This one here, I dedicate to all the LaetBloomerz out there…

THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning….Uphill… barefoot… BOTH ways Yadda, yadda, yadda…

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they’ve got it! But now that I’m over the ripe old age of thirty, I can’t help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You’ve got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don’t know how good you’ve got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn’t have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!! (Think me and Qwembi had a talk about that one.)

There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter – with a pen! (Penpals were awesome!)

Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take, like, a week to get there!
Stamps were 10 cents!

Child Protective Services didn’t care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe! (Ahahahahahah!)

There were no Iphones, Ipods, MP3′ s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! (I used to tape over random BS I found, using the tape on the cassette trick. Heheheh.) There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We’d play our favorite tape and “eject” it when finished and the tape would come undone. Cause – that’s how we rolled, dig?

We didn’t have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that’s it! And we didn’t have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn’t know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn’t have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like ‘Space Invaders’ and ‘Asteroids’. (Rocked with those at the orthodontist when I was in A HEADGEAR!) Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens; it was just one screen… forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel! NO REMOTES!!! (Be on the lookout for a video starring Qwembi very, very soon.)

There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I’m saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards! (Amen!)

And we didn’t have microwaves; if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove! Imagine that!

That’s exactly what I’m talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You’re spoiled. You guys wouldn’t have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or before!

Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd

I’m even back up and running, for the most part. Truck’s fixed, computer’s fixed, and I have a workhorse computer waiting for me to put it together. I may have to rearrange the desk, though. We’ll see.

I’m about to be in the final week of my classes for this session. After that, I’ve got a week to myself with (I hope) nothing to do but watch paint dry. I may seriously not leave the house unless I’m taking my munchkin to school. That would be an interesting experiment. And it’d give me all the time I’d need to get through a serious amount of video and other related things. (See, Mild…I need at least nine a day for a really, really long time…)

I hear tell the Space Jet Z is touching down at Down Below again next Wednesday (the 24th) so if I do go out it’ll be then.

I’m crossing my fingers for the hibernation, though!

I think that’s about it for now, good peoples. More to come very, very soon!

If you didn’t make it to the benefit last night, you missed out in a very serious way! The RollerGirls were out in full force and Planet Zoron hit the stage with a new-found energy and killed their set.

Not even two hours before I made my way to Paradise, I messed around and tossed my flash card from my camera bag so I didn’t get to get pictures. (I’m still kicking myself in the ass for that one!)

But I did get video!

And, if I’m lucky, Al will come through with some pictures soon so I can share them with all of you.

The video will be a while coming yet (I’ve had to go seriously low-tech and that’s created its own set of problems, as if I needed more! LOL) but I just have to say thanks to all the girls (and fans!) who showed the band so much love last night. It was great to see, heartwarming even.

Tallahassee Rollergirls 5 Point Jam Featuring Planet Zoron

Join Planet Zoron, the Tallahassee Rollergirls, The Intoxicators, and Sweater Vest on September 19th for the Five Point Jam Benefit Concert at Paradise Grill and Bar.

Doors open at six p.m. and cover’s only $7!

Don’t worry, I’ll remind you again later.