Cru Jones Society

To read part one of CJS’s return to Las Vegas, click here. 

I wake up in the bed nearest the bathroom. That’s odd.

I mean, not that that’s inherently odd by itself, although somehow Lady E almost always ends up closer to the bathroom when we’re in a hotel (or any new place for that matter) by some weird voodoo logic about having to face a certain way when she sleeps. Incredibly, that way always yields her nearest the bathroom forcing me to take the long way around.

The reason it’s odd is because I distinctly remember falling asleep in the other bed. Did I wake up and vomit? I check my clothes, the bathroom, and my breath – relatively clean, only towels and a few stray beer cans on the floor, and wretched but not pukey, respectively.

Hmmm. Waking up in Las Vegas is never dull, that’s for sure. Continue Reading »

The Destination: Saddle Brook, New Jersey
The Date: May 29 – June 1, 2009
The Occasion: Salwon’s Wedding

Salwon and I met in high school during the year I spent in Houston. We were both on the swim team together and in the midst of some awful set our raging fatass tyrant coach concocted, I made some weird joke about death metal band Cannibal Corpse. Having only been at school a week, I suppose this was a tactical error in my effort to make friends because nothing says, “Hey, would you like to be friends?” more than making a joke about an obscure band with song titles like “I Fuck the Dead” and “Entrails Ripped from a Virgin’s Cunt.”

Amazingly, Salwon got whatever horribly tasteless joke I made and we became fast friends. And even though we haven’t seen each other in person in about four years, we’ll still call each other just to say, “Hey Mark, you play a mean guitar! Too bad you have to die!” from the movie Empire Records. So when he asked me to haul my ass to New Jersey to be one of his groomsmen, it only took me about a half second to respond, “Hell yeah!” So Lady E and I packed up, headed to the Garden State, and partied our asses off. Here’s what transpired. Continue Reading »

Good Morning! Why are we so happy today? Because it’s Friday and tomorrow starts a three day weekend. We have plans of debauchery to fill all three days. That’s only half true. But before we get to the shenanigans we have plenty of links to help you ease into the weekend. So let’s get to it so we can start the weekend already. Continue Reading »

With Streetlight Manifesto in town tonight, I thought we’d revisit the last time they came through our fair town. I wrote this review 1/7/08 and present it now for your enjoyment.

Artist: Streetlight Manifesto w/Grand Buffet and The Stitch Up
Venue: The Bluebird Theater – Denver, CO
Date: 1.6.07

Streetlight Manifesto is about as big as it gets these days for a ska band. They have a small but intensely loyal fanbase. They’re like the Mad Caddies (my favorite band) – the only difference is that Streetlight can actually sell out the roughly 400 person capacity Bluebird Theater.

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