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I surf the Net daily for Music Industry News.  When I find something I like, which is fairly often, I'll post it here.  Most of the stories I link to come from websites like MI2N.com, Slashdot.org, DrudgeReport.com, CNet.com, and various other news agencies including the Associated Press and Reuters.

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When Hurricane Katrina hit the Mississippi and Louisiana Coast, it caused devastation on a scale never before seen from any hurricane.  Out of the 171,000 homes on the Mississippi Coast, over 65,000 were completely destroyed and over 38,000 homes sustained major damage.  As of this writing, hundreds are dead and hundreds more are missing - many of them presumed dead.  Just about everything that was built on the beachfront is now obliterated.  It will take years to dig out and rebuild.

As of 9/24/05 - almost 4 weeks after the storm - things are beginning to have a light shadow of normalcy.  But, you can be sure we'll never forget what happened to us on August 29, 2005.  Here you'll find some of things I've written about my family's experience with Katrina along with some photos and such.  Me and my family rode out the storm in my recording studio (a 2-story, cinder-block building reinforced with steel rebar.)  It is the same place my parents, sister and I rode out Hurricane Camille when I was 4 years old.  Camille was a dust-devil compared to Katrina.  I'll never stay through another one.

(I've also included a journal entry I wrote when we were grazed by Hurricane Ivan.  This was back when I was running this web site off my DSL connection... then they caught me and shut down my ports.)

A Blog... the term really sounds like some monster from a really cheap horror movie.  "Run for your lives!  The Blog Monster is coming!"

Apparently, blog is just a fancy, internet way to say "diary".  I'm not sure if there is a difference between this section and my "rant" section.  I suppose I'll try to keep things a little more toned down.

When I feel like bitching and moaning about something - it will be here.  For the record, I am NOT a left-leaning, tree-hugging, sky-is-falling (especially in America) Liberal.  I am also not a right-wing, homophobic, racist, Neo-Conservative.  I am ALSO definitely NOT anything close to a so-called Moderate.  I believe that if you stand in the road long enough, you'll get run over by a truck.  I know what I believe and I believe what I know.  So, basically, don't read anything here if you're a know-it-all, whiney-ass weenie.

This is my wife's Blog.  Her name is Isabelle.  I love her very much and never look at other women because she is the most beautiful thing in the universe.  She is my life and my happiness.  I would die without her. . .

Now she will proceed to tell you what a sorry bastard I can be.

There is genuinely no telling what you´ll read in here.  It might not even always rhyme.  Mary had a little lamb...

Hopefully, you will find poetry written by my family members and the occassional friend. Of course, that all depends on who I can convince to write me a diddy or two.