Yacht Rock Episode 1: What a Fool Believes

DATELINE: Chincoteague Island, VA

Off season tourist town. There were a number of interesting things in this little beach town but I only had time to take a few pictures. I'm away from my crappy hotel room until late tonight so feel free to search the internets.

won't be posting again until tonight (Tuesday) - super busy.

DATELINE: Exmore, VA

First day on site & won't be posting until this evening. Live long and prosper.

RE: Your Brains



When I first heard this song I got the same feeling I had when I first heard The Muffs and The Old 97's.

BH 90210 / Saved By The Bell GOSSIP DISCUSSION

The most difficult part, for me, of trying to come up with a definitive solution to this blind item is that I really enjoy imagining all of the possible actors in the various roles in the story. I definitely hear what Joe is saying about Ian - he is sweaty and I'm not altogether convinced that the party frat guy character of Steve is a pure creation of his acting skills. And he did marry that Playboy centerfold.

But I have to go with my deep understanding of both shows and suggest Brian Austin Green was the male 90210 actor snorting all the coke & macking with the SBTB hottie. At first I thought he would have been too young - he played a freshman in the first season and looked the part - and agreed with Allison that it must have been Jason Priestly, but then I checked Wikipedia and Brian was 16/17 when that first season was being filmed. I knew he dated Tiffani-Amber Thiessen of SBTB and 90210 fame but because I thought he was so young when BH started I didn't think they were the coked-up couple getting down UNTIL I read this passage on Tiffani-Amber Thiessen's Wiki page:

During her Saved By The Bell and Beverly Hills, 90210 career she dated actor Brian Austin Green for about 7 years. They used to live together.

Thus, Tiffani has to be the SBTB hottie in the story. She was still on SBTB at the time and was also dating Brain at the time. And I agree with the Blind Item that she's hot.

When I thought Jason Priestly was the 90210 guy, my guess for the 90210 gal hoovering up the coke without as much as a thank you was Shannon Dougherty. She was young, was and has seemed very selfish, and often displays exactly the diva-type behavior described in the story. It also makes sense that she was hanging out with Jason - she was pretty much the female lead of the show & Jason's tv brother. However, since I know don't think Jason was involved the field is opened up. I wouldn't be surprised if it was Jennie Garth (AKA Kelly Taylor) - she was the "glamorous" teen girl on the show and was always much thinner than Shannon (from a big coke habit?).

I do have to add that if you ever, ever get the chance to see Morris Day and the Time, do it. I saw them in Milwaukee a few years ago (got in free & went backstage to hang with Morris & Jerome thanks to Juan Carlos' love of BBQ & his lovable and gregarious nature) and they were incredible. I remember thinking, and still believe, that if I could be anyone I might choose Morris Day. He's the coolest, smoothest, most fly cat ever created on god's green earth. I am 100 percent serious that if I could pull off wearing the amazing outfits he wears I would in a heartbeat.

I really don't like having Hives. I've got 'em on my arms, hands, legs, chest, shoulder, butt and they are so goddamn itchy. I also look like hell, like I've got Ebola or some other horrible and contagious disease. I'm getting a shot tomorrow that should take of them.

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being (Mitt)

MOST AWESOME BEVERLY HILLS 90210 / SAVED BY THE BELL GOSSIP

I don't want to influence your reading of this blind item so write in with your guesses & then I'll post mine.

So a little change of pace. After I saw that The Time was going to play the Grammy Awards it got me thinking about a time when I was just starting out. I used to promote concerts to get through school. This was when little guys still could do it and corporations had not swallowed up every possible venue. I had promoted The Time two or three times and made some money. I had got to know some of the group and once we happened to be in Las Vegas at the same time. They invited me to their show and to a party they were having after. I want to say they were playing at the Riviera, but I can't remember. I think it was because this was when Frank Sinatra was still alive and I remember thinking I had seen him play in the same room a week earlier and how crazy Vegas is that two totally different acts can both pack in a crowd. Of course Sinatra tickets were three times the price of The Time tickets.

Anyway, after the show, we went to a club or two, but this was still the older Vegas. Excalibur was the only big new hotel. Everything else was still to come. The clubs were still very rough around the edges. Very rough. So, after seeing a possible stabbing death at the second club we went to, we decided to head back to the hotel and one of their suites. I don't remember anyone calling anyone but all of a sudden the place was absolutely packed. Packed like it took you five full minutes to make your way across the room from one side to the other.

