http://www.murrayspomade.com/

i saw this link on my can of murrays this morning and decided to check it out. i’ve seen it before; but i always forget about it by the time i’m on the internet. reading the site brought back all sorts of memories.

firstly; i believe our group found murray’s at the drug store in the west acres mall and were hooked. i remember i tried a couple of other products as well but murray’s was clearly the superior product. this would be about 14 years ago. several of my peers used it and i’m sure that some still do. for the longest time i thought it was our little secret and also that we didn’t know or have access to real pomade that other people used.

imagine my surprise when at a ‘me first and the gimme gimme’s’ show i saw one guitar player toss an orange tin to another band member prior to their set. wha?!? other people (punks!?) know about murray’s?

but now, after reading the website, it looks like george clooney, justin timberlake and leonardo dicaprio are also aware of the product.

lastly, i’ve never used anything other than ‘original’ and ‘light’ but after seeing brian setzer using ‘nunile’ i ordered some up.

i’ve started running again. if i post it here it makes it more real, right? i don’t have any particular goal in mind except to be able to run a long way at a very slow pace. maybe this will all culminate into a marathon relay at the next fargo marathon. i sat it out this year and i really regret it.

so many good punk rock interviews by prindle.

thanks best show. . . for making my mundane afternoons at work manageable.

since returning to nd, i’ve golfed more than i have in the previous few years. this is a very good thing. it forces one to walk outside for about 4 hours. that is the very best part. the game is secondary but i might add that my play has improved since i’ve been able to actually go a few rounds (as opposed to once a year).

i used to want ‘ping eye 2 beryllium copper irons‘ w/ matching wooden woods. now i’m not so sure. all the club in the world will probably not help my game any. and those pings seem a little bulky.

i just heard tom waites’ ‘grow up’ (covered by the ramones) on the radio. for those of you that are unaware: north dakota public radio rules. its called prairie public. but ive heard the danforths, wilco, etc etc etc. they actually do music programming peppered with the national stuff.

but i don’t want to grow up, either. playing in a punk band helps but having a job doesn’t. enjoying a surly furious helps but then not enjoying a surly furious due to responsibility doesn’t. getting rid of cable and playing outside helps but downloading bit torrent stuff and watching it in bed may also help, now that i think about it. it’s kind of like working against the establishment by accepting it’s offerings but on my own terms and without commercials. so maybe that one is a draw. i still drive a crusty old car. i ride my bike when it’s completely comfortable (schedule-wise) to do so. i still believe in people. maybe i’m not quite grown up yet.

bit torrent. man. where is this gonna take us?

i love reading blogs. for the last couple of years i fell out of the practice of reading blogs and now my old list isn’t so trusty anymore. so i’m building a new list.

but the internet is so different. there are so many css/ajax/photoshop blogs that i keep a few googlereader folders for them and i drown in the content. i try to ’star’ the good stuff but i never really get around to checking my ’starred’ list when it’s project planning time. it’s wasted data and that’s too bad. but that’s the reality of it.

my new list is going to be like my old list: blogs by web people who blog about their life. . . not so much about the newest php-swiss-army-knife.

but, in defining this new blog list i came upon the inevitable realization that i’m not contributing to the web community at large anymore and i feel like i’m not holding up my end of the bargain.

wordpress launched 2.5 a couple of days ago so i dl’ded it and installed. i always love seeing open source software updates. the free software movement is slowly but surely taking over.

i started blogging in 2001 by handcoding a website. i wanted it to look kind of like megnut. this was before blogger and movabletype. the only blogware that i knew about was greymatter; a perl driven app. so that’s what i loaded. all in all, blog software hasn’t really improved all that much. i still have to hard code links (or click a button and paste it in [which is just as timely]). but the interface is so much slicker and my wordpress start page looks like a portal.

i’m working on relaunching buffalocommon.com and am exploring one click posting. what i envision is seeing a link, clicking something and the post appears on bc. i think i’m going to accomplish this by using google readers ’share’ function (that i use for my links page). but, i’d much rather have the actual link in the blog as opposed to another blog linking to the link so i’m looking at ‘blog by email’ functionality.

thunderbird has an rss reader and a forward button and this could be the way to do one click blogging the most effectively.

i had the plague. or whatever it was that was going on around here. i’m always telling myself that i don’t get sick; and i don’t (at least not all that often). but i went to see the Rx and when she pulled up my records she asked, “same thing as last year at this time?” i guess i get sick more than i thought.

how do i do this? do i refer to people by name? my brother and his wife are coming to fargo on friday and we’re going to this. it’s at the local community theater which will be a nice venue for something like this. i’m currently enrolled in an NDSU comm class and we’re building a website about local theater. can i pass this off as theater and write up a review for an assignment? normally i’d say washed up ’80s punks doing anything in front of a live audience would constitute acting but rollins, incredibly, has maintained much of his street cred throughout his career. i’d actually argue that henry is more legitimate now than he was when he was touring w/ you know who. he always seemed like a misfit in that band; he wasn’t the original frontman or the most hardcore. he was hardcore, for sure, but it was this weird athletic and cleancore that just didn’t vibe w/ blackflag. i’m excited to see him as he’s always been a hero and an inspiration. i’m glad he’s still touring.

here’s rollins w/ bill stevenson(!) on the right. via http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/sevenages/artists/black-flag/