THE WICKED MESSENGER

Certain songs can make me cry. Like a baby. Usually when I'm alone. Especially when I'm fatigued or feeling sentimental. I don't know what else to do with songs like this but keep track of them somewhere. This must be the place. The song below has always been good for a few ounces from the ol' waterworks:

I watch a lot of Pat Condell videos on Youtube. Here is is latest one and it's a cracker! I used to watch a lot of the Amazing Atheist but he was always spewing saliva and ranting about shit I don't care about like Kiss and D&D, if memory serves. Sometimes Condell comes off all UK and stuff and I can't relate but this one made me snicker I also liked a Sam Harris video from a conference down in Australia. It's long but (as I said on FB) worth a look. Lastly, speaking of Sam Harris, I liked this essay which I read today: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/on-the-freedom-to-offend-an-imaginary-god This stuff helps me get to sleep because my freakish fundamentalist upbringing sometimes returns to mind when I'm trying to fall asleep. What an abusive thing to teach kids such bullshit and lies. Sure glad I got out when I did and didn't fuck my kids heads with religious madness.

Well I wanted to get down here the true story about how I came to make a certain youtube video. A couple weeks back my brother in law and his son came up to see us from North Cacalacky. (I love saying that and I know it's probably lame to say, like I always thought folks from SF hated it when people said "Frisco"). Anyway, we had us a great time and they stayed overnight in our basement. We went out for dinner to a BBQ joint called Urban BBQ which is pretty good. I've made better ribs though, true fact. As it happened we ended up eating quite late into the evening. Later on I gave my nephew Nick a Seiko I've been wanting to get rid of but not doing because it's only going to raise ~$80 or so and the hassle is too great. Here's a photo of that: Yeah, that is one orange mother but it's also got the oem bracelet to swap on which tones it down and I think Nick was pretty jazzed, specially when he saw the display back and stuff. So in the end