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Well, aaaaalrighty!
Wont the you-know-who’s be thrilled (Big-time “Skeemers” don’tyouknow)…
I heard back FROM Ali Dee & the Grand Skeem regarding permission to post samples to SHOW you guys they kick total ass, and they replied:
“you got it brotha………thanks for helpin’ spread the Skeem word!!!!!!
La Skeem Familia
Keep Skeemin’
Love Ali Dee, Vinni, John & Rich”
So here ya go…
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Enjoy, and thanks in advance for the support!
Right-click and take this little wreath. Link back to the site you took it from. Leave a message in the comments if you use it so we can all see where it goes! Let’s celebrate the Holidays around the Web! I got mine FROM Kat.
A new blog in town: A little birdie tells me there’s a new site out there to give the Soup Lady a run for her money: How Sweet it is…
Hilarious! Nico has found a way to send a Christmas Postcard to all of us. Aw, dude… you shouldn’t have! :0) LOL!!! I love it…
Hey, have any of you guys ever heard of The Grand Skeem?
It’s a band out of NYC, I know they have a MASSIVE following in the NY/PA/NJ area, and they get a lot of airplay here. I’m trying to figure out if they caught on in the rest of the country. 
We caught them Friday night at Fernwood for a charity SHOW they put on for underpriviledged kids & a local hospice. These guys put on one hell of a show! The best comparison I can make for them would be a cross between The Beastie Boys and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kind of a hard-rock/hip hop mix.
Anarchtica is like their second home, as they filmed their “Baby Got Back” video at Fernwood. Then premiered it before MTV showed it at the Stroud Mall.
Talented as hell, and really nice guys too… they’re gonna be big.
Yes… the wolf comes with a “Santa Cap”. I just wanted everyone to see the “new look” as it will stay through the winter. I’ll change that tonight, as well as a few more tweaks.
Say “hi” to “Cerberus” up there… he’ll be filling in as my new mascot as “The CyberPal” is on vacation.
You like? It’s the “Winter Peace” design FROM those sexy Glen Road Girls. Designed by none other than The Queen of Weblogs herself.
Didn’t I *SAY* some people were helping me redesign, whether they knew it or not?
…and, don’t I deserve the *BEST*, LeFou? :0)
More great blog templates at: Glen Road Girls: Blog Designs. Go treat yourself to a new look this Christmas. You were good all year. You earned it. :0)
Oh gee… isn’t *THAT* special…
How sweet it is for Carol Brooks
Oooooo laaaa-dee-da
Even references to the Adorable-you-know-who’s in it.
Yeah, well..maybe I’m a little proud. :0)
Oh, scream nepotism all you want, you heartless jackals… I actually had nothing to do with this one.
Ms. Scarponi heard about all the chocolate houses & pops flying off the shelves of stores and restaurants all over the area, and contacted her early in the week about her column. (In fact, tonight was the first time I actually *met* Lisa.)
Okay… well, I put up the EPCN site a day early, ‘cuz I wont be at work tomorrow, and I wanted to make sure it was done right.
I’m proud of you honey… congratulations!
Inspired by Matt, Maria, Deborah, and Matt (again)
(The posts are not really connected to each other… but just a common theme of human nature, and the inner workings of mankind.)
“Every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad. “
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
.. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
I could ramble on and on… but Longfellow says it all.
Remember: Life is a metaphor, much like a simile.
1. You have to be a professional slacker. You must possess the ability to put on an “intense concentration look”, and be able to fool anyone who passes your cubicle thinking that you are not only *working*, but waaay *too busy* to be bothered with their petty crisis.
2. You must be impervious to intense cold. Why? Because you’re on a 15 minute smoke break every twenty minutes. It’s 37° outside, and your leather coat hasn’t zippered up in two years. Sure you can wear the big, dorky parka you have at home. But you look so damn good in the leather coat, y’know?
Continue reading “So you wanna be me…”
… where people MOLEST SOAP??!!??!
These Tampa people are freaky enough to live in Los Angeles!!!!
What would Jesus Drive?
See Judez’ comments for my answer….
Before any more emails come in… let me just clarify a few things that got missed in my middle-of-the-night babbling.
1 – I’m not giving up blogging.
Like I said “this was *SUPPOSED* to be my ‘good-bye’ post.”. Just as I told Nico a few weeks back, that my post about opinions was originally meant to be my last one, but I ended up omitting some of the stuff I wrote below.
2 – There are those who believe (sneering suspiciously at two unnamed people in particular.) That I am *incapable* of staying out of blogland (or, for that matter, TROUBLE) for any given period of time anyway… so why embarrass myself with a goodbye, when I’ll be back in a month or two anyway?
They’re probably right too. I taste the blood of fresh prey and I just spring INTO the feast. I smell fear, and I get a woody. And GAWD blogland is just a virtual smorgasbord of hypocrites and jerks to feed on. :0)
Continue reading “A non-retractive-retraction”
“I love a few, like a few more, but hate many. I am not your best friend just because I relate. I am good at relating, but I am not so good at accepting everything I read. It’s just not me. Is it you, really?”
~ Angel ~
“While weblogs are essentially a good thing, I feel like it put a lot more people, maybe too many people, on common ground. I think this is the first time that’s ever really happened on the ‘Net… I just cannot say I don’t miss the old days, when things were simpler because the scope was smaller, because I do miss them very much. “
~ Angel (again) ~
I’d love nothing more right now to accuse Angel of flat-out PLAGIARISM for these two posts. They’re word-for-word straight out of my thoughts. Stuff that’s been in my heart for months, maybe years… only, they ARE her words. She managed to articulate this better than I ever could, and got it out first.
You have to understand first, that the Web that Angel and I (and quite a few of you) knew is a different one FROM the one we’re in now. Back then, you had larger-than-life “Web Celebs”: Zeldman, Powazek, Kottke, Miz Kitty, Halcyon, Heather Champ, Lance Arthur, Glenn Davis… you aspired to be like them. You stole bits and pieces of their source code to learn “how they did it”.
And here’s where I piss everyone off.
(Let me say in advance, “Fuck you” if you can’t take my brutal honesty.)
Then weblogs came and fucked it all up.
Then, when you thought it couldn’t get worse… Slashdot and MetaFilter fucked it even more.
Continue reading “-e- piphany”
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