My New MP3 Player and a very funny comic

With the money I got for my birthday, I bought myself a new MP3 player on eBay. I got it for less than it is sold for in the stores, so I am stoked.


Here is what I put on it to start off: Bruce Springsteen's Devils and Dust and Darkness on the Edge of Town. And a new Irish band called "U2." I put an album of theirs called "The Joshua Tree" and a new recording of theirs calls "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb." This band is really talented and mark my words, they will be a big success. Seriously, though, I only just recently started listening to The Joshua Tree. I always loved Rattle and Hum and Zooropa, but never got into Joshua Tree. Let me say this now: that album is really really good and it as a song on it about a coal mining town called "Red Hill Mining Town." which led me to think of good songs about coal mining (or in some cases, just mining in general):


North Country Blues by Bob Dylan
North Country Blues by Joan Baez
Fare Thee Well Old Ely Branch by Aunt Molly Jackson
The L&M Don't Stop Here Any More By Michelle Shocked
The L&M Don't Stop Here Any More By Johnny Cash
Red Hill Mining Town by U2
Big Bad John by Jimmy Dean
Blood On The Coal by The Folksmen
Youngstown by Bruce Springsteen
Working in a Coal Mine by DEVO
1913 Massacre by Woody Guthrie


Shall I put them in order of best to worst? I shall.
1. North Country Blues by Joan Baez... (oh yeah, you heard me Dylan, I put Joan Baez's ahead of yours. I think her voice in the song, the narrator being a woman is more powerful than a man singing... when a woman tells the tale, it is of woe and helplessness... when a man sings the song it is of anger and emasculation.)
2. The L&M Don't stop here any more by Michelle Shocked
3. 1913 Massacre by Woody
4. Youngstown by Bruce Springsteen (When I die i don't want no part of Heaven, I would not to heaven's work well, I pray the devil comes and takes me to work in the fiery furnaces of Hell."
5. North Country Blues by Bob Dylan
6. Red Hill Mining Town by U2
7 Fare Thee Well of Ely Branch by Aunt Molly
8 L&M by Johnny Cash
9 Blood on the Coal by the Folksmen - that is the band in The Mighty Wind
10. Bad John by Jimmy Dean - my dad used to sing this song to me when i was a kid.
11 Working in a Coal Mine by DEVO


Other songs I remember my dad singing to me when I was a kid:
Rockin' Robin






peace,
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My Birthday

So I had a birthday yesterday. I am now 35 and I only have to work for like 28 more years. Niiiiice.



When I got home from work yesterday, Fiona was standing at the back door waiting for me. When I opened the door she yelled "Haaappy BIRthday, Daaaaddy!!!!" that was really awesome.



We had my favorite, Cream of Broccoli Soup. Along with it, we had Baked Brie and crackers, and then some Ice Cream Cake. You can not go wrong with ice cream cake.



Amy, Fiona, and Mom Z gave me a gift certificate to the local hobby shop to help me start building my model railroad layout. Here is what i am hoping it will look like:





Seriously, though, Larry has a really cool layout and I am thinking of setting something up in the basement. Fiona really likes Larry's layout and I am thinking it will be something she and I can do together.





Here is a comic that I think is kind of funny. It is a true story of something that Amy said a few months ago. I don't know why, but lately I have been coming up with decent comic ideas, I write them down, and then, like 3 months later, I draw them. I'd like to start drawing comics a lot more, like I used to.





Amy is concerned that you can't tell that the woman in the comic is Amy. I think it goes without saying. She says it is easy to pick me out because I am wearing a Phillies hat. She said "maybe when you draw me, you can draw something at people associate with me" So I think that all future Amy comics will be of her doing pottery. I don't know how that will play out, but I suppose we will see. Or perhaps, I will just start drawing her with a flower on her shirt or something like that.

Peace
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Couple of Things and an outdated comic

The Eagles season is over. It was a fun season. My favorite thing about the Eagles season was that Fiona and I (and sometimes Amy) would go up to Mom and Dad's to watch the game every sunday. So I will miss that. Mom asked me if I'd want to come up and watch all the Phillies games this year. That would be a monumental endeavor, but I think it would be fun. I don't suppose it will happen, though.



My favorite part of the Eagles game on saturday was when they showed that woman in the crowd with an offensive t-shirt . Mom missed it and i said "that will be on YouTube by halftime."
YouTube proved me wrong, but it was up there by Noon on sunday.



Here is a comic I wrote around Halloween:

I think it would have been funnier if Amy would have said "makerel" or "walleye" but then i could not have written "a true story" behind it.