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Last night, we were all set up for a fabulous evening out. My girlfriend's aunt and uncle got all dressed up and came up to San Francisco for an absinthe party.

We were all looking great, especially Sal and Beth (does anyone else see Telly Savalas and Bette Middler in that picture). We had been hyping up this party for a long time and I couldn't wait to show my new yo-yo routine during the midnight cabaret.

We arrived at The Climate Theater at about 10:30 and headed straight to my favorite bartender to get our absinthe experience going. We introduced Shan's family to the bartender and she gave us wonderful descriptions of the drinks she was going to serve. After about 5 minutes of planning, she was just about to pour our drinks, starting with mine.

As she tipped the bottle a light appeared on the drink. There was a police officer holding a flashlight, behind him were 5 more cops. I didn't notice 'em come in, but as I looked through the doorway I could see several officers in the other rooms.

The officer spoke, "Miss, what do you have in the bottles?".

"I'm uh, not the person to talk to."

She walked past me and whispered, "Doc, you and your friends should probably leave."

I went to the performers area to grab my doctors bag full of props. I must have looked really suspicious because of the officers stopped me outside and checked my bag.

The event was shut down, and I can't find any info online. Obviously it's still very recent.

I would imagine the raid had little to do with the presence of absinthe at the party, I think the main legal issue would be serving drinks without a license. The guests had nothing to worry about from the police, I'm not sure about the bartenders, but I would assume the only folks that will be affected by the raid would be the promoters. I'm sure they will get a huge fine and maybe confiscation of all their absinthe.

I'm heartbroken and concerned for my friends involved. The absinthe scene has been real good to me, lots of cool people and one of a kind experiences. I'm so bummed that this might be the end of the absinthe scene in the city. I'm also bummed that I didn't even get a sip of that "330" last night and that I just ran out of Tabu two days ago.

I posted a performance on youtube from an absinthe party a few months ago. Here it is again... so I can relive that... man I'm gonna miss those parties.

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Here's a hellevant yoututorial from Irina (via).

Irina and the awesome folks over at www.GeekEntertainment.tv hired me to help create a parody of the popular Saturday Night Live "Dick In A Box" music video starring Justin Timberlake.

We started Friday morning and had it online Saturday night!

Stay tuned to DrownRadio.com for a new podcast coming this week btw.

Get ready internets, this friday is the release of Beefy's new album "Tube Technology".

I actually have a lot of credits on this album, providing beats for 5 of the tracks; Tub of Tabasco, Feel So Good, Webcomic Junkie, The Legend of Jones McFly, and The Sound. Actually I sing and rap on The Sound, as well as handle production and jaw harp solos.

When I first started chatting with Beefy, we worked on a song called Tub of Tabasco. I did the beat, and he wrote some keen-o lyrics about some dirty hot sauce lovin'. That was released on Rhyme Torrents Volume 1. After that I did a remix of the track, and started working on the nerdcore megamix, which will have Beefy's original verses as well as me (Drown Radio), MC Router, ytcracker and others.

The video I've attached is sort of a leak of my verse from this megamix. The trick was created around the time Beefy and I first started working on T.O.T., so I named the trick after that song.

Hipster, please! has put up a review of Tube Tech, but the only copies available are for those folks that were lucky enough to attend his most recent Seattle show last weekend.

The rest of us will just have to wait 'till the album's release this Saturday. It's a free download from Beefy's site.

YouTube is a giant sea of useless videos (or TMI). While a majority of videos just sink to the bottom of these cold digital waters, every once in a while a new wave of videos gathers momentum before it crashes the shore. I guess in this analogy, our souls would be the sand... Once great rocks, now frequently crushed by video bitstreams of pop culture and stupidity.

Some of these waves are fun to catch, Mentos and Diet Pepsi, Ghostriding, and political snafus where all good times but there is a new wave of videos headed for our shores that won't be as pleasant.

I'm talking of course about the Bunny Scares Cat videos that are popping up over YouTube. Now, the wave isn't huge yet, but I predict it is gaining strength by the minute and will soon envelop us all.

You see the problem is, unlike most other videos fads, these cat vs bunny videos (or Hurricane Thumper) are neither funny/cute/shocking/or interesting at all. They are absolutely dull.

Your average cat vs bunny video starts off with the protagonist (the cat) usually stuck in a bag or a cardboard box doing absolutely nothing interesting. Then the antagonist (the bunny) enters the scene and bumps our hero's tail. The hero quickly lifts up his tale, realizes it's just a bunny and continues on with his day.

I know, a cat and a bunny, how can it not be entertaining? Well, take a look at some of the examples I've provided below, then go out and get some renters insurance and an umbrella because Hurricane Thumper is on it's way.












Did you see the views on those videos? Most of them were viewed over 10,000 times!
Now that I've posted it on my blog, those numbers may even reach 8 or 9 more views!
Meanwhile I'm lucky if I break 1,000. Fucking lagomorphs.