very thankful!

I feel like the luckiest guy in DC. What happens at Marx cafe every Tuesday is pure magic, never had a bad night there in the least. I cherish each opportunity as they present themselves. Tonight I got to spin for almost three hours, got compliments on my tracks, and enjoyed the fuck out of every moment. I only had 4 dollars, and still managed to get drunk. What is it with people sending the dj shots!? Not like I’m complaining, tequila X2, some asked me what I'd like and I said jack, and dude was like, word its done. Totally unexpected and entirely appreciated! When I first stepped onto the decks I was following earl who had been playing a solid house set, so I matched him track for track, even surprised myself with a couple of perfectly matched mixes, like whoa where did that come from??Q I’m extremely thankful for the whole experience, the conversation, the booze. As the lights came up I played a cover of an Everything song, "alls quiet" it's a song about dc, and oh so fitting for my last song of the night. I know I have played it before but Earl was like, whoa, what was that?! So for what must be the third time I explained it. Loll. Marx is stepping up though, the new owner has some plans to move the dj booth to the back of the bar and knock down a section of a wall and install a dance floor, a development which I'm super psyched on! Hopefully during the upgrade they’ll get a better mixer in the booth, cause what's there is sorta busted in a way, no cross fader, and whack channel level disparities. Well.... damn what a night! I'm gonna finish this pizza now, adios!

mattb's good nite

christ I'm drunk, my eyes are bleeding!!!!!

way to go google!!

Way to go Google, their introduction to the S&P 500 is fuckin' awesome! That’s bona fida legitimacy right there, I'm almost surprised, and at the same time I find myself likewise awe stricken as I was in a similar fashion upon hearing that Microsoft had been added to the Dow Jones industry average.

As someone who has seen this industry mature from its fledging beginning through its boom and bust cycle, to see this come to fruition fills my heart with gladness. Google my hats are off to you! Does anyone still see Google as the newcomer? As some one who still misses the InfoSeek search engine and first glimpsed the web through yahoo utilizing a Lynx browser, I still have this impression of Google as a recent upstart, lollz I realize they have been around for 5+ years now, but it's all recent history for me. When Google first hit the scene I tried it a buncha times and wasn't impressed with the results that I received, at the time I preferred alltheweb.com. But Google rose to prominence in the past 4 years, as most competing pure search engines have been either marginalized or turned into shadows of their former selves, as I imagine that Disney is kicking themselves for transforming the Infoseek portal into a glorified go.com outlet, when had they pursued the growth strategy employed by Google they could be sitting on a potential gold mine.

Even yahoo has sort of folded in upon itself; failing to innovate has proved fatal. Does yahoo still publish a print version of the magazine that it seemed mid 1999 that they were dead set on hanging their fortunes on? No, I think it's gone for good. Yahoo has been perusing other growth strategies recently, but it seems that these new ventures have come only in response to market leader’s innovation, they have surrendered the innovation flag to Google and others, perhaps in the hope an opportunity will in turn present itself at another time. It seems like these cycles of innovation permeate the marketplace these days, an entity only leads the pack for as long as they are able to create fresh innovation that will inspire the minds of others, and that is the currency traded in the marketplace.

So in turn even Google will give in to another fresh group of innovators prepared to create something new and exciting that will inspire people’s imagination. Or perhaps not, return to the example of Microsoft, they easily could have been overtaken by others whom innovated faster. Microsoft never truly led the market in terms of innovation after 1995; through their acquisition strategy they were able to effectively harness the technology of others to achieve their long term growth strategy. What landscape would we be surveying now had yahoo, given the opportunity, bought out a fledging Google back in 1999? Think on that my children……

LIMA Prix Fixe Dinner

Here's more spam that i get. I'd love to go to something like this, but it's proably not going to happen anytime soon, maybe one of you will be interested? the title isn't a misprint either. at first i assumed they meant to say the lima prince fixes dinner, but that can't be the case since the text of the message dosen't mention any princes cooking. I think it must be french or something. :shrug:

