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War Pigs

rmiles7721October 8, 2007Entertainment

Need I say more?

Helen or Bust

rmiles7721October 8, 2007Travel

108 hours from now I will be here…

The Troll Tavern, Helen Georgia

What sucks is that as it stands now I still have to show up for work three hours away Saturday and Sunday morning.

Concerts

rmiles7721October 8, 2007Entertainment

* Sponsored By http://www.sourcetix.com/

I don’t get to enjoy going to concerts quite as much as I used to but when I do I generally do the same thing that I do with movie tickets, order them online. When I was twenty camping out for days to get primo seats was great. I loved it. Now that I’m 40 I just don’t see it happening now. I much prefer the convenience of my own living room to get tickets.

SourceTix is an easy to navigate site to buy concert tickets online. I’ve been there once or twice and the setup has been redone somewhat recently (at least since the last time I stopped by to price tickets) and is quite attractive now. Of course I don’t go there to look at the site templates but it certainly doesn’t hurt to have an attractive setup.

I DO go to price/buy concert tickets. Right on the front page (currently) is a link to purchase tickets for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, one of my favorite bands no matter what time of year it is. Founded by members of Savatage the Trans-Siberian Orchestra takes heavy metal one step further into a classical/pop/metal mixture that will blow you way. They are going to be in Atlanta on November 8th and I would certainly like to go see them.

Along with concerts, SourceTix also provides tickets to sporting events as well as the theater. They also take their service very seriously, offering a guarantee that the tickets are authentic, they will be shipped to you prior to the show and that they will refund your money if the event is canceled and not rescheduled for another date. Some venders offer no guarantee at all. What you see is what you get. Head on over to SourceTix.com the next time you are looking for concert tickets.

Monday Open-Trackback Post

rmiles7721October 8, 200717Site News

Nothing else until maybe later this morning when I am at work so share your posts. Just send a linkback to this post and it will appear at the bottom of this entry to give a chance for folks to read your work that may not have seen it before.

 

Linkfest Haven, the Blogger's Oasis

Trackposted to Leaning Straight Up, Rosemary’s Thoughts, third world county, and DragonLady’s World, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.

Here are some of the reasons to host (and post to) a linkfest, taken from Linkfest Haven Deluxe:

When you set up a linkfest on your blog, its a lot of hard work, no doubt about it. However, there are several benefits.
Benefits to Hosts:
1) Visitors to your Blog
2) Links from those linking in
3) Readership for Your Spiels
This last deserves some comment. Over at Third World County, David makes a short commentary before getting to the post. I do this on occassion. I’ve done presidential campaign polls, I’ve had links to my book. You’ve got people at your website, so take advantage of it if you’re a host.
It’s also time consuming for posters to link to Linkfests, but they also get benefits out of this.
1) Exposure
2) Links to their work
3) Hits
The best benefit is that some people take a look at a linkfest, look around a little bit, like what they see and before you know it, you’ve got a regular reader on your hands. This happens to both hosts and guests. I credit linkfests with helping me increase the number of hits and comments I get on my blog.
If you’re new to blogging, linkfests are definitely for you. They’re a way for good bloggers to get ahead and promote their work. In addition, linkfests CAN increase your Technorati and Truth Laid Bear Ecosystem rankings. However, that’s not the primary benefit. The benefit is being read and becoming part of the blogging community.

For more information go check out the Open Trackback Alliance (OTA)

Man on the Silver Mountain

rmiles7721October 8, 2007Entertainment

Ronnie James Dio is one of the more powerful voices in Rock & Roll, specifically Heavy Metal.

I loved Dio with Rainbow (the origin of this song) as well as with Black Sabbath. His solo stuff is pretty good. His first album, Holy Diver, kicked serious ass and the second one was pretty good. Successive releases found me getting bored with him. Normally he would have a good song or two but all of the rest of his stuff sounded just like everything else he did. No evolution of his music at all.

Queensryche recorded one of the songs off of their last album with him and he did some shows with them as well, and it was pretty good. He didn’t perform The Chase with them when I saw the show in 2006, but it was still pretty good.

Gearing Up For Blogtoberfest

rmiles7721October 7, 2007Blogging, Travel

I am really looking forward to this weekend. I didn’t have a conversation that never happened earlier today Thinking and it got me to thinking about the weekend to come. Apparently I am the only one that has got a cabin so methinks that there might be a bit of partying going on there. That should be interesting considering that I may end up having to drive back home both Saturday and Sunday morning to work. Yeah, it blows but there may be nothing I can do about it. Don’t worry though, if I do I will throw your drunk asses out when I need to go to sleep.

I haven’t had the chance to get out and read everyone else’s site and Zonker ain’t saying anything lately, so who all is coming this year anyway?

Sonic The Hedghog

rmiles7721October 7, 2007Uncategorized

Thanks to Jimi I got stuck at his site for quite awhile fooling around with this. Warning, it is addictive…

Rudy Giuliani Supports Drug Dealers…

rmiles7721October 7, 20073Politics

We already know from his record as Mayor of New York that he supports illegal aliens, why should I be surprised at that?

I don’t get to RedState very often. Like the seriously left wing sites such as KOS 90% of the stuff there is bullshit and extremely one-sided. I can judge the issues for myself without having it spoon fed to me like most of the extremely political sites like to do. Just watch. 90% of the people that hang out on a regular basis at Daily KOS, Redstate or Michelle Malkin‘s site for instance will just regurgitate verbatim what they have read and hear without bothering to listen to opposing arguments. That’s cool, but arguing with those people is useless and pointless.

Anyway, the article I came across wasn’t even about Rudy Giuliani. It was really just a short blurb stating the fact that the Flat Tax has four sponsors in congress, whereas the Fairtax has 57. That makes sense to me because the Fairtax taxes everyone including illegal income generated by drug dealers, criminals, and illegal aliens. The Flat Tax only taxes those that are already paying taxes which includes none of the above.

What I found more interesting that the article itself is the comments. They are very polarized on the issue but there are some really good points made. Go check them out and if you are sick of paying taxes visit Fairtax.org as well.

Linkfest Haven, the Blogger's Oasis

Trackposted to Perri Nelson’s Website, Blog @ MoreWhat.com, Rosemary’s Thoughts, AZAMATTEROFACT, The Random Yak, DeMediacratic Nation, 123beta, Big Dog’s Weblog, , Right Truth, The Populist, Stuck On Stupid, Cao’s Blog, The Bullwinkle Blog, The Amboy Times, Phastidio.net, , Conservative Cat, Adeline and Hazel, Nuke’s, The Magical Rose Garden, Faultline USA, The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns, Walls of the City, The World According to Carl, Blue Star Chronicles, The Pink Flamingo, and Church and State, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.

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Time For A Little Pussy…

rmiles7721October 7, 20073Site News

No, I’m not channeling Catfish…Just fooling around instead of doing something meaningful, interesting, or hell even just trying to make a buck.

I love the Internet…

Call it a mini-porncast if you will.

Michael Vick Has A New Job…

rmiles7721October 6, 20071Site News

I hear that Michael Vick finally landed himself a pretty good new job where he can put his many and varied talents to use. He’s the new head coach for Georgia Tech…

…wait for it

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