Wednesday, February 20, 2008

HGTV Comes To Gaston Avenue







A lot of shit has gone down on Gaston Avenue over the years. But, I'd wager a guess that up until this point in time, none of it involved the Home And Garden Television Network, better known as HGTV.






About a month ago, I pitched my house to a show called "If Walls Could Talk". They feature houses with weird histories and sometimes appraise stuff that's found the historic houses. I figured since my house was a hippy commune in the 1970s, that fact would get the attention of the show's producers. It did. And three weeks later the show's crew was on my doorstep --- all eleven of them, including the show's host. It was fun. I spent all day with them last week, which included me doing reinactments of me finding stuff in my house, talking about its history for the camera and doing several surprise takes when an appraiser put a value on stuff in my house. On my own valition, I actually used the phrase "Holy Moly." But the best part of the show was a reinactment they did of hippies meditating in my breakfast room --- which really used to happen.

Watch for the show to air in about six months. I'm hoping it will be the stupidest episode of "If Walls Could Talk" ever.




Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Pimp C and Me


I've learned that have something in common with rapper Pimp C --- besides the fact that we're both pimps and have names that include the letter C.


I'm struggling with a cold --- the kind that hangs around forever, like inlaws at Christmas. So I went to the store for a bottle of cough syrup. A cold and a cough has to really be bad for me to ingest cough syrup. The stuff has made me gag ever since I was six years old and still does. But I was willing to trade 2 seconds of gag reflex for four hours of lung chunking cough. So down goes the medicine.


Then I read that Pimp C did very much the same thing. Except Mr. C got high on cough syrup. And cough syrup doesn't mix well with sleep apnia. So he's now the late Pimp C.


So I'll pour a bit of Tussin on the ground for C.


It just goes to show --- gangsta lifestyle, sleep apnia, cough syrup --- something's always gonna get you.


Sunday, February 03, 2008

Safe Drinking


Jameson's fine Irish Whiskey is a completely different experience when consumed through a sippy cup.