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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Those are my feet. I'm at a pool in the East Cape town of Los Barilles. At this point the pool was pretty much all mine that is until the rest of the Americanos got back from fishing. It was a relaxing day in Los Cabos far from the action of San Lucas. We took a narrow winding road through the desert past skinny cows eating brush. It was hot. The pool was cooler and the margaritas de fresa were the coolest. I was taken on many missions to the East Cape this trip. One was through the desert on a dusty bumpy road in intense heat. We made it to the coast in the dustiest little town I had ever seen. There was a guy with a trailer out there just sitting under the palapa that he created over his trailer into a little patio. If you wanted isolation, It was there. The problem with this location was the surf was a little rough. I didn't want to get swept away in the rip. I was scared, but I have fond memories of this trip which is good since the breaks on the car worked significantly less well on the way back to San Jose. There are all kinds of places to live in the East Cape. There are palaces and there are just four walls and a roof. I remember this one palace by the beach in Ribera, East Cape. It was pink and huge.

Well, I made my 5 trip to the end of the world. I stayed this time in San Jose del Cabo down the street from the governor of Baja California Sur. C's accomodations were great this time. They were far above those of the cave last year. I had bathroom, AC, Internet, laundry, plants, hose, car washing responsibilities, trash take out responsibilities and cooking detail. Lets break into the highlights of the fabulous trip. There are lots of dogs in Mexico on the streets. I'm guessing not all of them are stray they just hang out and not get fed a lot by there owners. They seem to have no fear of cars. Also, there are speed bumps everywhere, including on the highway. They slow people down, but they are annoying after awhile. I was a passenger going over a speed bump in San Jose when on the side walk was a cow eating out of a trash can. We just don't get scenes like that in the joco. I went to a party and had the best black beans ever served in the history of the word. I love black beans and these were the best ever. I didn't the moonwalk at another party I attended. I attended another party at a guys house with a stone henge replica that would have been crushed by a dwarf. I ate a hot dog and parts of two hamburgers very late at night in downtown San Jose. I saw a rehearsal of Jesus Cristo Superstar in beautiful downtown San Jose. I won a Sol cooler bad from the Beer girl at the Mega Supermarket in San Jose. I went on a lovely night out with C to San Lucas dining at Senor Sweets and hitting Rips, Squid Roe and Cabo Wabo, The Nowhere Bar was absent, but C looked very nice.

I rode a plane from San Jose to Mexico City and was served modelo in lata the best ever on the plane and no additional charge. I rode in a taxi fast through the streets of Mexico City to the bus station with no seat belt. It was scary and awesome at the same time as 6 cars commanded only 4 lanes on the street. Lanes don't really exist in most of Mexico. I took the bus from Mexico City to Poza Rica and then to Tuxpan, Vera Cruz. I went to a very nice party that allowed me to say some very profound words and eat some green salsa that literary burned my touncils out. I road a small boat across the river to the to view the Cuba Mexico Friendship Museum. It was very small, but there were lots of pictures of Fidel Castro looking young. I toured the market in Tuxpan and drank a fruit drink in the plaza. I dined on eggs and black beans several times. This seams to be an excellent comination. I ate the best fish ever on a dock restaurant by the lagoon in Tuxpan. The grouper fish was awesome buried in garlic. I felt great after eating that. Eating good food really makes a different in the way I feel as I get older. I rode fast from Tuxpan up the highway 3 hours to Tampico. There were lots of sights to see and passing other cars was always exciting. J my driver was great. When we got to Tampico, we headed straight for the beach were his friends were. He pulled up and 5 chicas came over immediately to give him a hug. That was amazing. I got to talk to some Tampico Cable Guys as they installed the cable into J's house. I rode another small boat acrosst the river fromt he Pemex oil plant to eat some fine shellfish and other types fish with J and his buddies. We ate like kings and more beer choices were discovered in Mexico. Victoria, Indio, and Bohemia are very good choices that I had never experiencd before.