Uhhhh... Houston (ok its really Washington) we have a problem -

Friday and Saturday (31st and April 1st) are SOLD OUT after 7pm. There are spots available 5:30-7pm Fri and Sat but that's it. There have been alot of people calling for reservations, so I am going to give it to you straight, PLEASE CALL ASAP for spots Mon-Thursday next week. However, you can always try to give a call the day of the dinner and book a spot if there are some available. Either way - just let them know you are there for the Tastings Journal event so they can get a good count on the numbers, they all know about the event now! You will still need to ask for a special menu when you arrive do not forget that one! Thanks

**

Every month we do our best to pick some of the greatest places to eat at an amazing price plus throw in some free wine. Well this time we have one of the hottest new restaurants in Washington. This one will sell out every day, so please make your reservations as soon as you can. If you call early in the morning and have to leave a message, make sure they call you back, until you receive confirmation on your reservation you don’t have one!

Ok, it’s going to be at LIMA next week, Monday the 27th thru Saturday April 1st no fooling! (That’s a ha-ha right?) Anyway we are expecting this one to go to capacity almost every night so I personally will be there every day of the event to manage any problems. Feel free to ask for me (James). Remember, there will be no walk-ins. To make sure there are no problems, we will have menus for everyone that has a special Tastings Journal reservation; just ask for one when you come in. Sometimes it just doesn’t “trickle down” to people running the phones that we are having an event there. Just make a reservation no matter what since this one is going to be a sell out and then ask for me when you arrive and get your special VIP “Tastings Journal” Menu. No menu = No Discount!



Menu, Information and Reservation Numbers –

http://www.TastingsJournal.com

Curious about what we are all about? We offer 4, 5 and 6 course prix fixe dinners by Washington's hot new restaurants. Each month we will be offering an exclusive menu at a different restaurant. Since we book so many reservations, we can offer extraordinary deals. You will receive this email 2 times a month, Monday and Wednesday before the event. Reservations are required; the events always sell out fast.

Review: Washington Post

Dinner with a twist: Does Lima want to be a restaurant or a nightclub? The velvet rope outside the entrance suggests exclusivity and an emphasis on drinking rather than eating, but general manager Daniel Hatem insists the new, next-door neighbor to DC Coast aspires to be a dinner destination.

"We see ourselves as a restaurant," he says, speaking for himself and three partners, including Masoud Aboughaddareh, the local club promoter known as Masoud A. "Which is the point of three floors" at Lima: a first-floor cocktail area, a 90-seat dining room upstairs and an underground lounge with a deejay booth (and its own velvet rope, with diners getting priority access). Hatem, who comes to Lima from a manager's position at the trendy Gua-Rapo in Arlington, sees the ground floor as a "buffer" between those who want a full meal and those who want to party.

En route to Lima's dining room one recent weeknight, we navigate our way through a gaggle of cute young things sipping and posing in the bar area. Milk chocolate-colored banquettes and sage-green walls greet us on the second floor, where the faces are older and the tables are set with champagne flutes, as if the only way to begin an evening here is with something festive. The prices reflect a special occasion, too.

The venue takes its name from the Spanish word for "lime," which finds its way into many of the dishes. "The idea is to get Latin American flavors into everything," says the Cuban-born, French-trained chef, Raynold Mendizabal-Betancourt. Most recently, he consulted at Ceviche in Silver Spring. His experience includes a two-year run at the fish-friendly Pesce in Dupont Circle.

Lima's eclectic menu is evolving --- eventually, the chef hopes to offer 20 or more seviches (up from just four now). The lineup currently runs to cumin-spiked scallops; sea bass paved with a crust of cilantro, cashews and Parmesan cheese; and filet mignon offered with Peruvian potatoes and black olives. Beef- and mushroom-stuffed empanadas are based on Mendizabal-Betancourt's grandmother's recipe, and they're delicious. The appetizer underscores another of the chef's aims: "to get as close to home food as possible."

-- Tom Sietsema (March 8, 2006)

Bitches be getting smacked up

Yo, tonight people! If you haven't already secured a ticket, your proably out of luck at this point. Seeya there!

party @ K Street! werd.

Hey, I haven't heard anything good about these parties and I don't know anyone involved, this shit could be totally hella whack for all I know. but they keep sending me spam so it must be the place to be. holla!

EDIT: Actually on further review, this shit is hella whack; bottle service tables start at $500?!? Who do they take me for, Lorenzo de' Medici??!?!

