hope you enjoy looking around. I'll be posting more as I get pics taken.

I am new to Red Hat Society, and haven't joined any chapter as of yet.

If there is anyone out there from Tacoma that has room in their chapter for one more, send me a note.

A little house keeping was in order, yesterday as the fog lifted..... and lo and behold, the web, which had swayed to and fro, outside our front room window for 3 days, was worse for wear. Covered in dew, and the spider nowhere to be seen.  But no doubt, for the unscruplous owner, it had done it's job....... and it had to go.

The question is, how do they construct such a perfectly formed trap..... ?

 I had Geoffie cleaning at 7am - he was busting with energy. He was asked to clean up the counters so I could wash dishes on my lunch break. He came back in the living room and said ----

I have news for YOU girl - I am not waiting to have my oatmeal till noon! I'll be washing spoons and bowls and cups! He also said from now on, we wash our own dishes! The buck stops here!

lol he's a good kid.

One of these days we will get the dishwasher fixed!

         THis is My first blog so... Don't hate on its ****ness.

     The Intercontinental title. It was the first title I ever saw change hands on TV. ALmost 12 years ago. I beleive it was Owen Hart who dedicated the match to his older brother Bret , and went on to beat Rocky Maivia for the strap. Great match. Not as remembered , but still a great match.

     As important as the WWE title and World title are , I do consider it quite a shame that there seems to be little to no interest in the IC title as of late. When I first started watching WWE , the IC title was a stepping stone to main event status. Guys such as Chris Jericho , Edge , and RVD were the last former IC champs to do this if I'm not mistaken. Not anymore tho. Look at some of the former IC champs. Santino Marella , Kofi Kingston , and Jeff Hardy. (I know Jericho had the IC title recently , and DID win the World title recently , but for the sake of my blog , shut up). With the exception of Hardy , I don't think the IC title has done anything or is doing anything with the current upper mid-card guys. (If you wanna call Santino that...)

      I'm sure Hardy might've had a world title run by now if it weren't for his suspension issues. However he might not have either. I'm sure we could debate about that all night , but the fact is he didn't make it , yet. Still might , but its not likely. Before you know it , Hardy will be religated back to upper midcard hell , and likely hold the US title ( a bigger joke) a couple times to kill time.

    So here is my solution. USE the IC title as the stepping stone again. LIke when Jeff wore it to the rumble against Orton. Perfect use of the belt to elevate talent. I don't see Santino getting much use out of it , but perhaps Kofi , Lance Cade , or Regal could put it to good use. I'd also like to see more IC title matches contested on RAW. Make it seem more imortant. When your upper midcard gets taken more seriously , then your main event will look that much better. Even though they've been world champs already , I wouldn't mind seeing Kane and CM Punk try their hand at the IC title. Once again , just making better use of it than to promote a comedian with a funny accent.

Heres a poll for ya guys

                          -- Sledge

Darkly grand in the shadow of a cloud

Down from Patrick's grave

The bishop's church oversees

The shopping centre car park

The siding of a station long since gone

The offices of motor vehicle registration

A college of further education

The holy place an island on a hill

Atop a cobbled street of  grave Georgian stone

...see

Massinformation

Glitch or what?  I'm totally not still annoyed by my lawn mower.. that was days ago!

Get over it Gabster!!  Would ya?  My mood is stuck all.. here is what I really wanted to

change my "mood" to..

A quote I read today..

Say what you mean, mean what you say, and don't be mean when you say it.

On route to the Enchanted Forest.  Looking forward to friends around a bonfire.

Have a great weekend everyone ! !

hola a todo(A)s me llamo juan escribeme y vamos a perder el tiempo. soy buena honda mwwaks pa las nenas lindas de okeechobee.. haha!!!

I am going to No Way Out I cant wait

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Greetings all. Two questions today.

DEAR AAP:
Whining fat people? What's that got to do with punk? You should be called "Ask a random guy a random question" because mostly you just get people who have nothing to do or say about punk rock or DIY. Why do you answer questions that have nothing to do with what you say you're about? --- TIM

Dear Tim –
What can I say? People have all sorts of questions, issues and problems. I think if they have come across this site during their web surfing, then chances are they’ve got some connection to punk rock, otherwise they wouldn’t have stuck around, read the previous posts and then taken the time to write in. Punks have lives too ya know… everyone has to deal with life-issues that have nothing to do with their preferred flavor of music and lifestyle. I think every sincere question (or at least as many as I can get to) deserves a sincere answer. Including yours.

