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Ahoy pirates and piratettes. Hope all is well and dandy on your side of this island earth. Things have been ok with me. Contrary to popular belief I was neither killed, maimed or violated by armadillos. Nah, nothing that exciting, I've just been suffering from having my brain hijacked by normalcy. Not the fun "new normalcy" touted by Dick Cheney. No, the normalcy where nothing creative comes out of ones head. All I could get to trickle out of my head was ear wax, and unless I sculpted it into a likeness of the ultimate warrior, I doubt anyone would care. . . . Scratch that, id make a likeness of the junkyard dog, not ultimate warrior. Only tools liked him. 
 
First off, before I get to the meat of my article. . . . . . Meat. Id like to say this week (Aug 29th) lets remember the once living, breathing and pooping embodiment of rock n roll: GG Allin. Now there was a man who was a true rebel against society. Your mom might think Marilyn Manson is kinda cute. , but nobody could think GG was cute. . . Though he kinda was. Wot with his Genghis Kahn mustache and all. So in honor of Mr. Allin. This month's gm's choice track is "I wanna f**k myself" by the aforementioned GG Allin. If there is a better song about masturbation out there, you listen to it. 
 
Now on to the other bit I choose to write about, as many of you know I'm quite the fan of a little band out of Berkeley known as Operation Ivy. I knew from the moment I first heard "knowledge" I was a changed man. That was nearly ten years ago. So I figured it was about time to sort of give back as an appreciation for what that group of 4 men did for me. I decided to make the ska man a permanent(well for the most part, I figure it will rot off or be burnt off after I'm dead. )part of my person. I decided to get it pretty decent sized on the back of my calf. Let me tell you, so far it was the most painful tattoo I've gotten yet, but still nothing i cant handle. I'm tough like that, you know. Actually I've had the outline for quite some time, in true punk rock fashion I couldn't afford to get it all done at once. I considered just filling it in with a sharpie every couple of days. But do you know how hard drawing on the back of your own leg is? It's about as easy as. . . Well, you know to yourself. Come on, you know you've tried it at least once. So I had to bite the bullet and go get it finished. 50 bucks and about half an hour later, I was the proud owner of a completely filled in ska man. 
 
Now I'm sure there is some ethical questions involved in my choice to get this on my person. After all will I still be skanking when I'm 80, for that matter will I even remember who Operation Ivy is? I hope so. Ill be skanking around the old folks home with a bedpan on my noggin singing "soundsystem". If my health won't allow the dancing, then I'll pay one of the Alzheimer's patients to dance for me as a proxy. I shall pay them their weight in strained peas, I don't think there is an old person among us who wouldn't sell their soul for some strained peas and a Matlock t shirt. If they won't then call Senator McCarthy, I think we found a commie. Of course this subject of band tattoos opens a can of worms, that can of worms being how many grizzled and perhaps mulleted men have you seen with really lame band tattoos on them? I know I've personally seen: Led Zeppelin, The Scorpions, Poison, Molly Hatchet, and perhaps most disturbing. . . . A John Cougar Mellencamp tattoo. Now I can see in some weird way of getting some of the others. . . But John Mellencamp? The guy who sung about sucking on chili dogs outside the tastee freeze? !I guess they had to have their reasons. . . 
 
So there you have it, the small going on in my life that I decided to share with you as I'm desperate for material. Pretty soon ill have to start ripping off old articles of other writers and claim them as my own. Is it just me or does the previews for the "coven" look an awful lot like the Lost Boys? Only destined to suck since The Lost Boys was awesome. There was a badder bad ass than Keifer Sullivan. Sure he does that lame 24 show now, but look at him in is prime. He was awesome.