A new TRB song is available.

the rage box - after these important messages

It's not very good. I was messing around with some plucked guitar string samples and got sort of carried away. It's very caustic, not very well composed, and simply put, not as good as the last thing I put up, which I like a lot better in almost every way. Plus, the main thing I was trying to do, which is replicate an effect I'd heard, I managed to do, but I only use it for like 3 seconds at the very end of the song.

But I suppose it was a learning experience.

So Hey blog, what's up. Bloggin' it up, eh? Checking out a little blog porn, am I right? Running across the street in between cars, playin' a little Blogger? (Or, shall I call it, Highway Crossing Blog)

Okay, so that last one was a bit of a reach.

Oh yeah, about me almost dying. So, I don't yet have the full report done. But there are now some pictures (WARNING: This pic is SERIOUSLY GROSS. You may barf, ralph, or otherwise vomit uncontrollably) of what I have taken to calling "That time I almost died" or, in more private circles, "That time that Satan attempted to attain corporeal form via my throat."

So, I almost died of dehydration. And then, tonight, I watched the presidential debate, and almost wished I had.

Anyway, I'm feeling mostly better. Though I don't suppose there is an antibiotic that can cleanse one's ears of hearing "nukeular" like 45 times.

There are plenty of people with better blogs for debating political stuff, because at this point to me it's just a sad game of PR strategy, and while I believe I have intelligent opinions, I'm simply gonna let the more qualified and less hostile bloggers out there out-wonk each other and call it a night.

Except perhaps to reiterate someone else's words, that I simply want to encode in my own record of this part of history.

As said by some crazy politician who clearly had no idea what ideals went into forging this country-

"Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism."

--Thomas Jefferson

As if he ever did anything.

['nü-klE-&r]