In June 2009, I did some East Bay living on Montgomery Street. Every morning, I bucked the Starbuck's trend and hit Gaylord's across the street for some coffee. Gaylord's is were the cool people hang on Piedmont Avenue. I went for the egg bagel at the Posh Bagel. It was good every time. I felt like a real East Bayer. We headed up the coast. Brentwood, Oswego and I first did some time in Ukiah. Then, we spent one glorious week at the Bite My Hook Lodge on the Smith River in Gasquette, California down the road from Crescent City. The lodge had a huge deck with a grill. I cooked everynight on the grill. I cooked things like fish, shrimp, corn, zuchinni, potatoes, veggie dogs, etc. We did some hiking up and around the big trees. Oswego drives a stick shift now. He drives well. I only get scared sometimes like high in the mountains on a gravel road when I look out the window and it is straight down.

.: posted by Jed 8:52 PM

Monday, December 29, 2008

I am probably the worst blogger ever. I have not written squat in a few months. I'm living in uninteresting times. I don't do a lot. I do go out and meet people from time to time, but these instances are usually the same. I'm surprised that I have not been kicked off this blog site for being the worst blogger ever.
I did do some time in the hospital in September. I was only there a day. It is not much fun going there. It wasn't anything cosmetic. I just had to go in and do some maintenance. I would never do any elective cosmetic surgery just because of having to be there at the hospital. Besides looking at me, no one would ever think that I would need that type of surgery. Anyway, I don't remember too much of the actual event. I did have to hang out for awhile down in the OR. I complained a lot. The doctors and nurses like me when I complain a lot. I think. I got them to play music for me while we waited for some anaesthesiologist to show up. They put me out. The next thing I new, I woke up in some room with a lot of other people. It must be the post op room. This is the worst part. They hook you up to the IV. They pump you full of fluid for hours. Then, you wake up and have to use the bathroom and you aren't allowed to move. You tell the nurses what you need to do and they just give you a plastic jar. So, I was laying on my back not being able to move and I have to use the jar in front of hundreds of people. It is the worst thing ever. I filled up the jar, but I had to look at it to see if anything was in there. It is tough. Also, this time I had both parents there. I had two people hanging out concerned and bored asking questions. The hospital is a good reason to stay healthy. I want to avoid the hospital at all costs.

Speaking of being healthy, I have been eating a lot of Cheerios lately. At work, I was close to a vending machine. I found myself eating a lot of chips. I decided that this was stupid. So, I bought a box of Cheerios and I started eating them instead. Cheerios are good. Cheerios make you feel good. I usually pound oatmeal in the morning and then during the day, I eat a couple of cups of Cheerios. Cheerios clean you out and makes things work better. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and my insides feel good. Plus, my stomach feels flat. It doesn't look flat, it just feels flat. I think Cheerios are pretty good for you. Also, last fall I had to switch medicine for my condition. The new medicine gives me a little reflux. The $30 copay stuff at the drug store seems to help more this time than when I had this trouble several years ago, but the Cheerios help more, so much so that I haven't taken the reflux meds in a few weeks. I hope this keeps up like this, but it would be bad to not take the drugs from the drug companies for my ailments. That would be almost un american not to be on prescription drugs. It might hurt the economy more. I hope I don't get in trouble for this.

Speaking of being healthy, I went to a New Year's Eve party. It was at these friends of my in midtown. They are arty types and they don't have a TV. The had some good vegetarian food there with heavy doses of beans. It was good. It was very good. I like vegetarian food. It makes you feel light and happy with the absense of ground beef. but I'm smart enough know that I live in the midwest where the cows live. Eating cow is the law here. I like hamburgers, but I'd eat more vegetarian food with beans if it was more readily available. The party of good. It reminded me of parties I went to in college with arty types that didn't have a TV. There was recorded music and live music. Jerry Garcia would have been proud all except for the non-cow stuff.

