so here is the call for images. yes, anything you want. the only stipulation is that someone, somehow, somewhere in that image the words “dirtyashtray.com” need to appear. this of course, excludes photoshop. that is too easy.

no, we have no class and will not reject anything that involves poo, or any other body fluid. or anything else for that matter. except animal cruelty. i’m not down with that and i will probably report you sickos to some government agency that regulates that sort of behavior. so get with the clickity and send your pics in.

pics@dirtyashtray.com

a winner will be selected from the whole mess, posted on the front page, passed around myspace and a prize, YES I SAID A PRIZE will be sent to you. or given, if you live in the greater okc metro area.

oh, and i’m really lazy today. so someone post this as a bulletin on myspace, facebook and the like. hell, email it to everyone in your address book. i can’t even begin to tell you how cool this prize is.

oh, and the disclaimer that i almost forgot. if you are not of legal age to be creating, possessing any types of images that could be construed as “adult in nature”, stick with the poop pictures.

so i’ve decided that large insects, small rocks and the like while over long distance drives, are bad on your automobiles paint. seriously here. its to the point i’m hoping for some more hail so i can get some collateral damage and a paintjob out of the deal. if this happens, i’m totally going to “murder out” my car. a’la “rob and big”. powder-coat the rims, and go completely flat black. no chrome. i realize it will probably kill the resale, but i dont think i care, as i intend upon driving this car into the ground.

i realize this, because i was detailing my car last night (loaning it to a younger relative for the westmoore prom (the lame one)). anyway, i noticed all these little chips and nicks in the paint so i went to work on it with a touch-up pen. then i quickly realized that i was painting by dots the whole front-clip of my car. so at that point i really dig in and goto work. it probably just looks worse now, but i am so defeated by this i just quit at about 4am. hence, my previous comment and decision about what to do about the paint. being how my commute to work is extremely rural, there is the high possibility of me hitting a deer.

watch, now that i’ve made a joke about it, it will happen. but it wont be a good thing somehow. it will go horribly awry and somehow i wont benefit from this in any way. it’s just how my luck goes. probably because i am friends with jeremy. if that guy didn’t have bad luck, he wouldn’t have any luck at all. just ask him.

so mary is always looking out for me and telling me what is and what isn’t healthy, and how i should stop smoking and the like. yet, she serves red meat when she cooks and is totally cool with me eating fried food everday. anyway, she is the first person that i have ever lived with. ever. even as a child, i had a room that was extremely separate from the rest of the family, so i’ve always enjoyed my “alone time” and yes, i’ve got some weird quirks.

the other day, she made a comment about how long i sit on the toilet with my laptop. while, in another conversation she pointed out my lengthly sessions where a laptop is attached to my person in some fashion (usually my lap). and how it’s bad for my wedding tackle. well, i have this to retort.

the 6 dollar laptop stand. and it uses one of those cool, old-school water-bottles. that’s all i got today.

i’ve seen alot of the “che” shirts around, and yes. i’ve questioned some of the teens i see wearing them. they usually have no clue why he’s on a shirt, what the reasoning was for that particular image, or why they bought it. it saddens me to see kids that are looking for a reason to be angry, when there are so many around them.

there are tons of things kids could be getting behind, but they choose to “rock the vote”. and stop there. of course, their ignorance keeps the electoral college in place and they still wonder why their candidate never wins.

to quote tyler durden, “we have no great war, we have no great depression. we are the middle children of history. our war is a spiritual one, and the depression is our lives.” and in another segment, “the media has us working jobs we hate, to buy shit we dont need.”. of course, kids take this completely out of context and prattle on about hell, i dont even know anymore. i’ve stopped listening to them.

here is the article that spawned this tirade. i think i am gonna go lay down now. the youth of today makes me sad, with their pseudo mosh pits, where people dont touch, their stupid haircuts and skinny jeans.

bleh. oh, and yes. a concept video is in the works. well, at least we’ve talked about it twice now. so that is farther than we’ve gotten in, well, ever.

so tonight i went to a Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers show @ the wormydog in bricktown. for those of you who are not in the know, remember that band “the refreshments”? (they wrote and performed the theme song for King of the Hill). anyway, this is them, now. they were amazing. probably the best show i’ve been to this year. given, it’s only march. but i dont think i will see a better show for awhile.

i actually ended up getting to talk with Roger after the show outside their tourbus and comparing notes on political views. immigration, views on dehumanization, this guy personafies everything i wanted to be growing up. people use a phrase like that lightly, but i seriously wanted to be a musician, fighting the good fight. but i found out i was tone deaf one horrible day in front of the piano with my brother. he delivered the news like a morose doctor, telling me i had cancer. except without the bedside manner.

