97 ways to enjoy your evening

A very dear friend of mine and i shared an evening of catching up, dinner, hats and a lot of mirror gazing. 97 (throughout this blog this is what u she will be refered as) looked sad when i first saw her i understand why and my heart goes out to her. she has suffered a loss which i cannot place into words. she is coping in the best way she can and that is good no matter what our history is I want the best for her. We met at the Heartland Brewery in the empire state building. I waited at the bar for her whilest playing my best game of vegas stakes solitaire on my Palm Pilot. i noticed a tap on my shoulder as i was about to draw another card from the deck and it was her. we grabbed a seat and ordered. we had some catching up talk with the usual suspects were said "how have you been" "hows new job etc" we had a nice dinner and the waiter was a bit of a dick so i poured on the sarcasm. She got me a hat that was my style which matched what i was wearing perfectly. I excused myself and headed downstairs to wash my hands and drain the weasel, as i headed back upstairs i noticed she had her head buried in her hands and my heart sank. how is it that this person who has meant so much to me can feel so much grief and suffering. i wanted to cradle her and tell her that everything would be fine but knowing her and how she is i know she wouldnt allow me to do that for sake of revealing too much of her emotions. i kinda waited a bit til she composed herself a little and sat down and uttered not one word except for "are u ok?" she said she was fine. we left and went to the comic store and then each headed home, friendship renewed but so much revealed in so little a time.

97 will always be the one whom all will be measured. she is my first love, my truest love, my sincerest love. we have moved on in life and forged something that always eluded us beyond our mutual admiration and respect and that is the power of friendship in turbulent times. although our dreams never worked out the way we wanted, life happened and to this i am greatful to god for blessing the earth with her.

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Brother Joe lays his roots

and so the day came that my brother cast out the decadence of youth and decided to stake his claim on this earth and purchase a foundation for his family.

Joy was in my brothers voice this morning as he excitedly told me of his house closing and what he needed to do to in moving his and Antonette's belongings to his new domain. He was beaming as he told me this (well what i consider Joe beaming) and i had great pride in him as he explained to me his plans. I have faith in him that he will do the right thing in life and provide for his family and in my heart i know he will succeed because in the end those who are good should be rewarded.

He had me thinking of my own future and what lays ahead. I can only follow his lead and hope to do the same outstanding job hes done. no matter what adversity he's had.. he's conquered.

To my brother much love and congratulations, i will be there for you when you need me.

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POM Wonderful - Scientific Studies DOUBLE THE SUGAR THAN SODA

POM Wonderful - Scientific Studies

WONDER PRODUCT MY ASS... this thing has more sugar than:

two of these:

Coke has two servings of 30 grams of sugar
POM tangerine and POM Cherry (my personal favorite) 2 servings of 34 grams.....

i dont dispute the pommegranate's rich antioxidant's (it is better than wine and blueberry juice combined and can combat arterial plaque) . i hate the fact that POM advertises wrongly to get people to think that this is the healthiest thing on the planet.

VENTING as i probably consumed 10 of those things before i consulted the label. they do taste amazing.

If you want to try it? click the link below and be the judge.



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Ultrasound and the art of the jam

There are few people in this world that understand me and the way i tick. Usually only these people understand my workings:

1) fellow virgo's
2) family
3) those from foreign lands

Bobby is 2 out of 3.

i woke up this morning with this feeling of caffeine withdrawal so i needed a wee jolt of that coffee goddess' breast milk in order to function properly as this weekend has been a declaration of sorts to laziness. bobby popped up on IM and I asked him to join me for Green Mountain Rain Forest coffee (i bought 4 pounds of it when i was upstate!). Bobby wanted to hit a rehearsal studio and jam for a little since we both have been working so damn hard lately and with MM on hiatus since my main homey Dino's been crazy busy I was itching to play again.


