HOLY DIVER

I bought the Dio album yesterday and I have to say it's AWESOME. I think I've listened to it, like, four times already. I even skipped my last class today so I could come home and listen to it again. I cranked up the stereo in my room so the walls vibrated, then I shut the blinds and turned on my black light so I could get into it better.

Then my sister got home and yelled at me to turn it down. I don't know where she gets off. I worked hard all last summer to buy my stereo, so if I want to play it loud, I'm going to play it loud. But she kept banging on my door and totally ruining my ability to appreciate it. When the first side was over I decided to ride my bike over to where that hot girl from my English class lives. Or at least that's where I think she lives. I was riding my bike over there last week and I saw here there on that street. I don't think she saw me.

Before I went over there, I wet my hair down so that I could blow it dry and maybe feather it a little bit, just in case I ran into her again. But when I got over to what I think is her house, all I saw was a bunch of guys from the city packing up their stuff. It looked like they had just finished re-doing the sidewalk or something. I decided to ride down to the Stop and Go to see if they had New Coke yet. They didn't.

I circled back past that house again on my way home, just in case she was outside. No luck. There was nobody there at all. So I grabbed a stick and wrote "Dio" in the sidewalk. That way some small part of me was still there. Then I rode back home to listen to side two. At full volume.

As an update to last week's post, Tom Scholz called out Mike Huckabee for using "More Than a Feeling" while campaigning.

"Your campaign's use of More Than a Feeling, coupled with the

representation of one of your supporters as a member "of BOSTON" clearly

implies that the band BOSTON, and specifically one of its members, has

endorsed your candidacy, neither of which is true.

I wrote and arranged More Than a Feeling, engineered and produced the

recording, and actually played all the guitars on that BOSTON hit as well

as most of BOSTON's songs, not the person holding a guitar in your

promotion who identified himself as being "of BOSTON." Your claim that this

was "the guy who originally did it" is a bit mystifying since he never

played on that recording, nor has he been "of BOSTON" since he left my band

over a quarter century ago, after performing with us for only three years.

BOSTON has never endorsed a political candidate, and with all due

respect, would not start by endorsing a candidate who is the polar opposite

of most everything BOSTON stands for. In fact, although I'm impressed you

learned my bass guitar part on More Than a Feeling, I am an Obama

supporter."

Translation: This dude who supports you is not in Boston; I am Boston and that guy is not me. Boston doesn't endorse candidates. I endorse Obama.

You'd think a guy who went to MIT would be better with the transitive property.

Whenever I see somebody type things out in all caps it always, always, always reminds me of the long, rambling letter that we received when I worked at a movie theater. The man who wrote it was looking for employment, but was obviously not playing with a full deck. Throughout the letter, he described many of his upstanding qualities, periodically capitalizing entire words or phrases for no apparent reason. LOOKS GOOD IN CLOTHES. He mentioned how good he looked in clothes--sometimes in third person, sometimes in first person--several times throughout the letter. Coincidentally, Tom Scholz also looks good in clothes.

No amount of feeding flowers to a deer is going to change my mind. I still hate Boston.