SEE ME, HEAR ME

IN MY EARS:

Franz Ferdinand- You Could Have It So Much Better
Medications- Your Favorite People All In One Place
The Rolling Stones- A Bigger Bang (fucking rocks, best since Tattoo You)
MORRISSEY- Best Of
Elton John- Tumbleweed Connection (re-mastered). Originally released in 1970, it focused on Bernie Taupin's fascination with America's Old Wild West. The most noted song from this album was Burn Down The Mission. This CD is great. You can hear the youth in Elton's voice. BUT the re-mastered CD also contains the bonus track of the original title song for Mad Man Across The Water. This version did not make it onto the album. It run for almost 9 minutes and has 2 Dee Murray guitar jams. This version is much darker and more powerful. And if you listen closely you will hear some masterful use of the cowbell by Roger Pope.

IN MY EYES:

The Office- NBC
Curb Your Enthusiasm- HBO (much better than last season)
Scrubs- NBC
Drawn Together- Comedy Central
The Daily Show- Comedy Central
Family Guy- FOX
Days of our Lives- NBC (Marlana still has amnesia and Belle's baby is sick)

Listining to as I write this: Bob Mould- Workbook

YES VIRGINIA,

There is a DEMOCRAT for Governor!!!!

EH

Can anyone tell me (other than the fact that their Canadian) why the hockey team from Toronto is called the Leafs and not the Leaves?



Is the whole Leaves thing just American/English?
Anyone? Anyone? Buler?

THE GAYEST.......

.....CHRISTMAS TREE EVER!!!

This is the Drag Queens of Christmas Trees. It is a cross between the 4th of July and Christmas.

I LOVE IT!

It can be found a HECHT'S (not macy's)

DOANS PILLS

A few week ago, after the rain stopped, I did some Saturday yard work. Now, I either do yard work or landscaping....I DON'T garden. I must have been really working hard because I woke up Sunday morning with a really sore back. My back hasn't been the same since the Blizzard of 1987. I have hurt my back getting off the couch, taking off a T-shirt, and one time I sneezed so hard I threw my back out.

What I usually do is just take some tylenol, wear those THERMA-CARE heat wraps and just suffer for a week. But this time I did something different. I thought hmmmm, what do they make just for back pain? And then from my childhood came the flashback of the Doans Pills TV commercials. You remember those? The one where Granny takes two steps up the stairs and grabs her back in pain. I use to think, damn, old people throw their backs out just climbing a few stairs.....that sucks I'm never gonna be like that.

So here I am, in my 40's taking Doans Pills. And guess what....they work! You can get 'em at Peoples Drug.

MAY I SEE YOUR I.D.?

OLD: D.C. Transit
BECAME: METRO

It's almost complete and I HATE it!

Washington, D.C., the city was born in, and grew up around has lost most of it's hometown identity. NO, I'm not talking about tourist sites, The Mall, or museums but the businesses that made Washington, D.C. different from other cities. The businesses that made D.C. home. I grew up with Peoples Drug, Waxie Maxies, Hot Shoppes, and Roy Rogers. All of them gone. All we had left was HECHT'S, one of the best places ever to shop, but that too will be gone in 2006. Here's what I'm talking about.....

OLD: Woodward & Lothrop
BECAME: J.C. Penney's

OLD: Landsburgh's Department Stores (closed)

OLD: HECHINGER'S
BECAME: HOME DEPOT (more correctly was put out of business by Home Depot)

OLD: Hot Shoppes / Hot Shoppes JR.
BECAME: Bob's Big Boy / Roy Rogers (both since closed)

OLD: Roy Rogers
BECAME: Hardee's and then McDonald's

OLD: Dart Drug (closed)

OLD: Trak Auto
BECAME: Advanced Auto Parts

OLD: Peoples Drug Store
BECAME: CVS (to this day I still call it Peoples Drug and I miss the lunch counter)

OLD: Butterstick
BECAME: Tai Shan

and now the one that is really gonna stick a fork in us.....

OLD: HECHT'S
BECOMES: MACY'S....ugh!

Let's not forget Kemp Mill Records, Little Tavern, Britches of Georgetown, Britches Great Outdoors, Garfinkle's, Raleighy's or Crown Books either.

BUT there is some good news. The Washington Nationals have brought baseball back and I hear that Roy Rogers is going to open new locations soon. Man I can't wait to get me a Double R-Bar burger and a holster of fries!