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Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig

Supposedly, that’s Irish Gaelic (which I’m allowed to rock thanks to my 13th century Kilpatrick heritage, yo)…

So, yeah, it’s St. Patrick’s Day and it’s snowing like a bitch this morning. Luckily the roads stayed mostly clear, and we didn’t get anything near the high end of the 4-8 inch predictions.

Nevertheless, I am pleased that I was able to get my celebrating out of the way this past Saturday with Brozovich at the “Lazy J Ranch” of one John Croghan. John pulls together a nice little crowd of good people, so it was an excellent laid-back time. Plus he had a keg of Guinness. Hard to go wrong there. (Hell, I didn’t even bother to check if it was carbonated or nitrogenated. No need to be rude in the man’s house.)

By the way, John is doing his country crooning thing in Olde Town Arvada on April 4 at the 12 Volt Tavern. He’s guessing he’ll go on around 10pm or so. I’m definitely going to be there. If I’m lucky, John might even sing my request. ;)

In other music performance news, The Aggrolites are playing in Denver this Wednesday. I love those boys. We saw them open for Madness in Los Angeles a couple years ago and have since collected all of their stuff. Well worth the $13 ticket, I’m thinking. (Here are some YouTube samples for you. Oh, and The Wife’s favorite track.)

Oh, there’s also roller derby on April 5. The Wife was asking about derby last night, so we’ll probably try to hit that, I think. Derby’s always worth the $13 ticket.

That’s all I’ve got, but that’s way more than usual, so I’m fine with it.

FriendFeed

Checkout FriendFeed if you’re one of those types who has accounts on (and actually uses, at least occasionally) Flickr, Twitter, del.icio.us, Facebook and whatever else (like your’s truly — here’s my FriendFeed, yo).

More to the point, get your over-broadcast friends to get on FriendFeed and save you some clicking.

It’s a one-stop feed shop! ;)

Pretty Girl Part II


Gypsy Color
Originally uploaded by Jake Sutton.

Nerd Sexy

Today, Rod posted these rejected Star Wars products to our sooper-seekrit IRC channel, prompting the following:

Jake: tauntaun suit is the best thing EVER
Jake: and pants are optional!
Rod: hell yes
Rod: and then if you’re at a halloween party and some girl opens up your sweaty suit to blow you, she can say “and i thought they smelled bad on the outside”
Rod: and then you can marry her because she’s awesome

That’s gold, people. Pure gold!

And then there was this exchange, as well…

Pretty Girl

The drawing for my latest tattoo:

Multimedia message
Originally uploaded by Jake Sutton.

And the half-finished product:

Pretty Girl Tattoo

Based on the traditional Americana gypsy profile motif, but done in Fish’s distinctive style. This is the first one I’ve gotten from him that is recognizably his artwork.

It’s awesome. More color in a couple weeks.

New Shoes

Literally.

The Wife and I went to an actual running store and bought actual running shoes yesterday, so that we might continue our attempts at jogging with perhaps a bit less agony. Given that I haven’t called myself a “runner” since high school, and The Wife never has, we popped into our local Road Runner store to take full advantage of their know-how on the subject.

I had gone in with a strong recommendation from my mother, whose duck feet I was dubiously fortunate enough to inherit, so I told our friendly shoe salesman that I needed to try on a pair of Brooks Beasts and that my dear spouse might need a bit more help in finding the right gear since she’s a former ballerina and nobody really understands what’s going on with her feet.
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