens - because people without lives could not withstand a losing season.
Eigth - Ummm - what else - I like Queso and am thinking of having my new hobby be cooking. I make a mean spaghetti and sauce and have been known to mix all the wonderful ingrediants of ham with everything... hmm.. yeah that's it.
Fair well to thee all - - - I'll see you in October.
