While all you poor midwest/east coasters are shaking in your boots I myself am developing quite the tan out here in the capitalist desert.

I spend my day running around in a brown bag carrying loads of shit. NO, I'm not homeless nor am I a trash man. I am indeed working 40 hours a week for UPS. On the plus side my graduate applications are nearly complete, if my damn GRE subject test score would come in already. Sorry to hear you got burned by Santa Drew, but if it makes you feel any better I'm sure he was Doped up on something, it seems to be all the rage these days. Adam, congrats on lauching yourself into small town stardom, soon to be international small town stardom. Pete, you businessman you, I'm sure your fat dirty ugly naked greek tricks will work wonders on those online shopping suckers and for god's sake stay out of Buffalo! NOthing good can come of that.
To all the lovely ladies coming home to roost from across the ocean I bid you be patient. Do no be frustrated by the status quo here or an inability to relate your experiences in full. Oh yeah, and Rachel, keep up the good work. I hope that at the end of this year we can both celebrate a hard won conclusion to this hectic year on the verge of transition.

Swinging Holidays to all!
(for some reason I feel like that came right outta Vegas)

Well, it looks like there won't be a party happening at my house this year. But if anyone still wants to find their way here [either for New Year's or otherwise] let me know ... I may be able to work something out.

Yep that's right. The Hoot Hoots played in Clifton after I got back from Scotland. We got second place at this "Battle" thingy or whatever but what is awesome is that everybody basically said we should have one, even two out of the three judges! Plus (oh this is great) the guy who wrote the newspaper article about this wrote, "Alas, the judges didn't agree with this reporter about who the winners should be. (Even qualified judges can make a mistake)" and this was accompanied with a big ole picture of me next to the article and no picture whatsoever of the winning band! Ha fucking Ha! Oh but the band that "beat" us, holy shit where they annoying. The music they played was okay, but we were all hoping their singer would just fall off the stage and die. He did this crybaby emo shit with his voice (he actually pretended like he was crying). Apparently that band is not too happy with us right now (probably because my little brother posted his opinion of their singer on his xanga site and because of the newspaper article). This is so laughable, feuding podunk Kankakee bands. We played 3 of my own songs at this show and played In An Aeroplane Over the Sea by NMH and Disco: The secretaries blues by beulah. So it was a whole lot of fun. I've completed two more songs for this band and I'm working on at least 5 more, plus a few acoustic ones. By the way this has completely distracted me from grad school stuff yikes! It's so silly that I don't write like this all the time....
So I hear there's a New Years party at Rachel's? I'll have to think about that...

Well folks, we have a couple of hometown celebrities in the P-house, namely Adam and myself. Ol' Adam got hmself in the paper by playing in his band at Clifton, the Hoot Hoots. My Mom gave you quite a compliment when she saw the picture, Adam, she said you looked like John Lenon. I got myself in the paper by running in the Jingle Bell Run, a 5K for arthritis charity. I was running next to a Mac kid and a guy dressed in a Santa Claus suit. Now some of you might think it's nice having your picture on the front page. Not so with me because I am photgraphed running behind a character who is supposed to be fat i.e. slow. Now I am the laughing stock of the running community! Plus, my Mom and Dad have been on and on about, "How come you couldn't beat Santa, How come you couldn't beat Santa!" Yeesh! Hehe, seriously though, folks. The race was fun and that Santa guy was fast, he finished in the top five. I hope everyone is enjoying their break and I wish you a Swinging Holiday! Yeah that's right I said a Swinging Holiday! In case you haven't heard the PC thugs are at it again. They are trying to secularize Christmas songs by editing any reference to Christ. They changed the song "We wish you a Merry Christmas" to "We Wish you a Swinging Holiday." I swear if I ever meet one of these communist pukes who wants to censor Christmas in public I'm going to knock them out, put them in a box, and mail them to Ireland with a sign stapled to their rear saying "the Pope is a moron and God save the Queen." Then when they get their ass thoroughly beaten in a state where there is a REAL establishement of religion they will be able to come back and not read the Constitution in such an asinine way. Merry CHRISTmas!