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Monday, October 25th, 2004

Good morning starshine

In Federal Way I recently noticed a place called "Vets for Less" open up. I can't help but wonder what the service is like there. I imagine talking to the vet and it going something like this "Well I don't have any qualifications persay, but I did play operation as a kid". Word of warning if you're thinking of using the place to get your dog/cat castrated and they come out with a rubber band and a hammer, WALK AWAY!

A couple of weeks until we can vote four more years of nitwit1 or nitwit2, personally I'll be glad when it's all over. Something that Pie pointed out to me was Kerry keep saying is "I have a plan" but never says what it is. I'll tell you why, it'll blow your mind if you hear it man, do you hear me, the moon wll accend in the fourth quarter of libra and....well you get the point. If Bush was asked about his plan he'd probably shrug and look at Cheney and then start picking nits out of Laura's hair.

I'm not sure what all the hoo-hah was about Kerry talking about Cheney's daughter in the debates. She is an out in the open Lesbian and it's hardly like he called her a dirty cracker snacker or something. From where I stood what he said was pretty respectful.

Also on politics apparently Cheney got a flu shot this weekend which the Democrats were picking on. I'd be more worried at the whole feeding on babies thing, but that's just me.

MU may be playing a show on Halloween in the U-District. Hopefully Jeff will put more effort into this then the last time we played a Halloween show, which was his normal street clothes with someone forcibley jamming a mask on him.

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Friday, October 15, 2004

Welcome to the hotel Rob

When I leave my car in the Park and Ride I always try to check it's locked, as I'm always worried I'll come back and find a homeless person (they congragate at that P & R) sleeping on the back seat. When I try to get them to move they'll either want me to read them a bedside story or bitch about the lack of a mint on their pillow. No tuck down service for them cheeky monkey.

I'll have a new lacky starting on Monday who'll hopefully last longer then the last one. Apart from being a bit of a dullard he seemed to be obsessed with Asian women. I know he was trying to get a mail order bride, but he alse seems to latch on to whichever unsuspecting Asian people are wondering around work. Probably asking if they have any daugters of marriable age.

One of the problems with having Bob in the group is he gets up so early, by the end of rehearsal he starts going soft in the head and sings like Ozzy if he'd listening to too much Diana Ross and plays drums like one of those wind up monkeys if it broke and couldn't stop speeding up.

I think a lot of my song writing shows I write from the experience of being a forigen person in the US. I think a sane person in the lunatic asylum has the same experience. Of course all people in the lunatic asylum probably think they are the sane one :-)

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Friday, October 08, 2004

Run Forest, run!!!

I thought I’d throw Pie and post twice in one week.

Had a weird rehearsal last night, Liz couldn’t sing so ended up deliriously banging a tambourine all night. Bob forgot his high hat cymbals so was switching on and off his cowbell all night. I have to admit (to Jeff’s irritation) having an irrational dislike of banjos and cowbells, I can’t help thinking of them as redneck instruments. Every time I see one I want to shout Ho-Down…what was that Courtney Love just ducked under the table? Must have thought the authorities were on their way.

I’ll probably watch Kerry and Bush calling each other weenies tonight on TV, every once in a while there are some true comic moments, I think having the Benny Hill girls run around the stage with the chase music going at the end while Kerry frantically pats Bush on the head would really make my day.

I’ve indulging in my favorite hobby today of getting screwed at the car dealership. I think they throw a few questions out to check I know nothing about cars then start making parts up to fix, “Is the alternating flagellator working? We’d better replace it just to be sure”. Hah, jokes on them I replaced the flagellator last year.

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Wednesday, October 07, 2004

If I were a horse they’d shoot me

I feel like what my 1985 Ford Tempo drove like, tired, badly maintained and leaking fluid everywhere. The drone I was given to take my more plebian tasks was surgically removed last week (creepy old bastard he was), which has left me all the fun lifting, dragging tasks I was trying to get out of.

I think Pie has me painted at home as a screaming red, commie, pinko, leftist, kill all the upper class liberal. Truth be told I don’t really consider myself anymore Democrat then Republican, I just the feel the buck needs to stop somewhere. Generally speaking I’m very disenchanted with politics be it right, middle or left.

Here is why (I’m talking generally not the current administration):
1) When you hear the president talk your hearing what his speech writer thinks you want to hear
2) They spend most of the campaign trying to smear the other guy rather then getting on with telling you what they represent.
3) If something goes right they take the credit, if something goes wrong they hold there hands up
I’ve come to the conclusion that politicians are like madmen standing on top of a mountain claiming to be piloting the earth. To some degree it all takes care of itself, economies go up and down and crisis sometimes take care of themselves (with a little help)

That said I’m sure I’m going to be stabbed in my sleep or at very least have a dachshund give me a French kiss. Personally I say Pie for President and I can be the first, first hudband complete with Chanel suits.

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