(NOTE: March 1998 entries have been moved from an old site of mine in a big chunk for the sake of convenience… sorry & thanks - L.)
03/01/98: It’s March, finally - finally - and time to start a new Wall with a clean slate. I don’t intend for this Wall to change too very much, some things definitely will, much to the relief of some, including me. If you missed Friday’s extremely looooong entry, it’s disappeared, but in reality you probably didn’t miss much anyway, so don’t sweat it, although thank yous and other expressions of appreciation to the many friends, family, acquaintances and others that are the main reason I really bother to ever put up anything here on any regular basis in the first place were sincerely meant. I still don’t understand why people who talk to me virtually every day, sometimes more than once, complain if I haven’t updated this page in a while, but hey, that’s pretty cool. (One of the cool advantages, to moi, about having erased an entire entry is that KC & Scott are here in Memphis right now and they didn’t see it and they’ll be all upset that they missed something… bwahahaha! I probably shouldn’t mention that they were included in it, but I just did on purpose, of course.) Anyway, the entire West End bunch is here in town right now, one snoring on my couch as I type, and since nobody but the non-living is missing from the entire crew, I don’t guess I have any news to report right now ‘cos they’re all here, other than to assure my mother that I didn’t get drunk, tattooed, or arrested, but then there’s always tomorrow night! (Actually I gave up part of my planned evening to take care of a personal matter, so that only left me half a chance of getting drunk, tattooed or arrested anyway). The biggest news about this weekend is that Rockin’ Robin Roberts is here and we’re all happy about that because we rarely get to see this always-busy chick. Thanks to Stevie for giving me a ring during the Booker T & the MG’s show at Bluesville the other night, I’d wanted to go but decided it was just too hard to drive to Robinsonville and back on a weekday night, but I got to hear live what I wanted to hear thanks to Cellular One of Memphis. Also, for those who haven’t heard, it looks like the Oilers have decided to opt out of their contract with the City of Memphis early and defect to Nashville to play this fall. Bye-bye Sunday afternoon traffic jams on my street, and Oilers, don’t let the door smack you in the butt on your way out. If I’m going to throw my money and support behind a Memphis sports team, I’ll gladly support the minor league RiverKings hockey team, rather than a football team who’s just using this city as a pit stop while their brand new stadium’s being built in Nashville and didn’t really want to be here in the first place. Anyway, that’s it for now, kiddies, ciao ’til whenever…
03/02/98: Well, Sunday night marked Apocalypse Wow’s swan song after two nights of merriment and the usual craziness… I’ll be putting up some notable stuff, thanks, & such like that later on this week on the AW page. Memphis Weather Notes: It got cold again. Why???? (pout) Well, my only other big thing of today is my rediscovery of some old Velvet Underground album tracks I had forgotten that I’m so excited about I could spit, and started to type some here, but then I didn’t want to bore you non-musical types with all that gushing. I’ll be back later. Happy Monday!
