sarah said she doesnt read this blog any more

i said what if i put your picture on it.

youd think you wouldnt have to bribe the person you have lunch with almost every afternoon

but now you understand how hard it is to retain the attention of your audience in the blogosphere.

seriously there are more blogs than bands and movies and tvstations and magazines and newspapers and radio stations combined times a million.

no really, there are over 100 million blogs.

jay-z says “you could be anywhere in the world

but youre here with me.

i appreciate that”.

fridays should be fan appreciation day.

blogs should thank their readers for being there.

they should put up their picture and say a few words

and then all of the readers of the blog should chime in and say nice things about the reader of the week.

because sarah is a princess maybe we should start with her

sarah is iranian and mexican. isnt that impossible?

sarah wears heels almost every day. today i really needed some soup so despite the fact that she was in these super high heels, she hoofed it several blocks down the road

and then posed for a photo in front of her favorite building in downtown

the lapd hq.

so there you have it, reader appreciation day winner: sarah

saw Hole last night

with karisa

our dinner lasted longer than the show

but the thing about rock stars, for me at least, is i love trainwrecks

which is why im gonna go tonight to see it again.

maybe this time she’ll play Celebrity Skin

update: my man August “Downtown” Brown was at the gig and filed a great review on the Pop & Hiss blog.

this is one of my favorite graphs from his review, and more proof that ive got a long way to go if i wanna be a great music critic:

Surprisingly, some [of the new songs] were [fantastic]. “Samantha” had a teen-noir quality that allowed its bleak tale of emotional consumption to go down easy. Love’s voice has lost its hurricane gale, but not always to a bad effect — here her constant rush for breath made the song feel resigned in a smirking, goodbye-to-all-that way. “Skinny Little Bitch” is most akin to the early Hole favorites, and it felt like a rebuttal to the beach-dream underground rock of today’s twentysomethings. The tune hit like a tossed-off, self-deprecating joke at a party but hinted at a deep well of darkness underneath.

read the whole Hole review here.

people on drugs should not drive wear flip flops

maybe i missed a lot by not going to Coachella this year

there were bikini girls im being told who were gorgeous

there were bands im being told who were rockin and magical

and from all reports there was a lot of drug and alcohol abuse which led to comedy like this.

so glad i simply drink diet pepsi these days and eat sushi.

for you wont be seeing me in situations like this.

love though how my man still tried to address the ladies despite his issues with balance

you go through life and you think

youve seen it all, heard it all, kissed it all

then you see something like this, which you are certain has happened before

but maybe it hasnt.

im sure it has.

im going to write a childrens book for Christmas, ive decided.

so start making babies and then teach em how to read

cuz youre gonna wanna read this to them

a letter from Tomdog to the busbloggians

on his birthday

Hi Tony,

I was wondering if you could do me a huge favor and perhaps pay homage to your now missing bike.

I’ve decided to bite the bullet and commit to doing the Pan-Mass Challenge this year which means I need to raise $5,000 by the beginning of August and I need to be able to ride 100 miles a day for 3 days in a row but the riding is the easy part. Everyone who chooses to do the “long” ride will only be doing a couple hundred miles over 2 days from Sturbridge to gay old Provincetown, but me and a select few other riders will be riding from New York State to Provincetown with pro cyclist Magnus Backstedt (Tour de France stage winner, Paris-Roubaix winner, etc.) who is also a cancer survivor which adds another day and nearly 100 more miles in an effort to raise more media awareness and support for the PMC. Perhaps the best thing is that we will be able taking over the streets of Cape Cod and there’s nothing the stupid racist cops can do about it.

I’m doing this because I took stock of everyone who touched my life who was made ill or was taken by cancer and found the list to be staggering. I’ve lost more than 1 person per year for the last 20 years alone. F! I know that you have also been affected so I was hoping you would consider mentioning my Pan-Mass Challenge donation page: http://www.pmc.org/profile/TL0097 in a future busblog post.

100% of the money that goes through that page goes to cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute where people I know who received dire diagnosis have gone for treatments that at least extended their lives, and in some cases saved their lives. Organizations like Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong Foundation, who I also support, have administrative costs that take 10-18% of every donated dollar and they’re actually pretty good compared to some others but the PMC gets 100% of the $. When people donate online through my page they will automatically get their tax deduction acknowledgement for next year’s taxes. Also, if they have do a year-end credit card statement, it should show up there as a charitable deduction.

Sorry to rattle on, but you’ve got a ton of smart readers who are most likely to care about something like this.

Hope you are well and thanks for your time in reading this!

not only is tomdog a great guy, but hes one of the greatest guys you’ll ever ever ever meet.

plus he left behind a bar of the best smelling soap in my shower when he last housesit my crib. tomdog what soap was that?

either way, Happy Birthday Tom!!

9 minutes with tony

i have 9, now 8 minutes to go before i head off to lunch. so lets get a post in here and tell you whats going through my mind.

whats chapping my hide, if thats what you call it is the Curious Case of the Stolen Bike.

i have a bike i never ride and it sits in my kitchen that i never use.

the other day i noticed it was missing. now i have a maid and zero roommates. and sometimes i forget to shut my front door.

i dont think my maid took it cuz she loves me and vice versa. which makes me think that while she was cleaning my house she left the back door open and maybe she moved my bike near the door and someone just stole it.

water under the bridge.

what bugs me is i noticed my easter basket was stolen!

now that i cant stand.

seriously, who goes into a home, steals a bike and then says mmmmm M&M’s!?

i can understand if youre unemployed. i can understand if youre hungry and have kids at home waiting for food. but jelly beans? granted, thats the closest thing to “food” that i have, but come on.

plus it helps me triangulate when the bike was jacked.

all i know is i may soon have a web cam streaming from my many mansions. waiting to catch a theif.