theJEDMAN NATION-A New Wave Manifesto

I am a champion. My team the Grateful Jed won the HM league fantasy football world championship last weekend. It was a glorious championship season. My team worked so hard and played good defense in the quest for the title. The championship is so wonderful. I won some money also, but the money can go fast on cars, guns, woman and wild weekends. The championship lasts forever. I am a champion forever. It can never be taken away, even with he steroid allegations.
I've seen some movies lately. Dan in Real Life was good and funny. I Am Legend was interesting and worth seeing, but kind of scary for the kids. P.S. I Love You was good. It was a touching story about love and loss and learning to love again. I loved it. Go see them. Put the video game control down and get out of the house.
I got the new Shakira's concert dvd Fijacion Oral tour. It is pretty good. It is the same one that I went to in Toronto, except they filmed it in Miami. It is rock and roll.

.: posted by Jed 12:35 PM

Sunday, December 16, 2007

It has been a long time since I was on the blog. I guess I never finished what I had started from my trip, but hey I've been to California multiple times and I do the same thing every time, so there is nothing new there.
I'm in the Super Bowl Championship game in my work fantasy football league being played next weekend in week 16 of the NFL season. My team the Grateful Jed finished 9 and 4 during the regular season. I picked up Huggie Bears son Justin Fargas and he is taking me to the title. It has been a glorious championship season.
I was eating some spaghetti and meatballs with a plastic fork when I noticed that one of the prongs was gone. I worried for 3 days that I had swallowed it.
I got paid as a professional DJ at some football games. I cranked that mother out.
I went to a college party in mid-town KC. I was by far the oldest person there by ten years. It was intense. The life of theJEDMAN is always intense.
I hate people that smoke. I can't wait for smoke free Overland Park. This happens at the first of the year. I just can't stand it anymore. It gives me a headache. The particles stick in my nose. It is terrible. Most smokers are the dirtiest, filthiest people on the planet. They will give in their addiction and not care if they affect anyone else.
These days in the Midwest all buildings are sealed up. They are not made for smoking. It is ridiculous to think that people are allowed to smoke inside, where non-smokers are exposed to the second hand smoke. I should have the right to go out to a smoke free environment. I have that right. I'm glad things are slowly changing. Hell, Paris has banned indoor smoking throughout the city. Paris, France mind you.
I have to wash my clothes the next day after being out. They smell so bad. It is terrible. Also, I have some health issues that smoke is not good for, but anyone I know that is a smoker will smoke anyway. They can't go without it for a couple of hours to hang with me. Don't give me the red meat and fried food health issue. Red meat and fried food don't float through the air and up your nose and into your lungs as I eat them. That argument is stupid.
This is not a judgement of the actions of other people on my part. It is legitimate concern for other people's destructive behavior. It is at the point where, you need to pick me or smoking because I am abandoning you. I've put up with it for more than half my life. I can't do it anymore. If you pick smoking over me, you're stupid.
I went to all the KU football games this year. They won all the games in Lawrence. It was fun. I like the college games more than the pro games at his point in my life. I'm a KU football fan. Basketball is just to pass the time until the spring game. I bought tickets last March and got a steal on them for the big KU-MU game. Tickets for that one game went for a lot more than I paid for the whole season. KU lost. It was cold, but it was fun. I ate ham drank bud light in the parking lot before the game. The only thing about KU winning games is that the ticket prices might go up, but KU fans save all their money for basketball. I'm a K

U football fan.

.: posted by Jed 7:59 PM

Sunday, September 02, 2007

There is the couple on Drake's Beach in Point Reyes. The couple is enjoying a nice day at the beach on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

It has been a super long time since I have written on this blog. I'm really lazy and I don't do much interesting to write. I went to Los Cabos and San Francisco again this summer. I'll go into some detail maybe but I didnt't do too much exciting. One highlight is that I was untterly embarrassed the Peet's Coffee shop on Piedmont Street in Oakland. I went down thereto get some coffee. I had no idea that when they grind the beans there are so many different ways to do it. I didn't know what grade to grind the beans. I ended up having to talk to a young lady with heavy tatoos, heavy piercings and heavily colored hair. I didn't know if I could show my face again in there with this lack of information of the ordering prodedure. I'll write more later. theJEDMAN

