Rich Seymour's stochastic statements.

This may stand as the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard of all year. Perhaps Boston has to stay paranoid since letting those guys onto those jets 5 years ago. “Information at this time suggests that the devices found do not pose a threat to public safety”

Dude… I mean… just judging by places where things blow up all the time, the entire key is that they never look suspicious. Never. Ever. Not to mention the physical size of the devices, about the size of an LP record… how could this possibly pose a threat? There’s no way to shape the charge to do anything if it’s flat.

Did the Boston PD just not have their coffee or something? It sort of sounds like it in the interview. No one in “New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin, San Francisco or Philadelphia.” freaked out. I can just imagine the escalation of this through the ranks must’ve been the most hilarious series of unfortunately dumb events.

Am I supposed to feel safer because a police department can’t understand the difference between contemporary ‘guerrilla’ marketing and terrorism?

Remember right after 9/11 when someone put black boxes with “FEAR” written on them in the NYC subways as their freshman art project? It’s clear the outcome of that noncase that… the Boston PD has one organization to blame for this commuting mishap… themselves. As a note, he did get a community service sentence.

“This has taken a significant toll on our resources.” … Ah… so nutrageous.

And this too:

Photo’s of the construction of one of these light boxes

Well, not so much krumping, at least in public.

But yeah, you know… Same old same old… I have pondered trying to play even more music in lieu of eating or something. It’s sort of worked, more attempts at songcraft, with more people. I have begun to feel that working out tunes by playing solo works the best. While at the same time Clark 8 is sounding better and better, but without any shows that I’ve booked. Need to get on that.

Ok. So let me just start and end this post like this:

“We go forward with trust that the Author of Liberty will guide us through these trying hours. Thank you and good night.” -GWB

Maybe this explains it…

Ok… well, You know, no athiests in foxholes and all that, but umm… couldn’t he have taken at least some guidance from all the people Keith Olbermann mentions at the end of this video?

Also, saw Emperor X, Applied Communications, and Lou Barlow at the smell last night. They were all pretty good. Oh Lou and his love songs though… :)

Let’s see. I have been working rather heavily this past week. School has started again. USC lost its kicker, and may now lose its coach. I bought a good new bicycle pump. Got a volume pedal for my steel guitar (and some steel guitar knowledge) thanks Dad, a new leatherman thanks Mom (no thanks NTSA), socks (thanks again Mom), and a cast iron wok (thanks John).

Had a great trip back home. Friends and family visits. Saw my boys in Smackdab rock out on Christmas, and got to listen to the Audience practice and hear their upcoming LP in an unmixed state. It rocks. Saw a lot of friends from nearly a decade ago.

Then to continue my east coast jet settin’ I met up with some of the old Columbia squadron to rock out in Allston, MA. That was most excellent, wrote some new tunes and pondered the meaning of life over coffee and donuts.

Saw my friends get married in Philadelphia. It was a beautiful ceremony (short and sweet and at the Penn Museum), good food, a good band, then hanging with the wedding party (100% strangers minus the bride, groom, and parents) singing karaoke, meeting an Iraq vet with battle scars (IEDs do a number to flesh and bone) who’s still hangin’ tough, and enjoying the public transit from the Philadelphia airport.

Got into LA on the 31st and had a great time, ended up at the Echo with some new and old friends… then over to KPFK to chill with Seep (from Rolax records) and Steve of the show Mood 2 Swing till… 5 or something in the AM. Good times, thanks to my LA buds for introducing me to these folks. It’s not often you run into people who know all of the same insane music and loads more. Not to mention create it. Interesting that while KPFK seems like a sort of fly by night operation run by conspiracy theorists, it’s a really nice radio station. I mean, yeah, well you know what I mean. The music’s great and a good portion of the political commentary is reasonable and insightful… but some is just insanity.

So then I really got to business, righted my sleeping schedule and my coworkers and I kicked off our annual Computational Science Workshop. It rocked, I hope the participants enjoyed it because I did, in spite of the major time commitment.

Now back to research and school and music with renewed focus and motivation.

In a word: pizazz.