.: posted by Jed 5:50 PM

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

I'm writing this section on dinner parties on Labor Day so don't let the post date fool you. Recently on consecutive weekends I went to dinner parties. PARTY I The first one was at a midtown location of some work people. This was my second invite to this location. I took a 12 pack of beverages. The host made some nice colon friendly veggie lasagna with salad and good bread. It was very nice. The last time I was there the meal was very good as well. I love going to a party where people make fresh food that is good for you. I don't like parties where the food is from big containers purchased at Sam's Club. These people were arty types so they didn't have a TV. We couldn't watch the Chiefs game or the Olympics. So, we listened to music and talked. Imagine talking. I can talk. Sometimes I talk real well. It was a cool August evening so we sat outside in the back yard. There were other people there besides work people so the shop talk was kept at a minimum. These arty types smoked, but at least they have sense to smoke outside. They have figured out how to banish themselves to the great out doors. Just d0n't do anything that Smokey the Beer wouldn't be proud of. I enjoyed this party. PARTY II The next weekend I went to another dinner party at a suburan location. We ate colon enemy red meat. I grilled big T-bones steaks on the grill. In fact, you might as well call me T-bone. I love cooking on the grill. Invite me to your party and I will cook on the grill for the party for you. I can cook dead meat and vegetables. I can handle hundreds of people. This party was good. I can take or leave the steak. I like it, but it is not the end all with me. Unless it is really good high quality cut, I'd rather eat something else. These T-bones were just OK. The fire was not hot enough to really sear them. There was good salad and bread. Good salad is important. This place always has outstanding salad. ISSUE I There was another Chiefs game on, but we were not allowed to watch it during dinner. After dinner we had to watch it on Tivo. I hate watching the game on Tivo. I'd rather watch it live with commercials. The host had some problems fast forwarding through the commercials once. He went too far on fast foward and it was touchdown Miami. Then again it was touchdown Miami. It was like foreshadowing, but we saw it for real in fast motion. So, I kind of new what was going to happen. ISSUE II The host had a beer fridge in his basement. We ate upstairs. So, he had a cooler of beverages upstairs during dinner. There was no ice in the cooler. Later, the cooler made it downstairs, still with not ice. It sat around while we were watching the game. The host decided to load the cooler back into the fridge. He asked me if I wanted another beverage. I said yes and he popped the cap and he handed it to me. It was hot. He decided to forgo giving me a cold beverage from the fridge and instead he handed me a beverage that had been sitting in the cooler for hours with no ice. This was a major beverage hosting fopa.


I think that people are bringing stuff they would not normally eat at their own home to other people's homes. This is called excessive dessert syndrome. People get invited to a party. They bring some big cake or pie or excessive amounts of soda pop. When all of this stuff comes together from many people, the party is overload with sugar. A normal party guest would have to eat a huge piece of cake, half a pie, a dozen cookies and about a liter of soda to finish all the sweets. That is enough sugar to kill a large farm animal. What happens is that the host of the part are usually left with all of these desserts once the party guests leave. Amongst the older generation there is the idea of not wasting food. Wasting food is bad because we don't have enough of it, so let's risk obesity, diabetes and heart disease to avoid wasting refined white sugar.

I've been living in the most uninteresting of times. I have not done much lately. There has not been much to do and I'm sort of at fault for not trying to do anything. I found myself watching Jon and Kate Plus Eight. It is the show with the people and the twins and sextuplets. It is funny. I'm glad I'm not there.
I've been biking lately. I got my new super prostrate friendly seat. They basically cut the nose off. I like it, I just wish I was about an inch wider. It is good. You have to balance more, but that makes you gut work more. I have been having problems. I busted a spoke the other day on a long ride to Olathe. I had to ride back an hour to get home. The wheel was wobbly so I had to take off the back brake. I got it fixed and I was riding home from the bike shop and I busted the another spoke on my back wheel. I only weight 222, so it can't be because of the girth. I rode it back to the bike shop. I bet the wheel rim is shot. I want to get it fixed because I'm into riding on my new seat. There are many trail in the JOCO that need my bike riding power.
I've gone to some ballgames with some old men. Old men can't hear or maybe don't listen well. Information is repeated a lot and frustration is high. I shouldn't complain. I get to go for free. I was in the middle of Red Sox Nation the other night. It is so hard to get a ticket in Boston that fans travel with the team or Kansas City has a lot of Red Sox fans. I'm guessing more of the later. There are Red Sox fans everywhere that have never been to Boston.

.: posted by Jed 10:38 AM

Sunday, July 20, 2008

I was at Tanner's the other night and I ran into the Commish. The Commish is this friend of theQUICK. I basically know him because he is the commissioner of one of my fantasy football leagues. He also helped me with my Sprint bill when the evil empire was trying to charge me too much. The Commish is awesome. He reads the blog. I don't really know him very well, but he reads the blog. He does not have to be told to read the blog. He just reads. the blog. That is support. He is on the JEDMAN bandwagon. Get on the bandwagon the rest of you. It is the right thing to do.

