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Belated Happy 21st Birthday to the Bush twins! If you're ever in Charlotte, the margaritas and Marlboros are on me! (Yeah, I know that's not Barbara on the bottom)
Zsa Zsa in a coma, I know, I know, it's serious. While looking for the lyrics link, I found a place with Smiths and Morrisey ringtones you can program into your Nokia phone, as if the holidays weren't depressing enough already.
Another great invention that I should've come up with - the vibrating tampon. Remember, ladies, it's just for relieving cramps, "Don't use tampons between menstrual periods"!
OK I can be all smug now cause the Amazing Chicken Wing Diet got some good press today. Anyone wanna join me for some pepperoni?
I was too busy to post that day, but P. J. O'Rourke had a birthday last Thursday. If you don't know who he is, he's one funny mofo. He was at the National Lampoon back when it was funny (he left in '81), and went on to write some hilarious books, as well as hundreds of articles for Automobile, Rolling Stone, and other magazines. Thanks to Modern Manners, I'm the suave, cultured fellow that I am today. Happy Birthday, P. J. !
From the "Do We Really Need Both?" Department: Michelle Branch and Vanessa Carlton. Anyone ever seen these two together?
Well I finally recovered from the trip....saw Elvis and the Imposters (Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas, and Davey Faragher) last Tuesday night at the historic Alabama Theatre in Birmingham. The Alabama is a restored old theatre with a balcony, and there aren't too many bad seats (I had a good one). They also have cheap liquor, but good luck getting anywhere near the bars. Laura Cantrell and her all-geek band opened the show, they were OK, but I'm not crazy about the acoustic country ballad stuff. The couple of uptempo songs they played were really good. Elvis and the lads were incredible, they played for almost 2 1/2 hours nonstop, 3 multi-song encores. They played a ton of songs spread out over a multitude of albums, all my favorites from When I Was Cruel, Spike, Blood & Chocolate, and of course the old stuff like Alison and Pump It Up. The only gripe I had was the final song they played, a weird, overdramatic rendition of "I Want You", complete with creepy lighting...kind of a downer. This concert edges out Mojo Nixon and the Toadliquors' 1994 appearance at Zydeco as my all time favorite Birmingham concert. Elvis is the man and a musical genius, if you ever get a chance to go see him, do it! Here's a real review of a show on the tour from Rhino. Want more? Check the old times
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