New Orleans Voodoo Experience in October, Anyone?

Last week I found out about the Voodoo Music Experience being held in New Orleans on October 24-26. It caught my eye because three awesome bands are headlining: Stone Temple Pilots, Nine Inch Nails, and...wait for it...I'm sure Beth is shivering with antici-pation...REM.

Now that I am gainfully employed, I am seriously considering attending this show. It's a three-day event and I have always wanted to go to New Orleans. Granted, this is coming on the tail end of hurricane season, which makes me a little nervous. But screw it...STP reunited on stage?! And REM too? Trent Reznor?! Sounds like a musical hurricane is already happening.

So I call out to you, blog readers, to see who lives down South and might be up for this show. Hell, who wants to go to New Orleans, get drunk, eat beignets at Cafe du Monde, and listen to some great freakin' bands for 3 days? If Beth can do an East Coast tour with REM, why can't we do this one? Huh? Who's with me?

Overheard on the Blue Line

Incense seller on Blue Line train: Incense for your household! Only one dollar! You give me a dollar, I give you freshness!

Friday's Hot Tip: Humor

I tend to randomly break out into song about various things, such as feeding Mossimo, getting my Bluetooth headset enabled (this is usually a duet with T-Wizzle), or my newfound love of coffee. So when those crazy kids at Improv Everywhere did a musical in a food court, I was enthralled. Like any good musical, there's comedy, drama, suspense...and the end leaves you reeling with pleasure. Here performing "Can I Get a Napkin Please?" are 16 agents from Improv Everywhere. Take it away, kids!



Oh, and the hot tip, you ask? Laugh more, and when life gets challenging, sing through it.

All A-Twitter

I have really gotten into Twitter since I started my new job. For those of you who don't know about Twitter, a few social marketing folks have referred to it as "microblogging", because postings are in real-time and can only be 140 characters in length.

Whatever you want to call it, I find it to be lots of fun and a great way to keep tabs on people. I'm just nosy like that. Using Twitter I've been able to have mini-dialogues with various writers, technogeeks, and bloggers who could prove to be helpful in my work. And whenever technology can help me be successful, I'm all over it.

Anyway, I've signed up for an account for this blog, so if you are on Twitter, please add me as someone to follow and I will likely reciprocate. Unless you're gross, in which case I will avoid you like the plague.

The Six Word Memoir

Historical Wit, a frequent reader of this blog, tagged me a few weeks ago for the six-word memoir meme. Beth did this meme a while back and it was then that I started thinking about what I would write...but never came up with anything that really felt right.

In this moment, I've chosen six words based on everything that's happened to me over the last few months, and how I am working to experience the world.

I believe in a magical universe.

Yeah, that works.

For My Sister from Another Mister

It's hard when your best friend is going through a rough time and you can't physically be there to help them move through it. Right now T-Wizzle is in a lot of emotional pain, and it makes me wish I knew how to teleport or had a superfast invisible jet so we could go out for lattes and cocktails and karaoke, sit and cry together, or browse at Sephora.

I thought about what Beth did for her friend Renae a few months ago...how kind that was, and how several of Beth's readers reached out with kind words to someone that they didn't know, but whom they know is important to Beth. If you've been reading my blog for a while, then you know just how much T-Wizzle means to me. She's truly my sister from another mister, and when she's hurting I hurt too. I also want to punch people in the face if they mess with her, but that's another issue.

Anyway, I'm posting this video clip from The Color Purple in her honor. She gave me this song as an MP3 ages ago, when I was going through a rough patch of my own, so I'm tossing it back at her to say I'm thinking of her and I am sending her all the moxie she needs at this time.

If you feel so inclined to leave some kind words for T-Wizzle in the comments, please do. I know she will appreciate it.

Who Else Here Is a Mutant? Raise Your Hand