Spoon - The Underdog

I'm feeling this song lately. Good stuff. Great video too.

The biggest thing

Well let's start with the mother of all news. I bought a condo. That's correct, B-O-U-G-H-T. Yeah the housing market is a mess. Our government is as inept as ever. The economy is in the dumper. The Canadian Dollar is worth more than the US Dollar to the tune of if you give a Canadian a US dollar they'll give you 93 cents. That's correct. 93 freaking cents. If I'd actually moved to Canada after Bush got reelected like I talked about doing I'd probably be rich and giggling. Or maybe not.

Truly though the US is a shocking place these days in my mind. The Jena Six issue has finally been solved, all it took was a huge protest and some Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, various other actors/rappers/activists. Of course the event wouldn't have been complete without some white supremacists joining in supporting those poor unfortunate white residents. Surprising, not really. Sick, most definitely. I'd first heard about this event in a Newsweek article. But previous to that I had no idea this occurred. What kind of time are we in where something like this doesn't even get press right off the bat? Instead it's just pushed under the rug.

Genarlow Wilson is another individual I posted about here in the past. On October 26, 2007 he was released from prison on a vote of 4-3 that his punishment was cruel and unusual. If you remember he was 17 and received some oral sex from a 15 year old. It was consensual however in Georgia, if you are 15 you can't even consent to things like that. So apparently her parents would have had to give permission.

Then let's see, what else happened recently - oh yeah some kid hung some nooses in another school. Just today a kid put signs above two drinking fountains stating "Coloreds" and "Whites."

There are also still people living in FEMA trailers in New Orleans. On top of that FEMA has deemed those trailers now unsafe for their own workers to set foot in due to formaldehyde. So FEMA thinks it's ok for normal people to live in these trailers but not for their workers to go in. Excellent.

I call for a do over!!

So, it's been a ridiculous quantity of time since I've done anything here. Which I guess is quite sad and potentially pathetic. My lack of maintaining this got me de-linked from The Moore Homestead blog. I probably deserve it. Plus my content is potentially less reader friendly than the wholesomeness with which they post. What can I say the occasional curse word trickles out of my mouth every now and then if you know what I'm saying. Fuck it though!! This is my place to express myself. If it's a profanity laden post then I'd consider that par for the course.

So in an interest of getting this back up and running...

wilco photos

i'm behind again.




nice face tweedy!!





click any of them to get to the web album.

4th of July-ish

So the last weekend of June the future Mr. and Mrs. Boschen (haha) came up from Richmond and stopped through Montpelier on their way to Maine. They got here at hmmm was it like 7:40am Friday June 29th after driving all night. I was happy to sleep a few extra hours after they arrived. I think we tried to fit just about anything you can do in to about 4 days. We got up Friday went to the grocery store, had lunch, and then hit the Ben & Jerry's factory in Waterbury. Went on the tour had free samples and got ice cream. Came back and walked their dog Preston, then down to Shelburne for Wilco. Amazing concert. Great vibe in the whole place with people of all ages enjoying the show and hanging out. Jeff Tweedy of Wilco even commented about how cool it was that there were so many kids there. I'll get some good photos of Wilco in here shortly.

Parking at Shelburne was nothing short of a disaster but it was still a good time just hanging out in the car bullshitting and bitching about traffic and how idiotic some drivers are. We got back that night and Amelia and I decided we'd be funguys. Nothing short of an adventure there as usual. I gotta say I haven't laughed that hard in a long long time and Most Extreme Elimination Challenge is some funny funny stuff.

Saturday we hit the farmer's market first thing in the morning and then did a little wander around Montpelier. Good times. Then in to the car and down to Mom and Dad's to hang on the lake and go for a boat ride. Great day for a boat ride as it was gorgeous outside. Usaj's were around too so we all had dinner together at Mom and Dad's. Played some games and then actually made it to bed pretty early.

Sunday we hung out with Mom and Dad after a good breakfast and took it easy. No real hurry to get back on the road and over to Montpelier until later that night. So we just read and sat around and talked. On the way home I decided I'd take them over the Appalachian Gap which goes by Mad River Glen. It's quite windy and steep and Amelia wasn't very pleased with how I ran it like a race course. Sorry Amelia.

We got back in time to hang out for a bit and then headed down to Burlington area to see Bob Dylan at the Champlain Valley Expo. Great show once again. Dylan was better than I anticipated and it was my first time seeing him. However, I'd heard some not so positive reviews from other folks who'd seen him recently. Good times. Got back here Sunday night and just vegged for awhile.

Monday we got up and went up in to the park and hiked up to the tower. Normal for me but it's a nice view and you get a good idea of the surroundings which is fun for visitors. So we got back to my apartment and headed down to NECI to get lunch. They were closed sadly so we went to Sarducci's instead. Had an excellent lunch and a great talk about wedding plans.

Excellent visit and thank you so much Boz and Amelia for coming!!

Here we go...

It's looking a little crowded in that nest.


It was June when I last posted so we'll start there. I was home June 24th and we went to the Great Blue Heron rookery, located in Gull Bay. Gull Bay of course being Putnam where the beach is, the boat is, and Usaj's camp. Lake George truly is an amazing place.

The realization that in the next few days you will have to jump.


I just thought this picture might be cool so I took it. I gotta say I like it...


Plus you kind of get an idea of how many nests there are actually are.

I'm a slacker...

Well. You all probably knew that.

802 Music Video

That's right. Vermont's featured rappers dropping a hot one.