Special Event at K Street this Saturday
Complimentary Admission with RSVP

Please join us this Saturday, March 25th for "R:evolution" to celebrate Kstreet's new layout in DETAILS Magazine. Lots of specials, local TV & sports celebrities plus some of Washington's most beautiful models. It is going to be a very hot, hot party.

We have always brought you some of DC's best parties. This Saturday we have an incredible VIP party for you. Kstreet is the top high-end, beautiful club in Washington without exception. With a massive budget going into the design it something not to miss. This sets the new standard in deluxe clubbing, personal video screens inside the tables, cutting edge design, a 30 foot high space and a 120 foot long granite bar.

RSVP for Free Admission

http://www.PartySlaveRSVP.com

complacent nation

Yo, people tell me these parties are bangin'. If in NYC stop in on em' and see what the jizzamz is about!

Complacent Nation vs. Danger! Danger!
| 3.22.2006 | http://www.complacentnation.org

1| Danger! Danger!
2| New Lost City : Revival : Saturday
3| New Lost City : Call for Performers
4| Danger! : Next they Come for You

1 |________________________________

Last weekend hundreds of you came out to celebrate Danger in
the second stage build-out of our new Brooklyn Crime Lab.

Some pictures from the event can be seen here:
http://www.wildwildbrooklyn.com

Thank you to everyone who made the event such an amazing
experience, from the random acts of kindness, to the dancing
on the rope bridge, to the Danger Blender, to the love of
the dance floor through late the next day. To the hundreds
of you who weren't able to RSVP in time we apologize for the
limitations on attendance. We had to severely limit the
RSVP's in order to satisfy the landlord and the local
police. But now that we have proved that events like that
can happen without anyone losing a finger, be prepared for
much larger forays into the wilds of Brooklyn.

In the meantime, our next public event is this Saturday.
See below for your invite to cleanse your soul with one wild
night of devilry...

2 |_______________________________

New Lost City : Revival : Saturday March 25th
A night of spiritual hedonism.

7pm to 7am
@ 69 West 14th St.
on the corner of 6th Ave., Manhattan
Details: http://www.newlostcity.com

In this era of empty truth, epic violence, and empire run
amok, we bring this night of hedonistic cleansing for your
salacious soul. For one night in Manhattan, join devils and
divas, Reverends and revolutionaries, and hysterical heretics
at the altar of beats, dance and irrational exuberance.

This is how we save ourselves.

Starting *live* in the room above:
With the infamous Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop
Shopping at 8:30pm with gospel songs and stories from the
recent nationwide tour converting consumers throughout
middle America. Then the grime gospel impresario Reverend
Vince and the Love Choir shake your soul to a degree that
must be heard to be believed, you will dance and yell
Hallelujah and love it. Later, God is My Copilot rounds it
out with a special show of new music mixing dance beats with
their classic outsider rock sound.

At midnight the music turns to breaks and intelligent techno
with Wolf + Lamb (www.wolflambmusic.com), Spinoza, DJ Ripley
(from San Francisco), Jason BK (Blackkat) and more creating
a pilgrimage of dance through sunrise.

In the room below:
Winkel Presents: The harem for lost souls, a cozy lounge
featuring music from around the planet with hookas by Balk
Tick and Hooka Mike, special elixir bar and video
projections. Plus roving performances of the lost vs. saved
curated by Akim Funk with costumes by C-Spot Designs.

This Saturday, bare your soul...

For you Angels: come dressed in your own manifestation of
purity, of delicacy, of the deviant angel and the yang over
yin. For this you will be rewarded with free drinks of our
Angel juice, vanilla gelato mixed with vanilla vodka or
Irish cream.

For the Devils, come dressed in your own manifestation of
the dark and the scandalous, the fallen angel with no
interest in return. For this you are rewarded with our own
special elixir of fire.

And yes, there is more... Full details will be released at
the end of the week.

Only $9 with a ticket bought at:
http://www.newlostcity.com
Or $15 with an RSVP from
http://www.newlostcity.com/rsvp.html
$20 at the door for the stragglers.

3 |_______________________________

New Lost City : Call for Performers

We are looking for movement performers, stilt walkers and
fire dancers to join the mass performance piece curated by
Akim Funk Buddha and costumed by C-Spot Designs for this
Saturday's New Lost City. You will be creating the event
atmosphere of heavenly Gomorra with simple acts and sweeping
costumes.