There was one clear area though and it was this big glass table. It was probably seven feet long and three feet wide. Sitting around the table were people basically two deep. The top of the table was covered in coke. I had seen people do coke before and thought I had seen a lot on a table before, but this was the most ever. None of the guys from The Time were touching it. I do remember that. BUT, I do remember that there were two people from this brand new television show called Beverly Hills 90210 who were sucking coke down like someone was trying to steal it from them. Most people were being very patient and chatting in between lines. Not these two. One female and one male were all over it. They were outdone in their zest for the drug only by this actress from Saved By The Bell. I honestly thought they were going to fight for it. Later, after the crowd had thinned I saw the male from 90210 and the actress from Saved By The Bell getting it on in a corner. She was pretty hot, I have to tell you. The guy I remember was very sweaty. The actress from 90210 never left the coke. Ever. Not until it was all gone. Then she got up, and left. Didn't say goodbye or anything. Just walked out and left. Hell of a night.

I'm deep in the weeds writing a report. I also came down with a case of the Hives...they actually started over a week ago when I was in DC/MD but have continued to plague me. For most of that time they were popping up at night and staying pretty calm during the day, but right now they're driving me bonkers. I actually woke up at 4:30 am this morning scratching like a mf and couldn't go back to sleep. I'll take some pictures before I go get a cortisone shot to take care of them. Lots of red, super itchy bumps on my hands, arms, legs, head, stomach...

In the meantime you should check out Art Garunkel's website - he's listed every book he has read over the last 29 years, organized by month read & listing the author, date published, and number of pages. I'm not done going through them all (1000+) but it seems like he's really neglected to keep abreast of the worldwide UFO cover-up.

BEST BUY HELPS US THROUGH A DIFFICULT TIME

Links for music downloads

Blues bootlegs
Rock bootlegs
Country bootlegs
Random stuff but check out their link section
80's music + good link section

DATELINE: Pajama City, USA

I'm at home working on a report. It's going a little better than the last several have but I'm not out of the woods yet. Nothing too exciting is going on. Watched Soylent Green last night - I'm a big fan of Charlton Heston apocalypse movies. I'm not going to give away the surprise ending but Soylent Green aint tofu.

My last project was outside of DC & was uneventful EXCEPT that Adale came down & we got to hang out with Bern & Kristin. We went to a fancy shmancy Mediterranean restaurant and had one of the best meals I've had in a long time and then went to out to a tasty brunch the next day.

The Hampton Inn was subpar - the room was small, no microwave, I had to request a fridge, and I didn't even get the bottled water/snack chips due to me in honor of my Diamond Status with Hilton Honors. And to add injury to insult the afternoon cookies were oatmeal raisin/cranberry for an entire week, and then they switched to peanut butter!!! Every other Hampton switches cookies daily AND there's a preponderance of chocolate chip in the mix.

Let me introduce myself. I am your consultant and I am ready to rock your world. I can be charming or I can bring the pain - whatever it takes to help you achieve your goals. Is this candy dish for everybody? Great! Yes, I'm staying at the Hampton Inn by the interstate, and yes, it is lovely. We should meet at the breakfast buffet someday to talk about strategic initiatives and donor-centered fundraising. Let's make it Thursday because that's when they serve the breakfast pizzas...you'll love them. Now let's get down to business - where's the first elderly lady you want me to shmooze?

I think I read an article where Gloria Steinem unpacked the dream of a certain segment of men to rescue Marilyn monroe, to save her from her demons. I always imagined that a similar desire was stimulated by the suicide of Kurt Cobain & I think I can feel it in regards to Britney, with the exception that I really believe I could turn her life around:

When Britney and Adnan stumbled out, Britney mumbled something unintelligible. "I couldn't understand a word she was saying. She was slurring and spitting, and talking with a British accent," says the employee. "Her face was covered with cold sores and acne, and her scalp was patchy. I wanted to help her, but she was so mean that I left her alone.

"Then she muttered, 'F--- you!' and left the store."

Evolution is an amazing and wondrous process and I am comforted that this recent discovery will help us understand the disparate mating rituals developing in male homo sapiens at universities across the world.

Well, I am the worst blogger in the world. I decided to stop writing for a few days in December when I got really busy, then I got busier, then I went to Florida for Xmas, then I went to Dallas for a staff conference, and now in Germantown, MD about 1/2 hour north of DC.

I'm going to ease back into writing & it might take a week or so to get back into the swing of things. In the meantime, can you believe how much Beyonce looks like Zombie Beyonce here?

The difference is that mine go up to 11