03/03/98: I’m still pretty wiped out but hanging in, mainly just wanted to drop a line to all the West End folks who’ve left Memphis now and say thanks for coming down this past weekend. KC & Scotty & I, as well as JJ Edwards and the other Apocalypse Wow heathens, started kind of planning the whole shindig about a year and a half ago, initially thinking it’d just be a little reunion of a small circle of friends. The fact that virtually everyone, and many more including some big surprises, came to share in the fun, zoomed the whole weekend far beyond any expectations we’d previously had. It was fabulous to see you all & we hope it won’t be another over a decade before we see some of you folks again. For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, last weekend was a big two-day get-together and throw-down for one faction of my buds from college days, music-types and whatnot, as well as the last time the band I’ve been messing around with the last year and a half or so played together, as (the younger) folks have graduated and are off to parts elsewhere. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 130+ people showed up before the weekend was thru, and it was just a real kick. Hopefully I will have pics to put up soon and do some updating on the Apocalypse Wow section of the site soon as I have some free time, so eventually we can all look back on some of the highlights of the weekend as well as having a place for remembrance of the truly fun things that were New Religion and its somewhat bastardized offspring A-Wow. Right now I’ve got a bunch of other catching up to do, so I wouldn’t even look for anything ’til later in the week or later. In other news, looks like I am headed homeward in a couple of weeks as the Latimer clan is throwing the annual birthday bash for me, Chuckie, Cole & Dadzo, and I finally get to go this year… and this year’s a very special one, as it’s the official “32″ birthday for Chuckie, Cole and I, and you Camdenites who think hard enough should know what that means… here’s a hint, we’re going to set all the clocks in the house to 10:32. So I should have lots of funnies and maybe pics for the Hometown pages later on… catch y’all later, and again, thanks to all the West End gang for coming, communing, not complaining about how loud the music was (hah) and helping send KC, Greg and JJ off with a bang. It might have been Memphis but it darn sure seemed like Nashville and West End again for a coupla days!
03/04/98: Darn it, I just got a text bite RE musicians in e-mail today that I found (of course) hugely amusing, and I can’t in all tact quote it or I alienate the majority of my friends, my sweetie, and most former sweeties… sigh. Kudos and a virtual high-five to the sender tho, you know who you are were you reading… made me literally fall out of my chair laughing. I guess it would have gone unappreciated by the masses tho, chuckle. So it’s raining cats & dogs again in Memphis and it’s cold again and my huge case of spring fever basically went right out the window. Seems like lately the drivers in this town are getting nastier and nastier on the whole, especially when the weather sucks, and seems like the nastiness has just escalated ever since Channel 5 News did that bit on road rage a month or so ago… what, all you people saw that and you thought it was cool or something? Sheeshamonga. Next, I wish some of you folks who took off for parts elsewhere after the weekend would have taken a couple of ragamuffins with you, because the two Siamese twins are rather being a pain in my butt. The Adventures of KC & Scotty in Memphis, Day Four: bumming around in guitar shops downtown, buying a way cool vintage guitar I would marry if it had legs, calling me at work at 2 in the afternoon to crow about it, eating Huey burgers without me, calling me at 4:45 in the afternoon to crow about that, spending most of the evening in some, um, gentleman’s club out in East Memphis (and, retarded tho they are, having enough sense not to call me and crow about that), but then calling me at 3:30 in the morning when I have to get up and work the next day: “Hi Lynsey. Whatcha doing?” Grrrrrrr. Luckily they’re Miriam’s problem tonight (there are some who may remember Miriam from a long-ago story entirely unfit to print here, heh), if all plans go as planned they won’t be mine & Josie’s problem again until the weekend (Josie: “And you’re leaving when, KC?” Heh.) No other news, but I did go see Great Expectations this week. That’s all for now, folks, stay tuned for more of The Continuing Adventures of the Idiot Twins, I’m sure there’ll be more to come…
03/07/98: Not much reportable this week, I’ve mainly just been sleepy a lot and the weather’s stunk… snow flurries one day, rain most of the rest, killer thunderstorm another night, all kinds of fun stuff, my spring fever remains dormant. KC & Scott continue to bug me with late night phone calls and the like, tho not last night when I needed to wake back up, slimeballs. They haven’t done much worth reporting since earlier this week either but then again Scotty has been working so I guess that’s OK. We’ll be hitting the town with Miss Jo Walker tonight and tomorrow so maybe something exciting to talk about by then. Anyway, there’s more music shows coming up in the Memphis section of the site, and I either screwed up or there was a venue change for some Tommy Stinson shows in the Northeast… Tommy plays at The Pontiac Grille in Philadelphia tonight, March 7th; The Iota in Arlington, VA, tomorrow, Sunday, March 8th; and T.T. the Bears in Cambridge, MA, March 10th - go to Yap Yap for more details and info. As for the Memphis show news, my favorite Memphian, Alex Chilton, comes to play with The Box Tops at Six-1-Six later this month, so I’m happy about this… “children by the millions sing for Alex Chilton when he comes ’round…” Umm, I guess that’s about it. I’ve got a new section or two coming up on the website soon so be looking, otherwise, see ya later.