This involves: one rehearsal on Thursday from 7pm to 8:30pm
(or so), being measured and costumed by C-Spot designs, free
entrance to the event for you and a friend, free drinks all
night through one night of infamy in a sea of adoring revelers.

If you are interested reply to this message with some words
about your past experience, or what you can bring to make
this interesting (formal experience isn't required.)

You are the artstar and this night is your stage.

4| ________________________________

Danger! : Next they Come for You

Yes, we've been hosting allot of events lately, but we are
still focused on our outsider activist roots. In these cold
days of winter (or is it now spring?) we need these weekends
of excess in order to purge the mania building inside. Our
world is burning and our value system has been upended.
While the kings of Halliburton ravage Iraq for profits, the
local authorities have turned their attention to their most
feared threat. Activists.

Recently the New York Times had a front page article
detailing the obscene tactics of the police in infiltrating
activist groups to cause violence, confusion and dissension.
The full article is at:
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2006nycpd2002
>
More pointedly is the Green Scare. Instead of focusing on
the threat from real terrorism, Federal authorities are
rounding up Eco Activists across the country with severe
penalties for non-violent crimes. See more at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Scare

We don't condone violence of any kind, but as these vicious
cycles continue we wonder what can be done to save ourselves
beyond innocent nights of escapism with the most creative
minds we know.

If you have other ideas on how to stay sane in a world gone
awry, send an email to complacent@complacent.org and let us know.

Alive and livid in the face of a Complacent Nation.

last night

Well, never made it to Marx last night! I got home from work at about 6:30 last night. walked in the door set my book bag down, set some rice on the stove, and went to go up stairs to change out of my work clothes and practice a couple of mixes before the night got started. No sooner had I started up the stairs, my blackberry goes off. It's someone from San Diego, and there all like, "the email server at location xxx is down we need you to go there right now." So I headed back to work and didn't leave until almost midnight. Fuckers. I'll be back with a vengeance next week. Mattb out.

marx cafe tonight

Hey all, tonight's the night. I didn't get any new music this week, but I feel the catalouge I have built up is decent enough at this time to stand on its own. this is proably the first time I have a selection of music that I don't feel is tired and played out after one week. So MARX CAFE tonight! BOH!

man throws own severed penis at cops

What the shit yo?

Man severs own penis, throws it at officers

March 17, 2006

BY ERIC HERMAN Staff Reporter

Before cops threw the book at him, Jakub Fik threw something unusual at them -- his penis.

Fik, 33, cut off his own penis during a Northwest Side rampage Wednesday morning. When confronted by police, Fik hurled several knives and his severed organ at the officers, police said. Officers stunned him with a Taser and took him into custody.

"We took him out without any serious injury, with the exception of his own," said Chicago Police Sgt. Edward Dolan of the 16th District.

Doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital reattached Fik's penis Wednesday, sources said. He was listed in good condition Thursday, according to hospital spokesman Andrew Buchanan, who declined to comment further.

Smashing car windows

Fik, who lives in the 5400 block of W. Berenice, is charged with two counts of aggravated assault and one count of criminal damage to property, said Officer Laura Kubiak. He told paramedics he was distraught over problems with his girlfriend in Poland, Dolan said.

Police arrived on Fik's block at 8:20 a.m. Wednesday after receiving reports he was smashing car windows, Dolan said. Fik then broke into a house down the block. A group of six or seven officers assembled in front of the house, Dolan said.

The occupants were not home, he added. Fik was bleeding when the officers arrived and may have already cut off his organ, Dolan said.

"At that point, this guy came running out, naked, with a handful of knives . . . and started throwing knives at the police officers that were 10, 20, 30 feet away," Dolan said.

Fik threw his penis during the confrontation, too, Dolan said. He then went back into the house and re-emerged with "another handful of knives," Dolan said.

Dolan sneaked to the side of the bungalow's front steps and stunned Fik with the Taser. Fik fought back when officers went to restrain him, Dolan said.

"About 10 feet from the front porch, right on the sidewalk, was his penis," Dolan said.

Dr. Greg Bales, associate professor of urology at the University of Chicago, said severed penises are uncommon but surgery usually works. "As long as the penis is placed on ice and reattached within a few hours, the success is usually pretty good," Bales said.

