Um, if you read this site and went to look at my band's new site, and thought I was smoking the carpet when I designed it. That's cuz I was checking it in Mozilla. Where it looks great. Honest. I'll fix it tonight.....

(of course, who follows self-aggrandizing links in a blog, anyway? especially mine.)  ¶ 4:21 PM

  Well, hell has frozen over and I have updated my band's site. I'm really kind of upset with myself for letting my band slide so far. I mean, we practice all the time, and we're really good, but I just haven't been out selling us. I guess I kept waiting for somebody who would take me by the hand and say "this is how you do it". Of course, that's stupid. So we went ahead and recorded a demo with our pal Eric, who's a great guitarist in his own right and putting together a band now. Now I'm going to bars and dropping them off and getting the grunt.

Me: (note of quavering desire for acceptance in voice)Uh, hey. Can I leave a cd for booking?
BarCreature: Ugh.
Me: Or should I talk to somebody?
BarCreature: Ugh.
Me: Okay! Thanks a lot!
BarCreature:UGH! UGH!

Yeah, that's always good for your self-esteem.   ¶ 10:37 PM

  I started a thread over at MetaFilter about the end of buffy, and this is the best post by far:

who can forget the classic scene where Spike threatens to break a supposedly rare star wars action figure, if the evil geeks don't do what he wants.
i was watching with my friend, he says, "There was no 1978 Boba Fett action figure!"
i turned and stared at him in something between admiration and fear.

I'm still laughing......  ¶ 3:36 PM

  Oh, man. You gotta see this.  ¶ 10:40 AM

  Argh, it's been over a week, so here goes.

I've posted a new movie to my Flash movie player. The images are kind of weird because of heavy backlighting, but it's still cool. I'm still working on the redesign of the front end, but I should have it in a couple more weeks.

Buffy is ending tonight, and I couldn't be sadder. Yet, in a way, it's a good thing. I think they had played out most of their themes. And probably 7 seasons as the best written (and never awarded) show on the air is enough for anybody. The big question is, what now for Joss Whedon. After the failure of Firefly, I'm a bit worried that he won't be able to get anything off the ground. Mind you, he's set for life, and I'm writing this on the sly at my day job, so maybe I shouldn't worry. Still, it bugs me that he never got any awards.

So Google news, (find it yourself, I'm too mad to link to them.) Has apparently removed Indymedia from their sources. Siting anti-semitism in some of the unedited posts as their reason, they stopped accepting stories from about May 16th on. I guess I understand them not wanting to have their site associtated with anti-semitism, but they apparently bowed to a letter-writing campaign whose sources remain anonymous. I guess the concentration of media is really going ahead full steam. It's certainly helped Danny Glover. Meanwhile, those employed by the big media powers are free to scream any crap they want

Oh, and before somebody brings up the Danny Glover/Dr. Laura comparison, let's try to remember that Dr. Laura was fired for things she said in the performance of her job. Danny Glover is being let go for things he's said as a private citizen. Big diff, in my opinion. Maybe Sean Penn wasn't completely off his rocker when he started blabbing about a new blacklist. Then again, maybe he was.  ¶ 10:31 AM