Detour guide.

What is this? Another one? And wait... there's one more! Can't you see it there, behind the gaseous cloud formation? Oh, right... that's sFshzenKlyrn. Step aside, will you? I'm trying to make a point here...


Ah, yes... the blogosphere. Nearly forgot. Sorry, friends. I've taken to having Marvin (my personal robot assistant) take dictation on this page, so very often he'll pick up stuff I don't actually want him to transcribe. Sometimes he starts a little early and some times he just fails to exercise common sense. Okay, like now, Marvin. Stop typing for a moment... I've got to use the can. I said stop. Did you type that? Stop, damnit! STOP! Oh, Jesus... never mind. I'll just continue - it's simpler, really. Anyway... I suppose I should explain. I was just commenting to my colleagues on the hitherto undiscovered planet around star 55 Cancri in the constellation Cancer. Damn, just wait until we get news of this back to planet Earth! People in the astronomical community will really sit up and take notice this time.


What's that, Johnny? It's been discovered? Bloody Yahoo headlines! You at least could have left me a few days to savor my imagined triumphant discovery. No matter.


Well, as some of you may already know, planetary pioneers or not, we did pretty well on planet Mars this past week, performing some tunes off of our upcoming album (plug, plug) as well as older numbers from the Big Green songbook. There were a couple of exciting moments, like when our oxygen began to run out. Luckily, we were able to innovate a solution to this most fundamental of dilemmas, even without the help of our too-clever-by-half science advisers, Mitch Macaphee and Trevor James Constable, both of whom remained on earth this time out. Indeed... as the air in our makeshift spacecraft began to grow quite thin, Matt had a flash of inspiration (comes from watching those fan-fiction Star Trek Web videos). He stuffed the man-sized tuber into his terrarium along with a sack of plant food and clicked on the grow lamps. Well, that sucker started pumping out oxygen as fast as we could catch it. WTF - that man-sized tuber has a practical use after all. (Aside from general likeability.)


Okay, so the gigs went okay, though I will admit... no cash changed hands at any time. I for one am chalking that down to our paymasters at Loathsome Prick Records, our corporate label. No doubt payment was made, just not to us. (After we finished playing, somewhere in an office building in New York a computer went "cha-ching!") Someone got paid, that's the important thing. Anyway, we left the red planet and started wandering in the general direction of Earth when one of the Lincolns (can't remember which one, actually) took a particular interest in a small cluster of stars in the mid distance. So he took the controls. That was last night, while the sanest amongst us slept.


Now we're in the general vicinity of Cancri 55, though I can't say exactly how we got here. (I think sFshzenKlyrn knows, but he's not saying.) Hey... what can I say? We'll let you know if there's a Starbucks there.

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