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I don't expect anyone who didn't go to University of Montevallo to care about my new photo blog, but I spent a long time working on it and today, after two months of collecting over 200 photos from friends in attendance, it is done. Also it's some nice documentation of my aforementioned former band, Every Alice on Earth, back together for the first time in six years and who knows how many more years will pass before we play again. Orr Park is the excellent city park in Montevallo. It's like a tiny version of Central Park with winding paths, large grassy pastures a creek that runs through it. The irony in that similarity is that the famous Holmestead brothers designed both Central Park and the University of Montevallo campus. To add to the beauty of the park, an artist named Tim Tingle has carved Nordic-looking faces into some of the dead, but still standing trees. He started this process in the early 1990s, close to the time I started school there, but his carvings loo

This is a good city. It has an ugly past caught on camera and written about in history books; unfortunately that past has become fixated in the minds of many, even those who didn't even live during the Civil Rights movement. Deadly racial violence has happened in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City, but in the minds of the big city elite, those mentalities thrive and are encouraged in Alabama and much of the south. I'm not saying the mentality is totally unjustified as it's definitely been perpetuated in worlds of news and entertainment for decades, but isn't making blind judgments about a place infamous for making blind judgments a bit hypocritical? I didn't plan to be here when I turned 30. There are still times when I get fed up with Birmingham, but the place has grown on me and after my parents moved away from the town where I grew up, Auburn, I adopted this city as home and for the most part, I have been very happy and that is why I stay. Good shows an

- - Step 1: Call the 1-800 number on the back of your credit card and cancel your account Step 2: Standing over the sink, hold the card at a downward angle and light it. It will might not officially catch on fire, but it will burn. Step 3: Enjoy - - - Back in the early '80s there was this idiotic toy called Shrinky Dinks . You colored these little characters, such as Smurfs, with pencils and then got someone's mom to bake them in the oven for 20 minutes. Unamazingly, they turned into this tiny little hardened pieces of plastic and then you were supposed to play with them. Once the baking action was over so was the interest in Shrinky Dinks for everyone involved. I relived a Shrinky Dink moment this past week and this time it was fun. It took a lot of butane to get it completely warped on one side. My favorite part was calling Chase and speaking to someone in India (of course) who wanted to know, in broken English, why I was cancelling the account and when I said I was trying

After my 48 hour nanny job to three kids this past week I have a new-found respect for any single parent who makes it out child raising alive. I know two parents to one child has major challenges, but it's nothing like one parent to three. Their mother, a friend and co-worker, wanted to get away to the beach for a few days for a much-needed and appreciated trip. She was the one that told me, "Once you have three you might as well have 10." I think there must be some truth to that. Don't get me wrong, I love these kids and they are great almost all of the time, but when there are three of them they never stop talking and most of their conversations are simultaneous and completely unrelated to what the other brother/sister is talking about. Some interesting and slightly disturbing observations into kid world: -- People my age playing the parents in their movies (David Arquette and Kristin Davis in "Shark Boy and Lava Girl") I know that should be par for the co

This is not what I ordered from eBay. I have compiled a set of photos of my creatures and others here on Flickr.

I first wrote about the hilarious South Park vs. Tom Cruise and Scientology pseudo controversy back on March 19 of this year. The story grew when the episode, banned in England, was broadcast to the U.K. public in closed screenings . Here is the latest in the most entertaining entertaiment story of this year. I have no doubt that if Tom Cruise was not an idiot, and had kept his weird mouth shut, this most famous episode of South Park to date, would have caused a quiet, but brief internet buzz and then settled back in the ranks of the show's other hilarious celebrity-bashing archives, right up there with Babs Streisand and Paris Hilton. Not so. South Park’s ‘Trapped’ gets Emmy nomination Controversial episode lampoons Scientology, Tom Cruise The Associated Press North Hollywood, July 06, 2006 . - One of the Emmy nominees for best animated program is the episode of “South Park” that’s said to have angered Tom Cruise and Isaac Hayes. The episode called “Trapped in the Closet” implies

"Dale who?" "What's the big deal about SEC football?" "I can't believe that political candidate had his pastor in that television commercial. What about the separation between church and state?" "My iced tea is too sweet." "I'm not shopping at that Piggly Wiggly again. They don't have wheat bread or a large enough ethnic foods section." "Where's Wal-Mart?" "Have you seen my PETA t-shirt?" "Hey, let's go to transgendered atheist night at the VFW." "Can I substitute tofu for pork?" "Does Bear Bryant really deserve his own museum?"

A few years ago I remember reading an article in one of the local entertainment papers about the death of the rock club in Birmingham. Sadly, the writer had a point. In a span of just a few years three live music clubs in the Five Points South neighbor closed, two tragically replaced with meat market dance clubs. The most painful of of three was Five Points Music Hall which, it its decade-long life, hosted The Ramones, Frank Black, Rufus Wainwright, Ivy and Superchunk just to name a handful. The Nick, always the staple of live original music, has always and still brings in interesting acts, but somewhere around the time I turned 30, I got tired of buying expensive drinks in plastic cups and having to quarantine the clothes I wore into the place due to the dense wall of stale smoke. Zydeco has decent bands from time to time, but again with the smoke and more recently, the over-the-mountain frat crowd. WorkPlay has been the only exception. Here is a great space where the stage is set up

A few of the nice details that make The Bottletree Cafe, a warm fuzzy kinda rock venue.

I'd go see this guy play drums without a band.

Randy and Matt of Model Citizen

A man in motion