I fought some foo the other night. I saw the Foo Fighters in the big rock and roll show. There were about maybe 10,000 Foo Heads in the Kemper Arena. I was surprised by the turn out. The Foo Fighters are pretty good. That guy Dave from that Nirvana band is pretty good. He can sing and he can scream. Plus, he has long flowing hair. All the guys in the band had hair. No bald guy rock stars allowed. Guys or anyone with long flowing hair are my heroes. I dream of having hair like that. They played all the songs that I know. The stage was at one end of the arena. There was a long cat walk to the other end. At one point in the show a circular stage dropped to the arena floor at the end of the cat walk. They band moved down there. More pickers came out and they played some more songs. Dave talked a lot. He kind of has a potty mouth, but he was funny. He made fun of a guy in the crowd that had two beers. He made fun of some guy in the band that played triangle.It was a good show. The Foo played for around 2 hours and 20 minutes. That is pretty good value for the $55 ticket. This woman in front of me was blazing up the whole show. That is not legal. She had trouble standing up by the end of the show.
After the show, we ended up at some bar at 9th and State Line. I did not know that such a place existed. Through dark warehouses and train tracks was this club in the middle of the bottoms of Kansas City. The smokers were all upset because they couldn't smoke there. It literally 20 feet from free smoking KCK. I had to laugh. I can't wait for the full smoking ban everywhere even in Raytown. There was some lame band playing in there. Thankfully we only stayed for a little while. It was past my bedtime.
I read this book about this guy who went around the country with the goal of being a dishwasher in all 50 states. It was great. The guy was a slacker but he did take some pride in dish washing and he held the belief that jobs were made to quit. Quiting was the best part. Being able to quit and leave at anytime was what kept him going. The guy was my age. He put out a zine at the same time I did years ago about his dish washing escapades. He actually got popular, but wanting to remain a slacker. He had some funny stories. He didn't quite make all fifty states. I wish that I had the guts back then to do something stupid like that then write a book about it.

.: posted by Jed 8:49 PM

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

The END OF THE WORLD III
My last weekend at the end of the world, we drove up the desert to La Paz. La Paz is the capital of Baja California Sur. It is on the Mar of Cortez or the Gulf of California. We drove across the mountainous desert peninsula of BCS. It was fun. It was hot and dusty. There is not much out there but some cows, goats, and cacti. We did see a tourist relieving himself on the side of the highway on the way back down highway 19. He could have at least got of the road a little bit. The Highway 19 from San Lucas to Todos Santos is winding, narrow and a little peligrosos. We stayed at the Casa Jalisco. I know a guy in Kansas City whose brother-in-law owns the place. The room was very nice and big. It was a good place. The problem was the location of the hotel, not in the pretty area and far from the Malecon. The Malecon is the sea wall of the bay of La Paz. It stretches for several kilometers along the bay of La Paz. It is very nice stroll along the bay. On the other side of the street, there are shops and restaurants. It is a very nice area. We ate at a restaurant El Patron out on point at the beginning of the Malecon. We sat right by water as the sun set by the sailboats. It was pretty. I ate some sea bass. It was one of the best pieces of fish I have ever had. We drank some good Margaritas. It was very nice. As the sun went down more and more people came out to the Malecon. It was quite the seen. There were not too many gringos around. We walked along the Malecon. As we returned, there were a lot of people standing around. As we got closer, there was a pick up truck in the water. All I could see was the antenna. They had some tow trucks there to pull it out. I could never figure out how the guy drove that truck in there. It was crazy. I talked to some guys drinking some Tecate Light on the Malecon. They had no idea what Kansas was. They thought everyone in the USA was from New York. Statue of Liberty was all they knew.We need Superman to get that truck out.

