ARRGH. You suck. I love Mission of Burma. I hate living in the middle of nowhere, or the middle of Michigan which is basically the same thing.

Ted has beaten me to the punch. You do suck. Who are the guests?

Fine, I’m going to Trader Joe’s then. We’ll see who has more fun.

But what if Pooh has cancer?

Listen, man…

How can you pretend to give a fuck?

How can you pretend to give a fuck when nothing seems to matter at all?

I keep wanting Mission of Burma’s name to be Mission TO Burma.

But it never is.

How about Shave of Burma?

That’s when President Barack Oburma reached for his revolver.

These rather lovely Obamas sure beat Pickles and Pretzel choker.

Why did they not change their name to Mission Of Myanmar?

It’s like they don’t believe in military dictatorships or sumthin’. Hippies.

Why doesn’t Mrs. Obama looked stoned? I thought First Wives were supposed to look stoned.

Only the Stepford First wives, Susan.

Whenever I leave my office, should I put a sign on the door telling people that I’m Bissy Backson?

Hey, man, I was in an episode of Channel-5’s ‘Chronicle’ that Clint Conley produced.

Almost as good as a backstage pass, man.

Almost.

My osprey just died graphically after nearly 142 minutes – he was the love of my life. When the coroner opened Mccoy up he found a wrestling title belt lodged inside Mccoy’s skull. My question is to Odin… Why did it have to be my McCoy?

The All-Father cares nothing for your seabird.

Damn! Those were nice pics!

“Pickles and Pretzel choker” — Great band name. Death metal I think. Lots of blood on the stage but no one is responsible.

Pretzel choking?
Is that what you kids are calling it now?

You do suck. I chose to stay home tonight as it is cold and I expected Sadly No! infotainment.

Ugh, now I have to go out with friends. I hate friends.

Wow – I wish I’d known! I’d have joined you!

Horowitz on Obama’s election:

Second, in order to do this as conservatives — as conservatives who have been through the culture wars — we need to get past the mixed feelings we will inevitably have as the nation marks its progress in moving away from the racial divisions and divisiveness of the past. These feelings come not from resistance to the change, but from the knowledge that this celebration should have taken place decades ago and that its delay was not least because our opponents saw political advantage in playing the race card against us and making us its slandered targets.

its delay was not least because our opponents saw political advantage in playing the race card against us and making us its slandered targets.

There’s the race card, then there’s the victim card. Horowitz hits a two-bagger.

Can I try a shorter Horowitz?

• We’d have been less resistant to racial equality if only those mean liberals hadn’t kept calling us racist.

Horowitz hits a two-bagger.

That’s a cobag two-bagger.

our opponents saw political advantage in playing the race card against us and making us its slandered targets.

Yeah, I remember like it was yesterday when that damned Willie Horton played the race card against us.

Oh, yeah, and remember that darn guy who tricked Ronald Reagan into announcing his candidacy for president in Phildelphia, Mississippi.

Him, too.

And that Cemocrat who spread the rumor in South Carolina that John McCain had fathered a black child.

Don’t forget him.

And all those Democrat senators and congressman who opposed making MLK day a federal holiday.

Them, too.

You know, I would like white people a lot more if they would stop bitching about how everyone thinks that they are racist.

Bastard! I had tickets to Burma at the Echoplex out here in LA for my birthday, but got stuck late at work and missed the whole damned show.

Again, you bastard.

[staggers in smelling of beer and tinnitis]

OMZG, Conley was playing the most unbelievably tasty battered-to-shit mid-’70s Fender Jazz Bass, in Olympic White with great swaths of bare wood showing through.

Oh my.

[staggers toward bathroom smelling of beer…]

OMZG, Conley was playing the most unbelievably tasty battered-to-shit mid-’70s Fender Jazz Bass, in Olympic White with great swaths of bare wood showing through.

Hey, that’s what I got, ‘cept it isn’t battered to shit. And you should wear earplugs to the rock show. Trust me, there’ll come a time when you’ll go “Oh, shit, I really should’ve worn earplugs” and the show will suck ’cause of it. Totally fucked up a one of the last few Black Crowes shows I’ve seen.

Oh, the time when I went “Shit, I really should’ve worn earplugs” came when I realized I was habitually leaning into an ear-level 4×12 cabinet because I couldn’t hear myself anymore. Long time ago, apparently a lot of slow but steady recovery since then, typical story (and so forth)…

What flavor of Jazz Bass do you have?

Looks like Burt Prelutsky isn’t the only Hollywood wingnut using Big Straight Andy’s Big Straight Failboat as a dumping ground for old rants. Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns and Money ran a post about a five-year-old rant by Dirk “Original Starbuck” Benedict bashing the new BSG. And hey, so did Jesse at Pandagon.

