almost better than the real thing

Disturbingly rare are the chances the Mrs and I have to go out and hear live music.  However, when the opportunity to see an awesome cover band called Yacht Rock play the entire Thriller and Purple Rain albums at a small venue on a Saturday night presented itself, I had to buy tickets to nostalgia. [...]

changing brackets

I haven’t been particularly excited about leaving marketers’ “most coveted age bracket” (although this guy thinks the boomers are changing that).  I like knowing companies spend millions of dollars trying to figure out how to please me and how to catch my attention.  It’s like dating a Rockefeller. But not any more.  Tomorrow I hit [...]

music and the art of behavior manipulation

The last time I had tickets to a David Gray concert, the som’bitch got sick and canceled after Pretty Girlfriend flew down from her PhD program in Pennsylvania, and, having run out of ideas for entertainment with no concert to attend, we decided to get married and start repopulating the great state of Georgia. We [...]

coming to an olympic arena near you: the muskrat toss

The first time I got tossed out of a bar was when a cover band named “Seattle” came to The Ivory Tusk, an 18-and-over watering hole on the University of Alabama Strip.  After a year of ‘Bama bangs and their Grateful Dead, Widespread Panic, or Phish covers at every bar and band party within a [...]

viva la foolishness

This is a cellphone picture I took around 10pm last night from Philips Arena. So is this. And this. This picture, however, was taken at 2am at Mary’s.  Which is why I had to pull over this morning to puke my guts out (again). ——————————————————– Hangover remedies are found at humor-blogs!

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