.: posted by Jed 9:55 PM

Sunday, June 03, 2007

I have not written for awhile. I'm just too lazy and I do the same things over and over again so nothing is very interesting. Here are the highlights from the last month.
I went to Fuel it was good superfiscial man fun. I don't think there is anything wrong with girls dancing on the bar at a place for dopes like me to go once in awhile. Yeah, it is dumb, but there are worse things in the world I could be doing and I think it is good clean fun on a Saturday night, but I probably won't go again for a few months.
I was at the Brewhaus when I saw James Caan again. He didn't recognize me. It was good, because I didn't want to get invited to his basement for beer, pool and rollerball again. James Caan hits the 119th strip again. His girlfriend Dora was all dolled up again.
I turned 41 on May 11th. I took my clients out to lunch. It was great. I had a fun time. My birthday was good. I had help opening my presents and blowing out my candles.
I tricked some girls into going to Hooter's. I didn't think they would want to go, but they did and $85 and 30 wings later it was fun. There was this one girl there wearing a Dominique name tag. She didn't look like a Dominique. Then later on she had a Christi name tag on. She said that she had to wear the fake one because it takes awhile to make them for new employees. This is identity fraud. How can I now believe any name tag is correct after this? Any name tag could be false. I should get some free wings and beer for that. Bon Chap got the Other Place nationally known for his trivia game playing and he asked for free beer, so I should to. So, consumer should beware of false name tags.
I played some softball. I homered twice in the game. We played on the girls softball field. The fences are short, but I homered twice. I hit the ball hard each time. I made several plays in the field. I had 3 or 4 putouts. I played well. I can still play. I'm an athlete. I better not play again because I'll never play that well again.
I saw some live music with the pretty boy. We went to the Record Bar in Westport. It is in Westport but kind of Off Westport. We saw the Sixteens, Only Children and Heartless Bastards. The Sixteens were are girls. They were spunky and good. The Only Children had a girl base player. They were ok. I hate the name. The Heartless Bastards were the headliner. They had a girl singer. She was good. They were pretty good. They played well. It was rock and roll. Rock and roll shows are where the action is at. I had not been to a bar like that with live music for a long time. It is a lot different a crowd than my beloved Tanner's. I'll have to go again. theJEDMAN

.: posted by Jed 7:34 PM

Saturday, March 24, 2007

You got to watch this show Workout on the Bravo Channel. It is awesome. It is about personal trainers at a posh LA workout place on Cienega and Wilshire. It is great. They have real problems and real issues, but they make peoples live better with diet and exercise. All the drama and 97% fat free. Also, the new bachelor started. I wish I could do that. I'd love to bring all the chicks to my mom's house and tell them that my room is upstairs. I'd show it to you, but I'm not allowed to have girls up there.
I went near the St. Patrick's day parade last Saturday. I was close to it. I actually got to see some of it. There were a lot of people down there. I hit some clubs. This one club on the parade route was smart. They charged a $5 cover. This was really a riff raff tax. It kept riff raff out from using the bathroom. It was very intelligent. We hung out all day. Downtown quickly deserted after the parade. We went up to the Skies at the top of the Hyatt. It is the circular place that spins around. You can see the whole city. It is a little pricey, but it was cool. I might go up there again. Later, we went to the Twin City. It was packed. It is more my kind of club. I was fun.
I watch the last two KU basketball games at a club not known as Tanner's. I was hanging there with my group. James Caan was there with his girlfriend. I didn't know that James Caan lived in the area. James Caan invited me and my group over to his house, because James Caan just lives around the corner. James Caan has a pool table and a kegarator. James wanted to hang out and play some pool. James Caan's girlfriend was nice. I didn't really want to go. I don't think it is a good idea to go with someone you just met. Playing pool is not my forte, plus I didn't want to wake up in a dumpster. James Caan was looking for pool partners in all the wrong places.
I got into a huge converstation about Big 12 basketball in the steam room at Bally. This guy just started talking to me. I participated. We talked 88' KU Jayhawks. He liked to hear himself talk, but then he got off on a tangent of talking about his son playing high school and then walking on at a college and not being able to make it. He went on and on about that. That is great. I see a lot of kids whose parents don't go to the games. This guy was sad that his son's sports career was over, but I didn't need to hear all about it over and over when I'm sweating that much. I need more peace. At least I had my swim trunks on. I don't mind strangers talking to me, but one thing I don't like is people talking to me when I'm in the bally locker room. I just get done taking my shower and some guy starts up converstation. It is fine, but at least let me get my pants on.
I went to the doctor yesterday. I had a glitch on Wednesday, February 28 at 7:52. It lasted 17 seconds. The machine just recorded it, but didn't take any action to correct it. I guess it corrected itself. So, I was a little down because of this. I went home to try to figure out what I was doing when this happened. Then remember that I went to Liberty, Missouri for that basketball game. That night I got caught in the violent hailing downpour of an electircal storm. I was running and sliding down the hill in the rain to get to the gym from the parking lot. I remember noticing something when I was walking through the drivng rain. I thought it was just my stomach bubbling up, like it did when I was on the beta blockers. So, I feel bad, but maybe my magnesium is helping because it kept it from being worse. The machine records information. It can pace me out of bad rhythm and it will shock me back it if is really bad. I'm back on amiodarone. I would be a lot happier if I could get off medicine. I would feel better and I know my issues would go away. For now, I guess I need more time. I have never have an issues when I go to the gym. Oh well. I feel strong. Maybe this is a setback or mabybe it is just something that always happens. I bet the magnesium is protecting more more than those drugs. I really don't think the drugs do a whole lot. They sure do a number on my stomach, but I don't want any drug reps to lose their jobs. I've been in a lot of doctors offices in my day. All the drug reps are good-looking. I've never seen a not good-looking drug rep. theJEDMAN

