After arriving in Paris yesterday afternoon on a very rough KLM flight from Amsterdam, one of the first things I noticed was the smell of tobacco smoke - like everywhere.  Not really any greasy food or car exhaust or barfy garbage sewer smell, but the smell of carpet and interior latex paint that has absorbed years of Gauloises and Marlboros ( Read more... )

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Theres nothing I can add to this for a short description. St John's seen in the background.

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If only the winter weather didn't suck so much... oh and yeah that whole 30 minute timezone thing - I'd seriously consider moving there, the people of Newfoundland are some of the best souls on Earth..

Six of us ate at Levains on Valentines Day. We made a reservation, showed up right on time, patiently waited while they shat themselves in trying to sit a table of six in a room full of two-toppers, and sat down really close to each other and had our meal ( Read more... )

Last Friday the Ska Kings headed into the studio with what seemed at the time to be a dubious task. Recording rhythm, horns and vox all in 2 and 1/3 days. Could we do it? At the very least the goal was to get Ryan and Cruzer on tape(disk) as they would be unavailable due to G-Dub's war. I'm happy to say that not only did we get them tracked, we got ( Read more... )

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Dear Santa,
Please don't let the next Star Trek movie, number 11, be like the Muppet Babies of the Muppets. Please oh dear Santa, I've never asked for much.


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Thank you to all the residents of the apartment building in Crookston that don't know how to configure their wireless router. Now I have wireless internet too. And if one goes shallow, there are 3 other ones to choose from.