Contributing: Annie Sweeney

eherman@suntimes.com

rowdy and destructive, yet responsible.

I want to know how the windsheild became broken in the first place. Maybe some drunken spring breakers decided to smash it and then felt remoreseful afterwards? The world may never know. Somewheres there's a group of college kids snickering over this and lamenting the loss of their $200.

Vandal Leaves $200 to Fix Car Windshield

By The Associated Press Tue Mar 14, 10:35 PM ET

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas - Whoever broke retiree Charlotte Papenbrock's windshield has made her believe that Spring Breakers can be rowdy, but also genteel.

Papenbrock, a "Winter Texan" from Blue Springs, Mo., was dismayed to find that the rear windshield of her 2004 Buick was busted. "Initially, I was upset," she said in Tuesday's online edition of the Island Breeze. "It was really smashed in. There was glass everywhere."

She called police to report the crime, but in the end didn't need uniformed help. The mysterious perpetrator, presumed to be a Spring Breaker, left $200 worth of 20-dollar bills on the car's back seat, along with a note reading "Here you go. I'm sorry."

Papenbrock used the money to repair the windshield. "Tell those kids I'm very proud and their mothers would be too," Papenbrock said.

marx last night

Marx was pretty cool last night. The tunes i brought wern't as crazy good as I had thought. One of the other dj's actually had the "spacerider" track that I was so jazzed on, not with him but at home on a record.

oh well.

Bang and Vida Fitness Buzz Party

I get my haircut at the Bang Salon on U Street. Vida Fitness and Bang Salon are opening a new location in midtown.

You're invited to a private showing of VIDA Fitness & Bang Salon's exciting new location in DC's Penn Quarter, at the corner of 7th & F Streets across from Rosa Mexicana.

We want you to be the first to see and hear about the pre-opening pizazz of VIDA & Bang's 28,000 square foot fitness, salon & spa complex, the first of its kind in DC.

Discover what all the buzz is about as you enjoy music, elegant catered food & drink.

Discover the buzz!
Wednesday, March 15
7:00 - 9:00pm
7th & F Streets, NW
Across from Rosa Mexicana

Please RSVP:
T 202.299.0925
info@bangsalon.com

Marx Cafe tonight!

I'm very anxious to play tonight seeing as how last week I was stuck at work and never made it there. I have some new music to play, which I'm actually quite excited about. This one track in particular called "SpaceRider" is to die for. An extremly smooth and laid back 2step groove with some larger than life vocals. and there's only one place to hear it (that i know of).



3203 Mount Pleasant St. NW

be there or don't claim to know how we do!

weekend review

So I didn't do much this weekend at all. I went for a long bike ride on Saturday afternoon and then went to see Hideko the Bus Conductress at the Freer Gallery. During rest of the weekend I shopped at online record stores, practiced spinning and cooked some bean soup. Exciting huh? The film turned out to be excellent, a light hearted comedy set around a young woman working as a bus conductor. To compete with a rival bus line Hideko plans to start a tour guide service to entertain the riders and attract more customers. The film ends with the owner of the bus line becoming involved with mobsters, and at one point the owner tries to get the driver, a passenger (who happens to be the writer responsible for Hideko's tour guide script) and Hideko involved in some type of insurance scam. The scam backfires on the owner as the writer refuses to go along with it, as he's a key witness this causes the whole plot to unravel. In the end a lesson of truth and honesty is extracted from the situation. I was really taken aback by how funny the whole film was, not a lot happened plot wise, but the sum of all the details and side action were entertaining. I give it 4 out of a possible six stars.

DRUNK COP LOLZZ!!1

This is fucking funny as shit! i wonder if there's patrol car fotage from this night? I'd love to get pulled over by this guy. Thank god this story didn't end with someone's death!

APD officer nabbed on DWI charge
Last Update: 03/10/2006 8:13:01 AM
By: Todd Dukart

An Albuquerque police officer is accused of driving his patrol car drunk. Brandon Wilcox, 25, was arrested at his home early Thursday morning. Police say that Wilcox crashed his patrol car into two curbs on opposite sides of the street near the intersection of Comanche and San Mateo in northeast Albuquerque. He abandoned the car and walked just over half a mile to his home, where another officer found him passed out, according to a criminal complaint. A breath test showed Wilcox’s blood-alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit, police say.

