El Blog de Los Amigos

The weird thing was, I didn’t sleep much.
I woke up around 1:30 pm yesyerday, not really recharged but not dead to the world, either. Amanda seized this state of mind to get me to help with housework. Happy to do it… but I knew I needed more sleep. We did get the [...]

A lot of people to thank for their support, kind words of encouragement, and swift kicks in the ass:
- Amanda, my rock
- Marty, the hero of the Soggy Bottom Bloggin’ Boys
- Thomas, the Breast Whisperer
- Ali, who came out to the NRH Starbucks to cheer me on
- Nathan, the man with a shop full of [...]

I stopped drinking Red Bull an hour ago, knowing if I drank any more closer to closing time I would have a hard time going to sleep. Walking around doesn’t help, nor does trying to get aerobic. My body just tells me to shut the frell up and sit back down.
Right now, this [...]

Click. A few synapses went off in order, reminding me of something Amanda told me over the phone as I was making my way from Live 105.3 to MacHenry’s. I had just told her there was a bit of a traffic jam, but nothing to worry about.
“Come on… there’s something in your brain [...]

As much as I idolized Don Johnson in the mid-’80s, you would think that I would have been first in line this weekend when ‘Miami Vice‘ premiered. I would have thought so as well, until I saw the trailers… and lost all interest.
If the movie had been called anything else, the lead characters been [...]

You get to a point doing the Blogathon where it’s not about creativity anymore, but about endurance. “All I have to do is make it through another two hours, and I’m home free. Five more posts. And that’s it.”
I keep thinking about the Hello Win Column Fund. (Remember that? We’re [...]

There are things I wonder about, in the night when I can’t sleep. Since that qualifies right now, here’s what’s percolating:
- When Will America Do Something About The FCC? It’s been three years since Janet Jackson’s boob saw the light of day, and we’re to the point now where FCC auditers are [...]

I briefly thought about doing another video post, but abandoned that idea quickly when I looked in the mirror and saw the dark circles and five-’o-clock shadow.
With three hours to go, I’m starting to feel like Richard was right this evening.
He described Blogathon participants, in the late hours of the event, as cast members from [...]

Utopia, along with a couple of other bloggers on IM, asked about ‘Clerks II.’ Their trepidation is wholly understandable — it would have been really easy to screw this up. For all of its faults (just ask any critic who wants to ride a high horse around Cannes), ‘Clerks‘ was a classic, because [...]

[Look, it's late, and I'm highly pissed off. So, if the next post offends people, I do sincerely apologize. I needed to laugh.]
Theatrical Version:
Happy-Scrappy’ Mom: Excuse me, do you sell videos?
Randal Graves: Yeah, what’re you looking for?
‘Happy-Scrappy’ Kid: Happy Scrappy Hero Pup.
Randal Graves: Okay, hang on, I’m on the phone with the distribution [...]

Trying to salvage the Radio Free Blogathon shift. However, I keep shaking the Magic Webcasting 8-Ball, and it keeps coming back with “Outlook Not So Good.” (And, really — who doesn’t listen to the Magic Webcasting 8-Ball?)
Reminded of a great quote from Klaatu in ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still’ — “I’m impatient [...]

If you haven’t been surfing through the Amazing Blogathon Random-O-Tron, you likely haven’t ran across these wonderful, super-sexy, tres dangerous bloggers:
- plumbum
- Noelle
- Debbie at The Ice Palace
- Jono
- Inspiration Korner
Five hours to go…

I suppose it’s safe to say Mark Cuban’s not going to be playing our little reindeer game tonight. Sad, really. Maybe next year.
Big, BIG thanks to everyone who did play along, including Sara Hickman, Richard Hunter, and all of the gang from The Amigos. Really entertaining stuff all around.
Now that all of [...]

my little blue car was physically hanging in there. i’d had a wreck at some point. i don’t remember when, but i’d left my car in neutral, and it had rolled down my driveway, across the street, with me running hysterically beside it, actually yelling “nooooooooooooo! stop!” as it smashed, albeit rather lazily, into a [...]

It was paradise, plain and simple. My family and I were vacationing in the U.S. Virgin Islands, St. Thomas to be specific. I was probably 11 which would have made my brother 13. The place was absolutely beautiful. Lush tropical vegetation, plenty of hills, cerulean waters. Our hotel was situated [...]