ta da.

rain threatened us, but just like that it fell in love with So Cal and didnt pour.

so we went to the movies.

Shutter Island.

not at all what i expected.

i recommend that if you wanna go, you go soon because you dont want people to ruin it for you and they always do. this is one that people are bound to ruin.

all i gotta say is i heard one theatre booed. ours didnt clap. but the truest and i liked it. maybe me more than she. but im easily amused.

do you have a mailing address?

at royce hall in ucla

he was sick but you wouldnt know it, he was so funny, and at times so wonderful

he made a few mistakes and said “damn it” but people just loved him more

he played some completely non-PC songs that most of us had heard before, but it was still shocking

and he had so many killer tunes that he didnt play any covers and his biggest hit wasnt even the last tune

he totally made fun of the huge Pixar movie that made him famous among children

it was terribly romantic and also hilarious and intimate and no bs.

we had horrible seats but we sat next to this couple who were so nice. the man even turned us on to this raucus version of God’s Song righteously delivered by Etta James, so see everything happens for reasons.

God’s Song

Cain slew Abel Seth knew not why
For if the children of Israel were to multiply
Why must any of the children die?
So he asked the Lord
And the Lord said:

“Man means nothing he means less to me
than the lowiliest cactus flower
or the humblest yucca tree
he chases round this desert
cause he thinks that’s where i’ll be
that’s why i love mankind

I recoil in horror from the foulness of thee
from the squalor and the filth and the misery
How we laugh up here in heaven at the prayers you offer me
That’s why i love mankind”

The Christians and the Jews were having a jamboree
The Buddhists and the Hindus joined on satellite TV
They picked their four greatest priests
And they began to speak
They said “Lord the plague is on the world
Lord no man is free
The temples that we built to you
Have tumbled into the sea
Lord, if you won’t take care of us
Won’t you please please let us be?”

And the Lord said
And the Lord said

“I burn down your cities–how blind you must be
I take from you your children and you say how blessed are we
You must all be crazy to put your faith in me
That’s why i love mankind
You really need me
That’s why i love mankind”

to everyone but the women who he also hurt. baby steps.

we have all had temptations. we have all hurt people who have believed and trusted in us.

its really too bad that tiger has so much money because money really does change everything and im sure that money influenced the speech he gave. for example it’s hard not to suppose that the reason he didn’t mention his alleged mistresses is because of either the possibility of lawsuits or because of the payouts hes already given.

the interesting thing about the money in regard to tiger is this – unlike other athletes, Tiger has decades to earn ridiculous amounts of money. so if he had to pay out millions to each of his alleged mistresses, who cares, he can make large sums of cash simply by returning to golf.

there was a time that the busblog had advertisers. there was a time when because of the content of this blog the advertisers pulled out even though during the time that they were sponsors the hits here doubled and their financial sponsorship didnt increase a penny.

when they pulled out not only was i majorly disappointed, but ultimately relieved because being stifled does not mesh with the reasons for starting a blog.

likewise, the failure of giving a full and comprehensive apology to the human beings youve hurt because of pressure or fears surrounding advertisers and finances doesnt mesh with the reasons for becoming a golfer.

if i was tiger i would have said everything he said including this: “im a golfer. i hit balls with sticks. i was trained and coached from an early age to use those sticks to whack those balls, but clearly i still have a long way to go in regards of honesty and in regards of what it means to be a responsible man. i was a terrible man to the women in my life, particularly those who were intimate with me and who trusted me.”

all relationships are tough: romantic, professional, personal, public, media, virtual… and as good as i think Tigers speech was this morning, i think it was a huge mistake not to address any responsibility for the feelings of the women he used. yes they knew he was a married man, but for some reason they kept finding themselves with Tiger. its hard for me to believe that he didnt lead them on. sure the women were adults and knew that being in an adulterous relationship with someone who is lying to his wife means that he is just as likely to lie to everyone else.

but on the day that all the networks are broadcasting your apology, you cannot leave out the other people who you hurt.

with that said, i thought the gloria allred post-speech press conference was inappropriate and unnecessary and i wish i hadnt seen it because now i feel like part of the problem.

update: the mighty mighty LA Now blog tackles this question and gets a wide variety of reactions in the comments

because of the IRS. dude just pay your taxes. clearly if you have an AIRPLANE you can figure out how to pay your taxes without losing yr mind.

i cant believe NBC is in last place and insists on screwing up everything they can, an now the Olympics. why is it past midnite and i still havent seen the mens finals in figure skating? does nbc really think its biggest audience will a) totally be cool with having to wait 4 hours after an event happened to see it b) be awake and alert after midnight to root on their skater which Twitter has already announced the winner?

