What a Weekend

Ugg Boot

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Well, it's now day 7 of my Burger King ordeal and I've not heard a word. Guess what I'm doing tonight???? Not eating at Burger King, that's for sure. hahahahahahahaha.

This past weekend, Extreme Caution, the band that I'm extremely proud to be a member of, played at the Cherokee Club. Oh what fun. Sunday, the Cherokee club sponsored a benefit for one of the areas greatest bass guitarists, Ernesto DeGama. We played for a long, long time. It was a lot of fun but sad at the same time. We started around 2 pm. I left after 11 pm. Several bands from the area performed without a hitch, well mostly. Tim, Carlos, Shake hands. I've been in many bands, and have played a lot of shows but this one meant the most. Johnny Earthquake and the Moon Dogs performed "Drift Away", originally by Dobie Gray. They got all of the other bands there on stage and we all sang along. I could live in that moment forever.

Memorial day was spent with friends and trying to recuperate. I think when I get off work today, I'm going to bed. Good night.

Day Three

Ugg Boot

Well, it's day three of the Burger King saga and no returned phone call. I guess my money isn't important to Burger King. Hmmm. What am I gonna do for dinner today? I know, McDonalds.

and in music history.....

1926, Miles Dewey Davis is born in Alton, Illinois ... he will go on to become one of the most influential figures in 20th-century American music presiding over major developments in jazz and fusion...

1951, "Sixty Minute Man," a risque song by the Dominoes becomes one of the first up-tempo R&B singles to cross over to the pop chart when it lands at #17...

1956, upon his return to England following a US tour, bandleader Ted Heath observes: "Rock 'n' roll is mainly performed by colored people for colored people and is therefore unlikely to prove popular in Britain"...

1958, a doo-wop group dubbed The Chesters record the chestnut "Tears on My Pillow" ... they emerge from the studio renamed The Imperials ... when DJ Alan Freed begins airing the 45 he refers to the group as "Little Anthony & the Imperials" ... their record label, End, goes along with the program and later pressings of the record bear that name...

1959, Johnny Horton's "Battle of New Orleans" rides the top of the Billboard pop chart ... the song celebrates Andrew Jackson's defeat of the British during the War of 1812 ... the tune proves to be a durable one with covers by Vaughn Monroe, Harpers Bizarre, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band all charting in later years ... the original also spawns a comedic spinoff by Homer & Jethro called "Battle of Kookamonga"...

1961, ever the astute businessman, Chuck Berry opens an amusement park near St. Louis dubbed Berry Park...

1963, Del Shannon's version of the Lennon-McCartney song "From Me to You" becomes the first Beatles song to make an appearance on the US pop chart...

1965, Dave Davies of The Kinks knocks himself out after crashing into drummer Mick Avory's cymbals ... the band has to scratch the rest of its tour...

1966, Bob Dylan, accompanied by members of what will later become The Band, rocks Royal Albert Hall ... the show later turns up on white-jacketed bootleg LPs and becomes a hot item among Dylan fans...

1973, record mogul Clive Davis is canned by Columbia Records for misusing company money for personal expenses...

1974, more than a thousand people receive medical care and a 14-year-old girl dies when fans run amok at a London concert starring teen idol David Cassidy...

1975, "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple is released ... its signature guitar riff becomes an essential repertoire item for garage-band pickers worldwide...

1976, the Allman Brothers Band calls it quits ... the breakup occurs in the wake of Gregg Allman's testimony at the drug trial of a former band road manager ... the band reforms two years later ... The Who make the Guinness Book of World Records as the loudest rock band ever when their show at the Charlton Athletic Grounds in England employs a 76,000-watt PA and is measured at a tympanic membrane-destroying 120 decibels...

1977, Virgin Records releases the Sex Pistols' God Save the Queen on the occasion of the monarch's Silver Jubilee ... though the song receives no British airplay, it becomes a UK #1 hit...

1986, viewers of Dick Clark's America Picks the #1 Songs select Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock," "Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water," and Lionel Richie's "All Night Long" as the top three greatest hits of the rock era...

1987, U2's massive PA sets off earthquake alarms during a show at Rome's Flaminio Stadio...

1989, the late Roy Orbison's estate is sued by his music publisher for failing to produce songs under a 1985 contract...

1990, Aussie band Midnight Oil shuts down New York's 6th Avenue when they play a street concert in front of Exxon corporate headquarters protesting the environmental havoc wreaked by the grounding of the company's tanker, the Exxon Valdez...

