thank you for inviting me to be your 8th friend on facebook.

something troubles me though.

how does such a pretty young lady allegedly working somewhere as interesting as the Los Angeles Times only have 7 friends on facebook?

also, how is it that i dont remember seeing you around the building and yet you want me to be your 8th friend?

did you hate everyone at Laguna Beach High AND everyone at your college?

also, why are the only friends you have on facebook guys? do you hate all women too?

meanwhile who is this marisa gabrielson who bears a striking resemblance to you, who, like so many pretty young ladies does not share her private information to plain old strangers on the web. and she, I would hazard to guess, has hundreds of facebook friends

because she is really marisa

and not some shady spam-based operation waiting to lure horny weird men into their trap and unleash some ungodly web-based chicanery upon their computer for no extra charge.

real spam dude behind fake babe profile, why on earth would you target the LA Times, an organization that could easily investigate whats behind all this tom foolery and out you faster than you could say chimichanga (for no other reason than its fun to say chimichanga)?

you sound like someone dying to get caught.

which is what will happen to you, by us, or by someone. dont worry.

and if youre lucky someone like marisa will sue you for how youve damaged her in some way.

which is why i intentionally spelled her name wrong

on this sacred blog.

which means omg its Answers from Tony

what are your thoughts on the proposed weezer tour where they play two nights in each city, first night they play the blue album start to finish and second night pinkerton?

i have several thoughts.

first you should know that both of those records are two of my faves of all time.

you should also know that both of those records are pretty short (Blue Album is 41:17, Pinkerton is 34:36). and we all know =w= isnt hurtin for cash. and we know Rivers is a spiritual man and therefore wouldnt seriously charge fans $$$$ to see two shows when conceivably the band could do both albums in one night.

because im olde i actually saw the first blue album tour and weezer played all of it plus a few b-sides at the Universal Amphitheater (as it was called then) and it was a great show but it felt abbreviated because most of those songs are short and feel shorter.

if i was the weeze and i wanted to plant my flag id do the blue record first have a cute intermission where, i dont know, The Rentals would come out and play 4-5 songs, then id come out with Matt Sharp and do Pinkerton, and bust out some metal classics for the encore with Matt and the Rentals all on stage.

now that would be a concert.

anything else would border on gimmickry, novelty, and things-unlike-weezer.

i was all, f that, you deserve the best, lets do it right

hot sake is so good. you try to only have one large but a small bottle always gets ordered later.

this is what the sushi chef looks like after a beer and some sake

the fish in the back was some wild japanese mystery that was sooooo good. in front (outta focus) is the sawara

wild sake salmon in the back cold chillin

lincoln blvd., btw, near the Custom Hotel

sauteed mushrooms and japanese green peppers

in the back is the toro that makes girls squeal in delight and up front was an aja that was so great

they can even make potatoes taste better than any potatoes youve ever had

end it all with some green tea ice cream. not pictured, the lobster roll. meal for two is over a hundy so save up, however so worth it.

Q. What’s better Blogging Bull-pucky… or straight truthin’?

as you may have noticed the tagline of the busblog is “nothing in here is true”, and the busblog has provided me with pretty much anything any blogger could want: wine, women, and a good paying job.

i say set up your blog the way that will allow you to write as well as you can. for me that tag line allows me the right to flat out lie. do people always believe that line? nope. does it mean that people may not trust everything written on this site? sure – but who cares – you shouldn’t believe everything you read on the web (unless it’s from a trusted site like latimes.com)

but some people wont write Anything on their blog because they are afraid of the repercussions from their friends family or bosses. if thats the case then they should get a private blog and/or just write fiction. but for the most part, blogging can be an exercise about baring ones soul and being honest to oneself and the world. thus keeping it real and telling the ugly truth, to me, is the better way to blog.

Q. What are your top 10 directors of all time? (any time period, genre, country)

1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Buster Keaton
3. Alfred Hitchcock
4. Woody Allen
5. Spike Lee
6. Quentin Tarentino
7. Orson Wells
8. Akira Kurosawa
9. Spike Jonze
10. Andrew Blake

all of us. it’s our one unified shared experience.

we might not all kiss the prettiest girl in school.

we might not all find our true love.

we might not all live the california dream of a house, two kids, a mistress, and a nanny.

but we will all die.

and yet most of us run around like there is not an invisible expiration date stamped on our foreheads.

most of us float through life like we don’t influence each other.

most of us coast through our days as if we have infinity to make a difference.

this video game, this rock show, this slow dance ends with worms eating us.

the end.

so while we have this sliver of time of animation, no matter what the losers in your social circle tell you through verbal and non verbal means

you have a chance to rock.

you have a chance to be the led zeppelin of your block.

you have the chance to be better than every one else who has ever done the thing that you do.

and as cheesy as it sounds, its all up to, and only up to you.

