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Zoinks! BOJ News Service topped 3,000 hits today! Even if 1,000 of those hits did come in a two day period I'm still pretty impressed. I've never really done anything because I thought other people would like it (which is probably why my marriage failed) which I suppose makes me more appreciative when they do. BOJ was really just a silly idea, a place where I could do some Political Blogtooning and not have to worry about the editorial decisions of others. Being self taught in both the graphic aspects and the comedy aspects of the site, I'm pleasantly suprised that anyone checks it out. I'll be the first to admit that everything posted there isn't gold. The Rove/Thune/Gilligan's Island piece is easily the worst thing I've ever posted and I would have deleted it by now except That One Guy liked it and made a comment on it. I'd hate to delete a comment but I guess that's what would happen if I deleted a post with a comment on it. Maybe I'll re-work the photo, it's a funny idea, just done really poorly.

Cheers open mic was a lot of fun last night. Uncle Bill brought in a disco-light thingy that shall from now on be known as "the seizure wheel" (Thanks TSA!). Of course disco style lighting means that the band formerly known as Slappy is Jebus would have to play the disco standard I Will Survive. We followed that up with The Brian Wilson and were joined by Josh Marquis on bass for Locomotive Breath. People seem to love that Jethro Tull song, it always gets a much bigger response than I ever think it will. Hey, I'm not going to argue with people. "Stop liking that, it sucks!" That would be a really 957 thing to do, though. We finished up with Got My Mojo Workin', TSA and Josh doing a fine job even though, having been awake for nearly 20 hours at that point, I couldn't really give it my best effort.

I've actually been playing a lot of music lately. I attended Mike Reardon's open mic at the Dunn Bros. in Keystone last Monday with TSA (I intend to play solo tonight unless TSA can weasle another day off) then inadvertently hosted the Tuesday night open mic at Borders book store. Joe Bucholz called in sick, Borders management didn't feel any need to let the assembled musicians (or even guys who play harmonica) so I offered my services. I even got a woman who I'd seen every time I attended that show to play a couple of songs. Thanks Amber, I'm glad I'm so much less intimidating that Joe that you felt comfortable enough to play in front of people for the first time ever. Friday and Saturday night I played in Keystone with Mike Reardon, the 7 or so people in attendance each night having a fantastic time!

TSA has next week off and thought it would be fun to hit some open mics that we don't usually get to do. I hope we'll be able to hit Steve Thorpe's show at Knight's Cellar in Spearfish. Andy did say he wanted to play as far away as we could but still make it back the same day. I'm going to look for shows in Sioux Falls, which is 5 hours away, but with two guys driving would be quited do-able. That's what I'll be looking into as soon as I'm finished posting this. Either that or porn.....

BOJ