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So, I think I'm done with this journal. In light of recent events in my life the idea of spilling personal details out for all to see is rather unattractive. However, I still very much want to keep in touch with old friends, so for those of you that lack it, my e-mail address is... dead.celebrity@gmail.com Drop me a line and say howdy. The wife and I are moving (still in Pittsburgh proper) and will be having a little house-warming shin-dig on October 4th. Nothing too fancy, just a friendly get-togather to break in our new place and visit with friends. We are far to reclusive. That is all for now. This journal will be deleted eventually, so get it while its hot... or something. As a related aside I have turned my legendary e-mail newsletter into a blog of a totally different name. My little email-zine is growing up. Feel free to ask for the address if you like. That is all. -R
Death of a President, by William Manchester, is the authorized version of the Kennedy assassination. Jackie Kennedy gave ten hours of interview; both Look magazine and the German publication Stern serialized it. Jackie asked that certain passages which were "too personal" be removed. According to the Paul Krassner's periodical The Realist, this is one of the passages: "That man was crouching over the corpse, no longer chuckling but breathing hard and moving his body rhythmically. At first I thought he must be performing some mysterious symbolic rite he'd learned from Mexicans or Indians as a boy. And then I realized -- there is only one way to say this -- he was literally fucking my husband in the throat. In the bullet wound in the front of his throat. He reached a climax and dismounted. I froze. The next thing I remember, he was being sworn in as the new President". + + + In other news... I resigned from the Pepsi-Cola Roadhouse. After almost 3 years at one job (!) I moved on. Strange that is. Still though, I held on as Video Director there as I promised myself I would, until something better came along. It did. Several months ago, I think almost 8 or so, I was asked to submit a resume to WQED Multimedia for possible in-studio camera work. A good sign when a potential employer asks you for a resume. So I did, and spoke to my contact a bit more and the director of engineering. Nothing came of it. They were in the process of upgrading every bit of gear in the station to swanky new HD equipment, so they were a bit busy. Fast forward to late October. Jacob and myself are sitting in Bethal Park, Im attempting to recall my medical history in agonizing detail for a minor procedure at the podiatrists office. Jacob was eye-balling the Ice Cream Parlor across the street, and a call comes in. Turns out its WQED (assistant program director no less) and they want to know if Im still available to come in for an interview, and if I would be interested in Master Control instead (with some work at WQED FM and studio camera thrown in on the side). Turns out I was qualified for the job. Also turns out that I fucking got it. ( My new office... )Needless to say there is much happiness in this house. Ive been there for almost 2 weeks and things thus far have been smashing. Ive not knocked any of their stations off the air so far (Im in control of 4, two analog, two digital), my coworkers seem to like me (and I like them), everything has been wonderful. All in all, life is good. Managed to snag an awesome wife, and thanks to her encouragement I actually have a career (she talked me into staying with show biz, and not going to mortuary school). Hot damn. -R P.S. Many thanks have been offered to The Old Man, as I have heard his laughing and seen the marks of his passing more than once in this.
Wed, Jul. 18th, 2007, 11:15 am
My birthday...
