DISCLAIMER: Kate held a metaphorical gun to my head regarding some of this post. First and foremost, happy 20th birthday to Danielle Renee Ward!!! One more year and we can do the Orlando crawl…or Tampa crawl, whichever the case may be. I received the most wonderful phone call of my life (this is the part) from Kate. She was in Orlando celebrating with Danielle and they were both quite a bit pissed. But hey, no qualms with that mate! Kate feels that 8 hours of driving and a job shouldn’t keep me from coming down to Orlando to see her and Danielle. I agree, however, I am a responsibl...

Last night was the UnderOATH show and it was so so. I am just not a big fan of shows…at least not ones like this. Yea, they sounded fine, not as great as The Chariot, mind you, but they did well. There were probably about, I don’t know, 1,500 kids there. What the most amazing, and annoying, thing was is that there was such a large variety of them. Sure, there were the typical “scene” kids: black unevenly cut long hair, chucks, youth medium shirts, tight girl pants (for the guys), and other stereotypical clothing and accessories. But, there were quite a few just plain Ab...