03/08/98: Fine end to the weekend as the rain Sunday afternoon held off just long enough to allow one last communion with Boone’s Farm and pretzels on the cobblestones at the riverfront downtown, KC & Scotty & Josie & I toasting our missing and wishing we could turn back some clocks or at least make the day last a little bit longer. Forgive me a little moroseness, I am attempting to get used to the fact that, in a few hours, for the first time in more than twenty years, my compadre, conscience, nemesis, bane of existence, best friend and virtual right arm, Kevin “KC” Callicott, will no longer be within a few hours’ drive of me. A little nostalgic story here (not that anyone who cares doesn’t already know such as this, but allow me my soppiness for the moment, giggle)… when KC & I were kids we didn’t much like each other, as preteen girls & boys are wont to do, but we admittedly always had some sort of bond, even tho most of the time in those days was spent on various pranks on each other (hey, some things never change!)… like the time he snuck into my room, stole the light bulbs out of the lamp and put pancake syrup on my sheets under the bedspread (and yes, I found out too late), or the time a bunch of us girls snuck into the cabin and stole all his underwear. And then there was the time he almost drowned me at that infamous swimming hole up on Monteagle Mountain. And many more too numerous to recount here. His sister and I were always closer in those days, and KC & I play-hated each other up through most of our respective high school years. In later, post-adolescence, years, we sort of wound up together by fate, totally by accident & unexpectedly, over a game of quarters in one of the West End clubs and have rarely been apart much since… always within a little driving distance anyway. I have often jokingly referred to him as “the best boyfriend I never had”, and we’ve both been known to recoil in horror when people have mistaken us for “a couple”, but the bottom line is, boyfriends and such come and go, but you can’t just go out and find great, right-on-the-mark friendships so easily. This is a big, big change. I could have a little pity party for myself here this week, everyone’s little worlds change but Lynsey’s, ya know… (”opportunity knocks once and the door slams shut…”). But it’s okay, this was a really hard decision for KC to make, partially because of me, and that’s something I well appreciate. Ask me in a week or two and I’ll probably tell you you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone, and you better appreciate what you have now ‘cos tomorrow things may irreversibly change, or you get hit by a truck, or so on and so forth. The online world has certainly made the world a lot smaller, which is a blessing in this case, but in another way my life as I’ve known it is pretty much over now… time for, like, a new life, whatever that means. I know all our other friends around online as well as all of you who’ve read and enjoyed KC’s goofy stuff wish him the best, as do I… I’m just not quite sure what I’m going to do without my right arm yet. Forgive a little melodrama & public grieving here… I made a promise that no one but me would shed any tears, but that promise was only good for Sunday only. (snicker, sniff, whine, sob, sniff…) So happy trails, my friend who’ll probably see this long about Tuesday or Wednesday… I’ll raise a glass of Strawberry Hill for you and Jase this summer down on the cobblestones alone. For the rest of you folks, never seen the sunset on the Mississippi at the Memphis riverfront? Ah, you know not what you miss. Pretty gone now, over & out….
