In a bit of serious news, the imposing drummer of Airship Rocketship, Mr. Richard Hargett, was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor.  He is in very good spirits and the outlook is positive.  Chemotherapy and radiation treatments begin soon.  He gave me some fun pictures to pass along to the interwebs - here are a couple!

this is his shunt - it’s a little tube that draws fluid from his brain into his stomach.  impressive!!

i think the tumor is right there in the middle.

anyway, please wish Richard well.  He’s been a real trooper about all of this, and it’s all been going well so far.  We’ve made an awful lot of tumor jokes.  His drumming this week was impressive - it sounded better than the rest of us, and we don’t have cancer.  It was good to hear him hitting things again.

Think positive!  Come see us on Friday at Vagabond.

burning trash cans!  always sensible.

True Story.

July 27th, 2008 by Richard

July 27th, 2008 by Richard

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Yesterday while I was waiting for the metrorail train to come, these two guys next to me started arguing, and eventually got into a pretty rowdy fistfight.  The train came, and conveniently there were three metrorail security guards on the car by us… I mentioned to them that these guys were sort of in a fight, to which I got the reply - “Not my problem.” (They peek over at the two fighting guys-) “Knock him out, buddy!” proceeded by more heckling and encouragement.

Also recently on the metro, I saw probably the fattest man I have ever seen, and I overheard two pretty un-hip middle aged men discussing the prospects of meeting “wild women” at an upcoming Good Charlotte concert.  It was decided that said “wild women” would be in attendance.

I love public transit.

I post first, bitches.  That’s how it has to be.

We need a good anchor post.  That’s also how it has to be.

Thusly the dawn of a new era is upon us, to coin a phrase from another failed blogging attempt.

Inauspicious beginnings, really.

p.