blog has moved AGAIN

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Come over and COMMENT every once in a while.

-Matt

I celebrate their entire catalog…

I heard the Descendants‘ Suburban Home this morning on the Sirius Punk channel and thought of my buddy Hop, since his band is on Suburban Home records.  I went to their website and saw one of the new 2008 t-shirts, and I immediately wanted it.

Classy with a capital “K”

Durrr.

I just learned that in the song Panic by The Smiths, that I’ve been mis-quoting Morrissey as saying “I’m the D.J.” instead of “Hang the D.J.”

Wow.  I’m a moron.

I’m a big ol’ fancy tv man.

QUOTES OF THE DAY: 12.04.07

“Man, you can not be a true conservationist if you really, truly enjoy killing shit.”

— James “Wack” Overstreet on board the Go Fish, SAN DIEGO, CA.

(EDIT: This is another one that was told this afternoon from the same trip…)

“Man…..when you drive through a place like this….it makes you realize that where you live is a dump.”

— James “Wack” Overstreet on the easy-on-the-eyes virtues of SAN DIEGO, CA.

hello from a phone

hi.

i am writing this from a cellphone as i’m stuck in traffic.

will it show up? if you see this i will be on KARK channel 4 news tonight at 6 talking about politics and shit. check it out.

Looking at Square America

My friend Barbara introduced me to a site called Square America that is a cornucopia of found pictures of strangeness from the “Golden Age” of America like Polaroids of a “Key Party” and a long-term project where a guy wore women’s bikinis and took photos of himself on the roof of the Philadelphia YMCA over a ten year span.

 

Interesting as hell and warped to an alarming degree you can really see that the “as seen on TV” love-affair with how great it all was before is really more romanticized that you could ever imagine. My particular favorite is a run-down of photos they got at a flea market of this one woman taken from the time she was a baby until the early 80’s when she’s obviously in her late 50’s and believe me, it’s showing.

I recommend it highly.  If for nothing but realizing how normal you’ve got it, or don’t.  Your call.

Fear and Loathing in Stuttgart

In Stuttgart, Arkansas in the waning moments before the beginning of the Wings over the Prairie festival in their historic Main Street district.  The World’s Championship Duck Calling Contest is Saturday, and our crew is heading their to stream the entire thing live through the tubes of the internets to all the people that spend weekends watching…duck callers…calling ducks….online?

Sure!  It’s bound to happen.  The plus?  The “Duck Gumbo” cook-off and super-mega-uber-ultra party.  Supposedly good stuff, and all that is right about Southern hospitality and lax public drunkenness laws.

I’m sure there’s something worth seeing, as much as I’d like to spend the Thanksgiving weekend at home, with the missus, playing the Doctor to her sickly self.  But duty calls and I come skippin’.   Bills and all that.   Paying them and such.  A must do in this modern society.

I will post pictures and things will be seen that can’t be unseen.  That much is for certain.

See ya soon.

M

i’m still alive…

just too busy to post.  not that anyone reads this, or maybe all of you do and have had your keyboards stolen.  regardless.

I’m just writing to say Smackdown vs. Raw 2008 comes out Tuesday, so I may be vanishing for a few weeks/months/eons.

Just a head’s up.

Kitty is on punishment so get back on your earthship, muh-fukka.

One of my longterm goals for the last few years after seeing a lot of the pueblo style houses (I’m looking squarely at you, Mr. Baca) and thinking of how cool they are – and then seeing houses built in African villages and Indian reservations out of hay, then stucco’ed over have made me very interested in the whole Earthship movement.

I’m not a huge environmentalist, hell, I’m not even a lazy environmentalist…but I do care about it in a “Oh yeah, you reminded me it’s fucked up” kind of way where I forget about it moments after it’s brought to my attention. I’m no Ed Begley, Jr. driving around an solar-powered car in the early 80’s by any means, but I’d like to be more conscious of it and do more about it, if I could. (…and I know I can, but I’m not getting paper bags at the grocery store, because I used to think people who did were assholes and hippies, and I know for certain they don’t tip the baggers who help bring crap to their car…)

Whether or not I’ll do more for the eco-system short of think really hard about building a self-sustaining house some day? Eh, I’ll come up with a plan right after this pack of cigarettes.

OK, I admit it. I like the Earthships more for their design and potential to be cheaply built and maintained more than my overwhelming concern for the environment. Yes, I’m the guy who buys one product over the other because of the “pretty packaging.” God bless you, Method for making pretty bottles and bags of spray for cleaning things. You’re so much prettier than Mr. Clean. Although I do appreciate his minimalist approach to dressing. Very Einsteinian.

As you were.