On Day 2 in La Paz, we cruised up the coast of the bay to a beach called Balanda. It was pretty. There were a lot of people there. The beach was not that big, but the water went out forever in this little inlet. The water was clean and clear. It had white fine sand. You could walk out forever and not go under. I was way out and the water was only up to my chest at the deepest. It was a perfect 72 degrees. I could have stayed out there forever. I put on sun screen. This was smart. I have not done this before and have been burned to death. Sun screen works. Balanda was kind of the low rent beach. There were no facilities. There were a lot of families there. There were dogs there. There was a wiener dog there that outran thees two little girls that could not grasp the leash as the dog ran up and down the beach. It was cute. There were people with makeshift canopies to protect from the sun eating chips and hammering down big Pacificos. The one great thing about the ocean, it is like one big bathroom. After the Balanda Beach experience, we hit the next beach over. The name of it eludes me, but it was a bigger beach with restaurants. We ate some more sea bass in this nice moderately priced place with waiters and napkins. The eyes came with this piece of fish. Actually, it was the whole fish except for the guts. This beach was nice. You could seen the exit to the bay of La Paz into the open Cortez Sea. The water was clear and clean with white sand. It was a little cooler here. It was beautiful. After the beach we headed back into town. We went to the mall. I walked around reading sign. It was OK. It was a nice mall. Mexico is a poor country, but people have money to buy stuff. Baja California Sur is probably doing better than most states in Mexico. As the sun went down the Malecon filled up. I guess people without air bake in their houses all day and as soon as the sun goes down they hit the Malecon to cool off and hang. This is the ultimate loitering place. It is a teenagers dream. Families pop out and walk around. I saw this little kid about 4 years old on a electric motorcycle bike. He had a full helmet that wrapped around his jaw and googlies. The bike when about 4 MPH and he was cruising around on it. It was funny. He almost went down this embankment. It was a great place. It is fun. Loitering is OK USA. We should allow more of it and design places to do it.

I went to the big supermarket CCC in La Paz. In the beer aisle, Modelo the big beer company in Mexico has a cute beer girl there. I guess she is there to help you make a selection and if you don't pick a Modelo beer, well I don't want to tell you what that means, but don't ask her out to lunch. It is kind of funny. They don't do that here in the US because you would upset some conservatives. It is just fun. Mexico might be behind the times in the way women are viewed, but the superfiscial man in me likes things like this even though I'll probably get into trouble for it.

In San Jose, they sell fresh bottles of OJ on the street. I drank one everyday. It was great. I love fresh squeezed OJ. It is good there. BCS has a lot of vitimen C options. With all of those limes they put in beers and squeeze on the fish tacos. I love it.

I got a fish burger at Zipper's. It was a real piece of fish. It was good. Zipper's was an american like bar right on the beach with american like food and american versions of Mexican food. It is right on the beah, so the view is pretty. I could sit there all day. It was great to go their after sweating in the cave all day.

.: posted by Jed 3:06 PM

Monday, June 02, 2008

You might want to read this one again, because I have done some editing.
Those are my feet.

I'm not working right now so I have some time to blog. I know my fans want more blog material, but I'm a little lazy and don't write as much as I could. I think this makes the material a lot better if I don't write as much. The people that read this will anticipate more and then when they read this garbage, they will think it is better than it is.

I went to the Big Rush Concert. I didn't have anything to do, so I went. This was my 3rd Rush concert, but the first in over 20 years. The show was at Starlight. I had not been there in over 20 years. I think the last time I was there was for the Kinks show in 1985. They really made that place nice since the last time. They have a nice big stage with this huge towers. There is a covered concourse that goes all the way around the seating area. There are plenty of places to get drinks and it was super easy to go to the bathroom. It was very nice. They are starting to have more shows there. There were about 5,000 people in the 7,500 seat amphitheater. I think that is pretty good for the rockers in their late 50s. No other power trio can do that. When was the last time you saw Triumph play to more than 50 people in Bismark or Emerson Boozer, Lake and Jim Palmer fill a high school gym. The concert arena or amphitheater scene is full of bands from the 70s and the 80s. If you were decent then you can still get about 5,000 to 10,000 at a show in any big city. I don't think hip hop ever became or will become a big concert draw. Plus, many people that grew up going to concerts are in their 40s and 50s now and have money to go to shows at $50 a pop. Once all of these bands get too old, I'm just wondering if their will be arena rock anymore. I'm guessing there will only be small shows in the future with 1,000 people being a good draw.
Back to Rush, The band looked pretty fit. Alex and Neal are losing some hair. That is a plus for me. Neal had some hat on thinking he is the Edge. The fans all about 40 to 60 were computer geeks in high school that listened to Rush and the world's greatest drummer Neal Peart. Now, those geeks control the world and have babes that they didn't have in high school. There were some younger people there, but I didn't get why.
Rush was petty good live band. They play well together. They played some hits. They played the Red Barchetta. That is probably my favorite song. Plus, the obligatory Tom Sawyer, Spirit of the Radio, Subdivisions and 2112. I didn't realize this but they've been putting out albums all along. They've had like 8 albums since I bought one 20 years ago. So, there were a lot of songs I didn't know. Geddy was pretty good about telling the crowd when the old stuff or the new stuff was coming up. People tended to race to the bathroom during the new stuff. They played for about three hours in total. There was a 20 minute break in the middle. Plus, toward the end there was the epic drum solo by the world's greatest drummer. Neal has a lot of stuff to bang on. The crowd was really into the drum solo. I'm just glad it didn't last any longer than the 10 minutes it did. When it was over, Neal was tired and Alex gave the acoustic performance. It was ok. I'd much rather they just played songs. It was worth the $49 I paid to get in and I'm definitely not ruling the world as you would have seen me babeless at the show.