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DEAR Ask A Punk-
I'm playing in a couple of bands and working a low-wage day job that is pretty low-pressure and I'm just sort of cruising right now. I seem to have one problem though, as dumb as it sounds, I've been using heroin regularly, but not all the time, for about a year off-and-on and I can see how it is building up on me, but it's not like I've turned into some big junkie. I sort of have things streamlined so I can work and play and basically stay fine, if you know what I mean, and then when I have the free time I can party and really kick back. All in all I think I'm better off than a lot of my friends who are all freaked out about losing their jobs and paying off their credit cards and basically they're more miserable than I am. And you can’t argue with the fact that it provides insights and creativity. I’m coming up with songs and stuff that I never would have thought of otherwise. I'm not bothering or hurting anyone other than myself – and I would argue that even the 'hurting myself' part is debatable. I don’t shoot up, of course. I know it's bad for me, but I think it's like smoking cigarettes – If you know that they'll kill you, but you smoke them anyway, that doesn't make you a bad person, so why should I feel like a bad person? – Zeke

Dear Zeke-
You’re not a bad person, but you have made one very bad decision - You’ve decided to use heroin, and very soon heroin will be making all of your decisions for you. Then, as the months & years wear on, and wear you down, you’ll have trouble convincing yourself (or anyone else) that you were ever the good person you were the day before you took your first hit.

If you think your life is nicely streamlined now, just wait… pretty soon you won’t have to worry about that job (or any job) because you’ll have no interest in working. Same goes for the bands- you won’t be playing in them once you start blowing off rehearsals and your equipment starts migrating to the pawnshop. You won’t have to worry about your family and current friends, because you’ll burn through all of them when heroin’s whisper-in-your-ear becomes a scream that drowns out every other thought or piece of reason.

“Of course” you don’t shoot up… yet. Here’s a little exercise for you: get a pen and a piece of paper (before you try to sell them too) and make a list of the things you WON’T do to support your habit. Then carry it in your pocket (because you’ll sell your wallet too, eventually) and check them all off as you do them. Most likely you WILL eventually be shooting up, you will definitely end up stealing from your family and friends. You will burn every bridge in your life until it just boils down to you and the next spoonful of bubbly heroin.

…oh wait, I’m sorry... Are you already independently & mind-bogglingly wealthy? If that’s the case you can disregard most of this stuff and just lay back… You’ll never do anything else, but at least you’ll have all the heroin you need, and really, that’s all you’ll want anyway.

As far as the “creative insights” argument goes, of course we have to acknowledge that a lot of the musical and visual arts that man has created for centuries (millennia really) have spun out of minds that were soaked in various chemicals. From poetry, to sculpture to jazz to DeeDee Ramone, yes I won’t deny that there has been considerable interplay. But for every Samuel Coleridge, William S. Burroughs, Jim Carroll and Johnny Thunders there are millions, literally millions, of wasted lives. Untold multitudes of talent who couldn’t rise above the waves of chemical influence to capture their art in some sort of fixed medium. Instead it all existed solely in their heads as potential genius never realized. That goes for every “great writer” who spent more time at the bar than at the typewriter and every “great DJ” who can’t set down the bong long enough to plug in his/her sampler. And it especially goes for every “great musician” who picked up a needle more often than they picked up their Les Paul. All those great songs you’re writing? How do you know you wouldn’t be writing something DIFFERENT instead of them? …and you’ll also soon notice how every song starts to become ABOUT heroin… Don’t make me start naming examples (the 2nd Stone Roses album will do.)

That’s the thing when you’re “taking a ride with your best friend.” Whatever insights or advantages you think heroin is giving you at first, that is just a tease, an inducement, to follow further into the dark room… Once you’re there the door closes, your friend abandons you and all you have is the darkness. I’m telling you all this just so you can’t say no one every warned you.

Zeke, I really think you already know ALL of this anyway, otherwise you wouldn’t have written in, and made it sound like you’re already feeling like a “bad person.” I’m certain you’ve heard all the horror stories and that you know the standard junkie trajectory that every H addict falls into sooner or later. I can’t begin to guess why, in spite of all that knowledge, you decided that you needed to “find out for yourself.” I don’t know what previous damage you’ve probably suffered, or why you think you deserve the soul-crushing Hell you’ve put yourself on the path toward. The fact that you wrote to me tells me that you haven’t completely given up on yourself, but at the moment you’re still at the stage where you’re seeing more (imaginary) benefits than (real) consequences. That stage doesn’t last. It can’t. I can only hope you figure that out and decide to pull yourself out of the fire before it consumes you.

Seek help. Real help. Narc Anon or SOMEthing. Otherwise you’ll become so lost that you won’t ever find your way completely back.

It maybe a little foggy tonight and you probably will not see one of these, in the morning.........

Pictures From South Africa!!

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