10. engage in frequent, and empty sex.

I had heard about blogs about 2 years ago (I know, I’m behind times) and wanted to know what a blog was.
Typed in “what is a blog” and WHAM! I’ve been hooked ever since.
I tried my hand at blogging but I can’t devote the time needed to do it justice and (you were right) If you are blogging like you should, your job suffers!
Anyway, I have viewed other blogs and none of them, I repeat, None of them! appeal to me the way yours does. You have said it before..”Keepin it real “… thats the best I can do to describe my attraction to your writings
I’ve been reading your blog on a daily basis and loving it,I mean totally getting it. (even though I am a white male,48 years old, living in B.F.E.
(Hico,Texas) I feel I know you.
But since you started working at the LAist, I feel your work (here on the busblog) is suffering. I’m NOT comming down on you dude, just keeping it real. I know you get all the love from you fans and I still am one!
I just thought you would want to know (and you probobly realized it before I did) that you J.O.B. is causing you job to suffer.
Yes, I miss the 2 – 4 posts a day but I don’t think that is the issue.
Maybe its the 3 a.m. posting after cattin around Hollywood and fondling lushous ladies using your witt charm and of coarse liquering them up first.
I tuned in to the LAist and you dont appear to be quite as free of a writer as the one I knew.
Nonetheless I will continue to read and look for your eloquent way of puttin things in stead of posting videos and replacement pieces.
I want the original tony back!!!
please let me know you at least saw this.
I know it dosn’t seem like it ,but, this is still

Love
Billy the Kid

++++++++++

Dear Billy,

I know the busblog has been negatively effected by my new gig. truth of the matter is every job ive had has effected this sensitive masterwork over the years. there were times at buzznet where i felt like i was talking way too much about buzznet on the busblog, but i was loving what i was doing and i didnt want to stop.

when i spent more time at the xbi i felt like i wrote about that place too much. when i was dating ashley i felt like i wrote about her too much. now i feel like i dont write enough about anything on the busblog because im writing so much at LAist.

the truth of the matter is even on a good day of the busblog i would only bust with three posts. and one of them was a picture or a rerun or something really short. so really two and a half posts a day.

now at LAist im writing like five pretty solid pieces a day. yes the tone and style is different but, well, it’s a different audience than the busblog. theyre anti hot babe and pro pearl jam.

they keep asking questions like “what has happened to LAist?”

and now you are asking what has happened to the busblog.

what is happening is im staying up until seven in the morning, im getting carpal tunnel again, and my phone is ringing off the hook. im the happiest ive been in a very long time. i wake up at noon, and the hits over there are on fire.

but there will be a transition period of slight turbulence before we get to proper cruising altitude. not only am i writing five times over there and once or twice over here but im doing tons of behind the scenes wheelings and dealings, most important of all getting together a lineup of contributers who combined can tell the story of this miraculous city, hourly.

and the tail is distracting as fuck.

canseco was traded for a defector + danielle wrote on LAist + i took a good picture last night

thelonious monk and monster, zeppelin floyd stones hendrix, pixies, nirvana, aerosmith, van halen
janes addiction, run dmc, dylan, bob seger, iron maiden, weezer, tsar, neil young, randy newman,
the sex pistols, the velvet underground, the talking heads, the police, motorhead, queen, stevie wonder
metalica, skynyrd, hank sr., tom petty, bowie, prince, the ramones, the clash, and nwa

maybe the eagles

tom waits is coming

08-01 Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
08-02 Asheville, NC – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
08-04 Memphis, TN – Orpheum Theatre
08-05 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
08-07 Louisville, KY – Palace Theatre
08-09 Chicago, IL – Auditorium Theatre
08-11 Detroit, MI – Opera House
08-13 Akron, OH – Akron Civic

every night is sunday night for me right now. i mean that in a good way.

theres two things i have to do this week and then im free. i havent been free in a while.

tonight i have to see the grates at spaceland. not have to because crap i have to, but have to because i love them and this is their last show in america for a while. theyre going back home to aussieland.

