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MOTIVATION BINDS EVERYTHING

Except fried spark plugs.

"Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense."

Anyone else have a favorite line from a movie other than, "I'll be baaack"?

Merry Christmas.

Dark Side of the Lips

OK, so I know that Dark Side of the Moon is a polarizing, pulverizing album. Today I get an email telling me that The Flaming Lips covered it and released it on iTunes. Now that’s fucked up. The two most stoner bands of the past 30 years have dueling versions of the same songs out there. Of course, no one can beat Floyd. Fuck, they created it. But when I downloaded the Lips version I was taken aback. They brought in Henry Rollins to help with the vocals, which in itself is an inventive move. They also were wise not to copy it note for note, but to add even more trippiness to it. Which is good, trust me. I am totally chilling out to this reproduced work of art. And it’s making me happy. Two balls up.

Snow from space

If you haven’t yet heard, we were on the losing end of a pretty fucking massive snowstorm here in the NYC area this past weekend. It wasn’t epic, like something you’d see in Canada or Alaska or Antartica, but it was astonishing for those of us in the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast part of the USA. I found a satellite pic of what it looked like from space. Looks like my hockey stick made less of a dent than I thought it did.

Snow fling

You are looking at the hardware that cannot be bought at Lowe's or Home Depot. You are looking at the greatest snow removal tool ever when deftly used. You are looking at a Cooper Hockey Stick, circa 1995, taped, taped again, and then retaped. When I say deftly, I mean be careful with your car's finish. When I say greatest snow removal tool ever, I mean gliding down your driveway in Docs slashing everything in your path. It is dry now and resting comfortably on my bed. I'll put it on the porch soon because I want to sleep soon. But I felt it deserved an hour or two of rest after the hell I put it through today.

2 hours of slapshot shoveling

How fucking festive. Jesus Christ I hope we have a white Christmas so I can use my hockey stick to shovel snow off my car, driveway, and sidewalk again. It was so fucking enjoyable today. At least I know I can still flick an ice ball at a speeding SUV, hit the front quarter panel, and make it sound like a sonic boom.

My car 10 minutes after I chiseled off the ice and snow

Looks like I will not be driving anywhere until June.

Snow drift on kitchen window

Shoveling is going to suck tomorrow. 14" of wet snow and wind driving drifts up to a window 5 feet off the ground. I don't even have gloves, dammit. I'm cooking gumbo but it keeps icing over. Maybe pouring Tobasco on the snow will help me through this unusually frigid dilemma.

Snow

Expecting a bit of snow today. Haven't had any since this past March. Expecting to do some serious shoveling.