03/09/98: OK, it is so blasted cold in Memphis today it’s unreal, the buttercups are shriveling up and dying, I’m annoyed, I didn’t want to go back to work today, and what’s more (here comes the rant… I already got these frustrations out once today, but I thought it deserved equal time on the Wall simply because I find it so preposterous)… today I find out that for the last 24 years, the government thinks I am a year older than I really am (couldn’t have picked a better week for this to come up, no doubt). Let me explain… I was trying to electronically file my tax return this year, but it kept bouncing back due to a birthdate mismatch in the IRS master file. I finally get around to calling the IRS today, where a (very nice!) employee informed me they get their information from Social Security, so I call Social Security, and after giving just about all info short of my blood type, I learn that, yep, ever since it was keyed into the government’s system in 1974, the U.S. government thinks I’m a year older than I am (whiiiiiine). Now here’s the real kicker… I have been working, paying taxes, and paying into Social Security itself since, oh, about 1978 when I was but a young little slip of a not-even-teenage girl… wouldn’t you think this birthdate mismatch would have come up sometime in the last 20 years??? I am just kinda amazed and dumbfounded. And no, it’s really not a great big deal, tho it’s probably going to bring me lots of nice paperwork headaches to get it all straightened out, I am just kind of amazed that in 24 years, the majority of which I worked, paid taxes &, of course again, paid into Social Security, this just now comes up. Plus if they were going to screw it up, they could have at least made me a year younger instead. Your tax dollars at work folks… sigh. Grrrr. In other news, the Apocalypse Wow page is dragging along, you guys can look for it in a week or two maybe, I’ve got too many other irons in the fire this week. Sayonara!
03/10/98: I used this as a Usenet sig file for a while last year and always dug it, I just thought I’d put it up again ‘cos I kinda missed having it around and don’t feel like changing the site’s official quote right now: “Life is too short so love the one ya got/’cos you might get run over or you might get shot…” (Sublime, 1997) Well, hey, it’s true!!! Happy Tuesday everybody!
03/11/98: Just a tidbit or two… well, for one thing, you ex-Memphians and ex-Tennesseans living elsewhere would not believe how cold it is here right now. I mean, come on, this is March for crying out loud. I can finally relate a public congrats to Robin Roberts & Walker Breit, who announced their engagement while here in Memphis last week… had to keep it quiet until this week ‘cos Robin hadn’t told her family yet and her brother reads this page religiously. So congratulations you two, and we’re all taking bets on who’s going to win the geographic battle (they’ve been living on opposite coasts for about the last decade now). Let’s see, what else… my good buddy Cole passes along his hellos to all the Camdenites out there in cyberland; Molly the Destroyer Feline has apparently taken an interest in redecorating my walls; and that’s about it, it’s just plain too cold to do anything including think or write, so I’m off for now. Oh, and special thanks to Northwest Airlines for adding insult to injury this week… grrr, sigh, Murphy’s Law, and all that. My CD player dies, a host of other things go wrong or at least kinda rot, and I hereby declare that this week officially sucks. Later people…
03/17/98: Ides of March are behind us now and St. Patty’s Day is here. Thanks to all who made this past weekend special, the week rotted, the weekend was destined to be a bummer for many reasons, but all in all it turned out kinda okay. Minorly depressing but mostly cool. And I got to spend part of it with my three favorite ‘big brothers’ so that was pretty cool, a little toasted and a lot musical. Chuckie, Cole and I thoroughly enjoyed celebrating our collective b’days together - AKA the JBird birthday, as clocks were set on 10:32. Johnny and I put some great stuff down on tape unless we were too toasted to notice how bad it was, I dunno, I’ve got 4 1/2 hours of tape to sift thru sometime soon, not to mention about 7 or 8 hours’ worth of A-Wow tape. Unfortunately the tape had run out during some of the original stuff this weekend, and I have a sneaking suspicion I accidentally taped over what was an excellent Allison Road. Oh well. Now I’ve either contracted something horrible or am suffering an extended and really bad hangover, but I remain among the living, for now anyway. Hometownish news… hmmm, I didn’t learn much except for the fact that my little ‘brother’ Alex and his lovely girlfriend Carla have now gotten engaged, congrats to those two, make me feel really really old why don’t ya. Other news, I guess everyone’s okay. I haven’t heard any news items this past week or so and I’ve been bogged down in my own angst anyway, so I’ll close until I have more things newsworthy to report. I do have the lineup posted for the Mid-South Music Festival 04/24/98 on the Memphis page now, so you can click here to check that out if you wish. Otherwise, I bow down to Jagger/Richards and say, “You can’t always get what you want/but if you try sometimes you might find/you get what you need…” Bye bye, so long, farewell, sayonara, auf wiedersehen, Cheap Trick, and all that.
