Hey All,

For the duration of the RNC i will be blogging out of UnConvention.tv This is the program I have ben working on most of August , dealing with all the various and sundry  of the Unconvention.
its a pretty gool program, but it’s the unfun side of the world, I keep reading about various indy types going to parties and having a lot of fun- ,e been in a basement fotr about 2 days trying to make a deadline.

The shows are  going to be on MTN in Mpls, SPNN in St. Paul, viewed in Peavy Plazza Sunday, MOnday and Tuesday at 9.  Please watch- no  one enjoys media in a vacuum!

Yeah, i have been in absentia here for a bit, I have spent a good chunk of the last several months building this place Miyagi. It’s a hair salon that I opened with the Missus, it’s also home to my new offices, that is once I can get in an actual internet connection. In between that been dealing with the never ending pilot, that is ready to be dropped off next week (well keeping my fingers crossed on that one).

Lot’s going on, but not a ton I feel like I can share, I know I am selfish bastard keeping my drama to myself, but sometimes thats how it goes.

One note about the dead video above- I am in no way shape or form a Dead head, In my Rifle Sport days I described them as the music of the enemy, the poster children of the former counter culture Hippies who became the dread 80’s republican sell outs- but kept the soundtrack. As I have gotten older I have learned to see bands shouldn’t be blamed for their fans. In any case this suits my mood at this moment more then just about anything.

Well and this one too, i bought this record when it came out, what can I say the video kinda got me, But I kept it hidden in my collection- not nearly punk rock enough, and not ironic enough either to merit being in my collection. Maybe being forty is an age where you can accept all the little secret truths, because good bad and indifferent ; thats who you are.

Welcome, this is the first post on the new blog, last September I decided to start this little blog experiment , it worked, and over 3000 people dropped by to read my blathering commentary. So I decided to try and step it up a bit, move to a domain, customize it a bit and tell my friends that I had done it (really only told a handful) and see what happens .

The name Tales of the Idiot, comes from something I had though about for more then 20 years. My plan was to publish a novel with that name by the time I was 30, a feat I did not succeed at. I did write a novel once in the 7th grade, It was a mystery story set during the filing of a Bob Hope/ Bing Crosby/ Dorthy Lamour movie. with of course me as the boy detective who saved the day- I think it goes without saying that I was a highly unpopular kid.

The title stayed but the plots changed and well I was too busy having a life to write about it. So instead here it is , Blog the new black, excuse me I mean novel.
I’ll go into detail later about my theory that “We are all idiots”. For now, enjoy the new site, its now all set up by categories, so if you only want essays, you can get them. Bloggy Bits are things that are just short, little bits, time wasters and the like.

Truthfully, oh dear and gentle reader I have a tough time calling myself a blogger, I am an essayist, a columnist without paper. Because we have to tile things such I become a blogger, but it still feels a bit like a lie, I don’t talk about technology, at lease not in a gadgetey way, I have no SMO skills, and no clever trips for link baiting, or traffic swapping, or feed burning. I can barely figure out CSS. I share stuff about my life, but they are stories and metaphors, not what I had for breakfast, or what I did with friends the night before. I spend very little time in the blogsphere itself, and rarely read any. Its not personal I know there are some great ones out there, I barely have the time to write mine, let alone read anyone elses.

Soon there will be podcasts, Me reading things aloud with a sound track, and the occasional bit of aural insanity. Also a promise of daily updates , well m-f updates at least.

so for now Dig the New Blog

Ok I have been writing a ton of commercial stuff, in between working on two records, a DVD release a pilot, my day job stuff. Not to mention the basemen t got flooded today so here is a lit of extremely bad ideas that you shouldn’t do:

Completely Bad Ideas:
1. Tossing porcupines
2. Eating week old sushi
3. Getting in a staring contest with Charles Manson
4. Having dinner with Rosie O’Donnel and Donald Trump at the same time
5. Entering a demolition derby with a bike
6. Eating a bag of uncooked rice then drinking a gallon of water
7. Starting a heroin habit
8. Drinking an entire bottle of maple syrup
9. A Herve Vilachez movie marathon
10. Wrestling Boars
11. Being the guy in the Burger King costume
12. Taking any job working for Britney Spears
13. Being the Director of tourism in Norman Oklahoma
14. Starring in an ad for any of the following :adult diapers, toilet paper, feminine hygiene products, any sort of chat line
15. Getting into a slapping fight with.. well with anyone
16. Financing any movie where the stars were discovered on American Idol
17. Snorting Bees
18. Pickle based beverages
19. Carbonated Milk
20. Marshmallow based entrees
21. Blogging when you haven’t slept for a few days