Going to a concert with my dad

I have been into this band called Pinback for 5 years or so. They are a smaller indy band that was starting out when I first saw them years ago, but they have been getting bigger. Their music is very cool and bassy, a bit different. Anyway, my dad heard me listening to their music one time when I was home last year and he kind of liked it. He burned the cd. I got a call from him a couple months back and he told me that he and my mom were going to see Pinback in concert that weekend. I guess they liked the show because they're back in town and my dad has tickets again, except I am going this time. Bout time my dad started listening to cool music...

(Download 2 songs here. I recommend Lyon first, then Manchuria)

Yuck

Talk about unsanitary.

PS Queenie, I'm still working on your request.

eBay Treasure Hunt

I'm addicted to this. eBay is having a huge "treasure hunt" in which they give you a clue, and then you have to try and find the hidden item that corresponds to that clue. The prize is $1,000 for whoever finds the item first, and they do it 25 times a day until next Wednesday. I came so close to winning one too. The hint was The Grateful Dead. I searched for Jerry Garcia, then Tie Die, Tie Dye, then Ben and Jerry's (I don't know why I did this, maybe I was thinking Cherry Garcia), then Cherry Garcia. It actually turned out to be a Ben & Jerry's T-shirt. If only I hadn't put in the "and" in my search I may have won a cool G! Try it out, especially if you are at work. Just wait until they add a new clue and search for yourself. Some of the hints are damn hard. They have all of past hints on the link above, so see if you would have gotten it. They add new clues about every hour.
Here are some hints:
All the winning auctions are Buy it Now, so you can search for only BIN items.
The auctions will have 0 bids, so you can search for only auctions with no bids.
And, lastly, the items are listed only in US currency and in the united states.

Good luck!

So that's not a bluff

I found myself at the shitty $1-$2 poker tables of Commerce Casino last Tuesday. To my immediate left was a man of about 75. He was pretty cool, knew a few things about the game, and had told me he travelled quite a bit to the Phillipines, Thailand, etc. I found myself talking to him more than anyone else at the table. His favorite thing to do was lie about his hand, like saying he had a good pair when he had the nut flush. So after he did this for the third time or so, I said to him, "I don't think I can believe a word you've said to me because you obviously love to lie. I doubt you have ever even been to the Phillipines!" Then he gets serious, pulls out his wallet, and says to me, "You see, I am a member of the True Faith." I'm thinking to myself, "Which one is that?" and expect him to pull out some sort of membership card. But I was mistaken. Instead he pulls out multiple pictures of himself in strange dress, posing with a different woman in each one. "You see, these are my four wives. The True Faith allows us to have many, but only one from a single country, so this is my wife in the Phillipines, this one from Thailand,..." I am already very uncomfortable, and still unsure what freakin religion he is part of, although I was pretty sure I could rule out Christianity by this point. Then he floors me (figuratively speaking). He says, "But if I strap a bomb to myself I will have [insert any ridiculous number] virgins waiting for me on the other side. I haven't built up the courage to that yet, though." "Oh", I say," so you are a Muslim?" I pause, "Floorman!! Table change!"

"That's yours."

I'm noticing that I'm coming across a lot of stories similar to this. Those silly English. I love the part about choking on it and then the friends giving it back to the guy. Can you just picture the whole scenario unfolding? I think I need to make a short indie film about this.