03/18/98: Notes from the “Why Didn’t I Think of This Earlier?” department… ok, so I’m a little behind the times, I just recently discovered Internet Phone… which is probably bad news for KC, but he’ll live and like it. I am somewhat amazed, folks, I’ve been turning my nose somewhat up at the various ‘net phone programs thinking, awww, it won’t work that well, and am now eating my words. Once you get used to it, it’s pretty darn cool, and best part - free calls, yeeha, my long distance bill will drop even more, yay. I kid you not, it works tons better than I’d thought it would and is just really really cool. Now my long distance bill won’t have to eat into my travel funds, yay. In other news, well, there is none, I’m getting no sleep and nothing done this week but that’s okay. I know I owe bunches of e-mails and please bear with me… my schedule for the next couple of weeks is pretty tied up, it’ll be hit and run with me for a little while as far as being online. Talk to you all individually soon, and have a great rest of the week! I leave you tonight with a word from Ray Davies, he of the (IMO) ultimate Sixties band The Kinks (another nice thread in alt.music.replacements for a change…): “I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show…” Hmmm, well, I guess it kinda has been. ‘night folks and happy day after St. Pat’s Day…
03/19/98: Hey! I’ve got some good news hot out of my e-mail box… it would seem that Greg is in the process of arranging a little acoustic gig with Mssrs. Breit & Edwards and myself in April down in Oxford. I’ll pass along more info as I know it, in the meantime I am kinda excited about this because it’ll give us a chance to do some silly Sixties and Seventies stuff that didn’t quite fit into the Apocalypse Wow repertoire. (We’re thinking Apocalypse Whoa! would be a good moniker for this endeavor, but we’re open to suggestions.) Otherwise, it’s hot again… weather, will you please make up your mind?… and I have too many things to do this week, with the exception of being awake at 3 a.m. updating web pages, of course. BTW, I’ve got new addresses/phones for KC, Greg and JJ for anyone interested, if I haven’t sent them to you already, holler at me. Later and bon soir, sweet prince, whoever you are…
03/20/98: Mmm, just one of those days/moods. It’s supposed to get cold again this weekend… grrr. Some quick b’day thanks… thanks to my way cool mom for the new headphones (a necessity for any self-respecting rock chick trying to kill off what’s left of her hearing after all these years) and the other stuff and dinner, and thanks to E. & R. for the… drum roll please… 50+1 CD changer… am I gonna have fun with this baby. Yes, some women want diamonds and jewelry, I want computer parts and stereo equipment, giggle. Well, not much else to report. Yes, I know I’m behind on my e-mail really bad… I need about eight more hours in each day right now. Off for now, words of wisdom for the day: a good day is the day you finally figure out just exactly what it is you need and what you don’t need. Or something like that. Off to snooze and hopefully a weekend of near-comatoseness, folks, I am tired. Ciao ‘n stuff…
03/21/98: First of all, Happy Birthday to my kid sister, Andra! She’s old enough now I’d best not be saying what birthday this is, like her big sister is probably about ready to stop having birthdays (which means next year we’ll be the same “age”, heh). One of the truly great things about my birthday is that within two weeks, various friends, like John & KC, and ex-boyfriends turn a year older than me so that makes it all somewhat worthwhile (KC’s b’day is on April Fool’s Day, as if that should surprise anyone). Anyway, trying to catch up around here after several weeks of being behind, actually the website’s the only thing that’s stayed caught up. A plug here for Memphis-based Northwest Airlines… if you haven’t checked out their CyberSaver fares you should, it’s an unbelievable deal, click here to check out their website, tho I’ll be putting up a link soon (as well as reorganizing the Links section of the site in general). There’s at least one U.S. city I could have been to four times since New Year’s, all four trips total for under $450, and that ain’t a bad deal, not that I went but it’s still a good deal anyway. They’ve also been putting up some unbelievably cheap international fares from Detroit & DC too on occasion, so really it’s worth checking out every Tuesday night at midnight (which is when they put up the new fares for the coming weekend). Hope all my friends, foes & loved ones in the Southeast are staying warm, this weather is truly psychotic and I personally am freezing to death. Ciao ’til later…