[staggers in smelling of beer and tinnitis]

There’s nothing worse than the smell of tinnitis. Eeeww.

On the bright side, if you go deaf you won’t be able to hear the wingnuts anymore.

Depends on the variation: some folks can hear everything fine but it has something extra with it.

check out this gigantiscreen of the inaug.

zoom in for a closeup of cheney in the wheel chair. what a miserable coot he is, taking the handicapped space.

zoom in for a closeup of cheney in the wheel chair.

How did Henry F. Potter get an invitation?

Please, the best part is catching a little bit of Clarence Thomas’s nap.

Count me jealous, though I did see them play for free a few years back at the Siren Festival on Coney Island. As for wearing earplugs, Roger Miller’s hearing loss is as dire a cautionary tale as any. Just think, we missed out on his righteous anger for most of the Reagan years because of it…

What?

MB, it is hardly our fault that young people today choose to mumble all the time.

Even the people on the telebision. What happened to good diction?

Oh, forget I said that.

Are we still laughing at Horowitz? What a fucking asshole.
Although, perhaps the point that a black President was made possible by the actions of George W. Bush has some merit – but not for the reasons he thinks. Anyways, let’s look at how our more polite and well reasoned conservative are thinking:

Or more cynically: in to show that their hatred for America is really just another form of political “dissent.”

What? I don’t even know how this relates to the rest of the article. But, in the same spirit of comity and progress that Horowitz is showing here, I have to point out that he is a FUCKING TRAITOROUS BASTARD THAT SHOULD BE WATERBOARDED UNTIL HE ADMITS HIS UNDYING LOVE FOR OUR OVERLORD – CINDY SHEEHAN.

Conley was playing the most unbelievably tasty battered-to-shit mid-’70s Fender Jazz Bass, in Olympic White with great swaths of bare wood showing through.

…Which you, you Authenticity Geek, can pick up for yourself for a mere twelve hunnert an’ fitty clams…

Were his jeans stone-washed?

I could look at that pic for days. After zooming on Cheney I panned over and thought “Who’s the weirdo in the rust colored Kangol?” Oh, nice, Jimmy Carter.

check out this gigantiscreen of the inaug.

See here to learn how it was stitched together with 220 images from a point-and-shoot camera.

/photo geek

as conservatives who have been through the culture wars

It’s funny how these marshmallow puffs always imagine themselves as hard-bitten battle-weary soldiers(and as victims, simultaneously). D-Ho will raise weeping, teeth-gnashing Hell when he doesn’t get a purple heart for succumbing, inevitably, to carpal tunnel.

The “black folks and the Left are to blame for decades of poor race relations” trope is pure gravy.

Someone here said it first, but it was awesome: Obama’s presidency marks the end of racism in the same way Hitler’s defeat marked the end of anti-semitism.

It’s also important to consider the culture warriors’ “successes”: They were against women’s suffrage, against civil rights, against mixed-race marriage.

Bedwetting hack Jim Geraghty waves his arms around:

“It’s hard to picture militia members, the Crips, Bloods, or what have you doing something as extreme as, say, crashing a plane into the prison to faciliate an escape and/or provide martyrdom to their brethren.”

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Hey Lesley, thanx for the link to that giganto-photo thing. I’ll be zooming in and out on that thing all day. Yay! Entertainment.

Meh. I liked Volcano Suns better.

…Which you, you Authenticity Geek, can pick up for yourself for a mere twelve hunnert an’ fitty clams…

That’s from Fender’s new Road Worn series, just out in time for the recession. The funny thing is, the new series aims to make reliced instruments accessible to buyers with more limited budgets. Before this year, if you wanted to buy a Fender relic bass or guitar, you had to get it from their Custom Shop—in the case of the 60s Jazz Bass, for at least $1500 more.

Supposedly Fender is raising their prices Feb. 1. Bummer.

Yeah, that’s the word on the internets, even for Squier. Have you heard by how much they’ll be raising prices?

Scuttlebutt is that it’ll be significant. I read that American Std. Strats, now $999, will be $1299. I’m taking that with a grain of salt though. Seems like suicide, especially with the high quality of the current Mexican Fenders and Asian Squiers.

I gots a picture of that bass from the paradise in ’02. It looked as distressed as it it does now. It takes some enthusiastic pickin’ to wear through the paint like that.

Also, Volcano Suns, Titanics, and DMZ.

… where is that Throbbing Lobster comp tape anyway…

Seems like suicide, especially with the high quality of the current Mexican Fenders and Asian Squiers.

I guess they’re counting on a certain segment of buyers who want to have a Fender with “Made in USA” on it no matter what.

Henry F. Potter!

nail on the head!

I guess they’re counting on a certain segment of buyers who want to have a Fender with “Made in USA” on it no matter what.

Got my Hwy 1, I’m set! :^)