“sean, if a musical note was water. you couldn’t hit it if you fell out of a boat.”. he says to me.

so, here i am. writing here. where most people just end up in the gallery anyway.

back to the review of the show, totally awesome. the wormydog is a pretty decent venue for the price and it’s well located. personally, i would like to see a bit of a more acoustic type set. where roger takes a bit of time to give background and explain some of the songs and his inspiration when writing them. a storytellers type setting if you will. we got to talk about all of the mexico references in his music and “the border” and how it’s more of a metaphor. trust me, go back and listen to all of the tracks you have and you will see alot of his stuff in an entire new light.

all in all, if you EVER have a chance to see them. GO. you will not be dissapointed.

oh, and mary and i went to the OKC zoo today. well, there was some cool stuff. and some not so cool stuff. there were parts that actually made me sad. how docile the animals were, and how people pester and badger the animals to get them to “do something”. i kinda wish they would let them in the cages if they wanted and let the darwinian effect take place. there are images in the gallery of both things, so take a look. if you were at the show, put your two cents in the comments.

how do you get a title like that? i think i’m gonna have to print some business cards. come to think of it, i saw a think on “LinkedIn” (a professional networking site, kinda like myspace) where this guy who was a CEO for a company i used to work for, describing himself as a “translator of technology”. WTF is that? is just a fancy way of saying, “i don’t have a job, but i help my mom get her email.”.

ok, so with that, i show you this… yes, it features a macbook air. and he appears to be using the ONLY usb port available to do this. i wouldnt even call this a hack. because he’s using the technology exactly as it was intended to be used. data passed from an inert circuit which is powered by RF when in proximity to a reader. it’s more of one of those “awareness” things.

it’s really funny though. so here.

and now you laugh.

well, i wouldn’t really expect an actual laugh out of that. but you should get the idea.

so when we were starting this site, many years ago, it went something like this….

except, there weren’t any blogs back then. it was called E/N. Everything/Nothing. Entertainment/News. sure, i have made this complaint before. but still it’s annoying when i read stupid stuff that a person really put absolutely no thought into, yet it ends up getting passed around the web like it’s the new hampsterdance. and if you dont know what i’m talking about. just turn off your computer.

i’ve known this guy for the better part of a decade, and i had no clue that he was that enamored by puppies. seriously. sturch got this lump of flesh called a dog, and ben is now smitten. i think we should all chip in and get him one.

seriously. this kid needs to see a therapist. he’s like a 15 year old girl. the world is his oyster, and yet he has an entire show based around his bitching. knowing MTV, they are probably just waiting for a meltdown on camera. that will help numbers. i happened to catch an episode the other day and it seemed like a soap opera with him just creating drama for himself at every turn. this makes me tired.

mainly because at any given time, you could rearrange people’s horoscopes and they would read it and go, “hey, that’s ME!!”. while the entire time, it was actually someone who’s birthday was on the opposite end of the calendar. anyway, i normally dont take those personality tests. but this one had so many options i just had to figure out how it worked. being how, these types of tests usually have about four answers and depending on which variables you choose, you are asigned a value. people usually identify with this. i think they use the “standard personality chart” that all motivational speakers use whenever they see if you are a leader, follower, organizer, enabler, Q1, Q2, Q3, Blue, Orange, Purple, Red whatever type personality.

so here are my results to this test. if you know me, you will laugh because the variables are so all over the place, it’s obviously me taking this seriously, then picking something random because i got distracted. quit staring and take the test and post your results in the comments….

trait snapshot:

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