http://www.keef.net/bill Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:08:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Man, I used to update this thing all the time.  Maybe it's time to start doing that again.  Yes, that seems about right. I got my Fun Fun Fun Fest ticket today: http://www.funfunfunfest.com/artists I'm totally excited to see Devo, Snapcase, Mastadon, Bad Religion, The Hold Steady, Monotonix, The Gories, Cap'n Jazz, and the ... http://www.keef.net/bill/?p=744 Lipstick Homicide, "Isn't it Glorious?", Public School RecordsRating: A+ Friday night I checked out the Bassturd show at Headhunter's with Iowan acts Grism and Lipstick Homocide. I bought a cd from Lipstick Homocide and I've gotta give it two enthusiastic thumbs up. I haven't heard a full on pop-punk band ... http://www.keef.net/bill/?p=743 0:52 AM Keef: harvey pekar died.16 minutes11:09 AM me: and R Crumb just keeps on Truckin'?11:10 AM Keef: hah  yes.11 minutes11:21 AM me: I wonder who will write American Splendor now  Michael Diana maybe?11:22 AM Keef: i would buy the shit out of that. me: Boiled Splendor5 minutes11:28 AM me: I hope Peter David does a run on American ... http://www.keef.net/bill/?p=742 Acute Complications http://www.keef.net/bill/?p=740 Talking to myself while switching between accounts & crunching numbers & doing math concerning my next two pay checks, I got flustered for a moment.  I spoke outloud only to reassure myself. "It makes sense in the context of what we're doing." Well the context is kind of weird in itself: we're ... http://www.keef.net/bill/?p=739 1. I miss you I miss you like all evolved life misses the ocean floor and crawling around on all fours scavenging for meat instead of hunting sustaining life on a diet of berries & nuts living to a ripe old age of twenty shitting in the woods & fucking like animals worshipping the sun creating a pantheon of gods going ... http://www.keef.net/bill/?p=738 I got a cellphone in August! The first cellphone I've had since October 2006. I swore them off for a long time and that wasn't such a bad thing, I suppose. It did make me un-contactable at times, but I've never really had a problem with that, ... http://www.keef.net/bill/?p=737 One of my co-workers posted a link to THIS website in our work chat and I was immediately reminded of the scourge of my early tech support years: the Netpliance I-Opener. There's also a bizarre blog from a user of the Go Computer that reads like the worst ad ... http://www.keef.net/bill/?p=736 FLASH FLOOD (rated R) Potentially starring Kevin Costner, Michelle Pfeiffer, Paul Giametti, William Shatner, with James Cromwell After a small town preacher (James Cromwell) condemns the city of Kansas City for becoming a "new American Sodom" the rains ironically begin to fall for 40 days and nights. A family man (Kevin ... http://www.keef.net/bill/?p=735 This arrived in my inbox this morning. I was greatly confused: from: vneal@*********.com subject: CWWE Training Hello, LCES Teachers— Thanks for a great day. I really enjoyed my time with you Rowdy Ladies and Gentlemen and look forward to returning on November 19. I have attached those handouts I promised. (Be kind in evaluating my ... http://www.keef.net/bill/?p=734 The father ate out the mother's asshole on the night the boy was conceived. His conception was received warmly a biological soup left to simmer in his mother's pot nine months. He entered this world like a tapeworm and each new year was another passing segment. http://www.keef.net/bill/?p=733 Southern Man and I are friends; at least temporarily.  It's Tuesday night in my neighborhood bar and Southern Man is already red faced drunk and expounding on his theories to whomever will listen or at least take notice.  That's where I come in.  The other patrons are drinking and trying ... http://www.keef.net/bill/?p=732 The morning commute is awash in scattered cellphone conversations, the waft of fresh hairspray, and the thick overbearing scent of recently applied perfume and cologne. Still drunk, the man plugs his last three quarters into the fare box and stumbles towards a seat.  He smells of a weeks worth of B.O. ... http://www.keef.net/bill/?p=731 As the  bus was pulling out into the street from my first morning stop (21st and Guadalupe), it stopped suddenly as a pack of cyclists came from behind and sped past in a swarm thick like flies.  One of the cyclists who had been in the lead when the bus ... http://www.keef.net/bill/?p=730 Yesterday, I went tubing on the Comal river in New Braunfels with Barb, Keef, Dan, Melanie, Fread, Peggy, Felipe, and Laney.  I'd never been on that river before, as we usually go to San Marcos for tubing so that was a bit of an adventure in and of itself.  This ... http://www.keef.net/bill/?p=729