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Downtown Live

Jim — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:45:18 +0000

This is where the WordPress for Blackberry app will be so cool. I’m at Raleigh Downtown Live and I’m posting to my blog. I realize I could do that before with the plugin I had but it was rending a web page on a really small screen and it was kind of a pain in the ass to deal with. This is a native app and I can save stuff and come back to it. Very cool

Raleigh or maybe I was wrong

Jim — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:35:27 +0000

So I was talking to Kim, another of my wise friends, and she was saying how much she liked Raleigh because it’s like a big city but without all the big city problems (there had been a significant amount of alcohol involved so that may not be a direct quote). I said that I felt the exact opposite. She asked what I thought were the things that I was missing out of big city life and all I could come up with was a dinner theatre and amusement park.

After giving it a little thought the next morning I realized that it was possible that she was right and I’d been riffing on Raleigh all these years because I was unhappy with my personal life. The fact is that if you look around a little there’s quite a bit to do in Raleigh. So I’m going to just let it steep for a little while and see what happens. The really funny thing is when she was talking about it I kept thinking how it sounded like me talking about KC.

Raleigh really is situated pretty nicely between the mountains and ocean. the only other place in the US I can think of that’s similar is LA. It’s not really Raleigh’s fault that I never go to either, ya know? The weather is decent… not cold and not Florida hot.

UPDATE: I just happened to read over this post and realized that was the lamest fucking conclusion to a post ever. Sorry, Dr Almasi. It wasn’t his fault.

Paul McGuiness – Douchebag with an audience

Jim — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 05:29:18 +0000

Stan Schroeder posted an article on Mashable titled If Free is the Enemy of Good, Then Color Me Bad a couple of days ago about Paul McGuiness and him being a bitch. That’s not what Stan said because he’s considerably more cultured than I am. Paul McGuiness, for those of you out of the loop on such things, is the Manager for U2. I’m going to make the first of what will probably be many ugly comments now and ask —have you ever noticed that the bands or band apparatchik or clingers-on that are constantly bitching about the Internet or peer to peer file sharing or people stealing music are from bands that haven’t been relevant in 20 years? Bono is as swell a humanitarian as they come but how many people can name a song they’ve recorded from this century? Metallica–ditto.

The problem is that all of these people have stopped making music (if they ever were) and become part of the general whoredom that is the “recording industry”. They have been at it sooooo long that they believe they are entitled to drink Cristal poured over the breasts of $10,000 a night hookers. So they don’t want people to listen to their “music” unless they’ve been paid for it. When the actual music in the world is almost completely made by people who would gladly give it away just so people can hear it (BTW, Thanks, Trent. The Slip was the bomb). I’ll bet there are 50 bands in Raleigh that would pay to have people hear them play*.

At any rate, this is not the first time Paul has opened his hole and said something stupid. The funniest part is that he’s the fucking manager which means that he doesn’t have any talent and he’s basically sponging off U2′s success.

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*In fact, I knew a guy in a band a few years ago in Raleigh and that’s essentially what they did… after paying for the rentals on equipment and assorted expenses they were lucky if they split enough money at the end of the night to cover their bar tab.

Mayor of Detroit – This is why nobody lives there

Jim — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:24:51 +0000

World Pillow Fight Day was held on April 4th. Except in Detroit. Because the police wouldn’t let people engage in a pillow fight without a permit. So let me see if I understand the situation. There are no jobs. The weather sucks. Their professional sports teams all suck (except maybe the Red Wings… since I’m a Southerner I don’t know shit about hockey). The economy sucks. The housing market sucks. And you need a fucking permit to have a pillow fight? I can’t imagine why everybody is leaving. The good news is that once everybody is gone all of you authority types won’t have to worry about people engaging in fun activities to take their minds off the generally bleak conditions of their city. And cleanup won’t be an issue either.

I guess that’s a good call. For the record, this is how the cops in Raleigh handled it. Maybe that’s why everybody from Detroit is here.

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