Hilarious

click here to see more videos like this

Hmmm

I'm pretty sure my blog has been spammed a few times now in the comments section. Rodrigo made a comment today. It was Portuguese or Spanish, hard to say which. I know one fact though...I can't really read either. I clicked on his link though. As far as I could tell it appears he wants me to buy a customized t-shirt of my blog. Of course for all I know he could have been telling me about some new dope stock that is going to go through the roof tomorrow, some new drug that's not cialis or viagra but does the same thing, or he's a Portuguese/Spanish prince and he's got millions and millions of dollars tied up and if I could just provide him with my bank account number he'd give me 20 million.

So it sounds like I'm going to be real rich in a few days, have an amazing stock portfolio, and never be flaccid again. I gotta say...I'm looking forward to the future!!

Or I'm just going to get a t-shirt with a picture of my blog on it.

Dribble

Let's see. What's been going on. Well the Vermont Mountaineers season has begun. I took my new camera along and got some pics.





Pretty cool!

Unfortunately they lost the game and now stand at 5-6 after today's 4-0 win against Stanford. 2 games back.

The other night I was up at the tower again and got some good sunset pictures. It was cloudy, but nice. I could hear the baseball game going on which was fun and it was clear from the cheering when the Mountaineers had something good happen. I sang Take me out to the ball game ... as I took a few pictures as well. Nice evening.

Wilco - You Are My Face

Song off the new album, Sky Blue Sky.

Toots & the Maytals - Reggae Got Soul

Toots has got soul!! I got to see these guys again on Saturday night at Higher Ground. Great show, excellent energy, and they had the whole place dancing. Great to see them again and when they come back I'll go again. Yes, it's a music video, but that's the song I wanted and the live versions just weren't as good. Either the sound quality was poor of the filming was poor.

Let's see. Been awhile and I've got some posting to do. So I'll get to that today in a little bit. Got my new camera and I'll add some new pics soon.

Headed home this weekend for a graduation party. Should be a good time.

Then the big weekend happens. Boz and Amelia are coming up from Richmond on the 28th - 29th. I'm definitely excited about that and it will be great to see them. It's been a year since I've seen Boz and 2 years since I've seen Amelia. I think that's right. We're going to see Wilco on the 29th at Shelburne Museum and then Dylan on the 1st. Sounds like the start of a great holiday weekend. We'll see what else the weekend holds. I've got a few ideas...

Genarlow Wilson

It appears people are finally getting pissed enough to start doing something. Check out this article from the Huffington Post today. Please follow the link they provide and send the Governor of Georgia a complaint about how truly despicable this situation actually is. I did.

Huffington Post Article

ESPN article with some more information.

Infuriating

So later last week I found this story about this 17 year old kid, Genarlow Wilson, in Georgia who is serving a 10 year prison sentence for receiving oral sex from a 15 year old. It was taped and the 15 year old girl even said in court it was consensual. Yet Wilson was found guilty and the sentence is a mandatory 10 years in prison and he has to get listed on the sex offender registry. They were 2 years apart!!!!!

So Wilson has now served 2 years in prison. They changed the law shortly after he was sent to prison partially because of his case, yet they didn't make it retroactive. So he's sat in jail for 2 years for something I would say nearly everyone did in high school. Maybe not the video taping part. But be real. In the original article they also said if they had actually had sexual intercourse he wouldn't even be in any trouble if I recall correctly.

Anyways a Superior Court Judge ruled today that Wilson can be released from prison. Victory!! Not so fast. The Georgia Attorney General has appealed the judge's ruling. So now he sits in prison still.

Amazing. It's this kind of thing that makes me more outraged than almost anything. What kind of incompetent racist jerk was the original judge who sentenced him to prison or this Attorney General for that matter? As sad as it is, I think it's safe to say that if Wilson were white this wouldn't even have been any thing I'd have heard about. Because he wouldn't be in prison. They would have just said oh it's two kids messing around.

That's despicable behavior on all fronts Georgia. Get your shit together, it's 2007. Ah... racism alive and well in today's society.

Today's CNN article

Jackson Browne is amazing!!

photo courtesy of the Times Argus.

What a phenomenal concert. It was basically a greatest hits show with several other songs thrown in including a cover of Warren Zevon's "Lawyers, Guns, and Money." It's amazing music can bridge so many generations. Pretty cool to sit there and see one of my dad's musical heroes with him sitting one chair over. If only Nate would have been there it could have been a true family event.

Photos weren't allowed, so I didn't bring my camera in. So all I can do is post this photo courtesy of the Times Argus. Here's a link to their article too. Times Argus Jackson Browne write up

Jackson Browne-Running on empty

The countdown has begun. Tomorrow night at 8pm, Jackson Browne, Barre Opera House.

Jackson Browne - Lives In the Balance

Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Loud Prayer"

Our father whose art's in heaven
hollow be thy name
unless things change
Thy wigdom come and gone
thy will will be undone
on earth as it isn't heaven
Give us this day our daily dread
at least three times a day
and forgive us our trespasses
as we would forgive those lovelies
whom we wish would trespass against us
And lead us not into temptation
too often on weekdays
but deliver us from evil
whose presence remains unexplained
in thy kingdom of power and glory
oh man

Colin Hay - Beautiful World

Great Song!!

Scrubs

I find this to be probably either the best or one of the best shows on tv these days. I can't truly explain why, maybe it's the slapstick humor or the surreal day dream scenes that run throughout an episode. Either way. It's damn funny to me.

Plus I hadn't heard this Bell Biv Devoe song in forever. That brings me back to about 6th grade.