I went to the Police concert at the big Sprint Center last may. It was pretty good. Sting looked fit. Stu and Andy looked good also. Stu still has hair. I hate guys with hair. When I was a teenager and skinny, I kind of looked like Stu, but not anymore. They played all the hits. They rocked out a little. They jammed a little. I'm not much into jams, but these jams were not excessive although they could have cut a couple of them short. At one point the stage lights turned all red. The people in the arena knew that they were going to play Roxanne. It is good to tip off the crowed when you play your biggest hit. I sure they would forget it otherwise. Sting was good. He played the rock songs from the past. He could have jazzed up everything, but he gave the fans what they wanted. Elvis Costello opened up the show. He was good. I'm not a huge fan. I only know a few songs. I think I'm better looking than Elvis Costello, but he's way cooler than I. The arena is so big, it is not that intimate to get up close, but arena rock rules!
Afterward, I walked across the street to the power and light complex. It is basically a big plaza with restaurants and bars all around. It is a little contrived and some of the places are kind of dumb. There are chain restaurants and not too many local places got picked to be there. However, it is cool to hang outside with a lot of people walking around. People like to hang where a lot of people are. Kansas City has missed the boat on this for years.
I had the idea for this over 10 years ago after my tour of Spain. A lot of places in the metro could have built places like this, especially Overland Park. They should have built places with a plaza open area with shops and restaurants all around. I'm sorry Mr. Nichols The Plaza is not a plaza. If strips malls were built in rectangles, the restaurants could be open to the inside so that in nice weather people could sit outside. The parking could be around the perimeter. Everywhere there are restaurants in free standing buildings that have patios and outside seating, but you are sitting next to a parking lot. It would be way cooler to have a big walking area where people could hang out and loiter. The idea that loitering is bad needs to be expelled from the minds of all Midwesterners. Now, with gas so high, having to drive everywhere is tough even from one end of the strip mall to the other. It would be cooler if you could go somewhere where a lot of people are and just hang. That is what is making the Power and Light District successful. Kansas City is kind of a misguided place that will hurt as long as fuel goes up and up. It is too bad. Foot traffic is good. Loitering brings business.
When I did leave the Power and Light District to go home, I drove right out to parking garage and was home in like 20 minutes. I didn't spend 30 minutes in my car waiting in line. I did my part to save on energy even though I drove myself downtown to the show.

The Marriott Hotel at 435 and Metcalf has a big plastic baggy covering the whole building. It is like a full building plastic protection device. I don't know what they are doing, but it gives the guests added protection from the elements even though they are inside. I got a lot of jokes for this one but I don't know which one to use.

The Quick called me on Sunday to go to the Royals game. I was at the gym, but I dropped everything to hang with the Quick. The Quick is awesome. You drop everything to hang with the Quick. The Royals finally won I game that I attended. The score runs and got hits. I'm used to them scoring none or one with 3 weak singles. The Quick brought his daughter. She is about three. She is pretty good. The Quick looks like a good daddy. I just remember 10 and 11 years ago the Quick would call me up on a Saturday night and say, "Wake up. Get over here.". I'd go over and watch him play video games for a couple of hours. Then, he would take a shower about 11pm and then we would go out. I guess responsibility ends those days forever.

