Giving you all the latest Hot Waffles News

In this issue:

-New Shows!
-Lower Prices!

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New Shows!

07/13/2008 09:00 PM - CIA (California Institute of Abnormal Arts)
11334 Burbank Blvd.
North Hollywood, California 91601
Cost:10.00
Description:Level Up! Level 2! featuring The Megas, Zealous 1 and the
Super Barrio Brothers. It's Game Music 4 All!

07/23/2008 08:00 PM - DiPiazza's [
5205 E Pacific Coast Hwy
Long Beach, California 90804
Cost:10.00
Description:2nd Annual Kahnmanapalooza featuring Barry Bookbinder,
Throwing Toasters, Dino-Mike & Evan Wecksell! Hosted by 'The Kahnman'
himself, Tyrone Kahn!

07/31/2008 08:00 PM - Fender Avenue Bar & Grill
2466 Fender Ave
Fullerton, California 92831
Cost:5.00
Description:Attack of the Killer Guitar Comics - An evening of Rock
and Roll comedy! Co-produced by Mary Margaret Steele. Four guitar
comics who deliver musical comedy and comedic music: Flibbertigibbet,
Hot Waffles, Sven Amsterdam, Evan Wecksell.

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Lower Prices!

Our new album "Living on a Roll and a Prayer" is now for sale online
for only ten bucks! If you haven't purchased it yet, what are you
waiting for?

(If you are waiting for iTunes, it will be up there in a few weeks)

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That's about it for now. We've made some small updates to our YouTube
page. Check it out at www.youtube.com/chriswaffle


Much Love,
Hot Waffles

Last night we had some Duck Soup for dinner, today we intend to commit a little Monkey Business.

A lot of folks have been talking about the death of Jesse Helms.

Sorry kids, Bill Hicks had the last word on Jesse almost 20 years ago.

"But you know they're going to find the skins of young children drying in his attic, swarms of horseflies going in and out of the eaves, and on CNN over and over, his wife going, "I always wondered about Jesse's collection of little shoes." Anyone that far to the right is hiding a deep, dark secret."

for laurel and dmnsqrl

Cryo Ruggie and kr1mz0n_ghoti
Convergence 7/3/08
As I was carrying a copy of Rune 78 (from 1988) for a panel on Minnesota fan history, I ran into one of the contributors! Cryo Ruggie was active on BBSes, local dial-up Citadels, and his son was just getting into the on-line world.

(Note Convergence program schedule along the wall on far right. It's a four five day convention, and it's not over...)

Yay! People gave me movies to watch!

And by "people", I mostly mean the Captain. Thank you, sweetie! (I'm in the mood for pet names today, for some reason. From here on out, you're all my snugglebunnies.)

This stuns me rigid, but I've actually seen some of the suggestions! Gasp and shock! I'll bold them, because I feel like it.

( The List Of Suggestions )

Some of the names are partly bolded. That would mean that I've seen part of a series. (For example, I've only ever seen Evil Dead 2 and maybe a bit of the third one. Wait...maybe more than a bit...maybe more like a lot.) Likewise, I've seen about half of Kevin Smith's stuff and...well, you get the idea.

If you've got anything else you think I need to see - and I'm talking to you, snugglebunny - leave me a comment.

So...I finally got my birthday present yesterday!

(Yes, I know my birthday's on May 16th. We tend to do things a little lazily around here. For example, we have yet to celebrate our 1st anniversary and order our wedding pictures from 2006. We are, as most would say, horrific procrastinators.)

Anyway! Ben knows me very, very well, and so his present to me was...a trip to see a bunch of flayed corpses! Yaaaaaaaaaay! (Seriously! Yay!)

http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/bodies.html

I was all set to take a thousand pictures and splatter my friendslist full of lovely pictures of muscles and organs...but they didn't allow cameras inside. *sigh* It was a lot of fun, though, and it was absolutely fascinating to see all that viscera out in the open.

...my god, I sound like a serial killer. I swear I'm just really interested in biology, folks.

At any rate, one of the best things about the exhibition is that only the little fiddly stuff is behind glass. The full bodies (and the split-in-half bodies, and the split-in-third body...) were all just standing on plinths, hanging out, watching the passersby with their little pop-eyed naked faces. It was so neat to be able to point at stuff and say "That's the kidney! That's the spleen! That's the omentum!" (Also, much wincing occurred when a man helpfully identified the liver as the stomach for his small child.) The blood vessel displays were gorgeous!

