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Shoes are good. Very good. Ads for shoes is good thinking.

Bunco is eassssy. So easy you can play it drunk. Or with a lobotomy. Great game to play with friends though.

Bert wanted to see Police Academy 6 or 12 or whatever because "there were so many unanswered questions."

You better git you some shoes, or you will look like a hillbilly. Go ads go.

Try the Spinto Band. They have no banjos, just a mandolin, and they don't overuse it.

I'm afraid, very afraid that I'm going to have to go review Jackass on Tuesday.

Well, if you like folk-ish music---specifically, if you like a somewhat melancholy dude with a guitar backed by gorgeous strings, sans banjo (mostly, I think)---you might like the new Ray LaMontange, Till the Sun Turns Black. It's the #1 thing making me weep for joy this week. This is of course magnified by that quality in Ray's voice that makes me feel like he's singing only to me, right there in my ear in a way that gives me chills. Woo!

If that seems interesting to you, I should probably warn you not to judge the entire album by the just alright single, "Three More Days." And I should warn you that there's a song called "Barfly," which yes does include the word barfly, so perhaps this is not the song for dehillbillicizing. I know barflies come from all socioeconomic culture-clusters and all, but your life may not seem less hillbillacious if you find Clara Jane singing so sweetly, "Barfly! I'm just a barfly, baby, uh huh!"

So maybe this is not the album for you after all. But it is good. If you like that sort of thing.

ALSO, and this is super important: If for some reason you get the urge to make the chocolate chai cookies featured on the back page of the current Dierberg's newsletter, don't bother unless you're going to up the spices considerably. I just made some, and am thankful I'm sending them to an undiscriminating 5-year-old boy.

This has been a public service announcement.

Hmmmm... I wonder if I'd get sued if I put a CD full of MP3's in the mail... ;)

A former coworker went to a bunco game every week. For the longest time I thought she just made it up--that it was just what they called getting together to chat & drink and there was no "game" involved.

Drew and I tried the pumpkin spice lattes the other day. All because of you.

New music? The new Black Keys came out this week. And even though I preordered it, I still don't have it yet. That irks me. Have you listened to Rabbit Fur Coat yet? It's wonderful.

i've got your music seeking back, my deario!

www.barclaymartin.com - one of his songs, "singing in the moonlight" is AMAZING! he doesn't have it up on his site, though. boo hoo. he played it twice at my graduation/birthday party. :) he's a kc musician and a friend, so i'm biased. ani's new cd is good too. and you MUST gove krystle warren a listen. http://music.download.com/krystlewarren/3600-8978_32-100739643.html

she's over on myspace, too. she lives in nyc now, but is from k.c. - i heard her first play on the front porch of a friend's house at an after hours sorta deal when she was maybe 18. her voice is like no ohter. and she's a prolific songwriter as well.

i haven't seen the jackass movies, but i did watch a bootleg of those kids doing what they do years and years ago - i about puked. there's something about someone waking up to find their friend's feces smeared on their lips (as they lick them) that gets me every time. i always wondered if they sort of footage out in the movie...

I was in a bunko group, and it was such fun. We only met once a month, at a different person's house each month. We'd have dinner before, then drink throughout. I was worried about the level of difficulty b/c I'm not a big fan of games with rules, but it's super easy. Good times, man.