we headed into the city and were discussing the sorry state of music these days which leads me to this diatribe on what sucks in music these days. Payola is where a bands management pays a radio director money to play certain music. this is why the bland is big and the talented are shunned (i.e. Hammers of Misfortune, Refused, and Candiria) Bobby surmised that the industry is a cess pool and the ways of commerce and creativity never should those two meet. we arrived at Ultrasound and i rented an amazing Les Paul guitar (see above) those of you who know me who i can spend a whole blog telling you why i hate the Les Paul but i was hearing a certain sound in my head that only the Paul could provide and (nonmusician readers please excuse the rant) fortunately Ultrasound had an amazing one for rental. i plugged into a Matchless amp and did the usual POP tweak Bass 6 mid 6 treb 8 presence 3 Gain- cranked. the sound was gorgeous and helped to inspire some riffage with my cousin who is just ungodly at coming up with drum lines that accentuate ideas I or anyone he plays with can come up with. we started with a zepplinesque thing that we used to warm up. most of what i thought up was rhythmic pieces that had stops and little pauses and bobby suggested certain ways to arrange what we dreamt up that worked and i had thoughts as well. we hadnt jammed together since skunqpussy (almost 3 years ago) and we gelled very easily as we have similar influences and ideas. bobby has a different count off style than Akil, typically with Ak its 1,2,3,4 then into song, with bobby its 1,2,3,4, drum hit then into song. it was interesting noting how different count offs are and the way rhythm and keeping the beat are different for each drummer. bobby complimented me on my timing which i think playing with MM definitely helped me with as everyone in MM is great and pushed me to develop my playing a bit. I always have ideas in my head of riffs and things that i want to do but earlier i lacked confidence in my playing enough to even attempt them. the medium of playing music live, the jam, and recording is a bug that i will not lose my entire life it is a part of me and i dont feel right if im not playing.

we played well today and had a blast just writing ideas and i think that maybe we got back to the roots of playing not for commerce, not for self indulgence, not for ego, but for fun.

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The American Express Expense Management Report Program

today i got an email from amex about filing out this survey. they give u a $10 gift certificate once you fill out this survey which is about 5 questions. THE BEST PART is these guys give you $10 bucks per email address so i completed it and submitted for 10 email addresses = $100

the caveat is you get it in 4-6 weeks. but thats cool

ENJOY.. and CHEAT THE SYSTEM!

POP

AskMen.com - Beat Down

BY FAR THE FUNNIEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE.

Kanye West and Quiznos

I am mystified by rap and hip hop these days. back in the day we had Eric B and Rakim, LL COOL J, RUN DMC, Beastie Boys, EPMD, Cypress Hill, and my fave Wu-tang Clan (ODB RIP). I had given up all hope in hip hop with all this BLING BLING, Frat boy loving shit, Eminem has no skillz.... then ALONG COMES KANYE WEST and Outkast and i think this is right, this is forwarding the medium of Rap and taking it back to basics. it isnt about what gold you have, how many furs or aligator shoes you got and it AINT THE PIMP JUICE in the Pimp chalice. take it from this white boy, if you are or arent a fan of rap listen to Jesus Walks and tell me this man isnt gifted.

Today Courtney, Jody, and I went to lunch we took two pitstops to each of Jody and Courtney's banks. We headed to Quiznos and on the way i brought up the blog, Jody made a comment about me writing boringly "today My band practiced etc" NOOOO JODY lets talk instead about how when we got to Quiznos and the register guy fucked up my order. The order number was going higher and higher. i was 3270, i heard "3275-3283.. at 3285 I HAD ENOUGH so i was like WHAT THE FUCK, it was obvious the guy behind the counter whipped my sandwich through while Jody finished his sammich i cant blame the kid he was hungry. Courtney told me she saw Life Aquatic. I like the director as he did Rushmore and the Royal Tannenbaums. i also found out hes bringing my favorite childhood book Fantastic Mr Fox to life which is great as hes a great Director (wes anderson) A good story about Fantastic Mr. Fox, one day my mom was looking at my book shelf and saw the cover she said to me in italian the FOX with no tail, this was my favorite book in Italy.... strange how what my mom loves i in turn love as well. I guess the apple doesnt fall far from the tree.

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The New York Times > International > Europe > Smoking Ban Clears the Air, but It Befogs Italians' Mood

The New York Times > International > Europe > Smoking Ban Clears the Air, but It Befogs Italians' Mood

Guinea or No... Smoking Sux.

