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Ethan ( State Shirt… aka my sister’s boyfriend) makes really great videos for his songs.  Here’s a couple great ones:

Hope you’re having a great weekend!
Rock On, Jack

My babies get a year older this weekend…  I get to hang out with them on Sunday (Bing’s birthday), so I’m looking forward to that!

We’ve have a lot going on in podcast/CRN world lately.  Next Friday will be hosting the 10:30pm Craig Shoemaker show at the Ice House in Pasadena….  Which is really cool, because he is extremely funny!  On Tuesday November 17th well be hanging at Bob’s Big Boy in Sun Valley.  We’ll be enjoying happy hour from 6-8p and then broadcasting live from 8-10p.

Tonight on the CRN we had Vikki Ziegler in studio, she is a very successful family law attorney.  She was really fun to have on, she was intelligent and had a great sense of humor, she was in town for some television meetings, so hopefully we’ll see her on TV soon.  She also has a dating site for divorced people that she created, It’s currently free, so if your divorced and interested in dating check it out – divorcedating.com .

I apologize again for not being in much of a blogging mood this week, I’ve just been kind of bummed.  I’m so sick of being unemployed and all the problems that come along with it…  I would like to go back to the good old days where I go to work everyday and then they give me a paycheck… Or at least I think that’s how it works, it’s been a long time since I’ve done it.

Ethan’s show was excellent last night.  I highly recommend checking him out next time he plays.  Thanks to Kevin, Denise and Tomas for coming out to Hollywood and hanging out.

I am excited that the CRN is letting me take a more active role in things, I really feel like it has so much potential, we just have to hip some things up.  I think it’s cool that they have started running Air America programming this week on CRN 4 (it’s Liberal talk radio…  Which includes a show hosted by Chuck D)… Don’t worry Stretch, there’s plenty of right wing stuff on their other channels.

I’ve been thinking a lot about my marriage lately, and the aftermath.  It is so weird how you can love someone and think you know them, only to find out you didn’t really know them at all.  When start a relationship, you not only give your heart, but your trust… I think it is easier to heal the broken heart than it is to trust someone again.  It is sad to live your life wondering what is hidden, what is there that lies beneath the surface, but that is what you are left doing after a divorce.

This is not how newlyweds are supposed to act.  Little maniac.  Was it the CRN van? I’m not alone.  She should not be driving!  I’m glad it wasn’t our buddy Chris Judd.  Gotta get to court.  Another happy newlywed.  Guess who’s not going to win the Good Sport Award?

Have a great weekend!!!

Rock On, Jack

Are you ready?  The costume shop next to CRN has been crazy.  I don’t want Halloween to come… Because as soon as it passes we’ll be in full holiday mode.  At my house Halloween pretty much starts tomorrow, Lucy has her school parade, then it is off to Line 6 with Angie and Ethan for some in office trick or treating, while I am at The CRN holding court over our in house costume contest.  (Which all are welcome to attend, with or without costume! click here to find the address)

Tomorrow on the podcast we have Jamie Kennedy and Greg Giraldo… Always fun to have guests on the pod.

I have been seriously neglecting my caffeine intake the last couple days… I know this because I had a big headache.  I can go a day or two with not too much, but anything over that and the head hurts, so I’m sitting at Panera right now with a large ice tea.  Since they opened the Art Institute next door Panera is mainly overrun with young twenties on their laptops, portfolios at their sides.  I hide on the patio… Where I fit in better, and it gives me way more to look at.  When I sat there was a man sitting across from me, he looked roughly my age, he too was typing away on his laptop.  A car pulled up to the curb, more correctly a minivan, and sat there for a moment, the man typed and the car sat.  This went on for about 2 minutes, then the window rolled down and “Chris!” was shouted from the van…  It startled the man (Who we now know as Chris), he was so enthralled in his work he hadn’t noticed his wife had arrived to pick him up. ( this happens a lot right here, being right across from the subway and the bus hub, people camp out on the patio and wait for their rides)  All of this really doesn’t matter, because the part that struck me happened right after he grabbed his stuff and jumped up.  As Chris opened the door to get into the car you could hear an excited “Daddy!” come from the backseat.  Every parent knows that sound, that high pitched, energized, one word exclamation that truly comes from the heart.  That little girl was so excited to see “Daddy”, the woman more annoyed that “Chris” didn’t notice she had pulled up right away.  I know for me, that after not seeing the kids for awhile it is great to hear that sound from the backseat…  Do I wish that tiny explosion of joy happened everytime I opened my door?  Without a doubt, but you take what you can get.

I know I mentioned it last blog, but next week I’ll be heading over to the Hotel Cafe to see State Shirt (Ethan) play after the CRN show, hope to get a chance to hang with some of you there!

He played three rounds of beer pong before being removed.  Seems harmless enough.  One lucky girl.  Lou Dobbs attacked, where was Tomas?  These kids are scum.  Let me guess, he was pale and thin.  I move out and Mickey moves in!  Talk about bad parking.

On a side note, when you sit out on the streets of North Hollywood long enough you realize it is full of crazy people… present company included!

Rock On, Jack

It will be in the 40′s tonight in Los Angeles, It is really the first cold night of this fall.  There is something very lonely about the cold.  The distant voices and sounds of the city are muffled by closed windows, people borrow inside leaving the sidewalks empty and the darkness just seems darker.  Last year at this time I was in the middle of my divorce, working construction and living on my sisters couch.  The nights were just as cold, but I was not alone, my sister was there, Ethan, my Mom, and the dogs would wander out to my spot on the sofa to see if I had left any granola bar shrapnel.  Tonight, when the chill sets in, I will be alone in my small apartment, on the same couch, wrapped in Lucy’s princess blanket making my own warmth.  It is strange how the same place can be both  prison and home… depending on who is there with you.

State Shirt (aka – Ethan aka – My sisters boyfriend) is playing a show at 10pm on November 5th at the Hotel Cafe, If it’s not past your bedtime, I highly recommend you check it out… He’s really good!

There’s a new Farrell’s opening in The O.C.  I like this trend of old restaurants from our childhood making a comeback!  Like all the new Bob’s Big Boy’s that have opened…  And did I mention that the one at the 5 freeway and Sunland has a lounge!

Don’t forget, If you want to hang with Stretch and Me during our show on Friday just come on down to the CRN studios… We’ll be having a costume contest and performing the show live, it should be fun.

Do you want to read this book?  Another reason dogs rule.  I do I get this Un-Job. Who’s scaring who?   He gets to wisecrack in the showers now.  This is HORRIBLE!  Tweet and win.  Attack dog!

Rock On, Jack