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For those of you looking for the Cross Collaboration story, click on the picture.

Yep, it's Me and Mrs. Geezer doing Rhythmic Gymnastics.

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Two of my grandkids from California visited us for three weeks this summer.
We played a lot of RockBand (tm), on the Xbox-360.

We got to be pretty good in the online competition. Out of 99,000 ranked bands, we placed in the top 100 on the Leaderboard with several songs. Two of the songs we played actually made it into the Top 20.

Since we are mostly from the Spud State, we call our band "Spudders".


Three generations are represented here: Mrs. Geezer is standing with Donovan, Trish (my daughter) and Steve. I'm in the front row with Stevie.
Everybody plays all the instruments but usually Mrs. Geezer and I sing or play Bass, Trish and Donovan trade Drum duties while Steve and Stevie are our Guitar players. Stevie is only 8 but she plays guitar on the Expert level.
Yes, I am the Weakest Link.

Steve took the group picture of us and Photoshopped it in front of one of the many pictures I have taken of the power poles by our house.

RockBand is a great game for families but some of the songs have PG-rated lyrics.

*The title of this post comes from the famous recording of Mr. Paul Anka reaming out his band and the stagehands.

Full Disclosure: I was Paul Anka's Lightman on 3 separate road tours in the U.S. and Canada.

Update: I have to give Michael credit for coming up with the name Spudders.

UPDATE: Congratulations to Steve and Trish. They have completed the Endless Setlist: 58 songs in a row without stopping. They got Five Stars on every song. It took about 6 hours of playing.

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Video - HISTORIA DE UN LETRERO (THE STORY OF A SIGN

OK, I thought this was pretty neat. This is my first post since Mother's Day.

Thanks to my buddy Herman in Henderson.

Yeah, I know, I'm about 360 days early for Mother's Day. That's just how I roll.

The Daughter and her fiance came over Sunday and fixed a delicious dinner for us, wine included. They also brought Guitar Hero III. Mrs. Geezer doesn't play many video games but she enjoyed playing this.

At first my daughter worked the strum bar and Mrs. G worked the frets.



Then it was time to Rock Solo!

Mitt Romney's Top Ten Reasons he dropped out of the race:

No. 10: There weren’t as many Osmonds as he thought.
No. 9: Got tired of the corkscrew landings of his campaign plane while under fire
No. 8: As a lifelong hunter, I didn’t want to miss the start of varmint season.
No. 7: There wasn’t room for two Christian leaders in the presidential race
No. 6: I’d rather get fat, grow a beard and try for the Nobel prize.
No. 5: Got tired of wearing a dark suit and tie, and I wanted to kick back in a light colored suit and tie.
No. 4: When his wife realized he couldn’t win the GOP nomination, my fundraising dried up.
No. 2: I took a bad fall at a campaign rally and broke my hair.
No. 1: His campaign relied on a flawed campaign strategy that as Utah goes, so goes the nation."

Funny Stuff. I would have voted for him.
Read the rest at Michelle Malkin:

The best tribute to Moment of Truth comes from Yon's publisher:

I HAVE NEVER BEEN PROUDER TO PUBLISH A BOOK.

Michael Yon changed my mind about the war in Iraq, by making me understand it for the first time.

From the very beginning I was against the war. I thought it would be a disaster, another Vietnam. And until I had the privilege of working on this book with Michael I was always for immediate pull-out: why should one more American die for a doomed effort?

Michael--who is as close to totally non-political as anyone I know--showed me two things. First, because I judged by Vietnam, the war of my youth, I had radically underestimated what American soldiers could do. ***

I was 100 percent wrong. Today's American soldiers excel at counterinsurgency, because they excel at the most important thing: winning over the people by inspiring them with their own courage and compassion, discipline and determination. ***

Just wait until you read the Chapter "High Noon" (my favorite), the story of the American soldiers who have to arrest a corrupt but politically popular Iraqi police chief we had put in office in the first place because he had been a real hero in fighting the terrorists. He had to be removed by Americans to show the Iraqis we really did believe in the rule of law. The whole thing could have blown up into a one-town civil war with hundreds dead on both sides. Won't tell you how it ends, but you will be amazed and very proud.

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I am convinced that everything I once thought about the war was wrong. The truth is we are doing a great thing in Iraq, most of the Iraqi people really do want to be a united democratic nation and already consider America their greatest friend and ally. It would be a crime to turn tail now and abandon them now.

I owe all that to Michael's book, which is why I believe publishing Moment of Truth in Iraq may be the best thing I have ever done for my country.

Power Line:

I'm going to buy Michael Yon's book. You should too.

Cathy, over at Innocent Bystanders, posted something that reminded me of my Stage Lighting Days in Las Vegas.

Man Plays Piano With His Balls.

I have fond memories of Wally Eastwood, who billed himself as the Fastest Juggler on Earth. He taught me how to juggle 5 balls and 4 clubs. Nope, I can't do it today, juggling is something you have to practice to keep your skilz. I can still juggle 4 balls or 3 clubs pretty good though.

One of my prized possessions is the 3 professional juggling clubs that Wally gave me. He even autographed them.



Mrs. Geezer and I attended his wedding in Vegas. He's a really nice guy who married a very sweet girl. They have twin daughters, who he brags about during his shows.



Here's Mrs. G, holding the clubs over her latest Stained Glass project. It's a 45 x 33 window that will recreate a photograph that her client took in New Zealand.

The top photo of Wally was taken by R. Scott Hooper. He has done a lot of photography for Playboy. Go check out his excellent photos.

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Color me surprised... Not.

lgf: Yet Another Antiwar Movie, Yet Another Flop

Wow, this is awesome!
It can carry 340 pounds and can climb through rubble.

Weird: New Video of BigDog Quadruped Robot Is So Stunning It's Spooky