Hammer Mill Days

Is that all he's got? No, wait... there's another page coming through. Slowly. Somebody got another quarter for the payphone? I don't want to .... oh, man goddamn! Oh, hi. Yeah, just grappling with our communications issues, once again. Everything in Big Green's world is held together with duct tape and baling wire... but then you knew that. What you didn't know is that we've got a mom and pop drugstore up the street from us that has what may be the world's last coin operated pay phone. That's right... and it's bloody handy, now that Verizon has pulled the plug on us. (Damnable message unit charges!) So, yeah... we can call mom, talk to our label, harass our booking agent, order strings, all with a pocket full of change. It's like freaking magic. Who needs the twenty first century? We're harnessing the technology of yesteryear. (Or yestercentury.) Well, as you may remember, our sometimes agent Tiny Montgomery has been trying to fax us from ...

I didn't watch the whole cattle-call Republican presidential debate, but I have seen and heard some extended excerpts. So without too much fanfare, here are some random thoughts from a worker bee whose hive is quite a bit smaller than Mitt Romney's son's basement. Santorum (a.k.a. Mr. Google): "The reason we're seeing this second dip is because of energy prices, and this president has put a stop sign ... against oil drilling, against any kind of exploration offshore or in Alaska, and that is depressing. We need to drill. We need to create energy jobs, just like we're doing, by the way, in Pennsylvania, where we're drilling 3,000 wells this year for gas, and ... natural gas prices are down as a result." Not a surprise that he's a big fan of hydrofracking. What he's got wrong is the part about Obama stopping off-shore drilling - That's beyond ludicrous. (God knows, I wish it were true after that BP spill. ) Pawlenty: "We're proposing...