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Joe The Plumber? Screw you.

Screw you and your seven homes, more or less.
Screw you and “the Middle class is $2 Million a year.”
Screw you and you snarky put downs of “community organizers.”
Screw you for crossing a picket line to appear on “Leno.”
Screw you for “Islamo-fascism” and 100 years of war.
Screw you for calling me a “fundamental.” The rich are waging class warfare on us and the economy sucks.
In the words of Chris Rock, “The choice isn’t Republican or Democrat. The choice is you got a guy that’s worth $150 million with 12 houses against a guy who’s worth a million dollars with one house. The guy with one house really cares about losing a house, because he is homeless. The other guy can lose five houses and still got a bunch of houses. Does this make any sense? Am I the only one that sees this… I’m just saying, John McCain could lose half his houses… And sleep well.”

Which actually started today- Sunday- in York.

It goes a little something like this: Load in Bowfire at the Strand-Capital Sunday morning, load out later that night. First thing Monday morning, load-in begins for the McCain rally at the Forum in Harrisburg. Full day of pushing Republican boxes, pulling Republican cables and avoiding the Republican riggers. Tuesday daytime is relatively free, but McCain’s load out is that evening. Wednesday is a private sound gig, Thursday is another private sound gig and Friday, the fun begins. Load in The Bellamy Brothers in York during the day. Possibly work the show. Load em out Friday night and then Saturday…Saturday I’m one of the eighty-or-so luckiest sunz-uh-bitches in the Midstate who get to load out thirty seven trucks of shit for The Rockettes tech rehearsal at the Old Hershey Arena.

(And my “downtime” shall be occupied by promoting John Brown’s Body, Hot Buttered Rum and The Hackensaw Boys; finishing the Judy Hirsh interview, firing off round-two of my Amusement Tax proposal to Council and, at some point this week, announcing ABC’s New Years Eve Exxxtravaganza. Oh- and the Election Night Party we’re having at The Brewery.

So, I doubt I’ll have much time for blogging.

But don’t you worry- because of the space-age, NORAD-level technology associated with WordPress, I’m able to make posts in the future … right now- there’s this neat new Time Machine widget that nobody knows about but me. So for you, it’s Sunday night- or maybe Monday morning. But for me…right now…it’s actually Thursday afternoon.

Follow the auto-updates on Twitter (they’ll be popping up in the morning and then early afternoon each day)….and I’ll see you next week.

“One point twenty one jiggawatts!?”

71 hours put into one of the most difficult, trying, wearing and limits-testing loadin/stagehand gigs I’ve ever, ever, EVER done.

By this time tomorrow, we’ll likely be about halfway through the load out.

And Monday? That’ll be my day off.

See you again soon…

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Here’s what we’ve resorted to on the venerable Second Street to get people in the doors.

C’mon- a PIG dressed up to sell CRABLEGS?

The apocalypse is near. Watch the tram car please.

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A breakdown in contentious negotiations between the IATSE Local One Stagehand Union and the League of American Theaters and Producers caused hundreds of stagehands to walk off the job today- causing chaos and major disappointment to thousands of would-be theater goers.

New York Times Story