On this day in history, in addition to my glorious birth... 64 - Great fire of Rome: A fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control while Emperor Nero reportedly plays his lyre and sings while watching the blaze from a safe distance. 1536 - The authority of the Pope is declared void in England. 1898 - Marie and Pierre Curie announce the discovery of a new element and proposed to call it polonium. 1925 - Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf. 1942 - World War II: The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jets for the first time. 1953 - Rock star Elvis Presley made his first recording in Sun Studios. 1969 - After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies. 1984 - McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police. 1989 - Rebecca Schaeffer is shot by a crazed fan, prompting California to pass America's first anti-stalking law in 1990. Today is also the birthday of Julias Ceaser (supposedly), Hunter S. Thompson, and Paul Verhoeven (director of Robocop & Starship Troopers). Tonight I get stinking drunk, this weekend a rather full concerty scheduale at the Sphinx begins, and life generally continues to be good. Hopefully. -R
We have still more on the way, so if you don't see something that you fancy just wait. Or you can always suggest something, we love suggestions! Also in a few days we will start posting our bookings for October. We have some great shows coming up for the spookiest of months. All shows listed are at... The Sphinx Cafe (Oakland) 401 Atwood st. Pittsburgh, PA, 15213 . . . Saturday, July 21st - Peroxide [Experimental/Rock/Ambient] $3.00 18+ BYOB Friday, July 27th - Pittsburgh-Based Electronic Showcase -Nyarlathotep -Jordan Decay -Narse -Surviving The Odyssey [Electronic/Experimental/Industrial] $3.00 18+ BYOB Saturday, July 28th - Jon Miller [Folk Rock/Acoustic/Blues] $3.00 BYOB 18+ Friday, August 3rd - Our Neighbor Carl [Ska/Rock/Punk] $3.00 18+ BYOB Saturday, August 4th - Colorful Speech [Acoustic/Rock/Folk] $3.00 18+ BYOB Friday, August 10th - Everyone Except Me + Whiskey Smile! [Folk/Punk/Acoustic] $3.00 18+ BYOB Saturday, August 11th - Barbary Wine [Acoustic/Folk] $3.00 18+ BYOB Saturday, August 18th - Rainstation Zero [Experimental/Progressive/Rock] $3.00 18+ BYOB Saturday, September 8th -Akrasia [Rock/Acoustic/Jam Band] $3.00 18+ BYOB Friday, September 14th -Nadina's Cube [Indie/Jazz/Acoustic] $3.00 BYOB 18+
 Show tomorrow! Usually we have them on the weekend but these guys are touring so we are doing a weekday show. Horror of horrors! -R
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2007/300407deathbedconfession.htmIts amazing what the mainstream media will ignore. One of the CIA agents involved in the assasination of JFK has confessed, on tape, and his son provides some additional evidence. The reason its ignored? Because the order came down from LBJ himself, JFK's power-hungry Vice President. The CIA was all to happy to do it, as evidenced by 3 of their agents being cought that day dressed as bums (on the grassy knoll no less), and George Bush sr. being right there as well (lurking around the police station where they were released). Whats going to be done about this? Nothing. Nothing at all. Because nobody will demand it. There won't be a public outcry, we have more important things to worry about. The American Idol finals are on this week for fucks sake! The public has grown so apathetic and cow-eyed that one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century will go unpunished, and the truth which is clearly visible will be overlooked and brushed aside. Because it begs us to ask more questions. Questions about our government. Questions about who our leaders are truely beholden to. Us, the public? Fuck no. We can't pay attention to anything for more than 28 minutes at most. Even thats a stretch, but fortunatly we have commercial breaks to ease the tedium of paying attention. We lie to ourselves constantly that we care. We glance at the newspaper, we skim headlines on news sites, hell, we even watch specials on the Discovery Channel when the networks are running highlight episodes of last seasons 'Dancing with Washed-Up B-List Actors'. We aren't going to care, as that requires a genuine effort to shake ourselves out of the mental fog that infects us like some sort of plauge. Too much vapid TV, to many antidepressents, to much time spent fighting for basic needs like health care and a liveable minimum wage to really focus on anything. This isn't the end, if the JFK thing finally gets blown open. Its the begining. It would lead to more questions, and hopefully more answers. It would be a step tword what we desperatly need right now in this nation, a bloodless revolution, a change of the guard. Not to make ourselves into something new, but something older. What we were supposed to be, what we could have been, and should have been. The world is sick, and the rot is spreading down from us. The world takes its lead from us, and they have since at least World War 2. Right now we are spreading a horrid infection to everyone who used to look up to us, and still looks to us for help. We should be an inspiration, not a blight. -R
Today it was off to the dentist, and surgry. The hill which the school sits atop is surely intended to induce a heart attack in those walking it... good gravy. One of two teeth which need gone are/is gone. The dentist was very nice and gave me a double dose of novicane, and then loaded me up on vicodin for the pain. Such a nice man. Im supposed to go back monday for the sequel, and hopefully more vicodin.. as my god.. they had to expose my fucking jaw for this. Im serious, they cracked bone to get it out. No food yet, and Im hungry. Its hard to eat however with a mouth full of gauze. Without it everything will taste like my own blood. Which may not be bad, since Im a virgin and all. -R
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