Friday, April 4, 2008

RIP x-bomb


For those who don’t know, I make music under the alias “x-bomb”. Nothing too serious but there is a significant numbers of mp3s on my disk drive with “x-bomb” in their file names. Today it saddens me to retire that moniker.

This is the reason.

From the Tallahassee Democrat, Florida:

April 4, 2008

A briefcase marked "A-Bomb" in a pickup truck in Florida State's parking garage Thursday caused classes to be cancelled […].The Tallahassee Fire Department, police and bomb squad were called.

The bomb threat turned out to be bogus. It turns out the term "A-Bomb" is a nickname for a 17-year-old high-school student, Brooks said. A parking attendant originally spotted the briefcase in the bed of the boy's truck on the fourth-floor of the Woodward Avenue parking garage and notified authorities.

No arrest was made Thursday, but the case has not been closed.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Absolute Certainty



The other day, as I walked through a hospital, I noticed an older man struggling to sip his apple juice through a straw as his son looked on. The son looked distraught. Maybe he was upset that old age and illness were changing his father…

Life is a gift.

None of it should be wasted.

Go ahead, live.



“Look alive
See these bones
What you are now
We were once
Just like we are
You will be dust
Just like we are
Permanent”


Taken from Nada Surf’s “See These Bones”
http://www.myspace.com/nadasurf