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Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Hell has frozen over

When Pie and I got together 10 years we both swore we’d never have kids. A couple of year ago the rhetoric softened to ‘maybe one day’. Over the last month it’s changed to actually seeing ourselves having kids. This isn’t to say we’ll definitely do it but I think the chance maybe higher then lower now.

Personally I’d rather adopt, if nothing else there are lot of hungry mouths out there which need feeding, why add to the total. You’d think that adopting from a third world country would be cheaper but I think the opposite is true. When I looked at some the websites they were saying to expect $10 to 50k. Someone told me you could adopt from the State for very little, but of course you could end up with a crack baby….well it’s a fairly cheap habit I guess.

The motor on Jeff’s car blew 2 weeks ago so I’ve have to pick him up and drop him off when we rehearse. I had the realization that it’s probably karmic realignment from my Tammuz days when the drummer had to drop me off after rehearsal (bus stopped running before we finished) during the life of the band.

Modern Union had a photo shoot on Sunday. It’s funny when you’re in an all male band you jump on each others heads, dry hump each other and make penis jokes. With a girl in the band it seems we all tend to keep a respectful distance.

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Thursday, January 13, 2005

Happy sort of anniversary Pie

We've been together 10 years today. Most people didn't give us one year, let alone 10 so to all those who doubted us I'm saluting you with my middle finger right now.

I’m going to the dermatologist tomorrow to get the attractively titled pustuler dermatitis on my back dealt with. After 10 years of Pie saying ‘That’s kind of ugly, you should deal with it’ I’ve finally caved in. Of course I realized I don’t have a referral today, my regular Doctor just gave me a business card and I figured that was all I needed.

In homage to Pie’s recent post I too am coming out as a liberal conservative. Actually I may have come out before, but I’m coming out again and am now singing like Nathan Lane in a Broadway musical, I hope I’m still talking about politics. Actually after the last election an living with Pie for 10 years I’m fast becoming an apolitical atheist.

I got to play Jeff’s daddy yesterday. Due to his broke-ness we had to cover his band rent between the other 3 members, I had to pick him up (his car’s motor blew) and I bought him dinner. I figured this gave me credit for one big bitch, so I told him to be more responsible with his money. Of course I might as well lecture Oliver not to crap on the floor for all the good it did me, but it made me feel better for a couple of minutes.

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Monday, January 03, 2005

You're so vain, you probably think this disaster is about you

I read the other day that various religious organizations/individuals are proclaiming that the recent Tsunami’s were a show of God’s anger to man. I sit here thinking to myself how incredibly vain it is of man to sit here and trying to assign every act of nature as punishment to man. People seem to forget that throughout history, earth has a habit of well…killing lots of people off without warning. Of course these are probably the same people who regard evolution as a dangerous theory pushed by liberals. Also if you think people were going to get wiped out for their sins God wouldn’t pick Third World fishing villages etc.

An even more sickening display recently was watching some evangelical Christian saying to George Bush he finally though God was in the Whitehouse. Personally if I was God I’d be offended (even if Kerry had won).
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As Pie pointed out I was the designated drunk for New Years Eve. Anybody who gets too close to me is definitely likely to end up with me sitting on their laps. I wanted to adopt the parents of the bass player from Rockburger. I’ve never had a Grandfather and my only Grandmother was as the French say, Fucking Insane. They looked really sweet like if you came round their house they’d force feed you Tea and Cookies (in a purely non Hansel and Gretel way) plus they were dancing to the band so the both obviously still rocked. .
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After 4 days off in a sick way, I’m almost ready to go back to work.

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