October 27, 2008 by PT Rothschild.

THE STRANGE HISTORY OF T-TOWN’S OWN JEDI

Temecula, CA – Many people seem to wonder about the history between Bill Gould and I. It is a long and varied one with many aspects, so with it being so close to Halloween, I thought I would offer up the Halloween aspect of our relationship and how it figures in to this year’s ‘holiday’. Years ago when the music shows first started happening over at Madlins, and the kinks were being ironed out to putting on a show, the first few put off went well. In fact, they went so well that after a time Bill looked around to see how he could slim down any unnecessary baggage. He had his young peeps and hanger-ons who handled their duties well, and I had given up being the ‘door bitch’ since I couldn’t see or hear the bands as they performed, much less talk to them. The week after my last door gig, and after my brief stint as security, except on occasion, I came to a show and things weren’t going well. Bill was in a fowl mood and most of his friends were giving him his space so as to avoid any wrath. As Bill gave out an array of things to do for this and that, trying to iron out all the problems to make the show run smooth, he looked in my direction, and I could read his thoughts. ‘What good are you to me, old man?’ seemed to cross his mind. However, because of our past history in other non-music mis-adventures, he kept his anger from me. And then the first opportunity for me to prove my ‘worth’ came to pass. A frantic band member or parent came up to him and needed a pen to jot something down for him. I had a pen on me, in my pocket, and loaned it to him.


A small crisis had been averted. Not five minutes later another problem came up and someone needed an Allen wrench to tighten down some musical apparatus. I had a set of Allen wrenches in my bicycle bag so I loaned the hand set to him and another potential drawback disappeared. Bill’s mood now swung from aspiration to curious curiosity as he shot a look of wonder in my direction. When the third problem was satisfactorily dispatched by some gadget or battery that I had, and only I had, Bill’s look changed from the original angst to wonderment to a ‘glad you’re around with your Junior Woodchuck backpack’, as the show worked its way into smoothness and we all enjoyed the night’s music. Now it seems that once again, talents that are unique to me are being called into play. A ‘one-night-stand’ with a band friend has left him with a ‘bump-in-the-night’ mischief maker that’s turning his condo into a haunted house, and not the kind that’s fun and scary. This time it’s just weird and scary, and being the season of Halloween is very apropos but does little to bring consolation when it’s your condo the lights go on and off in without any human intervention. Still, with just two questions I’ve narrowed down the culprit, figured out the remedy, and have a Padawan waiting to pass this knowledge on to. What more could a Jedi ask for, at Halloween?

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October 27, 2008 by Matt Pierce.

     I know what you’re thinking.  “If my candidate wins, things will get better.  If my candidate wins, he’ll know what to do.”  The problem is that most people don’t realize is that 99% of what the candidates say to get into office is usually a lot of bullshit.    But this is nothing new, its been happening for close to a century now!  If you want proof of this, look at the houses of Congress.  Most of them are going to be there until the day they die simply because they refuse to impose term limits on themselves and allow new people in.  Now, that being said, I don’t like either candidate right now.  In fact, I’m quite convinced that no matter who wins this election, things are going to continue to suck.   Personally, I move for the lack of confidence vote and for the blackout on 3rd party candidates to be lifted so we can get somebody with some new ideas into office.

I would like to point out that I am affiliated with neither of the main political parties that are running right now, and to me, this seems like just another sham election.   I say that we vote for somebody based on how they do their job, and for both of these candidates, I say neither of them are really doing much of anything.  But, that goes for most anybody in Congress.  I like the fundamental idea laid out by the Constitution that tells us how Washington should work,  but nobody in office at current moment seems to really be meeting the criteria.

So far this election I’ve heard promises on top of promises on top of promises, and do forgive me if I’m wrong, but do any of those promises actually mean anything?  If you haven’t learned from elections past, I’ll answer this for you:  NO!  We’ve heard this rhetoric of strings of promises from most every candidate thats made it into office before.  Did they make good on these promises, no.  Did they ever have any intent on keeping these promises, maybe, but probably not.  I’ve listened to both sides of the argument, and I am thoroughly convinced that whoever wins this election will become a puppet of their party and proceed with either side’s agenda.

We work and slave and war for these idiots and the only thing they give us in return is a “vote for me” poster.  While everything is going to crap in the American system, most of these politicians are twiddling their thumbs in Washington contemplating whether they should do anything or not.  That said, I have something I would like to say to them.

     “Dear Congress,

While I know your work schedule is rigorous, and that you like to take every holiday in the book (and even some that are not covered,)  I would like to take this time on behalf of the American people that you represent to tell you:  GET BACK TO WORK!  It’s Lord of the Flies down here, do you think you could possibly give us some sort of freakin help?  I have the conch, and seriously, what do we pay you for?

Yours truly,

Matt.

“If the opposite of “pro” is “con,”  Then I guess the opposite of “Progress” would be “Congress”"

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