MyFriendCleveland

I haven’t had an interest in Metallica for, oh, I’d say, 25 years. I was thinking about getting into Ride the Lightning or Kill ‘Em All or whatever it’s called, but I just got too lazy.
I especially had no intention of buying their new CD. And now there is rumors that the mixing is garbage, and that the Guitar Hero version of one of their songs is mixed better. This YouTube comparison of the two is pretty awesome.
Metallica vs Guitar Hero

I showed up to work today, and instead of pulling into my garage, I was told to turn around and “get the hell out of here!” by a fireman. Okay that “get the hell out of here!” part isn’t true, but it turns out some car was on fire in the garage. Sucks to be that dude.

In local news, a mother of a 17 year old who was begging a court to lock up her child is now the mother of an accused murderer. I don’t think this is one of those I told you so moments, but, she did warn them. One of the charges against the boy is “possession of counterfeit drugs.” Is that like the bag of oregano we told my college roommate was weed?

What’s the most exciting job you can think of? Got it? You picked one? Forget it! Think ten times more exciting! You there yet?
Were you thinking of an Illuminating Co. worker? Yeah. The Plain Dealer knew you were.

Scrap Yards. Beacons of truth and legal business practice. However, there is a new law in Ohio that is going to force scrap yards to document their purchases a little more thuroughly than they do now. Currently, a normal transaction goes like this:
Scrap yard owner: Is this stolen?
Stolen stuff seller: Yes (or no)
Scrap yard owner: Cool, I’ll take it.
But now the state is going to make them write detailed RECEIPTS of what they are buying, and even document who they are buying it from!? Absurd! And the dude in this article claims his only complaint is that it’s time consuming. Sure.

CDC (that’s cleveland.com) hits us with another “Did You Know?” when it informs us that… now, sit down for this, it may startle you… heavy rain makes driving hazardous.
Who would have thought?

That’s more a general statement than a particular one, but it appears that the page looks a little wonky if you’re viewing it through Microsoft’s web browser. The side bar on the right gets all out of place.
If you’re at work and have no other excuse, that’s fine. But if you’re at home and aren’t using Firefox, go download it. Internet Explorer has been trying to catch up to it for years.

A new law that goes into effect in Ohio today makes it easier for Ohioans to get away scotch free with fatally stabbing or shooting any “intruder” in their home or (in some cases) their car.  Known as “the Castle Law,” this new law provides a get out-of-a-murder-wrap-for-free card to anyone with a good enough lawyer, provided their victim was a wizard, knight, or the other player’s rook.

Speaking of killing people, a film adaptation of Cleveland native Brian Michael Bendis’ award-winning comic book,Torso, is the subject of some hot debate in the Cleveland newspapers: Will it get filmed in Michigan? Will it get filmed in Cleveland? Will it get filmed at all? The book-through the use of black and white drawing, archival photography and 1930s issues of the Plain Dealer- tells the tale of an epic clash between the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run (aka the Torso Killer) and Cleveland Public Safety Director Eliot Ness.  If you haven’t done so already, head over to Carol and John’s, pick up a copy of Torso,  go down to Great Lakes Brewing Company and read the comic over a couple of smooth pints of Eliot Ness.

In other news, The Plain Dealer has let loose some steaming hot fashion news: baggy pants are back in style! Time to dust off those old Jncos! I myself have a pair with a huge embroidered dragon on each of the pant legs, I’m hoping that’s in style too.  However,  I am a little worried that we are about to see a rise in “self-defense” killings of baggy-pants-wearing “intruders.” Or maybe even a few baggy-pants-wearing torsos washing up on the banks of the Cuyahoga.

I’ve been wanting to change the look of the page for a while, as well as kind of slim it down and kind of re-prioritize what we were doing here.

Well this is a start. There is a new look. Some of the pages (like Reviews) are gone, because honestly, I don’t think anyone ever went to them anymore. We’re going to try to update a little more regularly. Less big updates, maybe just little ones when we see something worth posting. We’re also going to have some more contributors, hopefully.

I’d say look for more movies, but my video camera was stolen. Along with my drumset. And my guitar. And the rest of my band’s stuff. So that’s on the backburner until I get ahold of another camera. In the meantime, just keep checking our YouTube Page for shows I’m slowly updating.