if you work at a college newspaper, if you play in the marching band, if you volunteer at a shelter, it doesnt matter. whatever it is, you have the tools, you have the spirit, you have the chance

to kick it up a notch.

not because you are so special, but because, and you know this, because everyone else is playing this game in slow motion.

everyone else is waiting for a time out on the field.

everyone else is waiting for a distraction in their day to allow them the coffee break of their lives or the shiny keys to jangle.

they say they want to rock, but they dont really.

they say they want to be the best, but come on.

they say they are committed to excellence, but the only thing they’ve ever committed to is dragging their feet and indirectly dragging everyone else down a step with them.

so the question is when will you stop the cycle of mediocrity in your life, shift out of second gear and

floor it

if you say “today” you still dont get it.

the only correct answer is now.

because “today” is the day people will die.

now is the time we live.

everythings a drinking game to me

like every time sarah palin said you betcha or winked i drank a shot.

every time someone makes the Dumbest Mistake on the Internet Ever i drink a shot.

or every time i miss Harry Caray while watching the Cubs lose, i drink a shot.

when i sober up and make it out into the real world i take “virtual shots”.

like the other day at Target i saw a lady with a super tight shirt on and i took a shot for each of her rolls that she could have easily “hid” with, i dont know, clothes that acutally fit her.

tonight running i took a virtual shot every time someone annoyed me: like the cars that exited Barnsdale Park at 10pm forcing me to run on the grass

or the bike riding down the sidewalk when all day when im driving they seem to have no problem “sharing the road” with the cars.

one guy without a water bottle in his hand tried to race me down this one street and i let him win for a block but i knew he’d die trying so i upped my pace just a tad and got him over by Bukowski Square.

and i took a virtual shot.

these are some of the lessons i wont be able to share with my children until theyre at least eleven or twelve.

which is another reason why kids are not nearly as fun as people make them out to be.

and such boring light weights.

we have one blog that we launched on WordPress, our photo blog, where this behind the scenes video has a home

and tomorrow we are launching another blog on WordPress that is also beautiful and can do some stuff that even our photo blog cant do.

for years we have used Typepad which is fine but lacks some features and benefits that WordPress excels in.

so before every goes gaga about the new blog launching tomorrow seriously embrace the lovliness that is our photo blog, Framework, and bask in its glory.

heres a gallery to get you going.

i like to spit. i like to wear bathing suit shorts with pockets. i like to listen to heavy metal created as close to Hell as possible. i like to bring pretty girls flowers.

i like to eat meat, drink dark beer, and watch ESPN.

i enjoy the Miss Universe pageant. and farting.

i drive a car thats japanese and has dents. it was made in 1994.

its a good car. a reliable car. but when i crank my metal it doesnt sound evil.

and the cup holders cannot handle the girth of the beverages i receive from the drive thru

when i honk my horn it sounds like a duck on its last days.

i want a horn that will make people pee their pants.

i want a car that says get the eff out of my way THIS IS THE FAST LANE.

i want a car with a back seat so i can say come on baby lets live the american dream.

i dont care if a car is a hybrid. i dont want an SUV.

i dont want a car with a video camera pointed backwards because unlike oh so many i know how to parallel park – i am a man.

strangely there are very few cars that make me say: yes, you deserve me.

but this car, despite being a dodge, caught my attention.

prepare to be test driven, retro american beast.

its famous. for a reason.

for a while i just promised myself that instead of going to church id read a passage a week as that was always my favorite part of church: the reading of the Gospel.

i started at the beginning of Genesis and was on a quest to read the good book all the way through to the end. something i had done my senior year of college.

but when i realized i wasnt making much progress, and i was forgetting what i was reading, i upped it to reading for an hour each Sunday.

this week i started Job. its a lot easier to read than i remembered. maybe because its sorta a poem. you can blaze through a chapter in Job in about 3-4 minutes. as most people know it’s a story about a very successful man who really loves God and is super obedient and then one day Satan (or The Accuser) says “well duh God, of course Job is really sweet and prays to you all the time, look at him he’s rich, has a lot of animals and servants, and has this huge wonderful family, take all that stuff away from him and i bet you he renounces you and hates your freakin guts.”

so for some reason God allows Satan to kill his kids, demolish his animals, and put boils all over Job’s flesh. then they both see how Job reacts.

in an hour, because i have ADD, i only made it through the first 14 chapters. so far Job went from it’s ok, it’s ok because “the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away” to omg kill me already this blows.

his friends have shown up to listen to his moans and groans. they give him advice but when all your animals have died, your kids have died, and you cant even sit straight because of your boils, you dont wanna hear any damn advice from your stupid friends.

it made me realize all the stupid advice i have given my friends was probably equally annoying.

so any friend who i have tried to counsel lately, and strangely i have quite a few who probably could relate to Job right now, sadly, i am very sorry. i dont remember exactly how Job ends, but probably the best thing a friend can do is say i love you im here for you and together we’re going to figure out how best to ease your pain.

amen