My friend Danny called me up out of the blue last week. He was in town from Antarctica. Yeah, he went to Antarctica to be a janitor for a few months. A janitor, not a custodian was he. He invited me to go to Roller Derby to see the Woman's Professional Flat Track Roller Derby League. It was at Hale Arena down by Kemper and it was quite the scene man. It was white trash heaven. They had PBR on tap. The track was in the middle of a concrete slab. I guess they don't use the banked track because the concrete is easier to install because it is already there. They just have to put down some red duct tape in an oval. There were four teams that alternated playing each other. The girls just skated around the oval and one fast girl tried to skate around and through the other girls while they tried to kill each other. They all had names like hurt devil, mini mean and oucho marx. There were a lot of people there. I was surprised. No too many people of color. You could stand next to the track and watch the girls smash each other. I think that was the main draw to see the girls collide and run over each other. That is what the people cheered for. I liked the athleticism of the fast girl who could skate through the others without wiping out. It was fun, but I think I'm a one timer.

.: posted by Jed 1:05 PM

Monday, April 28, 2008

It is tough having a child and an ex-wife. Jennifer, my ex-wife is very difficult to deal with. Trapezoid, our son, lives with his mother and her new boyfriend in a big south Olathe mansion. By law, I'm required to send money to help pay for stuff for Trap. I don't mind doing this. I want to participate in Trap's life. However, I'm concerned about what my money is used to pay for. Jennifer has a French guy come over to speak French with Trap so that he is fluent for the Sorbonne when he gets older. That is fine, but I speak Spanish with Trap whoever I can and I think Jennifer is just doing that to spite me. Also, Jennifer pays over $100 an hour to have this guy named Cheese Puff come over to teach Trap the lost art of country line dancing as an effort to teach Trap about the culture of country music. This is great because when Trap comes to see me, he comes with no clothes or anything. Jennifer expects me to buy him necessities even though the money I send over is for necessities of daily life. Plus, the pick up and drop off times are always changing. I lose time and have to put in time always unexpected without notice. Also, I get tired of Jennifer calling me a no good loser who doesn't make any money in front of Trap. That woman will be the end of me.
*By the way, I've never been married. I have no children. I just get tired of people talking about their kids and spouses all the time at work, so I invented a fake ex-wife and son. Some people are actually buying it. theJEDMAN

.: posted by Jed 7:44 PM

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Hey, I went to the baseball game with some buddies last night, all men, all boys, being with the guys. I met them at the stadium. It was cold. They were giving away these replica jerseys that were semi-nice with medium quality. I had to wait for the guys outside the gate. They had to enter other side of the stadium. I couldn't get to because there is a lot of construction. Anyway, I waited and they were giving these jerseys away as you entered. I watched a woman with a trash bag outside the stadium. There were three guys going in on new tickets each time and exiting with a jersey to put in the trash bag. By the time they were done, they had about 30 jerseys in the bag. To their credit, they had a ticket for each one, but with the $9 tickets they probably bought, they are going to try to sell the jerseys for $20 a pop I would imagine. Then, they took off. They didn't even stay for the game. A lot of people walked out with jerseys and left appearing not to stay for the game. That defeats the spirit of the give away.
People were being jerks taking the jerseys. Some people got more the one. By the time I got in I didn't get one. They brought up some more boxes of jersey up to the gate as I was walking inside and people just converged on the guys carrying the boxes. I said the hell with it I don't need one that bad. I found my buddies and they had an extra one and I went to the table to get a small one for the guy's daughter. So, he traded me for it. I got one, but I was kind of disgusted at people because a lot of people got more than one. In my little group of four guys, one guy walked with two, but he got one for his daughter not to sell to someone on the outside.
I was disgusted by the display of greed. It defeated the spirit of the giveaway and I bet a lot of little kids that would die for one didn't get one because of the greed. It was cold. People can be jerks. When I got that small jersey from the table inside the and away from the gate. I got jostled and bumped. People were grabbing more than one of them. They were taking extras. That is bad.
I was outside for 5 hours. It was below 40 degrees. Baseball is not supposed to be cold. It is supposed to be just hot enough that you sweat and then the beer tastes really good. Football is supposed to be cold. It was a great football night, but they were playing baseball.

