Other than that I’m trying to call any and all attention to my newest ventures www.inked-up.com and www.nogoodz.com. Go look at them and do as they say.

I’ll wait before I upgrade NoGoodz Wrdpress, however… just in case…

San Diego is crazy. Since I’ve moved here I have been through three earthquakes, the Hilton right down the street from me blew up, I’ve been surrounded by wildfires, and now fighter jets are falling from the sky. Google says that it’s about 12 miles away, so Michael, Lou, and I are okay. But I feel for those people and hope they were out shopping or working. The houses in that area look relatively nice, so if they come home to this, I feel for their loss… and may the big, fat gubamint check you get somehow compensate!

So it looks like a nifty new MBP for me, the loved one will get my old guy when it gets back from “away”. I might even spring for the Time Capsule so I get the automatic, periodic, wireless backing-up. Either way I am just wishing I were more excited about getting a new computer, but I am having a hard time dealing with what’s lost… it’s been weeks since my last back up. Back Up, People! BACK UP!

I am reporting from my loved one’s Powerbook G4. Tomorrow, my new MacBook Pro. Yeah.

Each week I will be spending my nights writing articles on all of the amazing artists I have had the pleasure to meet (or atleast see their work), all the great shops and restaurants that I have frequented in my travels, and all of the amazingly out-there things I have found all over the internet. So far I have suped the site up with a full compliment of articles, a new shop, a newsletter, a social network, a Facebook and Myspace page, and it’s own Twitter feed. My hopes are that through the releasing of new shirts and pins each week, drumming up interest by drumming out interesting articles, and filling the empty spaces with ads from Google and the like (hint, hint: click some ads people) I will be able to grow this site into a feasible form of passive revenue that will help stave off the growing bills from buying Lou food and toys. You heard me people, I’m telling you to love my new site and fall prey to it’s commercialist whiles so that Lou can be a happier pup. How can you resist?

I will keep this site up and running, albeit slightly less frequent then usual, and move some of my more interesting finds onto the pages of NoGoodz. Come and read and join and enjoy.

Oh, and the NoGoodz Network has…

• An Arcade!
  

Being a faithful Apple product follower I have come to realize and deal with the fact that you put an automatic killswitch into randomly selected products. I have come to terms with that and understand it is how you keep people buying new schwag every year or so. With 8 out of 10 of your products slowly starting to expire after it’s warranty’s expiration date, I have a personal graveyard full of iMacs and iPods, with only one or two troopers surviving the ages.

But please, just stop this yo-yo-ing of going back and forth from mono-color to multi-color and square to rectangle. If ever a consumer were to get motion-sickness, you are definitely testing the possibility by changing your products dimensionality up and down, left and right. It’s like you have a room full of bi-polar market research executives who are vacillating back and forth between Ritalin and Adderall at the sterring wheel. Cut it out.

Thank you.

First and foremost I am very happy to say that Michael and I have joined a cult. Just kidding, but we might as wel have. We met through someone who was trying to hook up with someone else and that someone was standing near some one who needed a cigarette a whole troupe of new friends that Michael and I just adore. Liseth, Joseph, and Jimmy (ladies first, but with these three it’s a toss up) are our new pals… they hail from the Northeast as well and are such a scream! We love them, they love us, it’s all love and that’s great. I’m so happy to have a pile of people I can call “motherfukers” to their faces and they don’t flinch an inch, cuz over here in the Southest Westest motherfukers are just too sensitive. For reals.

Other than that I had to do a little stock photo research for a client, and if anyone has been an avid reader of this blog (all two of you) then you know I love to highlight the weirdest and oddest of the randomness that comes out of my searches. So without further ado, another installment of Stocking Mad, an expose on the crazy stuff photographers think people will pay money to use. This time I searched for “women clothes shopping”… enjoy!

To start, we have Pam Anderson’s Scary Drag Brother

“Mmmm…I love the smell of Polka Dots”

“Headlights on? Check.”

>>Security Manne-Bot 001 in pursuit of thief! BEEP!<<

>> “Stop or Scary Scary Manne-bot will shoot laser eye beams!…”<<

>>”…or we will sick our scary tranny brother-bot on you!”<<

Remember when Harrison Ford was frozen in Corbomite in Return of the Jedi? This was the back. The crack back.

“Did someone say ‘Crack’?!”

Just one link to get you through…

• Chainsaw Maid

The really amazing thing about this last week is it really shows how timeless true friendship and connections can be. “Ain’t no mountain high enough, ain’t no valley low enough.” Although Kin confessed she worried for a minute before we got her at the airport “What if we’ve changed too much to hang out for a whole week after all of this time?” the conclusion of that confession was that after all these years we are still the same damn people.

The other amazing thing was that one of them ferried over this great nation a microbe I thought I had long left behind, the dreaded Ragweed spore. I know this little stowaway survived the flight because sure enough, just like every early April in Philadelphia, my left eye has swollen up shut. But it’s almost September. I look like I’ve been punched in the eye. By a microscopic fungii with a big fat fist.

But it is a small price to pay to reconnect with old friends and find new connections with new ones as we all discovered things about my new home, San Diego. Sometimes showing others something can make you appreciate it so much more than seeing it for yourself.

So, in conclusion, this has been a great few weeks punctuated with a big puffy eye thanks to Facebook, Myspace, and Verizon… ahh social networking: How did we ever live without you?

Things I can’t stop watching…

• I Love Egg
• Pink Five
• Please let me out, please let me out