road ramblings (a throwback)

Author: sean M Published: July 10, 2025 0 comments

this always astounds me…

…but first, a bit of history (pun intended).

back in october of 2003 i was post star tickets but pre-dell and unemployed. that being said, the promotes star used still loved me so i was paid handsomely at their request to run the box office for shiner bock-toberfest, which was the same weekend as “journal-con”, which was a conference of blog folk, that year being held at the omni in downtown austin.

at the time i had no internet access at my house, but had been taxed with reading bits at both the beginning and end of the conference, which was a positive as that would have me needed friday night and sunday morning, but not saturday when i had to be in shiner all day. in order to go through my material and decide what i wanted to read for the friday night bit (the sunday was pre-selected by reader vote) kramer gave me a disc of all the bits on the site up to that point, which was september of 2003.

in march of 2008 my visa debit card expired, causing a hiccup in my hosting company getting paid, which caused them to pull the site down. when they went to put it back up, their backup files were corrupted and they couldn’t. i didn’t have any such files of my own due to my lack of internet access and, moreover, my lack of internet knowledge that i should keep my own even though they backed it up for me. so we lost 75% of the content up to that point, and while i rescued some, it was spotty at best. we did, however, have everything from the beginning to september 2003 on that disc, which i still had then and still have now.

this is one such bit, and it’s never seen the light of day between now and then, which is what “astounds me”. enjoy!

07/10/2002: “”hump” day ramblings…guess who i target.”

so, yesterday, with the exception of a couple of pleasant phone chats (where everything from life to love to flying midgets in monkey suits smeared with pasteurized processed cheese food was discussed – best not to ask), was pretty lame. so on this morning’s entry, i WAS gonna go off on the christians again…

they’re an easy target, and by their own beliefs HAVE to forgive me…so that was the plan. it stemmed from walking out of the gym and having my car surrounded on both sides by cars with no less than FOUR christian signage things on the back of them. stickers. licence plate frames. window signs. like we don’t get the fucking point.

god bad, satan good…or was it the other way around?

maybe THAT’S a bumper sticker the church of satan should put out. or even better, since one of their doctrines is that “guilt” is a concept created by the “lets go to countries and peoples that have existed for THOUSANDS of years just fine and ‘civilize’ them with christianity just so that a few HUNDRED years later some loud-mouthed, long-haired, tattooed pierced guy can openly question our move as he ponders to himself aloud, ‘if they’re better civilized with christianity, where did all those tribes GO in such a short amount of time?'” people of the world…y’all follow that? sad when my digressions are so long they even kinda confuse ME. but anyway, one of the many stickers i saw around my car yesterday was:

“No Jesus? No Peace…KNOW Jesus, KNOW Peace!!!”

cute…they know how to use the words “no” and “know” properly…good thing as little kids they got that extra schooling on sunday, huh? so, how about we do this one on my car:

“No Jesus? No Guilt…KNOW Jesus, KNOW Guilt!!!”

bet that wouldn’t go over as well. i saw a guy on the road today on 360 with TWELVE christian-based bumper stickers on the back window of a toyota truck. there was no GLASS left. i guess that’s so he doesn’t have to see those unchristian-like finger gestures from me as he drove 45 mph in the fast lane of a 65 mph road. that’s what the stickers are for, kids…they KNOW we’re at our most primitive when we get behind the road in traffic; and much like the now wiped-out tribes of the rain forest, they want to do a little motor-missionary work and remind us that their god’s last name is NOT “damn” and that we need to let him back into our lives to truly know peace. and guilt. but never mind that second one. we don’t talk about that. that would be against the rules. or something.

wow…here i WAS gonna avoid picking on the christians and pick on the new apd speed trap…guess i’ll save that for later. i won’t bother mentioning how cool it was to have BRISKET, egg, and cheese breakfast tacos. something TREMENDOUSLY cool about brisket before 9:00 am.

i was also gonna go off on how nice i looked today (good sign when you can turn heads in a store at 8:40 am on a wednesday) since i’m dressed for the memorial service i have to speak at today (black semi-translucent shirt, grey chinos, black pradas – for those who care). the family ii wants me to read the “gram” astrowhore piece at her memorial service, as i mentioned, and who knows? maybe this will start a trend. maybe i could do a coffee house tour. is there anyone that would enjoy traveling the country with me, and then just sitting around and listening to me rant while smoking and drinking coffee? anyone out there think of THAT as a good vacation?

and by the way, if the well-stickered toyota guy IS reading, the gesture i gave you was VERY christian like…it was my finger representation of half a cross. the VERTICAL half…

Replies: 3 Comments

Dammit! where’s the new apd speed trap? some of us low-flying-jets need that vital bit of info. 😉

topenga said @ 07/11/2002 03:26 PM GMT

for MY eulogy, I would expect you to wear any damn thing you please, but hawaiian shirt and shorts would be fitting. Of course, I’d leave you my cigars in the will, a couple of Cubans, and you’re supposed to smoke one while delivering the speech, “he always said, ‘that’s my favorite sign’…”

astrofishy said @ 07/10/2002 05:21 PM GMT

you label-whore, you…..

the redhead said @ 07/10/2002 05:15 PM GMT

road ramblings (a throwback)

Our Visitor