Skulls are too much for VISD
So my 7 year old comes home from school today and informs me that she had to take off her little skull necklace she wore for halloween. She also informs me that other kids had to turn their skeleton or ...

Everyday Is Halloween
When you wear a mask for every show your band plays for the last two years, you began to wonder what all the fuss is about... but yes... Happy Halloween...   And now... que THE MISFITS (Coming to Vic in ...

A Word on Brazen Altar
I was watching the comments section for Friday’s band feature on Brazen Altar with interest. I think that after watching 70+ comments go by, it would be OK to put in my two cents. Old School VICAD blogging tip: Never ...

So Long Josh...
 A couple of days ago, one of my guitar players, Josh, left my band The Stout City Luchadores. It’s a tricky situation for me, because my band is so important to me. I’ve been in bands for a long time, ...

New networking site for gamers...
There is a site that is out to help gamers meet people and network. As a writer for busygamer.com, I got the scoop, (the site is betatesting) but also got the word that I could let you guys know if ...

One Month Left To Vote For The Luchadores
You may or may not know about it, (I blogged about it before but the blog vanished when the new website format came out) but the Stout City Luchadores are involved with an online battle of the bands. If the ...

Hey Namedroppers...Optimus Will Call Your Friends
I'm kind of like that Santa in the mall... I'm not really Optimus Prime I work for him understand? In order to rev up things for the Transformers Movie DVD, you can go to the official website: http://www.transformersmovie.com/ And fill ...

Maybe I'll Even Eat a CHU-lapa!
Say what you want... but I am seriously thinking about going to Turkeyfest to check out the Chupacabra head on display today. Darn thing gets national attention. Whether you think it's one thing or not, what kind of monster loving ...

Lucha-rize Your Cell Phone
If you haven't had the chance, check out the article which appeared today in the M3 section of the Victoria Advocate... (Written by Aprill Brandon) you can also check it online here aat this very site. It features Victoria's very ...

The Kid Shot People... Not Music
Looking at the Ohio gun incident, I am always interested in the way the media portrays school gunmen. While no one is denying that it is a tragedy and we seriously need to look at what happened so history does ...

Busy
I think my old school vicad blogging peer Mike Austin (Pilot) put it best when he mentioned the new "Myspacce" version of the advocate blogs. For the life of me, I was trying to place what was feeling different to ...

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
I was beggining to get a little worried, because my profile may have changed with this "new" look on this website, but all my old posts were not sticking around. When you've invested a couple of years blogging for a newspaper ...

Video Games, Nerd Culture, and Me
It is a wonderful life,  being a writer, it is even better being unpaid because I can actually just type malarkey  all day and not have to worry about people firing me. (But boy can they throw things.) I recently have ...

For Future Reference...
I read somewhere that every writer should have a reference library handy by his or her desk in case they need to look somewhere for inspiration or knowledge. I have done this for years, in fact, my whole private office is ...

Election Blues
If things go like the polls are indicating, our two big choices for President in the next election could be Clinton or Giuliani. Greeeaaat. Just what I need, a choice between two people I really don't like. I read somewhere ...

Election Blues
According to polls,if things go the way it looks, our two big choices for President could be Clinton or Giuliani. Greeeeat... just what I need, a choice between two evils. I could be "progressive" and vote for the first woman ...

A Message To Pop Music...
Hey Britney, If it's anything we can learn from Jenna Bush, even party girls can grow up to be respected authors

What the??
Change is good right? I hope so.   I log in today to check out the blogs, and instead of my usual familiar blog family, I see this buffet of blogs presented before me. Some are new, and quite frankly ...