A Fun Friday

KAphy and Recitiative and my pops and me went to the DCI show last night. I can hear some of you now "you took a 2 year old to a drum corps show?!?". Yes I did. And she LOVED it. She was really quiet and well behaved and clapped at all the right times and everything. She also made friends with this Boston parent sitting next to us. All night she kept saying "this bands are really FUN!!!". I think The Cadets show made more sense to her than me...

Any way- we had a great time and I got some cool insight from my old man. Dad and I would go all over the place in the early 90s to see shows- AL, MS, TN, you name it, but he hasn't seen much since then. I asked him "what's different from then to now?" He said (his words) these shows today seem heavier. I asked what he thought about that. He said HE LIKED IT. Please keep in mind my dad is not an intellectual or a musician, so I was shocked that he actually liked it more. Food for thought since he didn't recognize a single song that was played all night.

Here's a brief recap. Phantom still sounds the best. Boston still puts too much shit on the field. Hop and Sully did way to much blo in the 80s- their show was way out their. I actually liked the singing for the most part, I dug the uniforms, hated the characters on the field, and didn't like the pink tables they used for props. I can fill you in more in person.

I leave tomorrow for BOA. Wu Tang! I hope to learn something and also to see some of, um, my and Alan's old friends...

ML,
E

Just for fun...

Here is the link to the 2004 vote by issue quiz. If all of my loyal readers can spend 30 of their valuable minutes, I think we could find out some interesting things. Here are my disclaimers.

1. Leave all of the candidates 'on'- even the people you've never heard of.
2. Try to ignore it if you figure out who said a specific comment (some are pretty transparent).
3. No cheating and looking before you're finished.
4. If an issue doesn't matter to you, you can skip it by not marking anyone.

I would like to see where everone actually falls on this. After this one, we can do the "Are you a Libertarian" quiz.

Erik

http://www.votebyissue.org/wbur/

I'm sure the response to this post will be the same as it ever was "whatever the market wants!" but this burns me up. The reason the middle class is dying is not welfare or foodstamps or 'income redistribution,' its that we've lost our fucking minds.

Read this article, and as you do, remind yourself that the Henry Ford model was what made this country the economic superpower. That philosophy was 'pay a worker enough to afford the product that he makes'. For the sake of this argument forget that we no longer actually manufacture anything...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060621/ts_nm/financial_pay_dc

For all my Libertarian friends, I was looking at a great website today. It is a vote by issue quiz from 2004. It gives you statements about a bunch of issues from each candidate (they don't tell you who said what) and then it tells you who you should vote for. Here's the address for that:

http://www.votebyissue.org/wbur/

That linked me to a very interesting site for a minor party. I felt like some of you might actually like these guys. I feel like the, um, enlightened thought, that Boortz spouts daily reall falls more in with them than the Libertarian party (issues like Immigration, drugs, etc.). Anyway, here is some info about the Constitutional Party:

http://www.cputah.org/html/about_us.html#Differences

P.S.- I'm not a big fan.

ML,
E

Miss me?

I can't type long, just wanted to let everyone know that I'm still here.

I will say this- we went to the aquarium again. Still love it. Kids are really starting to love it. There are two things that really get on my nerves there.

1. People taking no-flash-cell-phone pictures. You know you won't ever use that! You also know that it will look like shit. Either get a real camera, or get the hell out of my way.

2. The otter and sea lion area. This is like the narrowest part of the whole place and it usually has like 400,000 people trying to look in. My kids are 3 feet tall or less. The can't see through 14 columns of people. Poorly designed.

Leaving for BOA in 12 days. Can't wait. Hope that Bill gets as much from it as I did.

Much love,
E