03/22/98: It has been a particularly not-great weekend (nobody’s fault but my own), and I am going to have to clean house like a madwoman for the rest of it and the next couple of days, one of my least favorite tasks of all. (No, KC, it’s not what you think.) So maybe I’ll catch you all at some point this week, in the meantime, enjoy my misery… I hate housework with a passion. Lastly, I decided the non-’Mats song of the day is Marshall Crenshaw’s “Whenever You’re On My Mind“. Bye-bye problem children, unintentionally ignored friends, and other such folk…
03/24/98: Happy birthday, John Cosper, happy birthday to you.
03/25/98: This is turning out to be a really really bad week, so I’ll talk about something happy instead… like how much I dig my new 50+1 disc CD player! With that plus a brand new high-tech set of headphones, I am just in electronics heaven basically (like I said before, some chicks like diamonds… give me computer & equipment!). Anyway, well, I needed to be doing about forty billion other things tonight, but I wanted to set up the CD so I could have it going while I did those forty billion other things, so I got kinda sidetracked picking out what discs to put in it. Then after giving a quick listen-thru to the Marcy Playground disc and Devo’s Freedom of Choice (which I haven’t been able to find in Memphis, thanks for putting everything on sale last week CDNow), I start loading it full of CDs. It goes without saying, probably, that almost every Replacements and Gurus CD I own is in there… which took up almost half the disc space. So I fill it full and then hit the shuffle button… OK, I guess since it has most of my favorite CDs in there, it was inevitable sorta, but so far I have been totally excited with the order it’s run in so far, especially with the first two - for random choices, I was kinda awestruck (& happy). Here’s tonight’s musical adventure thus far at press time for anyone interested, starting off with: Bush, Everything Zen; T. Rex, Mambo Sun (KC, isn’t that the coolest?!!!); Ramones, Sheena Is A Punk Rocker; Grateful Dead, Box of Rain; Devo, Freedom of Choice; The Replacements, Mr. Whirly; Violent Femmes, Blister in the Sun; Hole, Softer, Softest; The B-52s, Devil in My Car; The Dead Milkmen, Where the Tarantula Lives; The Replacements, We’ll Inherit the Earth; REM, Superman; Jimi Hendrix, Gypsy Eyes; KISS, Ladies Room; The Beatles, The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill; The Replacements, I Hate Music, and then I Don’t Know; Lenny Kravitz, Sittin’ On Top of the World; ah, it just goes on and on. I am happy. You friends o’ mine that have had changers for years can kiss my butt, I’ve never had one and I’m darn excited about this so bite me. In other news, I have about killed myself cleaning house tonight (it’s OK, really, I do this what, once or twice a year maybe in a few hours of sheer panic) and am going to work on two hours’ sleep today, so pray for me… or maybe pray for anyone who has the misfortune to cross me today, heh. And I’ll be tied up most of the rest of the week. So anyway, I’m not going to be able to do any updating for a while, but you all have enough to play with for a little bit. There’s a couple of new sets of pics on the LynnsterCam page, click here. And I’ll see you all later, if I live thru today, that is. Hope everyone else’s week is better than mine.
03/28/98: Go see As Good As It Gets. It’s my favorite time of year in Memphis with all the trees blooming and the breezy warm spring air. And that’s all I’ve got to say at the moment.
