Will Oldham.

"as I sing the whole day through"

Richard Dudley

Ask Richard Dudley about his teddy bear joke everytime you see him. He is one of the Two Mirrors.

Mary's Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine _________ ?

A friend Betsy just called me and frantically told me that Pluto has just seceded from the federation of planets. We now only have eight planets in our solar system. Why did I have to hear this from a phone call, why was it not headline news?

Jacksonville's Original Boner

Did you know that UNF's original plan was nestling its campus downtown? In the 70's, when UNF was first opening, it was trying to work with the City of Jacksonville to open downtown. It's needless to say that this would have been tremendously beneficial to both UNF and the city of Jacksonville.

UNF was stopped in their tracks when COJ began giving incentives for another organization. Can you guess who? If you have been in Jax for a while, and have seen tragedies (for example) such as Einsteins be shut down for no apparent reason, then you will know the answer... The First Baptist Church. This wonderful bunch of enlightened Baptists received the properties that UNF wanted in the end. This leads me to wonder, very much like Britney Spears did in her methed-out home video, is time travel possible?

The land that UNF is currently on was given to them by two prominent Jacksonville families (the kernan and hodges families.) Because they were very savvy and resourceful people they knew that in 15 to 20 years the land surrounding UNF would skyrocket in value. Try imagining what downtown life would be like right now if we had a university campus plopped in the heart of Jax... I bet their would have been a hell of a lot more people at those Cadets shows at the Moto Lounge and Milk Bar.

On another note, I have attended a few meetings about parking and there seems to be little movement forward. One of the topics being discussed at these meetings include digital parking meters... this "smart" meter seems like a great idea. It would solve quite a few problems... and I really love the idea of making the parking enforcement officers obsolete. Thank you to Owen holmes for your exposé on the negligent parking officials plaguing this city. I had quite a few people come into the store on tuesday, when the most recent publication of Folio hit stands, and offer their support. Thanks again Owen for the supportive article.



Speaking of meetings, during the last one I attended, I walked up to Jenkins, Stephen Dare, and Owen after the meeting and noticed Owen looked uncomfortable with their conversation. I overheard "gaming rooms" and realized they were talking about the article about my dad's place on Emerson. When I chimed in about my opinion, I noticed Jenkins quickly dismised the conversation and walked away after a few of my interjections. I later discovered that Jenkins lives in the community that my dad's gaming room is located... if that was in the Folio story I either overlooked it or I didn't pick up on it because I had not met Jenkins on a personal basis. This makes me question a few things about the campaign against my dads store... There was a cover story in the Folio a couple months ago about a gaming room opening in a community where it's not welcome. My dad opened this place. He opened in an available building right beside a strip club and an adult video store (thats two seperate stores). The "community" was in an uproar because they wanted a "Moe's" or some sort of family-oriented business to go in the available space. Do I really need to hypothetically ask what-in-the-fuck-kind-of-family-business would open between a strip club and adult video store, a short walk away from the conglomeration of hookers working the Philips Highway/Emerson area?

There was supposed to be a city hall meeting about this very subject yesterday (which had been postponed from the previous week). My dad responded to his customers request to speak/defend him at this meeting by having a bus for all of them to go to the meeting together. The meeting was postponed again. I'll keep you posted on the postponements...



As for the title of the post, Nick and Max and I were talking about how the word boner has integrated itself in our daily vocabulary. Though we usually use it in the vulgar sense the use of that word in the title is the use that means a mistake.

bon‧er2  /ˈboʊnər/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[boh-ner] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
a foolish and obvious blunder; stupid mistake.

below urbania

There is a new blogger blog. It is Suburban Jacksonville. Its nice to hear the voice of people who are not so downtown and not so male. Looks like Blogger is blowin' up.
Fuck Myspace and its always in your face ads. I am hoping the suburban girls will reveal their identities so us blogger boys can drool.

POOL FIST WEDDING PARTY!!!!!!!!!!

OKAY, so if you missed this past weekend you missed one of the greatest weekends this culturally adolescent city has seen in a very long time.


First, Thee Harmonious Fists came out of hiding, strapped on their sound makers and expelled their chaos upon an unexpecting crowd at TSI this past Friday night. Fun was had all around. Alcohol was poured over every willing face. Bowels were shaken to a point of near emergency releasal. Guitar heads were shoved into every open back.
Sounds like fun right? RIGHT!


TSI is hands down the best place in Jacksonville to play a live show. The crowd was awesome... I've never been involoved in a live show that was more well received than that one.


The MCR pool party/sidewalk sale was the the second most happenin' place to be this past weekend. I have to admit when Max pitched the idea to me, my response was "eeeehhhhhhhhhh?"... but, I was wrong again. Max's crazy ideas usually make for awesome times. The pool party was definitely an AWESOME TIME!!! We'll keep having them through the end of summer.


Thirdly, my brother got married... another good one down, ladies.

Every Body Wants To Get Fisted

the Legendary "fuck everything" band Thee Harmonious Fists are playing at TSI tonight. It is for Dennie Carter's (my Bro) bachelor party. He is getting married on saturday (what a sucker). It is also going to be Adam Witakin's birthday, so expect an impromtu performance by Thee Monarchy V. In honor of Jaxcore here are some music by Jax bands including Thee Fists.

Tracy Shedd: Living In An Abandoned Firehouse (magnetic feilds cover)
The Cadets: While My Guitar Gently Weeps (beatles cover)
Thee Harmonious Fists Gluttony stomp
The Cadets: Drifters Cotlillion (mix3)
Beat Cancel: Don't Rock
The Cadets: the Saddest Story Ever Told (Magnetic Fields cover)
Hand of the Host: beaster
Crash the Satellites: Learning To Land
the Cadets: My Own Master
Emperor X: Right To The Rails


Yeah, sorry its mostly Cadets, its what I have the most of on my computer.



I'm not sure if most people know what a great music scene we have here. I don't think anyone pays too much attention because no band has gotten "big." I have lived in other places and no place has had such a concentration of great bands:

the Julius Airwave
Hand of The Host
Crash the Satellites
Electric President
Rob Roy
Monarchy V
Emperor X
Applied Communications
Civilization
shwa-ray
My Toy Heart
the Cadets
Thee Harmonious Fists
Chinese Horses
Creepy Hand
Blood Mountain

just to name a few.