Now then- last night, for no particular reason, The Skipper, Young Hightower and I all proceeded to tie one on.
Maybe it was because it was Monday,..maybe it was because we made it through another day, or maybe it was because the end of the month is a soul crushing time around these parts and we were just glad to have accomplished such a great job.
You know, perhaps it was a little bit of all of these things, cause when I woke up on Tuesday morning asking the girl why my pants were in the laundry hamper, in the living room with my belt, wallet, and keys all still attached, she answered flatly, "because last night you smelled like poo... or feet.."

Shes a lucky lady, that one is.

As I just mentioned on The Guy Wire®, Ive been listening to The Melvins 'The Crybaby' CD again recently. Its a pretty brilliant concept album on which The Melvins play the music of other artists, with specific guests on vocals. For example, they do The Jesus Lizards 'Blockbuster' with David Yow on Vocals, or Hank 1s 'Ramblin Man' and 'Okie From Muskogee' with Hank 3 doing vocals. Well I think the most brilliant cut is their cover of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' with Leif Garrett on vocals.

Leifs not looking so good these days though.

Kids, remember... drugs are bad, mmkay?

At some point on Tuesday, The Skipper asked me if Id heard about the craziness going on over in Austria with the freakshow that kept his daughter and the children theyd had together locked in his basement, which I had not. He immediately brought it up on the computer, and as I was reading about the horror he muttered in my ear, "thats what happens to you if you wear a moustache for too long."

Its guys like that that give the moustache a bad rap, and Im now counting the days until I can remove mine and deposit it in the trash.

Or include it in someones order.

However, then I get an email from Steve that begins to make all things upper lip related alright again;

"I submit to you, this dashing young man avoiding the bummer life during this weekend's running of TransIowa v4. Note the well groomed 'stache along with his obvious good taste in clothing. This was at mile 102 of 340. His spirit and will were crushed somewhere between here and mile 200, however, I'm sure he enjoyed himself.

Just when I though all was lost.. Man, Im glad that feeling passed.

Matt, who is the captain of The Ghostship wrote to us and gave us the skinny on the recent Hustle and Flow competition, and seeing as hes got the full rundown on his site, and Im really tired of being in front of a computer, Im just going to redirect you over there to get the lowdown. While youre on his site, why dont you do yourself a favor and pick yourself up a little something?

Wakeman, along with about a thousand other people have emailed us about The Fluids reunion shows that are coming up. Its good to know folks have my back, and believe me, if theres one person on this planet who should be in attendance, its me. I toyed with the idea of picking up a ticket to Denver for the (soul) purpose of getting my rock on, but as I was perusing the web for flights, I got a call from the shop that built the transmission for my truck letting me know that it was ready. Two thousand dollars later (which ironically is what I paid the aforementioned Robert Ives for the truck nine years ago) my wallet is understandably lighter, and a ticket to Denver wafted away from me like so much smoke on the water.

So, that being said, if youre anywhere near Denver and youve got a thing for the rock and/or roll, you MUST go to see this show.

And speaking of Bacon, Joe wrote in;

"50 ways to use bacon .
How many have you tried?

Rock,
Joe"

Id like to think Ive done everything with bacon short of wrapping my baby teeth for the tooth fairy in it, and even that Im not entirely sure of.

While new bike wood is still on my brain, Rick sent a shot in of a young bird whos enjoying some of her own.

Not only is new bike wood not gender specific, it wouldnt appear to be age specific either.

Alrighty then.. Im done in far more ways than just one.

Its Wednesday for everybody, and Im not gonna let Tuesdays hazy brain stand in my way.
Get rad tonight...
You know we will.