SwampLog 3.0

Overheard

[Granted, only baseball junkies will find this amusing, but there it is.]

D: F-in Kenny.  Stupid dumb hothead.
M: Well, couldn't we try and slide someone through on waivers?
D: Who?  Alfonso Soriano?
M: Sure.  He'd sit around on the wire for 10 days.  Who would want him?

One More Time

I'm getting ready to hop in the shower and go to City Streets. Tonight's my last night there, and will most likely be the last time I'm a DJ on a full-time basis in a nightclub.

I feel good about tonight. I'm not approaching the night any differently than I would on some other shift. I'm not making a big deal about it, and won't likely mention it much on stage. Marty and Thomas will be there, as will a few other friends from along the way. Past that, it's just a gig.

Marty doesn't think it'll be my last time as a club jock, and I can understand his apprehension. I've said never again before, and each time I've come back to the business that I backed in to in 1991. Regardless, this time it's different from the others in that I know I'm spent. I have very little tolerance for people in clubs anymore. The culture has changed, and I have as well. I'm not the "please everyone" guy I was in the early Nineties, and you have to have a little of that to do this job.

Ray and I were talking about those early years this week, and how we'll never have that time again. We worked at Dallas Alley at a time where both of us, in our own way, ruled over our own little corner of the planet with the brazen nature of emperors. Our world has changed so much in the last decade that I wonder if it will ever be possible to have that much fun again. And we did have fun, goddess knows.

I want the last song of the night to be "Bohemian Rhapsody." I think it would be fitting.

Aimin' To Misbehave

There's a new trailer for 'Serenity,' the movie based on Joss Whedon's painfully-short-lived FOX series 'Firefly.'

From what I've heard by people who've seen the advance screenings, you don't HAVE to be a fan of the show to enjoy the movie, which is a BIG plus. Adapted movies like 'The X-Files,' which almost required you to know the ins and outs of a source material show first, never catch on the way they should. 'Serenity' should break that mold.

Go watch the trailer now. It's a gas.

29 July 2005 Is Up

Apparently, friends DO let friends podcast drunk. At least the music is good - My Bloody Valentine, R.E.M., Handsome Boy Modeling School, and a lot more.

Subscribe to the podcast by using this RSS link right chere, or grab the 31 MB MP4 file by right-clickin' and savin'. Odeo? Oh-eee-oh-eee-oh. The full playlist for this week sits right about 'chere.

Okay, So I Lied

There will be a DAMradio podcast this week. It should be done by 7:00 pm CDT, so there.

Slipping

Odds are we won't be able to do an edition of DAMradio this week.  I've only got a few songs selected, and with the new job I don't even know when I would be able to record breaks -- either alone, or with Marty.  Hell, I haven't even seen M since he got back from Costa Rica.  We've spoken on the phone once, and I've fallen asleep before he's gotten home from work, and left long before he's woken up.

So... we may have to do a special edition of DAMradio prior to the Blogathon.  I'll be leaving town Tuesday night, so we'll have to do the session sometime Sunday.

It's a little slow at work the last couple of days, but this kind of slow only means there are more calls coming down the road.  [cringe]

Official Announcement, Bitches!

You know of my love for all things Yirmumah! and the strip's creators, DJ Coffman and Bob McDeavitt. The strip is consistently one funny damned comic.

So, imagine my glee -- utter and absolute schoolgirl-esque glee -- when DJ offered to create a special piece of artwork for the Blogathon.

At some point on Saturday, 5 August, I'll post that if you want this piece of artwork, you need to pledge a certain amount. Once that single pledge amount is met, the original piece of art will be mailed to the winner's home.

I am incredibly stoked by this, and extremely grateful to DJ and Bob.

This will not be the only piece of collectable schwag I'll be pimping out for the 'thon and the folks who pledge. Remember, the person who makes the highest single pledge donation gets to program a whole hour of DAMradio on Friday, August 26.

Oh, one more thing Blogathon-related: the XML feed is up and running. Go ahead and plug it into your feed readers.

Double Points If You Can Name The Plot

Before I get started... am I supposed to understand this at all? LL, do you?

When I interviewed Mike Patton from Faith No More in 1991, he told me of his exploits at the airport in Sydney as customs officials seized four suitcases full of porn and a pair of fake breasts. I'm reminded of this as Mike G points us to a lengthy list of items the Canadian guv'ment has posted that tells them what pornoghraphic materials are allowed over the border, and which ones are forbidden.

There's a great game here, as we found out last night. Print out a copy of the list, then take it to a party. Rattle off random titles, and go around the room asking whether it's admissible or not.

Example: "Yours To Have: Brazilian Cum Ons #4." Would you think it's admissible, or prohibited? What about "Screw My Wife, Please! (& Do Her Doggie Style!) #13"?

(They're both admissible, by the way.)

Fun for the whole family! (Unless you'd rather watch "Father Son Weekend #2." That's a family affair.)

Twelve Days And Counting

Blogathon 2005 is bearing down on us like a freight train full of anvils. The preparations are in full swing, and my Blogathon mini-site is up and running.

There will be quite a few twists and turns to this year's 'thon on my end. Things are afoot. Special guests. Unique (and I REALLY do mean unique) giveaways for people who pledge. The content will be top-notch, as long as I can stay awake. And the location where I'll be doing this from... well, let's just say it won't be happening from my living room this year.

Speaking of pledging, Jesus Christ. You people rock! There's already been $168 pledged to the Tarrant County chapter of the American Cancer Society. That equals my entire pledge total from 2003.

So I'm going to up the ante just a hair.

I'm asking for you, the avid SwampLog reader, to help us raise $1000 for the ACS. We're already 1/6 of the way there, and I know that you guys can make this happen. I've already spelled out why this is such an important cause for me, and if you have any friends or relatives that have faced cancer, you know what a fantastic organization the ACS can be.

Start giving. The fun starts Saturday, 5 August, at 9:00 am EST. That's 6:00 am PST. (There's your clue.)

WebComic Love

If you aren't reading these webcomics each weekday (or less, if they don't publish five days a week), your day is a little less jovial. Has less of a sheen to it. Beats you down more.

Yirmumah!
PvP
Penny Arcade
Pearls Before Swine*
Scary Go Round
Diesel Sweeties
Goats
Real Life Comics
Sinfest
Something Positive
WIGU
Little Dee
Ctrl-Alt-Del
You Damn Kid!
Nukees
Starshift Crisis
The Fermento Show
Two Lumps
The Joy Of Tech
Joe And Monkey
Wapsi Square
Midnight Macabre
Warp 9 To Hell

Now, bear in mind that a lot of these comics are adult-oriented (meaning: profanity, bloodshed, NOT Garfield). But all of these make me laugh on a regular basis. The order is only what came out of my Bookmarks file, so no preferential treatment is implied (except for Yirmumah!, where DJ Coffman promised me sexual favors from some unnamed Polynesian courtesan).

All of these comics are four stars or higher. Dev Bob says check 'em out.

* Yes, it's a nationally syndicated comic, but your paper probably isn't cool enough to carry it. So there.