I have not been around.

My computer is down again and I am not digging it at ALL!

Hopefully it will return from the repair man next week and I can get back to setting up my website and doing my thing, but that could just be wishful thinking.

Sorry if I have missed you all.

I shall return.

Godspeed …

 

I heard this song many times until I met it face to face with my ex-wife and her grandmother, 'Nana Lynch'.

Bobby and I and Andrea went to go see the show in Boston with Nana Lynch and I had to work a third shift torture of throwing stock to the shelf. I thought of my Nana thinking that Willie Nelson was amazing with his ballads and his love songs that permeate most of modern Western Society.

Bob and I had a few beers and things were rolling on and on and things seemed to be really amazing that day. The clouds formed right and the beer flowed like God-love from the heavens.

We rocked on and cherished the fact that in our twenties we were rocking on with a woman of her seventies. She loved, LOVED every song – I LOVED Nana Lynch – we ALL did.

I had a about two hours once the encore came. I thought that the show would be over fast enough to get to my midnight shift and things would be fine.

Instead we kept drinking.

And having fun, dancing.

And then came the encore.

“Whiskey River”

Not once.

Not twice.

We heard “Whiskey River” about 6 times, back to back as an encore.

He kept playing it.

The show would be over and then “Whiskey River” would play again.

Again and again.

Every time we would all dance and I felt like I was a at a Dead show with my Grandma, long before I could comprehend what that felt like.

Six encores of 'Whiskey River'.

Over and over again my friend.

Why do you listen time and time again?

Nana Lynch.

Breakfast at Tiffany's, Whiskey River, the full moon over Long Beach and so much more.

I miss you Nana.

Godspeed ...

 Biggie T this is for you.

An amazing song if you listen to the words and feel the song.

I have marched in Pride Parades.

I have been to festivals.

I have two sets of parents that are gay.

I have played and had fun.

I am not trying to be offensive.

Between the song and the political images I have enjoyed this song ALL night!

It is offense for recognition's sake that, much like Mel Brooks using the Holocaust or the Spanish Inquisition, makes us not only think  and take action, but also it forces us to remember what we might want to casually forget in order to live out our little pre-conceived worlds and realities of consumption rather than recognize what has happened and why we are today in spite of our forefoather's mistakes.

Tommy, don't be mad at me – I thought you would like this – I think it is smart.

Ween is good shit and clever.

Sometimes thinking about things out of pre-conceptional judgements,  boundaries, and parameters makes us change.

Tommy I love you, man.

Godspeed ...

 I wanted to hear some Prince so I went to YouTube.

I guess he is one of those 'hard up' rich bastards who won't allow his videos to be watched for free.

Give me a friggin' break!
Buddy, I LOVE your music but I now know you to be a complete bastard who has not a clue.

Do you realize how much money I have spent on your albums? Wait – you do, because it contributed to your lavish and excessive lifestyle you degraded piece of Minnesota donkey shit!

Thanks, Prince, for making me dig out my CD collection to hear you as oppossed to having been able to listen via a video and rock out!

Wait, I am harsh.

I am sorry.

You did lead me to something that might just be better than you after all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmFHp89tWKo

Yep, you need to click the link because it is a video of someone from the eighties that still thinks that they have a chance at making some sort of money from their public access show if they show it in clips on YouTube but don't allow people to embed it and only put it out as a link - as if I am going to buy a copy of his friggin' beta max master! I mean come on man! I am trying to promote you as a counter point to the fact that Prince is a douche on this point and takes it one point further!

Regardless, the clip is way funnier than Prince could ever be and is worth clicking! Go check it out!

Something tells me that I am truly not alone in my alternate universe of humour.

I have found many sites before that have led me to believe this. However, I have never fully believed that my Lady and I were going on a funny ride with others and had jokes that extended beyond our joking in the living room.

Maybe it was the grocery reference!

Are you jaw-dropped like I was? Are you laughing or singing along or wondering what the H E double hockey sticks that was?!?!?!?

So I searched on and found yet another gem of truffle luxury to masticate with the ol' funny bone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH1q4vAYUC0

CLASSIC!

Right?

Or am I the only one that finds a weird and portly Puerto Rican man in his make-shift basement 'studio' with a fake dirt squirrel on his lip impersonating a black man of emaciated overt sexuality from a Great Lakes state , belting out clever parodies to his two cousins who guffaw far too loudly, HISTERICAL?!?!?!?!?!?!?

All I know, is that I may not be alone and that these two videos have made me do more on the computer in a long time.

I am on Facebook now.

I am still working the website.

Back to one job after New Years and I plan on introducing the full site and the radio show on New Year's Day.

I hope you enjoyed this pearl on the day of the harbour.

Please bow your head in a moment of silence for the people who lost their lives during the attack.

Thank You!

Also, wish my Father a Happy Birthday - only a few years past the big day, but on the day all the same

Be good and smile.

Godspeed ...