Here is a picture of my bud in Chicago last week the week before last for the Occupy Chicago protest that is most likely still happening and getting even bigger this week. Maybe not in Chicago, but  more widespread across the country and world.

While there are many events that are triggering all this Occupy mentality, I can’t help to wonder how close to an actual revolution we are living in. Dangerous times, desperate folks, unemployed people, all spell one thing – trouble.

Did I happen to mention that the picture that made the FoxNews affiliate is from the week before last? So the current picture which is below, is going to show that Occupy Chicago isn’t stopping, and while I write in advance and post later, this is still relevant and happening.

btw, what do you think “America is a Dying Whore!” – leave a comment if you agree or disagree.

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With regards to that time of the year called award season, in the past month or so, I have had about ~10 Bit.ly URLs that seem to have reached a level of interest.

Image via CrunchBase

#10 – Cottonmouth Ghandi – Vance Savage – Pete’s Dog

- Vance Savage is a very talented musician and music teacher who I met via Craigslist when I was looking for someone to teach my older son how to play drums. I happened to have found him, and luckily we have forged a pretty decent friendship over the past few years. These are some different bands and projects he has out there where you can listen.

#9 – Power Ballad City

- If you are in the mood for a decent Power Ballad, you should check out this bit.ly bundle for it. Clone it!

#8 – Church Tongue – The Gutter – Solo Trashy

- This is a friend of mine that lives up in Chicago. I played bass in his band for a bit, The Gutter, and he did this techno solo Church Tongue project, and I also engineered (re-engineered) the Casket track. I’d love to work (intern even!) in a recording studio.

#7 – 3 Gifts That will Surprise And Delight (ME) on Christmas

- Yes, I would love to find these under the “tree” this year.

#6 – Top Ten Holiday Gifts You May Want to Re-Think Giving

- It’s that time of year, and if you want to get me something, try the #9 link above.

#5 – Crowdsourcing abortion is probably a bad idea

- This one still floors me that someone would try to crowd source an abortion. Not a good idea, and kind of weird and illegal in some places.

#4 – 5 reasons people switch from iPhone (iOS) to Android

- These are my own personal observations written down as a blog post, and surprised it was read by many and linked by a few power twitter users.

#3 – Major Reasons Why Mainstream Businesses Are Leaving Twitter

- A different perspective of the Twitter Kool-aid that everyone subscribes too. Well read post that was written by Scot Duke.

#2 – Beatles on iTunes

Image by Getty Images via @daylife

- This bundle I made to help people understand bundles on Bit.ly. It seemed to work as it was also featured on @bitlybundles

#1 – Wade Phillips Fired – Jason Garrett in as Dallas Cowboys Head Coach

Image via Wikipedia

- Crazy that made it as the #1 item for my Bit.ly URLs, but timing is everything I guess. I’m not even a Cowboys fan!

Technically Speaking, what are your top Bit.ly URLs?

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Originally posted right here:

A quick music break with some old The Gutter tracks : some Church Tongue and generally just that rocking musician from Chicago –
Download : The Gutter – Casket – or – Play Track:

Download : The Gutter – Outlook – or – Play Track:

Download : Church Tongue – Normal Isn’t Normal – or – Play Track:

Download : Church Tongue – Sex Kiss – or – Play Track:

Download : Church Tongue – i.u.w.y.d. – or – Play Track:

Download : Church Tongue – I’d Fuck Elvis – or – Play Track:

Download : Church Tongue – Terror In My Eyes – or – Play Track:

Download : Trashy (solo) – Baby Doll – or – .m4a track

Technically Speaking, I hear that Trashy is working on more solo material and he is playing the guitar these days.

While I can’t really go into deep details here, the whole NYC experience was a costly yet interesting one. While the sun sets on the bright lights of life in the Big Apple, the twists and turns somehow end up working out. Note: The track that is auto-playing is “Little Wonders by Rob Thomas”; video at the end of the post. I feel the lyrics sum things up rather well at this time.

Sure, I will miss the location of living across the street and around the corner from the places where NYPD rolls on a call, as well as the views, I won’t miss other aspects of living in NYC.

If nothing else, I can always say that at one time, for 6 weeks, I lived right next door to the Empire State Building. I walked the streets at night exploring the neighborhood.

While for some people that love the whole NYC experience, such as my buddy in Chicago who loves brick and subways, I’m more of surfer dude and always have been.

Technically Speaking, while I wish that the whole situation in NYC would have been fully resolved and I could talk more about it openly, I just wanted to update everyone – as well as say – Happy Thanksgiving week! If you want more details, just ask me directly and I can provide them privately. I hope you know what you are thankful for. I sure have a lot to be thankful for this past year.

One last thing I want to share with those that have given me the crazy eye about my definition of a nice lawn – not so crazy am I? :)

Little Wonders by Rob Thomas

The last contest on here seemed to generate not many hashtag comments as well as not many participants, this one is just a simple question I have.

It seems like there are two sides of the fence to Austin, TX. One side loves the place, and the other side say it’s the most boring place on the planet. I have also read a tip that it’s not very good to visit in July/August.

My bud who is also known as Church Tongue said the few people from Chicago that has traveled to Austin, TX have told him that the place is not worth the time and is boring. The contention is that while it’s suppose to be some sort of mecca like music capital, it is also been said to only occur on one street down there (6th street from what I hear).

The question here is,”How do you feel about Austin, TX or rather do you feel Austin, TX is cool place to live/visit or does the place suck?” You can reply via twitter and the hashtag of #trashyaustin. It’s more fun if you use twitter to respond to this, and responses can simply be like this “cool, love the music, best city in the world #trashyaustin” – “sucks, I got robbed in Austin, safe in Chicago! #trashyaustin” – you know something short and sweet < 140 characters for twitter.

This time, I’ll even take the comments that are associated with a blog post right below. That’s fine – but rather would see this stream be taken to the hashtag of #trashyaustin on twitter.

Now of course since twitter is like porn sometimes with the < 140 character limit, if you leave a comment here on this post – feel free to be very detailed on why or why not Austin, TX.

Technically Speaking, while I am not giving away FREE T-Shirt this time, I would like to see some opinions!

Because Jones’ Big ASS Truck Rental and Storage is funny:

And if that’s not good enough, here is commercial # 2:

Technically Speaking, because it’s funny! btw, he is from Chicago and not the #STL as I was just told via AIM!