1992, tour manager for Boyz II Men Khalil Rountree is shot and killed in a Chicago hotel...

1993, eccentric avantgarde bandleader, composer, and keyboardist Sun Ra dies following a stroke ... the large band he ran for decades named The Arkestra featured brilliant soloists and played a repertoire that ranged from oblique space music to Fletcher Henderson-style swing tunes ... his colorful shows often included elaborate costuming, plate-twirlers, and fire-eaters...

1994, Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley are secretly married in the Dominican Republic ... she sues for divorce 20 months later citing irreconcilable differences...

1997, two rock icons are forced to scratch pending European tours when health problems arise ... Bob Dylan is admitted to a New York hospital complaining of chest pains and Neil Young cancels his trip after slicing a finger while making a ham sandwich ... charismatic singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley drowns after jumping into the Mississippi River in Memphis for an impromptu late-night swim ... country singer Lee Ann Womack, suffering from a big-time case of stage fright, makes her Grand Ole Opry debut ... she remains largely rooted in one spot at center stage during her set ... commenting later on her performance, the singer confesses, "If I'd moved, I would have peed in my pants"...

1999, SoundScan reports that the album Millennium by Backstreet Boys has sold 1.13 million copies during its first week in release, establishing a new record ... British punk band Manic Street Preachers turns down an opportunity to play a concert commemorating the opening of Wales' parliament when they learn that Queen Elizabeth II will be on hand ... the band has sworn to never play for the monarchy, considering it an anachronism...

1999, the remains of Philip Kramer formerly, of Iron Butterfly, are found in a remote Malibu, California, canyon ... he had been missing since 1995 ... after a kinetic 40-minute New Jersey performance wearing a heavy fur coat, Lenny Kravitz collapses in the wings from heat exhaustion...

2000, Tito Puente AKA The King of the Mambo succumbs to heart disease and heads off to that big salsa ballroom in the sky ... the bandleader and masterful percussionist was a major force behind the Latin jazz movement...

2001, country diva Loretta Lynn opens her Coal Miner's Daughter Museum in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee ... it's packed with 18,000 square feet of memorabilia gathered by the singer during her four-decade career...

2004, after copping a plea to being under the influence of a controlled substance, Courtney Love is ordered to enter a drug-rehab program...singer Cyndi Lauper suffers the indignity of having a gob of bird poop land in her wide-open mouth while singing during a Mansfield, Massachusetts, show ... it's unclear if the offending bird was making a statement about '80s pop music...

What's up with Burger King???

Ugg Boot


Check out this shirt from Big Dogs.

Yesterday, we established that I was a geek. Nothing new there. I collect Star Wars and Star Trek collectibles. I have been trying to add to my Burger King Star Wars collection for the past two weeks. I went a few days ago to one of my local Burger King restaurants. I'll call it BK1. I read the sign that said something to the effect of, buy any value meal and get 2 Star Wars toys for $1.29. I ask which toys they have, to save me from buying the same ones twice. She said she would see, then told me that I had to buy a happy meal to get the toys. I'm a pretty down to earth guy so I didn't bring up the sign thing.
Yesterday, I go to a different Burger King (I'll call it BK2) and place my order, taking notice of the "buy any value meal and get 2 Star Wars toys for $1.29" sign and again say I'd like to purchase the Star Wars toys that I don't already have. BK2 lady says "we're sold out". I notice a little later that people that ordered after me had Star Wars toys. Like a wuss, I didn't say anything.
So today, I tried again at BK2. I placed my food order and said I'd like to get some of the Star Wars toys. The lady taking my order said she would get to it in a minute and told me what my total was. I paid her and she went on to the customer behind me, then the next, then the next. My order was ready so I asked the person that gave me my order about buying the Star Wars toys. Without any hesitation, she said "I don't have time to help you". "What?" I replied. She turned away from me and started talking to someone else.
It seems that Burger King obviously doesn't have time for me, so I guess I shouldn't have time for them either. So, what did I do about it? I called the Burger King corporate office. I told the Burger King corporate office lady the whole story. I could hear her typing as I talked. She got my name and phone number and said she would send the information to upper management and they would get back in touch with me. We'll see if they return my call. This is Day 1.