It's a disaster - my clients all complained," said Concetta Gaggiano, owner of the Nico Bar, a usually bustling cafe in central Milan. "People just ate their sandwiches and left. They didn't even have coffee. You could tell that they couldn't wait to light up a cigarette."

Poor Concetta, I didn't know us Italians were as bad as the French with the smoking.

weird..

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These are some ugly TOOTSIES

Julie Berg



Hello Readers, today i decided to click the next blog button the top of my blog and i noticed this chicks feet... Good Lord Julie is nothing sacred. i have one word for you darling FASTACTING and what rhymes with that?? TENACTIN. as a former athletes foot victim i feel bad for miss Julie Berg those toes arent ones i'd 1) blog about or 2) show on the web or 3) perform any type of FOOT FETISH acts with GOOD LORD!



i would recommend nothing less!

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BIG UNIT doesnt like to be touched.

ESPN.com - MLB - Not a picture perfect start for Big Unit in NYC


I think we take BIG UNIT warts and all. This is just a case of New York media taking too many liberties and not letting the man take his physical in piece.

Btw- Jen and Brad Pitt broke up BIG FUCKING DEAL who cares. i'll tell you why i dont care:

1) they are rich
2) they are beautiful
3) Brad Pitt's gay


EYE OPENER ANYONE?

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I AM A WHORE for Echo Boomers....

Notice the fun little Amazon Links on my page arent they great??? my loyal readers will no doubt think WHY? well lucky reader, my eyes have seen the glory and its name is ECHO Boomers!

What is an Echo Boomer? I saw something on Dateline NBC about these little tykes and what their all about. it seems that parents plan these kids every move. Mondays - Soccer, Tuesday - Karate, etc etc. They aim to please and tend to blindly follow advertising like lemmings jumping off cliffs. Needless to say I was intriguied and thought... HOW CAN I PROFIT FROM THESE GOONS. i hatched this scheme then and here it is, im going to syndicate PTQ (POP THE QUESTION) and put it on something called a "SITE FEED -RSS" and link PTQ to these Blog group(s) - Gap, Sony, Banana Republic, Dell, etc. what i want to see is how much traffic i can generate by having the word Echo Boomer and track if they are going to the amazon and google ad sense link on my page. It seems these little sheep spend over 200 Billion a year on useless items such as headphones, laptops, cell phones, and disposable razors. I used to question if our society was based solely on advertising or it was the consumers themselves that drove why a product is hot. I am hoping this experiment will bring some good results as always i will keep u posted. the below link is funny click it ;)

ECHO BOOMERS CLICK THIS!

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COOL SHIT Part 1 - Gizmodo : CES Showfloor: Brother Innov-is 4000D

Gizmodo : CES Showfloor: Brother Innov-is 4000D

Who would have thought of a sewing maachine that takes a jpg or picture file and can automatically sew it on cloth.... Badass sewing machine is a very appropo description

Superbowl Party Planning

Today your favorite lovely little meterosexual started to do the mind dance on what mirth and mayhem i can whip up for this years Superbowl. Last year we started a time honored tradition of abandoning our spouses, girlfriends, and in cousin Nicky's case SANITY in order to get together for the only ALL MALE holiday... SUPERBOWL SUNDAY. mornings start with the early birds usually, Nick, Joe, Rocky, and me going to breakfast and bullshitting for while. last year we went to our usual Cuban breakfast joint. we are chatting about the Patriots and Panthers when i get my french toast and i look down on top of the confectionary sugar i saw a ROACH... immediately we stood up and walked out. This year we go downstairs for Oddfellows Cajun Brunch.

I lobbed in some calls to some cousins today to see if they are coming by most gave me a resounding HELL YEAH so thats a special thing. We are having a POP Luck plan going where each person brings something. we got most of the bases covered and i look forward to a great Superbowl party. Im sure i will post pictures once all is done and the debauchery happens.

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Day 1 2005 - Hiatus.... aka HIGH ANUS

My Brain hurts.... I have been trying to think of how to properly finish the SF blog and start the blogging anew... to no avail. i have disappointed the millions of POP's blog fans out there with no posts.... it ENDS NOW. I will be posting every night and will finish the SF BLOG this weekend. without Further Ado here we go.

