It was just a matter of time before AL got spammed

The sanctity of my blog has been demolished and the comments have been spamed by ebay none the less. I expected it to happen earlier to be honest. Once i saw the crap spawning itself on my myspace page and friendster, blogger was the last frontier. The Combat with spam is on! oh,well.

Convenient terror alerts when Bushy admin going to hell

With Karl Rove in trouble the latest news is the best smoke screen to cover the downhill public view of the Bushy cronies.

guilty of too much work and not enough play

ok so I have found five minutes in my hectic Agency schedule and a reason to login into blogger. Seems one of the flash module we are working on had a dead link to blogger or an unavailable link. I can't tell you more than that but other than it is a rather large company looking into making large businesses have blog solutions. Even with that tiny bit of info i could be in trouble. But who the hell reads this blog anyway?

On a funnier note and for new messages from Pat O'brien who is finally throwing in the towl, check out www.yesbutnobutyes.com and get your daily embarrassed larf for things you shouldn't say and to put on you're a total degenerate list. Karma will be on your side

speaking of which, the first jury is back for the new show They Call me Earl and it is funnier than the Office. Something is missing that is totally apparant in the 40 year old virgin. looking forward to the second episode.

Broken Flowers and Bill Murray

Now, if you are looking to be rewarded like you were in Lost in translation by some titillation. You will be. If you are looking for mid America scenery you will notice that most of the landscape Bill's characters traverses looks suspiciously like Jersey or somewhere off the Sawmill Parkway or GSP as he tracks down ex girlfriends. If you are looking for some resolve other than the basic mantra to live in the now. Don't go. Stay where you are. Broken Flowers erges you to run away from your same old way of doing things. Don't be the idiot that stood up at the end asking for his money back, when nothing gets resolved in the same old Hollywood fashion. Take a moment because you are never going to find out which of his 20 years worth of ex's and plife atterns sends him on his quest.

Slip on loafers and the 12 oz beer

Sometime when walking in the city, in a rush to go nowhere life threatening, my shoes fall off. I’m afraid that this might happen before getting on a train. Down in the crevice where all that electrical crap is, It would probably be worse in the AM than PM when headed home. The solution I imagine would be to just take off the other shoe, weather permitting of course. But if it were to happen on the way to work, there could be an issue. I’ve lost my Hornsby notebook cd this way in the 23^rd street Path. It just bounced down the tracks. And I schemed for weeks on a strategy to retrieve it without getting down in the muck and electrical, until it suddenly was not visible any more.

 

There are so many choices, when unplugging’ from the Big Agency, the decompression question always comes up. Is it a 12 oz train ride evening or 16 oz? Will a simple bag of chips satisfy the lunch skip or is it a biggee fry or a whole damn meal. Ah, the choices of dear old Newark Penn take-out services are almost endless.

 

 

 

Non-stop action, moviergoer and aviso

I am toast and it did not help that I hung for awhile after the show and drank and yapped it up with the guys: John A and big Al from Pulaski, mix maestro Shawn Overby and the Ort brothers. Shit, I was toast on Friday closing up some Agency work stuff for the weekend.

The show last night at the Brighton Bar was a great release. Jaco never changes his beard just gets longer and grey but the diehard punk in him lives. That guy can tell some stories from all sorts of angles. Hard to explain the performance high, something gets releases from the energy and swet. Eventhough it 'felt like was 1999' with all the familiar faces in one room. It did not feel retro. The music is still vital and I am glad I am enjoying it as much. We stuck mostly to goodnight sweetheart material and few from the more recent Our lady of the Highway, as we've vowed not to prematurely perform the newer tunes until they are ready to played live. On the bill were Moviegoer and they were awesome. The batteries for the toy instruments they would play thru their pick-ups have long since died but there is talk of bringing some semblance of sampler for their next and last reunion show. Thankfully there was some new music by Benny's new band Non-Stop Action. Walter got heckled by Ben when he requested that ben dance some more. Their tunes are gilting like Jehu and vocals and lyrics are clearly assembled like the asphalt craftmanship of Bill Gerwick. Hard to explain I suppose.

PAPARAZZI victims of bad television editing

Ok, so it was Saturday night and there is always some dumb shoot-em up movie or a classic somewhere on cable. Paparazzi was entertaining for about 20 minutes, but they weren't all in row. A couple cameos here and there by Chris Rock as a Pizza boy, which seemed weird because he is a big star, kind of a down role and I suppose a joke in itself. The well placed one was Mel Gibson, because of the plot where the Stalked star is a action hero runs into him at an aggression counselor's office. But there is a point where too many cameos ruins a movie. Ok there I gave away a cut-away joke but so what. The hbo film was missing any sort of sex, which is sad for hbo, and centers around a revenge plot. It's hbo right? Where is the realism that has been admired in it's hit shows like the dark, dark, dark Six Feet Under? Who's final episode airs tonight. 6FU has always had all the sex and plot to carry it to it's final show tonight. I think hbo films needs to raise the bar of it's feature film programming by a few short hairs if I am going to watch. However, I will give loud clapping hands to super prick agent Ari and the show Entourage whos the writers, and producers have given this enough of a spin on reality programming that it has the potential to go as long as the Sopranos or Sex in the City and grow it's audience as long the grit gets better. One cursory spin on defamer or fleshbot will write any show forever. The pursuit of Aquaman is sort of funny, not one of the top 10 super heroes, but surely one of the most underrated. For now it is obvious that a short focus is best. Don't you think?

