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Singsong Politics For Children

I walk into Lowes today to obtain materials with which to wage massive war upon the squirrel population living in my attic, and these two little girls are sitting in the entrance rapping a song in tandem. I hear Obama and McCain mentioned. I ask them what it’s all about and they went on about their school doing it and being on the Today Show or Good Morning America or some such thing. This is the video for it. Seeing the full production I am speechless.

Dragon*Con

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Atlanta Tornado Fest ’08

I was late heading out to Lennys Friday night which in retrospect was a good thing. But once a friend text messaged me that Lennys had just got hit by a tornado (I had heard earlier that there were tornado warnings, etc. but who pays attention to that?) I do the stupidest thing imaginable and hop in the car to go “check it out.” Then I am texted that there is another tornado on the way but continue to swing down Decatur ST and through EATL to survey the damage because what storm takes the same path, right? Ok, perhaps I am a bit of a disaster junkie. And there were hundreds of folks out the next day snapping pictures of the carnage. These are mine.

tornado damage

Update: Fox Interactive Media has put some of my photos on the FOX website here.

The Visitors

I’ve had two itinerant visitors recently, the first of which transformed the house next door to me, approximately 15ft away, into a 24×7 crunk-hall fiesta, booooooming in such a way that I could barely hear the internet, or my silly thoughts. That made me mad. I tried the Buddhist thing, I tried to ignore it, I tried to get used to it, but it would sneak up on me unawares, and I would be fuming like a madman outside asking whoever was on their porch at the time, visibly irritated but polite, to “maybe turn the bass down a little bit.” These requests were often met, however shruggingly blithe, yet the next night retained no memory of the previous one. When I daydreamed about it, I imagined noise so persistent that I would eventually loose it, street arguments and gun battles would ensue (I would have to get a gun of course, a really good one), and as is typical to my imaginings a tragedy would occur, when one of them would grab a nearby groupie to use as a human shield, as villains do, and all of a sudden I have unintentionally taken the life of an innocent. Or I am hit, and become a celebrity vegetable, and the fucking Republicans try and keep me alive. The horror.

My other visitor actually moved into my mailbox for a few weeks, on and off, and let me pet it once when I was drunk. It was amazing, I exclaimed to drunk onlookers, who didn’t seemed as impressed as I was. But instantly a connection was made, unlike my neighbors, who I instantly hated with that animal hate humans reserve especially for each other. The bushes would rustle often when I passed through the front door, and sometimes I’d get a glimpse of the little lady flying haphazardly away in a low, clumsy course across the yard. She’s here to stay I thought. Then one night leaving the house, I was startled to see her sitting so calmly in the mailbox, alone, and she returned the fright and flew away. I then stood outside the car in what must be considered paralyzing maternal agony for a few moments, worrying what would become of her, before remembering that I eat chicken, and therefore it’s kind of hypocritical to care about stray birds.

But then an interesting thing happened as I was further conspiring with the neighbors about the new menace, preparing for the worst; both my visitors vanished without a trace.

So Long People of Earth

Well, that’d be cool wouldn’t it? If I was heading off on some intergalactic adventure. Fantasies aside, I’m headed to Europe, with Magnapop, for a couple of weeks. If you’re nearby…yo- check it!

Tuesday August 7
HAMBURG, DE
Molotow club

Wednesday August 8
JOURE, NL
Café de Stam club
Free show !

Thursday August 9
ZICHEM, BE
Den Hemel club

Friday August 10
LOKEREN, BE
Fonnefeesten festival

Saturday, August 11th
WATERINGEN, NL
Waterpop festival

AND…

ANTWERPEN, BE
Petrol ‘Summer Night City’

Sunday, August 12
ELL, NL
Ell Nino festival

Corndogorama

Get your corndog on. Come see all the best Atlanta bands in three days. Start tonight with Bad Magic Number / Magnapop / Luigi, beginning at 8pm. New Bad Magic Number interview just hit the streets! BMN is the second band I’ve been in that I have named. Give a drummer some credit…

Weekend Shows

My newish band, Bad Magic Number, are playing not one, but two, shows this weekend. Tonight at the Drunken Unicorn with Dropsonic and Tetonic, and tomorrow at the Five Spot in L5P with State Radio. Yo, come check it!

Hitchens: God Beater

Christopher Hitchens couldn’t even make it through 5 minutes of the Daily Show without diverting a discussion about the meritlessness of religion into real life religion n’ drinkin’ stories. Although it seems like everyone has a God Bashing book out right now, and I think that is fabulous, as it’s rare that someone dares to challenge all-the-worlds-gods, while so drunk. Don’t forget Hitch will be taking on the Bible Belt right here in the ATL in a couple of weeks. Bring your lil’ nippers of moonshine to make the night real fun…

The Legend of Darryl Roy

Best float in the Inman Park parade. And the best part about it was listening to people wondering aloud “who the hell is Darryl Roy?”

Darryl Roy

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