.: posted by Jed 8:56 AM

Saturday, March 10, 2007

I found this Shakira video website called I think Shakira media. It is good. It has a lot of live video performances. I love love arena rock music with Shakira. There were around 11 live performances of Inevitable on there and I watched all of them. You might think that I have a little problem Shakira issue. Well, I'll tell you that my little attention paying to anything and everything Shakira is completely different than the late 70s and 80s deadhead march or the 90s obsession of people going to see Phish several times and playing and buying bootlegs of different shows over and over. Oh yeah that Phish tape from the Alpine Valley Wisconsin show in April 93 is hands down the best. I've only seen Shakira once. She'll play Chicago again sometime. I'll try to go to that, but that is the closest place she''ll play to the creek city. I should get her to play my birthday party after I win the lotto. Anyway, back in the day, when I didn't live in my mom's house, I knew some guys in Lawrence that drove all over Texas running over armadillos going to Phish shows. At least the superfiscial man in me get some benefit from the international pop superstar rock chick that is Shakira. The powerful beauty of energy, rage, passion and fury. Jerry Garcia was not exactly the picture of energy and health and none of those Phish guys were good-looking. So, if I start missing work and blowing all responsiblities of which I have none, but if I did then you can hammer me for the Shakira thing. theJEDMAN

.: posted by Jed 9:00 PM

Saturday, February 24, 2007

I wrote this a couple of weeks ago. I just didn't post it. I didn't feel too good for couple of weeks and I wanted to complain about it. Since then, I whined to the doctor and I'm on a low dose of amiodarone for my issue. My stomach and sinus feel better, but it is still not enough. However, I'm hoping to improve and I reached my goal. I'm on less medicine than before. Hopefully I'm be good with it. I'm on a supplement regiment and I physically feel better. I take digestive enzymes and magnesium among other things. I have some faith that this will help me and maybe I can get off the drugs. I've been on these for a little over a year after I went to the wacky allergy nutritionist doctor. He helped me feel better. It take a long time. Oh, I did find my keys. They were in my pants. I just kept checking the wrong pants.
That is the thing that kind of hacks me off about modern medicine. They give you a drug for everything and they want you to take it forever. Well, I'm on ami again, so some drug representative will not lose their vacation home. The drugs keep you alive, but they don't solve the problem. That is the only angle they go from. There was not much nutritional information given to me. Magnesium is a helpful mineral in regulating heart beating function. I found out about that watching informercials. Anyway, I think things need to change. I feel exploited.There is not much I can do to change this or my insurance will drop me and that would be big problems, but if I do get better taking my vitamins to the point where I don't need medicine and I'm fine, then my power pack my hack me off some more. There is big money in mechanical parts.
I woke up today with a pool if stuff in my throat. It is the medicine Toprol. It is a beta blocker. I have to take it for my rhythm issue. I took it before, but now I'm on a higher dose because I got rid of the amidodarone drug. Ami is not a beta blocker. I guess the beta blockers take a toll on you r stomach. They change the pressure in you stomach so stuff comes up and out because it has to go somewhere. I ate good yesterday. I had wheat toast, oatmeal, an orange, turkey sandwich on whole wheat bread, canned peaches and pears, a little bit of chocolate and a few Frito's. That is it. That stuff should just go right through you, not up and out. So, when it does that it stuffs up my head and for years of this my sinus has become more sensitive, so that is why I have problems. It is not much fun. Plus, medication for a long time makes your stomach leak everywhere not just out the top. So, I wish I could get around this issue. I see how it goes this week and call the doctor. to see if I can switch to amiodarone only. I did ok with the stomach on that. I may still have issues, but having crap run up you throat sucks. My head is all plugged up. It sucks, but I've probably got it better than most people with health problems, but it sure sucks having pain sinus pain from time with no relief in sight. Maybe I can get through all of this. It will just take some time.
I have not felt that great this week. I think maybe I've made the wrong choice in the medicine that I lobbied for at the doctor. My stomach just feels bloated and my head hurts more than it usually does. So, I'm stuffed up and I'm not getting much relief. I don't usually like whining about my issues but I'm doing it today. Also, I lost my car keys. I've never lost them before. I have an extra key, but it is driving me crazy not being able to find it. I'm sure they are in the house although I did go for a walk on Thursday night and I could have lost them then. I hope not because there is a remote lock on the key ring and if someone find it they can walk around testing cars on in the neighborhood easily to find out which car the keys belong to. It is unfortunate. I'll probably find them in some stupid place in the house soon. I don't know. I hate taking medicine. I just hate it. I look at it everyday and I take it but I think more and more that I just want to quit taking it. I don't even think it really does that much for me, but I know that I would feel a hell of a lot better if I could get off of it. It is just controlling my life . It is hard to live convertible. My head hurts a lot at work. This week it has been a little worse and has lingered on more than usual. Well, maybe it will be better this week. Maybe it was just a little sickness that I caught and it will subside. I'm really whining. I've never whined this much on the blog. The does of medicine I take are not that high, but they mess me up. I wish I could get off them. Maybe I will be ale to. I take those vitamins and I do feel stronger. Maybe my body is healing. I bet it would heal faster off the drugs, but that is what the USA is all about drug therapy and drug maintenance. I'm on drug maintenance. I've been on it for 7 years. I went to the hospital the first time 7 years ago. I've spent most of that time living n my mom's house. It makes me crazy.
Even though I live in my mom's house, I'm one of the hottest bachelors on the planet. The single mom's in my network always invite me out to the club all the time. I think they just want one dude around to keep really goony guys off the make. I feel like I'm doing an important public service entertaining the single moms. I have mystic. The other Friday after work at the buffalo wing place in Raytown, at one point I was the only dude among 5 women. You haven't partied until you've partied in Raytown. I feel like I'm doing a good public service, but I don't want to get involved because I may lose my mystic and my status as the hottest bachelor on the planet. Plus, I just didn't want to. Plus, I may of had no shot anyway. theJEDMAN

