After reading Eric's account of a dreadful karaoke experience (scroll down to the October 19 entry), I have decided that I need to have another karaoke party posthaste. Why wait until my next birthday to get together and have some good drunken cheesy singing fun?

How about...hmmm...November 4. Saturday, November 4, at the Marigold Bowl at the Broadway/Halsted/Grace intersection. 10 PM. Let me know if you need directions or parking information or anything. And let me know if you're going to be there, too. I'll probably have some sort of pre-event dinner-type thing as well (most likely at a place like Leona's, which is good with large groups of people).

This could be the night that I finally get up there and sing, people. You don't want to miss it. And hopefully Nathan and the rest of the Mil Mulliganos will show up and treat us to awesome renditions of Doobie Brothers and Bob Dylan songs.

  ¶ 10/20/2000 09:37:00 AM

  I did not tell you this. I suppose you might like to know.

My new journal is up. Go read it. I'm attempting to update it every day.

  ¶ 10/19/2000 09:46:00 PM

  I totally should be the new drug czar. Forget those Yahtzeen boys and their ballot-box stuffing tactics.

I'm wounded by John's statement that he doesn't take weblogs seriously. Man, this weblog is totally serious. Like, more serious than serious. I take this way seriously. And so should everyone else. This is hard-hitting, groundbreaking shit I'm doing here. How DARE YOU not take it seriously? It's at least as serious as record reviews, and we all know that record reviews are a Very Serious Thing.

Now I'm going to sit back and wait for the hate mail from Angry Record Reviewers Who Take Record Reviewing Seriously. I'm sure it will be entertaining, and I'm sure it will put me in my place. Har.

  ¶ 10/19/2000 12:52:00 PM

  I noticed in my stats that someone was "borrowing" a graphic from one of my websites. The graphic is a little tiny Apple logo that I was using on one of my journal burbs.

This minor breach of netiquette really incensed me, so I made this:

It's really funny to go to the page and see this hideous bright-green lettering sticking out like a sore thumb. And since they didn't specify a size for the graphic, it shows up full size. Heh.

You may feel free to use this graphic if people are stealing bandwidth from you. Just, uh, download it to your own server, please.

  ¶ 10/16/2000 09:01:00 PM

  I know, the Pitchfork review of the Robert Pollard Suitcase box set ran well over a week ago, but I've been waiting to see if any other webzines are going to review it. Everyone I've talked to who owns Suitcase is a rabid GBV fanatic, so I hadn't heard any opinions of the CD that I could really take seriously. Matt LeMay's was the first. It's pretty doubtful that Rockathon is going to send out piles of promo copies, so good honest reviews that don't just say "Pollard is a genius, buy this now" are going to be few and far between. I was on the fence regarding whether to buy Suitcase, and I still am. I like GBV, but I don't really know how willing I am to sink $60 into a bunch of outtakes. Especially when I don't really have $60 to waste. But Matt LeMay's review was good, and it definitely made me *consider* buying it.

Anyway, I'm now waiting for someone I know to buy Suitcase so I can listen to it and then decide.

Speaking of Pitchfork, I didn't know they updated their reader mail section daily. I'd like to nominate Nick Mirov for the Funniest Person at Pitchfork award. I read a whole pile of the reader mail archives today, and his captions were consistently funny. Not necessarily as funny as the reader mail itself--it's really hard to top some of the unintentionally funny things people say--but they were damn funny.

  ¶ 10/16/2000 09:46:00 AM