MyWhat a nice holiday that was for me. Unfortunately due to the large amount of roast beef that my Uncle Johnny cooked up and that I devoured until besieged by the sweats, along with html problems on my aunts laptop & unhealthy nightly doses of boring holiday-time CSPAN, I was unable to share with ya’ll a real-time commentary of the past weekend. Minus the copious roast beef, html issues, & CSPAN, I really just wanted to spend some good ole quality time with my family anyway, so its all good.
This was one of the most relaxed xmases I have celebrated in my life, and therefore one of the best. Repeating a tradition I started last year, I told my aunt that I was going to have work straight through the night of the 25th and would not be able to join the family at the xmas dinner, only to show up as the Big Surprise on December 23rd. (My sister mentioned that if I keep doing this I will eventually be regarded as a Big Ass.) The miracle of me at christmastime was brought about this year by walking off my hotel job never to return. But the freedom of youth, no?
We exchanged presents the eve before xmas to keep the stress away. Besides, Meet the Press was still on this past Sunday morning. You don’t get to be the longest running show on television by taking breaks. It occurs to me that I may have the longest running blog with a .biz domain. If so, Big Russ would be proud. Big Russ & Me were joined by Tom Brokaw and Ted Koppel for the xmas broadcast of Meet the Press. The gray-haired men shot from the hip, as opposed to reading lines, and held a surprisingly worthy conversation, (Or is it just that after so many reruns on CSPAN I was ready for anything new?), which ended in a shocker: Tom Brokaw mentioned 3rdarm.biz!!!
Check the transcript:
MR. BROKAW: “Well, the new universe of the blog and the Internet is a–is the new frontier… I liken what we’re going through to the big bang. We’ve created a new universe. There are a lot of new planets out there and which ones are the brightest, which ones are gonna survive, which ones can support life, we’re finding out, and working our way through it. So it’s a profound change that I don’t think even these two old-timers sitting next to you could have anticipated when we were young reporters–for example, third arm dot biz.”
So obviously this blog or whatever you think you’re looking at and reading, you can name it even if it exists in opposing states simultaneously in a quantum bizgineering way, call it a blog- we’ve come a long way in 2005. Matter of fact, we’ve come from nowhere. 3rdarm.biz is now the place to read daily updates and see pictures once in a while, rated Best in Boston for animated gifs & clam chowder. You can live on this planet, Brokaw-bebe. We’ve got plenty of clean water and we all smoke unfiltered cigarettes. There’s room for you but we’re gonna tax that ass.
My favorite xmas present this year I opened up on xmas morning. My aunt who is santa claws had my sister grandma and me save our stockings until the morn of the 25th, for dramatic effect & to properly stretch out our treats. In the top of my stocking was a walgreens watch with the price tag affixed to it, which as a phenomena probably occurs more often in my family than the median. $4.99. Thats the reason I like it so much. Back in middle school (when I peaked, intellectually, socially, and as a measurement of weight or girth) I used to have one of those ultra-hi-tech keyboard digital watches which I relentless programmed and fussed over with my then-fat fingers. But the thing made me fing paranoid because it was damn expensive.
This little watch ain’t digital and it looks like one of those expensive silver & gold watches so it passes for a little wrist bling. It tells time accurately enough & is from my favorite brand of pharmacy. I know where to get another one if it brakes and I have no paranoia about the price. And it gently introduces the concept of time & a touch of class to my body, which has been recently covered in obscene tattoos of funky monkeys, topped with the whiteman’s worst haircut. The haircut is better now that its growing in but still resembles a toupe.
What else did I get for xmas? My sister got me a book about high school & college students drinking wet tee shirt contest groping puking & whiskeydick blowjobs in the shower during Springbreak on the Redneck Riviera (aka Panama City Florida.) It is one of the photo books sold in the American Book Center, in Amsterdam, where my sister lives when shes not visiting us. She didn’t even realize it but this is the beginning of a tradition of her own: the second year in a row she has gotten me a troubling vaguely pornaphoto book from the ABC. My grandmother saw some of the pictures and said, “What is that book?” Just some book, I told her, quickly closing it.
(Better to save my own inevitable “passing out from foam inhalation during cancun foam party at age 17 and having friends strip me naked and shower me but still suffer from foam phobia to this day” springbreak story for a different holiday, or Never.)
I also recieved socks & underwears and oldstyle Dominica Bay Rum aftershave, as well as chocolates from my grandmother. In addition, a new pair of brown pants and some smart new tops. This has got to make for riveting reading but I’m sitting here eyeing my fancy watch typing thoughtlessly. 🙂 Back to bizness–
Okay, here’s the basic plan for 2006 as I see it. With one job I will have much more time on my hands to pump content onto the internet. Tomorrow morning I buy a new machine, which will be a powerful portable computer. This will enable content. Also, I have registered a new website, bizamp.biz. In the month of december 3rdarm.biz has already pumped well over a gigabyte in bandwith, the first time in history, mostly because of the mp3 files of the bizamp sessions. The new site will catalogue all previous bizamp sessions plus better relay information on live shoutcasts, for basics. Bizamp.biz will be much more.
My goal for 2006 is for 3rdarm.biz & bizamp.biz to combine cream and pump out over a terabyte… I don’t really know how much that is with commas and zeros, but I’ve got a feeling its gonna be like force-feeding a squeeling guinea pig multiple double lattes. Also I hope that bizamp.biz does not run into any legal problems, what with 128kb/s mp3 session files playing samples from copywritten songs, but I’m willing to be the guinea pig. Bring on the lattes.