We have only gone out to California to visit my Uncle Drake a few times in my life. One time I remember Kevin and I were really into collecting comics. It was the Jim Lee era of X-Men. I was busy trying to buy all of the back issues of The Uncanny X-men that I could find. On this fateful day I came upon a comic book that was pretty hot at the time. It was the first appearance of Gambit. I can't remember how much it cost - maybe $15 or $30. I was so happy to get a hold of it though.

Unfortunately, I no longer have it. I either traded it to my friends John and Derek for some porn or video games or I lost it with some of my other rare comics when Linda lost her area at the antique store. But, I don't really care, it is just a thing. However, it is fun to reminisce about random memories like that.

When I was in about 5th or 6th grade our family took a road trip out west. We spent about a week traveling out to California, and then stayed in Cali for another week. There's alot of memories to go with those travels but he's one that sticks out in my mind for some reason. Noel and I stayed at our Aunt Pamy Sue's place in San Francisco for a couple nights. I'm not sure where our parents stayed, but what are you going to do?

My bro and I always had a fantastic time with her, except on this night. We had dinner at her place and everything was going fine until she made us wash our own dishes. This was the first time we had to do anything like this because we were spoiled and grew up with a dishwasher. We weren't happy, I probally cried.

Sometime after my first trip to China.  Maybe a few days later, I immediately had a business trip out to San Diego for training while working at Compuware.

I was living in Ann Arbor at the time and had not been back there for like a month straight.  

So I fly out there and it was such a long flight!  Even though I just had ridden at least 18 hours from China, 5 hours seemed very long to me to travel within my own country.

I get there on a Sunday afternoon and I swear I didnt even get settled into my hotel.  I think I immediately took my rental car out and around the city until I found a good spot to park and start rollerblading.  I was rollerblading all around Mission Bay and the board walk in San Diego and having a really good time enjoying the atmosphere.  I had some people take some photos of me as the sun set.  And I just was really appreciating such a beautiful new city that I have never been to.  I went to a crab shack and had some . . . Read More..

Dimples is the hottest karoke bar in SoCal(Southern California). It's located right next to Warner Bros. studio so they get a lot of struggling musicians/actors making demos there. They record a persons performance and then give them a dvd copy of it. You can check out their website and see the live performances going on now as we speak.

On this particular evening we were presented with a treat. None other than Dennis Haskins gets on stage to sing. That's Mr. Belding from Saved by the Bell for those who don't know. He started off with a strong performance, I have to say I was impressed. The place was jamming until an underage(probally) drunk girl jumps on stage. This broad starts grinding on Mr. B and grabbing his pee-pee. Naturally Mr. B can't cocentrate on the song and starts blowing the lyrics. To quote Mr. B I'm thinking to myself,"Hey hey hey, what is going on here?"

I come to find out this girl use to be a big deal. She was on a girl group started by the Disney . . . Read More..