.: posted by Jed 6:01 PM

Monday, February 19, 2007

I've been going to the bally about 3 or 4 days a week with my sony music machine. I've bored of the music on there. I kept listening to Shakira over and over. I never get tired of the rage and fury that is some of Shakira's songs as she complains about her boyfriend, but I needed some new music. I downloaded some new music.
In San Jose del Cabo on Xmas eve, I remember listening to a rock band called La Quinta Estacion. I downloaded a couple of their cds. It is rock. It is pretty good. They have a girl that sings. It is pop, but I like rock music. I just don't like hip hop or r&b or even much country anymore.
Then, I download that KT Tunstall. It is pop, but it is pretty good. She has some good songs. They've been in some movies out lately, but I like them. Also, I downloaded Nelly Furtado's new one. It is good. A few years ago, I hated that I'm like a bird I'll always fly away song, but this is different. I like the Maneater song. It made me afraid. I know Nelly is more like hip hop or r&b than rock, but exceptions can be made. Plus, she has some of the qualities coveted by the superficial man.
You might have noticed a theme here. I listen to music sung by girls. I just like girls voices. They sing pretty. I like rage and fury. I know that I'm not rushing out to download any Mama Cass. She's been dead a long time. I like girl rockers that don't have too many tattoos. Lita Ford probably won't get an invite to my birthday party. I'd be afraid that she would beat me up.
Although I have listened to the new Chili Peppers double cd. It is good. I just finished reading Tony's book Scar Tissue. That dude is lucky to be alive. He did a lot of dumb stuff. He did a lot of dumb stuff in his 30s. He was around a lot of wacky people. You should go read it.
I forgot to mention this last fall. I fell of the blog for awhile. I rode up to Columbia for the football game Thanksgiving weekend. The Jayhawks lost, but they did have adult beverages on the bus. It was fun, even though I don't really like to hang with most Jayhawk fans. I'm more passive than most. I'm not a yehoo. I got breakfast at Johnny's Prairie Village before the trip. It was awesome. I rocked out in Prairie Village. Remember, basketball is just passing time until the spring football game. The life of theJEDMAN is always intense.

.: posted by Jed 9:39 AM

Saturday, February 17, 2007

I have not written anything for awhile. I've been bored. The weather had been cold and nasty here and I've been working a lot. My little part time clock operator job is over. So, I'll have some free time now. I feel like an old person talking about the weather all the time. Old people like to talk about the weather. It is strange because old people usually don't have to go anywhere, so the weather should not be so important.
I forgot to mention that in the first week in December of last year, I got to hang with theQUICK. We met in Lawrence to watch some Monday night football. We watched the first half of the Packers-Seahawks game. There was fantasy football interest involved in the game between us. I ended up losing. I was in two fantasy football leagues last year and I wasn't the worst team in both, but I was about the worst scoring team in both leagues. i was horrible. I lost a lot. It was fun. It was theQUICK. It was intense. The life of theJEDMAN is always intense.
I have not done much else. I don't have any good jokes to write. I'll try to make up for it somehow, but it probably won't happen.