speaking of which they ran a rerun of wolfmother on letterman last night. so good.

the other thing is on thursday i get to meet the publisher of gothamist, jake, who is the owner of LAist. then right after that we’re having an LAist meeting where i get to meet the contributers. if youre a contributer and didnt get the email, email me and i will send you the details.

that day will involve some drinking.

monday i got the verizon evdo card for my laptop. it allows you to have dsl type speed whereever theres a really good cell phone signal. if you have a bad signal its like 56k. i paid $147 for the card + shipping, and its $60 a month for unlimited service.

and because it allows you to broadcast the signal, im seriously considering getting rid of my dsl when that contract expires, and get rid of the landline, and run everything through the cell phone and the evdo. cutting dsl and the landline would be a savings of $100+ a month.

but i would lose my sweet home phone number.

its 511am. i need to go to sleep now.

i saw the best fireworks last night.

one sentence cherrypicking + instant contest + the kelly clarkson one was funny

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

–That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refuted his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred. to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. –And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

–John Hancock

New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

Download the Constitution, Play it in your iPod

unrelated: NSA asked AT&T to help spy on us way before 9/11

ive been drinking. im doing ok though. very tired. my hands are tired from typing every day for the last two weeks.

i think i can do it though.

it would be nice to have a few days off now and then. but sometimes i dont want the time off.

i guess this is a good as time as any to let people know that LAist is accepting writers, photographers, videographers, and illustrators. cant really pay you anything but you get to have your work seen by thousands and thousands of cool kids.

just send an email to LAist at gmail.com and say tony i wanna write for LAist and this is what i wanna give you.

id love contributors who can provide two to three things a week. which isnt much, i can attest to, as some who has busted with 4-6 things a day.

the trick is to find something happening in LA or something you found or something of interest and write 3-4 paragraphs about it. pretty simple really.

any questions, just email me.

im pretty mellow to deal with.

right now i might go back to napping.

caio bellas/

and this sunday was no different.

they say you should read it over and over because more things will start making sense and often times it will be of things that you least expect.

i already knew that premarital sex was okay in the bible, but tonight i saw something of interest. Genesis 26 6-11 where Isaac goes to a new town with his super hot wife and is afraid that if he tells the people of the town that it’s his wife, they’ll kill him to be with her. so he says shes his sister.

now this is a curious lie that is repeated two other times in Genesis, with Isaac’s mother and father.

each time, the men who were interested in Abraham and Isaac’s wives were upset with Abraham and Isaac because they almost committed adultury with them.

10 Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

11 So Abimelech charged all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.” – Gen 26, 10-11

one of the people might EASILY have lain with her?

sounds to me that pre-marital sex was not only not a sin, but it was something that could be easily done. as long as it wasnt with someones wife.

which is probably why there are no laws against it. nor should there be.

but back to one of the people easily laying with each other back in the day.

sounds like the good old days.

above photo of a dodger fan being arrested at angel stadium sunday afternoon

exclusive interview with coop + terra returns + alecia returns + flagrant

who smokes pot as a good thing because usually they tend to be less uptight, generally topless, and fascinated by any decent movie you toss in the dvd player.

but this one smokes a LOT and gets really turned on when shes baked. gets wild. scary wild. and then when shes done she falls asleep and stays asleep for a few hours. all of those things are fine, except for the part where she wants me to hold her while she sleeps.

im all baby i gots work to do. but how do you say no sometimes.

the new job has only been mine for eighteen days and i already have done so much and need to do so much. chickie is coming over in a minute and we’re going to watch the Strangers With Candy complete series dvd box set thing.

its crazy hot in la. 100 degrees and its gonna stay like this for a week. im supposed to get my evdo card on monday which means i plan on being poolside all week.

tomorrow however i will be attending the dodger angels game which for some reason is a day game. in anaheim. we are not in the shade. and we will be drinking steadily since we’re taking the train back and forth.

afterwards karisa is having a pool party but its all the way on the wesssside so f that noise.

i got the Damone record in the mail today. and kt tunstall. and the format.

im going to take a long shower like mookie in do the right thing.