Updates - Kasia and i are doing well we are having the normal things happening after 3 months of a relationship. the curtain has been lifted and true personality traits are being pushed to the forefront. As one matures and has been seasoned in the art of fucking up a relationship and or being FUCKED UP from a relationship you understand the patterns of a relationship better. This is by no means a "im a bitter bitch" Blog aka BLOG ME A RIVER tm Tidy 2004-2005, this is just to give a true and honest every day glimpse of my life and its why i started blogging and i will never be dishonest... EVER. the way i see it there is 3 stages Euphoric, Voltaic, Sophomoric, then Pathetic.

Euphoric - At first its all HAPPY HAPPY you cant wait for the phone call, the hangout, the overlooking of a trait that you find somewhat distasteful. mind blowing intercourse followed by more ... and MORE... U GET THE POINT.

Voltaic - vol·ta·ic ( P ) Pronunciation Key (vl-tk, vl-, vôl-)
adj.

1. Of, relating to, or being electricity or electric current produced by chemical action; galvanic.
2. Producing electricity by chemical action.

This means any type of chemical and or chemical imbalance will cause electricity aka STATIC to one or both members of a relationship. so little fights come up, little traits start working on your nerves.

Sophomoric - this stage is more fights but the kid gloves are off. nothing is sacred. fasten your seatbelts it GETS BUMPY!

Pathetic - the End of Days, either 1 party begs for forgiveness for things they could have corrected in the duration of the relationship and either the other party forgives and they begin the vicious cycle again or they end it completely leaving either or both of them thinking is it me who's the problem or is it the other person... not my problem anymore let me find somebody else to start feeling again.

What stage is POP at?
Kasia and i are in the Euphoric/semi Voltaic stage. We are virgos so we are communicating well and figuring out what we can do to not go through the next stage(s). In the past i would have folded easier on things i'm looking for as i had esteem issues but now i have a tag team partner called confidence. Kasia has a good sense of humor so she understands why i do the things i do. one of her pet peeves though is she thinks i work too much. i think sometimes she may have a point on that so i am working on those things. Compromise is key.

(FUCK U DR PHIL HERE I COME!!)



Mad Machinery - we are on hiatus while Dino and Ed are recooperating from making out with Axl Rose and getting lyryngitus. we will be gigging somewhere in February still TOP SECRET. in other news Dino and I did an interview for collegebound.net and its about how we met in college and band news. Big thanks go to Patterson and Dawnerson for arranging the interview as Paul (the interviewer was very cool and asked some fun questions)

In related MM news - Yoko (aka Ashley) came to visit Dino in the city and we hung out while Dino was finishing up. we chatted it up at Dean and Deluca and split an interesting bacon and swiss muffin and cherry pommegranate juice. Dino got done around 6ish so we met him and went downtown to Papaya King and noshed on some dogs and waited for Kasia to get done. We met Kasia at Cafe Ari, the place was dead so we had our pick of seating while enjoying 3 types of tea. Every year Dino comes up with a new way to give me the middle finger this year was a gem. with his left hand he pretended he was winding a jack in the box with his right he locked and loaded the bird. he did the traditional jack in the box, then when the time comes to reveal the bird he goes POP and bam. it was a thing of beauty and beat out the GUN FIGHT BIRD of Last year... Instant Classic.


BAJA Update - I was shocked 3 weeks ago when one of the waitresses at Baja told me their closing at the end of the year. i was bummed and told Joe, Bobby, Jen, and Dino about it and they wanted to go there before they closed. as of 1/7/2005. BAJA IS STILL OPEN... WHAT THE FUCK, was this an effort to get our money from us??! if they are open on 2/5/2005, i will ban BAJA forever.


Yankee news - we got the Unit now we pry Beltran from the Mets. then again do we really even need him? ILL TAKE HIM!

Shoutouts -
Tidy - tidy has a new site called www.blogmeariver.com what a great name and i cant stop laughing. Tidy is a funny kid.

i've been waiting a looooonnnnngggg time to type this!
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