I highly encourage all of you to go see this if it comes anywhere near you. (Oh. Um...except for those of you that are skeeved out by dead people, particularly dead people playing baseball and high-fiving their halved self.)

After looking at all the nice dead people, we went to dinner. Then we played mini-golf!...which I lost...barely...and then we went to the tiny little arcade! We played Skee-ball and air hockey and made a pair of little girls insanely gleeful when we gave them our tickets.

All in all, it was an awesome day, and it almost made up for not being at ConVergence.

• 14:18 Amazing how much email I get after being offline for ONE day!
• 19:07 I've never been invited more places than I have this weekend. Right now, I'm at a BBQ at a mansion.
• 20:19 Good times, my friends.
• 20:27 Ooh, cake!
• 21:33 Why do we have so many bottle rockets?
• 22:09 Guitar Hero party at our place!

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Poll #1218502
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Well ???

I'm not usually sexist, nor do I often make big sweeping generalizations, but I have to whine for a minute.

Men are really really bad when it comes to actually reading model call sheets.

No seriously.
Incredibly bad.

I could post something like:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
NEEDED:
Asian Males
Skinny, 6' or taller
Age 18-24
NON-PAYING, TFP ONLY
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

And I'll get responses from short, fat, hairy, white, biker, leather-daddies going "I'm interested, how much does it pay?!?!"

At least when (most) women who don't fit the bill write anyway they say things like "I know I'm not right for this call, but if you do something where you need a white girl instead of an asian man, please keep me on file!"

Okay, done whining about that.

I have a favorite band name

The Anderson Council

So, how many music geeks get the joke?

For sale:
Bunch o' Orson Scott Card Books - SOLD
All Paperback
Ender's Shadow is mint, all other VG.
$2 each or $10 for all 7

WYRMS
SONGMASTER
ENDER'S SHADOW
CHILDREN OF THE MIND
PRENTICE ALVIN
ALVIN JOURNEYMAN
HEARTFIRE


LAW & CHAOS by Wendy Pini
Wendy's studies for an unmade Elric movie circa 1987
Cover is not in great condition (a bent corner and normal wear) but would still be a great addition to a Pini/WARP collector.
$15

Theremin Through The Future!
Convergence 7/4/08
An interesting panel on electronic/modern music with a couple of good theremin players to demonstrate. I didn't catch this worthy's name, but given his t-shirt I'm glad I'm not on his radar.

• 23:57 (Did I really go all day without updating?) Happy 4th everyone!

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I posted the wrong trailer in my entry yesterday, sorry about that...

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35825.html

THIS is what I'll believe when I see!

Sudden Death - Getting Old Sucks

Bob Ricci - Beverly Hills - Dementia Radio World Premiere

Birthday set:
Bud Light: Real Men of Genius - Mr Really Special Birthday Celebrator (Jared)
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Happy Birthday (PRV) (2005 Stereo Remix)
Da Yoopers - Happy Birthday Fungus Face
The Arrogant Worms - The Happy Happy Birthday Song
Raymond and Scum - Birthday
They Might Be Giants - Older
Sudden Death - Hey Birthday Boy
Power Salad - Mr. Most Important Person

Hot Waffles - Angus Beef Patties With Cheese And Bacon
Jonathan Coulton - Big Dick Farts a Polka
Paul and Storm - Live

Doctor Who set:
Marc Gunn - I Saved The Planet Earth
Tom Smith - An Ecclesiastes For Rose
The Nick Atoms - He Is The Doctor
the great Luke Ski (with Carrie Dahlby) - It Takes Who
DJ Particle - Stuck In The Middle With Who

Senator Helms...

May history remember you for what you were.

Since it's Independence Day, Jordan and I are declaring our from the STUFF in our house.

We both have huge clothes piles to deal with. That's the goal for today. It's really hard (helllllllllllo ocd & hoarding issues) but mine is about 2/3rd sorted and I've filled two give-away garbage bags so far!

But now it's time for a trip to the super-low-tide with my Mama!

Last night I had three different dreams about meeting famous people in airports.

WTF?!?!

I also dreamt I made out with a lot of Number Two Cylons (the Leoben model) but that's a whole 'nother story.