He’s on paid administrative leave while an internal investigation is carried out. This investigation, police say, is on the fast track. Meanwhile, he also faces a criminal charge of aggravated DWI.

“Chief Schultz is well-documented on his zero tolerance to DWI, “ said APD spokesperson John Walsh, “and it shouldn’t be anybody’s surprise on what may occur out of this.”

Japanese movies 4 free.

Since I'm broke right now, I'm trying to come up with some interesting free things to do this weekend. Japanese film festival, i saw this in today's Express and thought it might be worth a shot. what you got?

Japanese Master Mikio Naruse

Revered in Japan alongside the work of such masters as Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, and Kenji Mizoguchi, the films of Mikio Naruse (1905–1969) are at last again available to Western audiences in a collaboration between AFI Silver Theatre, the Freer Gallery of Art, and the National Gallery of Art. Even though he directed the first Japanese sound film to find distribution in the United States (Wife, Be Like a Rose! 1935), Naruse remained largely unknown here throughout the sustained peak of his lengthy career. Despite championing by critics such as Susan Sontag, Phillip Lopate, and Donald Richie, it has been some twenty years since the last Naruse retrospective was held in this country.

Raised in poverty, Naruse became a director only after a long, trying apprenticeship. He specialized in shomin-geki, contemporary dramas about the poor and lower-middle classes. Naruse has been compared stylistically to his close friend Ozu and was drawn, like Mizoguchi, to stories focusing on women, but his films are tougher, edgier, and more modern than either. Kurosawa, Naruse's one-time assistant and great admirer, compared his film style to "a great river with a calm surface and a raging current in its depths."

Thanks to James Quandt, Cinematheque Ontario, the Japan Foundation, and Toho Co., Ltd., for making this touring retrospective possible. Special thanks go to Sarah Finklea, Janus Films.

Presentation of this retrospective at the Freer Gallery of Art is generously supported by Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.

Film descriptions adapted from the Cinematheque Ontario, Film Forum, and the Pacific Film Archive. Films are in Japanese with English subtitles.

I think I'm going to try and make it to one of these this weekend.

Nightly Dreams (a.k.a. Every Night's Dreams)
Friday March 10, 7 PM, Freer Gallery of Art

Wife, Be Like a Rose!
Saturday, March 11, 2 PM, National Gallery of Art

Hideko the Bus Conductress
Sunday, March 12, 3:30 PM, Freer Gallery of Art

newsmix

Crazy story, man on bike shoots at a cop while wearing a flak vest. The wounded cop then hops into a citizen's car and hunts down the assailant. - http://www.newhavenindep...

what the fuck is going on in the bronx? The story as its told in this item makes no sense. Seems like the gunshots killed him, how close to death could he have been at that point seeing as how he managed to walk out of the white castle. - http://www.nydailynews.c.....

I hope this trial is going to be on court tv. What defense could this cop possibly have? - http://dwb.newsobserver.com/24...

Oh shit, don't steal a car in Tucson Arizona, cause the cops there will just shoot you in the head and then make up some wild markley to explain it. - http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/news/l...

Fake cops can shoot people as well. Whose car was it that had the fake police lights on it? It's not made clear here, was it Gousse or another man? - http://wcbstv.com/topstories/lo...

Marx Cafe Tonight!

It's on tonight, got new tunes 4 u. ungh.. ungh.. shake it sugar, shake it mama, shake what your daddy gave ya!

3203 Mount Pleasant St. NW

Be there or don't claim to know 'how we do'!

UPDATE: Allright, if i don't get things wrapped up here at work soon, there might not be enough of me left to show up at Marx tonight. Which stinks cause I really want to play my new tunez. ARRGGHH!!1

UPDATE: Yeah, I didn't leave work till almost 11, way to late to run home, change clothes, grab my music and make it to Marx. oh well, there will always be next week.

KIRBY PUCKETT RIP

Wow, this guy was one of my favorite MLB all stars, I had his baseball card, a Tops! It's almost like Barry Bonds is dead to me now as well. :sniff:

Old school bloc party!

