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As I watched the news reports on the Golden Globes and the nonsense with news anchors hosting them because no actors would cross the writers strike picket line. Then today I’m still bombarded by the witch-hunt that is the Mitchell Report, everyone is over it, I don’t have an opinion either way, except, thank you Britney for making headlines to give us all a break from all this news with substance.

ANYWAY! All this got me thinking, and, thank you local music. If music writers were to go on strike we’d still have bands touring and playing local dive bars. Actually, if music writers did go on strike maybe I’d here more original lyrics and chord progressions in the top 40. (I only said that to make a point, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, I don’t mind hearing the same country song with new lyrics over and over, oh wait, I mean Nickelback). And, in the off-chance that steroid use became an epidemic within the local music community, it would probably be embraced and result in faster drummers and more things broken on stage—I’d go to more shows.

My advice to baseball would be to get a representative (Cal Ripken, Nolan Ryan, Jose Canseco?) and send him to Africa to assist in the aids outbreak. We have Bono, and I think he saved music as a whole from Congress creating a special committee to investigate everyone’s heroin dependency, your safe for now Mr. Doherty. Actors have Angelina, but I guess she didn’t really help end the writers strike, too much time in cambodia? I dunno.

I guess I should end this blog with something really profound, so here it goes:

-What do you call a drummer that breaks up with his girlfriend? Homeless.
-What happened when the guitarist locked his keys in the car? He spent 3 hours trying to get the drummer out.
-What’s the difference between a pizza and a drummer? A pizza can feed a family of 4
-How many drummers does it take to change a lightbulb? Five: One to screw the bulb in, and four to talk about how much better
Neil Peart coulda done it.

AND LASTLY!
-Why do guitarists put drumsticks on the dash of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spot.

Those were for my man Will
And for those of you who don’t know I’ve been playing drums for 14 years, that’s why I gots me all the good jokes. Don’t hate.