Revenge of the Sith

Ugg Boot


Have ya'll seen this yet? If not, go see it. I'm not putting anything on here to spoil the movie. So I go to my local toy store, I would give you the name but they don't pay for advertisement on my site, to purchase a Star Wars action figure for my cousins birthday. So far, I had avoided anything that could spoil anything in the movie. So the Toys R Us geek, I mean the unnamed toy store geek, told me about a variation to the action figure I was purchasing and why there was a variation. I mean details about a very certain part of the movie that I was dying to know. Before I could stop him, he had told me one of the main parts of the movie. All I wanted to do was to buy the figure and go see the movie. Am I a geek? At first glance, you may think, nah. Not a geek.......until you see my action figure room in my house. Then you're mind is made up. Geek, he is(spoken in Yoda voice).

So I went today to eat dinner (that's at noon for you yankees, the meal at the end of the day is supper). I went to Burger King to add to my collection of Burger King Star Wars toys. Sold out they are (Yoda again). So I pitch my fit and say that they should stock enough for the demand and throw down a single french fry and take a sip of coke. I showed them. Then I realize, no one's perfect. I'm reassured of this when I look at my Star Wars Burger King cup with a line showing how much ice and beverage to put into each cup. I thought you had to be a high school graduate to work at Burger King. I could be wrong. It's tough, you know, to fix a glass of coke.

Then, a chance for redemption. I notice the tear off "Choose Your Destiny" game piece on my french fry box. You can choose one of the two death stars to scratch off. One's a winner, one's a loser. At this very moment, I'm holding it up to the light to see if I can get a glimpse of which one is the winner. No luck. Will I be a loser again? I'm nervous. I really want to be a winner. I'm using my Jedi power to choose. Follow your heart.............(scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch)......... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I'm a loser once again. I'm going to destroy Burger King.(darth vader) Hunger, I feel. Deep hunger. (Yoda again). Meessaa thinks Burger Kings game is rigged it is.(Jar Jar). Victory you shall have next time. (shut up Yoda!!!) Not really. I won a Cheeseburger from Burger King. I am at one with the Jedi knowhatimean Verne?


LIFE BEFORE THE COMPUTER

Memory was something you lost with age
An application was for employment
A program was a TV show
A cursor used profanity

A keyboard was a piano
A web was a spider's home
A virus was the flu
A CD was a bank account

A hard drive was a long trip on the road
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived
And if you had a 3-1/2 inch floppy ..


... you just hoped nobody ever found out

What A Weekend

Ugg Boot

Let me just say, I'm a geek. Yep, I love Star Wars. This past weekend I went to the Sci-Fi Expo in Dallas, Texas. I met a lot of cool people, saw a lot of cool creatures, and met some stars.

Here I am with Daniel Logan (Boba Fett from Star Wars Episode II) and Temuera Morrison (Jango Fett from Star Wars Episode II and Clone Commander Episode III).

Ray Park (Darth Maul Star Wars Episode I) and I.

Mathew Wood (General Grievous Star Wars Episode III) and I. And of course, I got their autographs.

I alos met David Prowse and got his autograph, Darth Vader in Star Wars Episode IV, V, and VI. For some reason, I didn't get a picture with him.

Walking around the expo room, you could see anything.


After walking around for hours and hours surrounded by Star Wars, I was going nuts.

So we had to go swimming to relax. Ooooh la la!!!!

The next day, we went to the Galleria Mall.

That's not very nice.

That's better.

The most comfortable chairs in the world. I got the information to get chairs just like them. They only cost $500 plus shipping from Italy. Gotta get 'um. It was a very good weekend.

Rock It Baby

Ugg Boot

This is the week that was in matters musical...

1933, knowing he will soon die of tuberculosis and wanting to provide for his family, Jimmy Rodgers, aka the Singing Brakeman and the Blue Yodeler, begins his final recording sessions with Peer records ... Rodgers is accompanied by a nurse throughout the sessions and rests on a cot between songs ... he dies two days after laying down his last tracks...

1955, on the second night of a back-to-back at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida, Elvis Presley sparks the first riot of his burgeoning career with the phrase, "Girls, I'll see you backstage" ... the female portion of the 14,000 strong audience goes into such a frenzy that the once-and-future-King's clothes and shoes are torn from his body as he tries to escape ... after witnessing the event Colonel Tom Parker is convinced of Elvis' marketability...

1956, Buddy Holly gets fitted for his first pair of contact lenses ... as fate would have it, the creator of the Elvis Costello look can't stand the eye irritation and sticks with his trademark spectacles...

1958, Jerry Lee Lewis is granted a divorce from his second wife ... six months after marrying his third wife, and second cousin, Myra Gale Brown...

