You’re doing it wrong!

Turns out a few Cuyahoga county votes that were mailed in might be disregarded because they were improperly mailed. Oh, did I say a few? I meant to say 2,700! Yeah. Two thousand and seven hundred votes, that were mailed, may not get counted. There is a way to fix it, but come on! I’m starting to get real nervous about this election.

So much happening in Cleveland these days. The Euclid bus line finally opened up, which means you’ll be seeing some of those jointed buses on the street. I don’t really know if there has been such a demand for public transportation that those buses were necessary, but hey, with this recession and gas prices what they are, maybe it makes sense. Anyways, lots going on in Cleveland, so lets get to it!

I witnessed a stampede

So I’m at work the other day, minding my own business, reading video game websites instead of doing anything productive, when all of a sudden these elephants just charge down east ninth street. Lucky for us, no one was injured, but if you want to see more of these beasts, it just so happens that the circus is in town on the Q, if that’s your sort of thing. You know, everyone is all “Oh elephants walking down the street, how great.” But if one of those animals got loose and killed a baby, we’d all be singing a different tune.

Polar bear found dead at zoo

The Cleveland zoo’s oldest polar bear was found DEAD on Friday morning. Officials say there is no evidence of foul play but the bear was also in good health. Something doesn’t add up if you ask me, but that’s not the real highlight of this article. What really stands out are the quotes they got for this little journalistic gem.
Like this one: “Whenever an animal dies, I think it’s sad,” said visitor Ceca Sarkissian of Cleveland, who visits the zoo several times a year with her two children.
When reading this story, be sure to pay extra close attention to the somewhat disturbing 2nd last paragraph.

What’s going to happen to your points?

You most likely have heard that National City got bought by PNC Bank, but what I’m wondering is… where are all those points going to go? You know, all those points people have been saving to buy stuff on Amazon.com or whatever. It reminds me of this one X-Men comic, where, after M-Day, where millions of mutants lost their powers, all that mutant energy went off into outer space. The energy didn’t just disappear, it just wasn’t in the mutants anymore. So it went off into space and hit an asteroid where Vulcan was fossilized or whatever. Well he came back to life when all this energy hit him and came back to earth and took out some major revenge on Professor X, who had really screwed him over in the past. He was super powerful and he was about to destroy all the X-Men when Professor X let him know about his past, and how this one alien had killed Vulcan’s dad (Vulcan also happens to be Cyclops’s brother). So when Vulcan finds out this alien dude killed his dad, he gets all pissed and flies off into space to do some real damage.
I hope something like that happens with the National City points.

Midnight at the Savoy at the Hi-Fi tonight

If you’re into music like the Mars Volta, and that sort of new-prog-rock kind of thing, I’d suggest going to the Hi-Fi tonight to check out Midnight at the Savoy. Really good band. I’m going to be there filming, so if you come, come say hi, and I’ll buy you a drink. But then you have to buy the second round so we’re even.

Forget about hurricanes, that stuff is for sissies. The number one cause of death for Ohioans in Florida is killer dolphins. That’s right, dolphins – trained to seek out and destroy any Ohio native they smell.
Proof
This lady got off lucky. We could have had a national disaster on our hands.

Recently written about and all around great band Echoes of Harper’s Ferry is playing at my favorite bar and yours, Now That’s Class. Show starts at 9(ish) and it’s a suggested donation of $5. There’s another band playing with a NSFW name, so you can check out who it is over at Echoes’ page.

There’s this website dedicated to Cleveland called My43.net. It’s all “Web 2.0″ because most of the content is supposed to be generated by users. I think it’s pretty new because all I see is some guy taking pictures of himself while freestyle walking or something, and some videos that don’t look very funny. There’s also a tab you can click called TIMEWASTERS, which I thought was actually pretty hilarious considering the whole site sort of looked like a waste of time, but then again look who’s talking.

I think the goal here is that people from Cleveland will post pictures, videos, blog posts, music, stuff like that, so that eventually there’ll be this mecca of Cleveland content all found in one convenient website … so they can sell some ad space at top dollar.

There is some great potential for first-class shenanigans here, I just need to figure out the best approach.

In the meantime, you can find the site here.

Former MyFriendCleveland main scribe Matt wrote a little piece on our good friends Echoes of Harper’s Ferry for Cleveland’s number 1 only independent paper, Scene Magazine. The headline sucks (really, it’s really stupid), and I had to look up the 14th word in the article, but hey, there is a great picture.

So check out the article and see what makes these boys tick.

Consider me registered!

Are you at the New Kids on the Block concert at the Q tonight?

No?

Yeah me neither.

Don’t know how we missed this one a while back (actually we didn’t miss it at all we were just too lazy to post it) but the Scene or Free Times or whatever it’s called these days did a great write up on some happy hours worth checking out in Cleveland. They somehow missed $1.75 Great Lakes beers at everyone’s favorite bar Now That’s Class, but maybe that’s because they are pointing out great deals at places I otherwise couldn’t afford. Check out the article if you’re looking for a way to pretend you’re ritzy without spending too much money.
Tell them MyFriendCleveland sent ya’ and you’ll get absolutely nothing.

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.

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.