I watched the Jayhawks national championship game at Danny's Bar on College Boulevard. It was awesome. They Jayhawks came back and won playing awesome. I rarely get excited, but I jumped up and down when Chalmers hit that shot. After that, I knew we would take them in overtime. It reminded me of 20 years ago when I watched the game in my apartment on Tennessee Street in Lawrence with J-Bird, the K-man, imported beer and fireworks. My roommate, J-Bird, had a lot of fireworks. We shot them across the street to the frat house.

No one can listen. I have endured this for a long time. I get accused of not talking a lot sometimes. This is true. I don't talk a lot at times. I try to be polite and wait for an opening to say things when other people are talking. Often the opening never comes. The times when it does come, I find myself being interrupted a lot. No one listens. I can get very few people to listen to me. I understand that I may not say things clearly sometimes, but I wish people would just be quiet and let me talk and save questions until the end. Often, I can answer your question if you would just wait. No one listens in our post MTV world and I don't like it. I think I listen more than the average person.

I'm not good at much, but I'm good at cooking a lot of dead animal flesh on the grill for a lot of people. Other people are good as well, but they miss out on one technique that is very essential to good grilling. You have to take the food off the grill straight to the table. Many grillers make the mistake of cooking up a bunch of food for a big group. The food gets cooked all at once. Then there is a waiting period where they try to keep the food warm which essentially just drys it out, before the people eat it. The key is to cook a batch of whatever and put it on the buffet immediately and force people to go through the line. By the time, people go through the line and the first batch is almost gone the next batch is ready. When I cook, I operate this way. I just keep bringing in more as people serve themselves. This is effective cooking. Putting grilled stuff off to the side or in an oven to keep warm is no only ineffective, it is just plain unfortunate.

People should just eat their tomatoes and pickles when they order a sandwich and not offer them up to other people. Frankly they need the nutritional content. Not eating tomatoes is unfortunate.

.: posted by Jed 9:40 AM

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

.: posted by Jed 6:56 PM

Saturday, February 09, 2008

The number 4 button on my remote control came off and got lost. Now, I can't use that button. So, I can't watch any channels that have a 4 in it. I have channels 2 to 75. can't watch 4, 14, 24, 34, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 54, 64, and 74. That is 17 channels. 54 is home and gardsen TV. I really miss it. I don't know what I'm going to do. theJEDMAN

I've been inverting. Inversion is the wave of the future. I bought this contraption where you strap your feet into this teeter totter effect and you flip over and hang upside down. It is a really good stretch. I love it. I"ve been sleeping good and the headaches I used to get a lot seem to not be as bad so far. Waste elimination seems to be better. Plus, it opens up my vertebra and my back feels better and stronger. The cushions in my back have popped up after being smashed for so long. I just feel better. I do it everyday for about 10 minutes. Usually I invert to about 60 degrees, but I sometimes I go into full inversion. Full inversion is cool. You should invert. If you don't invert, you are a non-inverter.

.: posted by Jed 5:08 PM

Monday, January 21, 2008

I got to hang with theQUICK last week. It was awesome at smoke free Tanner's with theQUICK. theQUICK is awesome. You should give up cottage cheese to hang with theQUICK. You should stop smoking and eating nuts to hang with theQUICK. You should stop cleaning the bathroom and forgo getting groceries to hang with theQUICK. I can't wait unit the next time I get to hang with theQUICK. By the way, smoke free Overland Park is going well. I love it. I love not smelling like smoke when I get home and having to do all my laundry. Let those smokers freeze to death on the patio. I love smoke free living. It is the way it should be. theJEDMAN
Well, Sprint PCS did it to me again. They sent me a new phone and said that I only had to pay shipping and then they charged me for it. Last year they sent me a new phone with a different number. I got the number changed to my number but then they billed me for two numbers. I had to called multiple times to get it corrected. This year they didn't take the charge of the phone bill. I called many times. Now, they blocked my phone so I couldn't use it. I tried to make a call and it when straight to Sprint Customer service. I couldn't make a call. If I had been in an emergency I would not have been able to use my phone. Their plan was brilliant. I've paid my bill every time. They had no right to mess me over like that. Sprint is perpetrators of evil. Sprint over charges people on purpose just to see if they will pay. This is bad business. If I wasn't so lazy, I'd get new phone service.

.: posted by Jed 7:30 PM

Sunday, December 30, 2007

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 KU 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