1969, a fire breaks out in a grocery store next to the Fillmore East while the Who are playing there ... one of New York's finest in plain clothes mounts the stage with the intent of grabbing the mike and warning the crowd of impending flames ... Pete Townshend mistakes the cop for an over-enthusiastic fan and aggressively ejects him from the stage ... when the word finally gets out over the P.A., the crowd thinks it's a hoax until the cops forcibly remove Townshend from the stage ... Townshend spends the night in an NYC pokey for his mistake...

1980, a Memphis court indicts Dr. George C. Nichopoulos on 14 counts of overprescribing drugs to Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis, plus nine other patients ... in 1977 alone, Dr. Nick prescribed 10,000 hits of amphetamines, barbiturates, narcotics, tranquilizers, sleeping pills, laxatives, and hormones for Presley ... as Elvis' tour physician, Dr. Nick would leave home with three locked suitcases full of prescription drugs ... the physician claims that he has struggled mightily to control the King's drug intake, and even contracted with Knoll, the manufacturers of Dilaudid, to manufacture a thousand inactive pills to fool Presley ... nonetheless, the indictment results in 22 years of legal wrangling and, ultimately, the end of Dr. Nick's medical career...

1986, Elvis Costello and Pogues singer-bassist Cait O'Riordan take the matrimonial plunge ... their marriage comes on the heels of "Rum Sodomy & the Lash," the Pogues' latest release...

1993, Barry White, Bette Midler, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers all appear as guest voices for their respective cartoon counterparts on the season finale of The Simpsons...

2000, The Artist announces that he will reclaim the name Prince, ending a seven-year period during which his legal name was an unpronouncable symbol ... he originally changed his name June 7, 1993, as a legal means of escaping the reaches of a too-controlling record and publishing contract ... the contract with Warner-Chappel (Time Warner) expired on December 31, 1999, freeing him to use his real name again ... the symbol, which is an amalgam of the male, female, and soapstone alchemy symbols, is retained as a logo...

2002, Dionne Warwick is arrested at Miami International Airport when she attempts to smuggle eleven joints aboard the plane in her lipstick case...

2004, Jeff Tweedy of Wilco completes a stint in rehab to kick an addiction to painkillers he developed while battling migraines ... Tweedy's stay had forced the band to cancel a handful of tour dates, including a stop at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California ... two weeks after he checks out of the Chicago-area treatment center the band will hit the road to tour behind the album A Ghost Is Born--its fifth...

Stray Pussy. (don't be scared. Just read it)

Ugg Boot

"One hot July day we found this old straggly cat at our door.

She was a sorry site. Starving, dirty, smelled terrible, skinny, and hair all matted down.

We felt sorry for her, and put her in the carrier and took her to the Vet. She had no name so we named her pussy cat.

The Vet decided to keep her for a day or so and said he would let us know when we could come and get her.

My husband, the complainer, said "Ok, but don't forget to wash her, she stinks." My husband and the Vet don't see eye to eye sometimes. He calls the hubby El Cheap-O and my hubby calls him El-Take-O.

The next day hubby has an appointment with his doctor whose office is located next door to the Vet.

The doctor's office was full of people waiting to see the doctor.

The door opened and in popped the Vet and announces to my hubby, "Your wife's pussy is finally shaved and clean. She now smells like a rose. And by the way, i think she's pregnant. God knows who the father is!" and then he closed the door.

I Need a Boat

Ugg Boot



Police in Radnor, Pa., interrogated a suspect by placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. The message "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth. Believing the "lie detector" was working, the suspect confessed.

Tee Hee Hee

Ugg Boot

Things you can ONLY say at Thanksgiving (thanks Jane)

01. Talk about huge breasts!

02. Tying the legs together keeps the inside moist.

03. It's Cool Whip time!

04. If I don't undo my pants, I'll burst!

05 Whew, that's one terrific spread!

06. I'm in the mood for a little dark meat.

07. Are you ready for seconds yet?

08. It's a little dry, do you still want to eat it?

09. Just wait your turn, you'll get some!

10. Don't play with your meat.

11. Just spread the legs open and stuff it in.

12. Do you think you'll be able to handle all these people at once?

13. I didn't expect everyone to come at once!

14. You still have a little bit on your chin.

15. How long will it take after you stick it in? .

16. You'll know it's ready when it pops up.

17. Wow, I didn't think I could handle all of that!