Damn, that's fuckin' cool yo! The chances of Jenna and Babs throwing a similar party in the white house, pretty slim. We Americans just can't hang when it comes to wild parties in official residences.

Estonian Teenagers Fined $10 for Drunk Parties in President’s Palace

Created: 03.03.2006 16:18 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:18 MSK, 3 hours 20 minutes ago

Estonian police have established participants of wild parties organized by teenage grand-daughters of the nation’s president in his house. The felons were fined $10 each, the Interfax news agency reported on Friday.

The agency quoted a police representative as saying that the law enforcers had established 14 underage persons who had violated Estonian laws on alcohol and tobacco during the parties at presidential palace. They were fined 120 Estonian crowns (about $10) each. Three adults involved in the same crime were fined 240 crowns ($20) each.

In January this year Estonian television ran a report that 13- and 14-year old grand-daughters of the Estonian President repeatedly organized parties for their friends in their grandfather’s residence palace. The first party took place on Oct. 1 when the girls invited about 50 guests, while their grandparents were away. Most of the youths now know the door codes of the palace, the Estonian media said.

Although presidential press secretary Eero Raun claims that the youths were only having fun in the president’s private apartments, a boy, who was invited to the party told journalists that the guests had been in the conference hall and could have read official documents. They also took pictures in the presidential sauna.

14 year old kids steal plane, have rough landing.

Dam that's some good joy riding!

Teenagers fly nest in stolen plane
By Chris Ayres

TWO teenage boys were arrested while running away from home — after stealing a plane. The 14-year-old joyriders took the single-engined Mooney M20C without permission from one of their parents. They were later forced to crash land in the Mojave desert. They narrowly missed the nearby towns of Palm Springs and Twentynine Palms, home to a large base of US Marines.

The theft was made possible by minimal security at Big Bear Airport, to the northeast of Los Angeles. It has no control tower and does not require pilots to check in with security. The boys, who have not been named, bypassed what safeguards there were by stealing keys for the airport, the hangar and the plane. Before the aircraft took off, two pilots became suspicious and called the police, but the squad cars arrived long after the aircraft’s wheels had left the runway.

Soon afterwards, the runaways were forced to ditch the aircraft in Joshua Tree National Park, escaping with only minor injuries. They were treated at the scene by a park ranger, before being taken to San Bernardino County Juvenile Hall. “The boys were shaken up and one had a cut on his forehead,” said Joe Zarki, a spokesman for the park.

The plane suffered damage to its fuselage, landing gear and propeller. It was disassembled and removed from the park, Mr Zarki said. “People sometimes do strange things,” he said. “I’m just glad that nobody was hurt and the boys are OK.” Cindy Beavers, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said: “There was a disagreement between the boys and their parents, and [the boys] decided to run away.”

They were arrested on suspicion of stealing an aircraft as well as for burglary because they broke into the airport hangar. Neither of the boys had a pilot’s licence but the teenager who flew the aircraft had regularly flown with his father. It is thought that the boys were forced to crash land after discovering that there was only 90 minutes of fuel in the aircraft’s tanks.

marx last night

So, yeah, I ended up going to marx after all. It seems that Tuesday's follow a standard formula, I come home from work kinda tired and unruly from the abuse I suffer during the work day. I make a large supper for myself, eat and watch the news, maybe the simpsons or king of the hill, whatevers on really, HGTV, etc.. and invairably I'm falling asleep on the couch in half an hour or less. Then its, "I don't feel like going out tonight, bla blah, etc.. Like it's sooo much effort to get up and out. But something ends up inspiring me to get up and out. This is how it went last nite, it's 9:30 and I'm not feeling up to it, then Pete from the basement comes up and I show him my setup, mixer, cd decks and the like because he has been asking to see it. So I mix through a couple of songs, we open several beers and then I'm like oh shit, it's go time. And I'm out the door. Pete has been lending me his bike to make it up to marx, which has played a large part in getting me out the door. It's not tha far mind you, at all. at most it's a 20 minute walk, but it's sooo much easier just to hop o a bike and make it there in 8 minutes instead. It never seems as cold on the way back for some reason... So in short I'm hella glad that I did make it out last time cause it was rockin' up in thur, and I had some nifty toons to share that were well received, so all is good with what matters up at the marx. Hats off to Mike as well, class act. until next week!