Move the liar out office vs Jon Stewart's new Digs

Courtesy of Moveon.org all of the letter to the editor have been put in one place. I don't normally spit this stuff out but thought you should know that according to the MoveOn People that '...Monday there were 1,043 news stories mentioning "Karl Rove" on top TV stations—yesterday there were 128.2. All because President Bush announced his nominee for the Supreme Court on primetime TV— pushing the Rove story out of the news. The timing was intentional, a top Republican told Reuters. So use above link all ye blogger. On a second front, i'm not too keen on the formal desk situation. Sure it gives Mr. Stewart's show on Comedy central a lot more formality and air of seriousness. But are the people ever going to pay attention to the content? The re-occuring guests are a little bit baffled, perhaps because of their proximity, no cumfy chair, even though the discourse still seems to be open and, well funny. The graphic display has improved with the blue screen tricks. I am a little skeptical and more baffled at the fact that the Bush Admin has mastered the art of guiding the Press core right on cue. Most 'Mericans are just lost and seem not to care either way. Wouldn't you agree? His choice is a very young conservative white guy that is going to be around for a our lifetime. Now if Mr. Stewart were in office what would he do...warble do-do-do, warble begin: dream sequence bubble over JS's ehad. ( "...ah maybe if I get this desk, see, it will make people take me more seriously...and I can thwart and influence the people with way too many smart ideas and thoughts... warble, warble...")

and scarily have a lookie at this very uncomfortable post about a 9/11 conspiracy. I am of the opinion it was somehow orchestrated by the Bush Family oil clan. Don't need to believe me at all,but do check out all the references in bull dogs update. He didn't make it up. Just seems to be doing his homework. But alias, the people don't care and that is what is so brilliant about the masses. They are stupid.

back into the grind

back into the grind,
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First day at new Agency job in nyc after being on Cape Cod for 5 days feels just as good as this stupid grin [photo taken in ptown by wifey). Hung out in mid-cape. Ate tons of rich and good seafood with wifey at placed like Lobster pot, Land Ho! and the Impudent Oyster. Had a nice breakfast every morning at these two neat and updated b & bs [a little pleasant Inn by the Bay and Brewster by the Sea. Both places run by very nice people. Saw a great sunset over the bay. Slept like a champ. Definetely recommend squeezing in a vacation before any major life changes if at all possible.

To Mt. bike or not to bike

The Mt Biker group is starting to pick-up members! Noticed some decent traffic coming this way via the Craig's list posting. For a complete list of trails dirtworld has pretty decent listing and reliable review system for places tp ride all over the states. Next NJ ride is scheduled for Sat July 23rd to Chimney Rock. 10AM. Meeting place tba. Join the myspace NJ Mountainbikers group on myspace or the friendster group to find out more details.

Mass transit Train Delays

Train delays all over the place. Nobody wants to roll in @ 9am to get to nyc. Lots of dogs and guns. I am so late.
sincerely, me

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London is burning

I know it's a terrible time to quote the clash. Nothing to say except if your looking for important links check out The Mad Pigeon's blog. He has some interesting links and photos up on his blog. Please hug your loved ones today. I remember when 911 hit i couldn't even hit cnn it was so slammed, sorry for the pun, for information.

NJ Mountain Bikers

In an effort to reconnect with my health and nature, and um my fancy new cannondale that I've ridden 1/2 dozen times since last October. I've started a NJ Mt. Biking group thru friendster. Obviously, this would be a weekend thing in and around New Jersey. So if you know how to topple a log or want to learn how, drop me a line thru the group or here. Don't matter. I would like to hit the trails every once in awhile. I know it's a hard motivator to ride alone, so the group thing will help push determined riders. This would be a good way to go with people who know their favorite areas. So if you know somebody who might be into it forward them this post. I'm not a pro but I have been riding for a very long time thanks to my old friend Karl. So let the trails begin!

Asbury Park revitalized

Asbury Park revitalized,
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After wifey and took lucy lu to the all year-round dog beach in Manasquen for a swim Monday, we took a spin-up to Asbury to check out how the scene was doing on Cookman Avenue. We stopped by my friend Doug's gallery Rock Paper Scissors to see how it was doing which started after Be closed 3 doors down. Granted it's been a year since I was down in Asbury but man has there been a serious face-lift. He has lots local fine-art in his place and says they have a monthly openings. Down the street there now is a fancy restaurant, 10 times as many boutique / galleries, refurbed furniture stores and all of the loft spaces have been converted into inhabitable living spaces. Some of the older galleries have moved but now every other space has something different in it. We even got a chance to catch the parade. You should be able to see the positive influence the community has had on the area the second you turn onto cookman. It should be obvious the place is making a comeback with a different spin from it's heyday. Anyway, in couple weeks ( Sunday July 17th 12pm) a couple ofWFMU old-punk djs Glen Jones and Xray Burns are doing a remote show at the old HoJos, which is a trip in time, right on the boardwalk in Asbury Park. If you are going to do anything culturally cool down the shore this is your opportunity to see what I'm talking about. So get off the couch and forget about about lawn. You might even meet some famous NJ celebrities.