03/29/98: More adventures with the new CD player, god I love this thing. First shuffle of Sunday afternoon gives me first The ‘Mats Merry Go Round, then a choice cut off Bowie’s Ziggy album, then the Smithereens Drown in My Own Tears, then a two-fer R.E.M. (Harborcoat and Don’t Go Back to Rockville). I’m sorry, I know you folks who have had superduper high-tech CD changers for years think this is silly, but I am just totally digging it. Weird week/weekend… of all the hundreds of restaurants in Memphis, my ex and I are at the same one on Friday night, isn’t that strange. What else… well, the weather is bee-yoo-tiful, perfect spring in Memphis, about time to be spending all my time down on the river and downtown again, I luv this city in springtime… even tho KC & Hack have abandoned me (whimper) and I have no one to go hang out down there with (sniff). This is like the most wonderful, perfect time of the year to be down here in Memphis hanging out, before it gets so unbelievably hot and humid and gross. Speaking of things such, anyone who might want to go to the Mid-South Music Fest (my preference this year) or this year’s Beale Street Fest with me this year might oughta give me a shout soon. Oh well… the hacienda is spotless (yes!) & I have time to putter around goofing off again totally guilt-free, so I’ll see you guys later on. When I’m not playing my new CD-ROM game of Sorry and killing everyone at it because I am the Sorry Master (Mistress?). It’s way cool. Maybe even catch up on e-mail, wouldn’t that be a hoot? Ciao ‘n stuff…
03/30/98: Cool things first… first of all, cool things about spring/summer being here (well, it feels kinda like summer…)! Shorts, hanging downtown, mondo air travel (my god, I love airplanes about as much as I do nice hotels), music festivals, tennis every weekend, honeysuckle, wow, all kinds of things. I’ve got a huge case of spring fever. As much as I love winter and fall (and I do), I kinda hibernate during the winter and now I am out of the cave so to speak. Got the bike out for an hour every day and being all Miss Healthy & Exercising now. I’ll be on a spring fever rush until July or August or so when Memphis becomes the grossest most humid city on the planet again for a few months. More cool things… seeing as how I had to straighten up the spare room last week, I had to do something about the various & sundry Xmas loot (yes, KC, I know I’m awful) that had been sitting in there for months and here’s the great thing - I’d forgotten what some of them were so it was like Xmas all over again! Me being the addicted candle collector, I am tickled pinkish about some way cool candlesticks I got and how they look in ze living room du Lynnster, not to mention the fact they darn near match this cool art deco candelabra I got someone for a wedding gift and wound up having to keep (those of you who need to know the story there will find out soon enough). Plus I got this great other candle from my cousin and her husband. If I can ever find an extension or something for the quickcam maybe I’ll snap some pics, ‘cos this all just looks terribly cool and I’m like excited about it all. (No, it does not take much to make me happy.) Even more cool things… extra special thanks to someone (I’d better not name names I guess, somebody might get mad) for sending me the ultimate coolest Replacements shirt on the planet, which was actually designed and made by Mauro Magellan of the Georgia Satellites, clothing can not get much cooler than that! Special thanks also to Mark C. for the two more Gurus shirts I requested that came with the most excellent bonus surprise in fabulous Gurus from Coogee in November photos, you are ‘da man! I was absolutely coveting one of those shots that someone had posted on the Web and now I have one of my own, yessssssss! Also Happy Birthday wishes to Thomas G., who’ll always be older than me! I myself continue to resolve to never grow up nor be a grownup, who needs it, not me. Uncool things… not worth mentioning. The only really uncool thing about spring itself is the fact that now I’m going to have to mow the yard again, which I haven’t done since, oh, mid-October I guess, so there’s that, but I’ll live. By the way, there is a tremendously funny & good cover article in this month’s Memphis Magazine on Kevin Kane, written by funny dude Dennis Phillippi, check it out Memphis & interested people. Ciao for now…
