Monday

Blogger is acting weirdly- again- we'll see if this posts or what?
Didjall have a good weekend?
ME TOO!
Had a gaggle of friends from work over...
only one saw the Weir shrine- she went a little bug eyed but didnt say anything about it (at least in front of me-lol!)
I'm still a little hung over from all the wine I drank but am feeling good!
Got the house all Chanukahed out- and was very excited to find Mollie Stone does carry blue potatoes!
I finished up my Rex Dragon- re did the wings and added eyes and sent it off with Scott this morning- it will go along with a guitar and amp to be auctioned at Rex...
TO DO- Check out this-
Dan Aykroyd and Ben Manilla, Elwood's Blues: Interviews With the Blues Legends & Stars (Backbeat, $17.95)

Listening to Aykroyd maintain character as Elwood Blues on "The House of Blues Radio Hour" became a tedious drag a long time ago, and this book is a shameless promotional tie-in. Nevertheless, it does boast some revealing interviews with a few of the genre's greats -- Ray Charles, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker and Koko Taylor among them -- as well as some forgettable chats with younger wannabes like Keb' Mo' and more or less irrelevant-to-the-topic rock stars such as Bill Wyman and Bob Weir.


Found the following at Ratdog.org-
"funny as shit
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funny article:
FALLOUT FROM THE BASEBALL STEROID SCANDAL:
MUSIC FANS DEMAND ASTERIK BESIDES RECORDS SET BY GRATEFUL DEAD;
NFL SEASON CANCELLED
by da Power Flunk
12/4/04, Berkeley, CA
Recent revelations that baseball stars Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi
took steroids as "performance enhancing drugs" in recent years have
outraged sports fans and pundits alike. Many have urged professional
baseball to mark the records set by Bonds to be forever marked with
asteriks denoting the drug use. "His records are illegitimate," said
former senator and one-time presidential candidate Bob Dole. "Bonds
uses drugs to do things he otherwise can not do."
Now the protests against performance-enhancing drugs have spread to
the music industry. "The Grateful Dead set many records during their
tenure as the world's greatest psychedelic rock band," one critic at
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame noted, "and they literally changed the
art of sound and the face of the music business. But they consistently
used illicit substances as performance-enhancers over their 30-year
career, and this should be noted in all the record books with some
kind of asterik. I am recommending a Goony Bird stamp be placed next
to all the exhibits at the Rock Hall and in the music record books."
"Without LSD there never would have been a Grateful Dead," said a
university professor who studies popular music. "This gave them an
unfair advantage in creating new sounds that groups like Abba, the
Association and the Four Seasons never had."
Likewise the attendance records set by the band, which routinely sold
out stadiums in its later years, have also been challenged. "The fans
used so many performance-perception-enhancing drugs that they would
never have been able to dance for all those hours at a time and travel
the hundreds of miles between shows without those drugs," the
professor noted. "These attendance records should also be
invalidated."
In yet another related development, the rest of the NFL season has
been cancelled. "We can not build an entire league whose revenues
depend so heavily on the advertisement of performance-enhancing
drugs," noted the league commissioner. "Every other commercial we have
is for Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra," he noted. "This contributes to a
culture where kids think its alright to take drugs to enhance your
performance. Of course without those revenues we can not pay the
players or the owners, so the season is officially over until we
figure out what to do next to recover a massive revenue stream like
that one."
This later development almost caused Dole to have an aneurysm.
"You'll be hearing from my lawyers," he angrily told the commissioner.
"I have a contract with Viagra that runs through 2006, and you have
contracts with these other companies that run longer than that.
Besides, no one will ever mark my loving Elizabeth with an asterik,
you can count on that," Dole said, "whether I can get it up without
drugs or not."

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