i cant believe people stay in sad deals for so long. smart people. beautiful people. successful people. im not talking losers hanging on for dear life to the last strand of acceptance that they’ll ever get. im talking rock n roll rock stars frozen in bad scenes. fascinating, sad, and somehow freezes me from stepping up and saying whats so obvious.

i cant believe that the celtics can only beat the lakers without kobe by one measly point. playing down to the level of ones opponent is one of the lamest aspects of human nature.

i cant believe i get to see randy newman tonight. the very same singer songwriter pianist grammy winner who i saw way back in college when i had the chance to see BB King with Stevie Ray Vaughn or The Who or Randy Newman, and i picked the piano player and was totally satisfied with that choice until SRV died in that copter crash.

i also cant believe that so many people i know dont even know who Randy Newman is. maybe im hanging out with too young of a crowd again. but for reference: short people, i love LA, why i love mankind, old kentucky home, rednecks, political science, sail away, louisianna 1927, the girls of my life, my life is good, falling in love, you got a friend in me. youtube em.

but finally i cant believe i didnt go running last night. its supposed to rain for the next few days and when it rains in LA the whole world collapses and i, like most of LA, resort to becoming hermits because people truly cant drive around here when it rains. which is bad if youre running. at night. like i do. which is why my bod is so Situational.

i pretty much like my everyone crazy. but fun crazy. creative crazy. supernatural crazy.

not mean crazy or violent crazy or scary crazy.

got fixed up with this babe not that long ago and later the matchmaker said sorry she was so crazy and i was all what are you apologizing about, that was the best part about her.

she thought that because i continually tried to water down her craziness that i didnt like it, no i loved it, it just had to be contained. focused. specialized.

last time we ever made out was in the backseat of my car in the hollywood hills.

at some point she said, is there a banana peel on the floor?

twenty minutes later she realized that she wasnt the crazy one at all.

and i never saw her again.

i heart you. i heart you with all my heart.

i heart you so much that you dont even know.

mostly because youre sweet and always say sweet things.

but second mostly because youve put up with the death of Haloscan and the putsch of Echo or whatever that thing is that has replaced our dear old comment box.

i heart you because i know how hard it is to leave a comment in that box now, especially if theres a video in the post. i heart you because you muddle through all the nonsense just to brighten my day.

i heart you because you have been raised right and are paying things forward.

there was a time when this blog would get dozens of comments in each and every post. i suppose those were also the days when i had hair, but i dont think the slowdown on one affected the slowdown of the other.

indeed i know that there are fewer comments today than ever before primarily because this new comment system is the worst user experience ever presented on this hallowed blog.

what i am here to tell you is, this too will pass.

there will be a day this year when the busblog and all that is here will move to a new platform. and it probably wont be Blogger. it will probably rhyme with Bird Stress.

i have done my best to remain loyal to the date i came to prom with, but over the 8-9 years that we’ve been slowdancing, she hasnt learned any new moves, and her dress seems more than tattered around the edges

and unfortunately it appears that her heart isnt in it any more.

how do i know this? because of the comments. Blogger saw that when Haloscan got worked over by Echo that bloggers on Blogger had two options: either use the stinky ass Blogger comments, or use the stinky ass Haloscan comments.

if i was king of the world, or better king of Blogger, id say oooo we have an opportunity here to do something great with comments.

i mean, Blogger isnt just Blogger, its Google. and whereas Google loves introducing new products (most recently Buzz), dont you think theyd be just as interested in improving a product used by millions of loyal customers? especially if said product (in this case a commenting product) could easily be integrated with Buzz (and Gmail, and Wave, and other Google products)?

instead they have appeared to turn their backs on Blogger. so if Google has abandoned the platform, exactly who am i being loyal to?

the most important people on this blog are you, the readers. i should be loyal to you.

because i heart you too.

so i thank you for your patience and i promise things will get better sooner as opposed to later.

i do

2010 Pillow Fight Club – San Francisco from bloopy on Vimeo.

i know i dont say it all the time. i know i take you for granted a lot.

there was a time when id post 3-4 times a day and show you my heart and my head and my soul and my anger and my joy and my fears and my everything. and those days are long long gone.

every now and then i will reveal stuff but not even close to what it once was.

ive traded it all for money guns and pills. i mean a respectable career where i have health insurance.

even though ive always been healthy.

i traded it in so my mom can rest easy at night.

she is the one i love the most. sorry. and she is the one who’s happy that this blog is PG-13 and happy that im wearing clothes to work again.

Limp Bizkit may have done it for the nookie. i did it for my mommy.

heres a video our pal Bloopy put together.

back in 1965

you might not get it all, it goes pretty fast…

i love bob dylan, but i think here he was being a jerk.

thats the problem with genius, sometimes it gets fermented into something that is hard to swallow.

so my genius friends tell me.

as im making them swallow.