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Darling Nikki....

I met this girl Nikki on Myspace. I wasn't really looking to meet anyone but she contacted me and we started writing each other back and fourth. She seemed like a nice person and I guess she still is but I wish she had been more honest with me. She wrote to me and asked if I wanted to call her. Our emails had been going well so I said sure and sent her my cell phone number and home phone and she sent me hers. I called her when I got in later that night and we were having a pretty good conversation until all of a sudden she decided to drop a bomb on me. 6 years ago Nikki was in a car accident and is confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life.

Call me shallow but jeez what a fucking turn off. She says she didn't tell me because so many people judge her by her chair instead of what kind of person she is inside but I felt tricked. Being in a wheelchair is a huge fucking thing to omit from over 20 emails that 2 people swapped back and forth. She really wanted me or somebody to fuck her and I thought that it just wreaked of desperation but she was so lonely and I couldn't just hang up on her. I stuck it out and it was a pretty good conversation but I just didn't feel it would work out. She emailed me again and I decided to tell her the truth. I felt lied to and thought that she should have mentioned her situation before hitting on me and inviting me to call her. I wrote her back and said we could still be friends but that it was too much for me to handle and that in the future she should be upfront with all the guys she meets online. She disagreed but when we talked she mentioned that she kept getting rejected so I would think that she should consider changing tactics and putting the fact that she is disabled in her profile. Talk about it, be upfront and don't hide anything or she's going to keep sitting there alone waiting for some loser to take pity on her and fuck her.

I'm willing to be judged by all of you out there but I think I make a valid point. If you are on an online dating site and you were missing a leg but otherwise attractive would you be honest and tell people about it in your profile or would just contact the person and get their hopes up and then all of a sudden go "Surprise! I'm missing a leg!"? I'd wager that if you do the latter it won't go over well with most people something I learned the hard way a few years ago so now I put everything out there. Are you broke? Tell them! Live with your Momma? Tell them! If you don't it will bite you in the ass in the end.

Flickr is going down!!!!

In my insane effort to put sites like Flickr out of business we have in a sense ripped them off. I can't think of a better way to christen our new photo album system than with a few photos of the newest addition to our family, my nephew Dominick James Stuart Brice born one week ago today. Oh and that big lug sitting in between those kids is my big brother and proud papa Roderick. Enjoy!

http://www.justblogme.com/albums/maddhatt/

I've been hoodwinked!!!!

So true to my word I emailed Tom over at MySpace and surprisingly he wrote me back.

 
Here's the transcripts:

Hi Tom,
I'm extremely disappointed by the message that you left on The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza's page yesterday. How many black people do you think actually listen to hardcore metal music? If you're being honest you know the number is not that many. Not only am I black but every member of the band is a personal friend of mine. Not a MySpace friend, a real friend. We've hung out together and I've even crashed on their couches on occasion. These guys are just a young up and coming band trying to make it, I thought that was the point of MySpace. I had never even heard of you guys until last year when one of the band members asked me to join so he could add me to their friends list.

I hear that your will has been appeased. The band spent a few hours sifting through MySpace profiles searching for black people to add to their friends which you and I both know is meaningless PC crap. Of the near 12,000 friends they have over two thirds were added by fans requesting to be added and not them going around looking for white people to add to their list. Why? Because the guys love MySpace and I've sat there at shows and listened to them tell people to join them on MySpace. And when I went to those shows guess what? I was one of the only black people in the audience and most times the only one so of course their friends list is going to be mostly white.

To be fair I think your heart was in the right place but you really screwed the pooch with that one. I was kind of offended that you singled out blacks. Why no Hispanics and Asians? I actually admire what you've done here but I really feel that you owe the band an apology and maybe a few beers. I'm not trying to be a jerk here, I'm just sticking up for my bros.

Antonio D Brice

Tom wrote me back and here's what he said:

From: Tom
Date: Mar 7, 2006 10:15 PM

heya - sounds like someone is posting fake comments from me - send me the link to the page so i can take a look - thx!

And me again after I talked to Brad:

http://www.myspace.com/tonydanzatapdanceextravaganza

Here's the message which is still up.

Through extensive screening, we at Myspace have noticed that you are not encouraging diversity within your Friends. In an effort to express this, please add at least 5 more black people to your Friends List within 72 hours, or your account will be deleted. Please post this as a bulletin to spread the word. Thank you for your time,

Tom

I just got off the phone with a member of the band. I'm really glad if this is just a hoax but how did they make a post under your name? It even links to your page.
I really am sorry if I came off as a jerk but those guys are some of my best friends. Thanks for looking into it!

After removing the fake post Tom then wrote me back and explained an exploit that was found in the current MySpace posting script which would allow a user to not only post as him but anyone else on MySpace. He apparently has been catching shit from all sides because a couple of idiots can't control themselves. What is worse they also did it to another band. The bands fans were pissed and have been writing all kinds of foul stuff about Tom on MySpace which is a shame because he really seems like a nice guy. Well look at it this way Tom, you took a website that beat out both Friendster and LiveJournal to become the top networking site online and sold it for 580 million dollars. It sure sucks to be you!

Stream The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza at PureVolume.com!!!!

The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza have released three new tracks from their upcoming Sophomore CD. These are not downloadable tracks and are available for streaming only at PureVolume.com. I am always amazed at the response the bands fans give them. The page has been up less than a week and the tracks have been streamed over 35,000 times which makes me kind of thankful that I didn't start that MP3 site I was thinking about a few years ago. The server bill at Pure Volume must be insane as they have tons of different bands for you to listen to for free.

Pay close attention to track number 3 "Mad Max Beyond Superdome". If you've read this blog before you may remember that I used that as the entry title for one of my posts about Hurricane Katrina a few months back. Brad Thomson reads my blog on occasion and loved the title so much that he told the other members of the band. They of course loved it since four fifths of the band hail from Louisiana. He gave me a call and asked if I would mind if they used the title for one of their new songs. Brad's like a brother and the whole band has been cool as fuck to me so I said yes and we even talked about a few more song titles which may end up on the record. I'm always up late at night and Brad will usually call me at 1 or 2 in the morning and we'll just shoot the shit and the madness ensues. I'm not a funny guy in the traditional sense but Brad thinks I'm funny so when he laughs at something I say I just keep going and the next thing you know I'm laughing too. He's just a great guy and a really talented musician. This new stuff sounds really good. The production quality has been amped up quite a bit. I really think this next full album will put them over the top. Enjoy!!!

http://www.purevolume.com/thetonydanzatapdanceextravaganza

I can't be your Superman...

Ever since I got robbed I've been dealing with the after effects. There's a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking and it's really annoying. Everybody has an opinion of what they would do or would have done. I'm getting a lot of "What someone robbed you? But you're black!" as if that makes a difference and I've had a bunch of idiots telling me that they would have kicked the guys ass even though the man had a loaded .38 pointed at me.

I'm not Superman for God's sake, bullets don't bounce off me and both times I've been through a robbery it's been the same. You get these loud mouths that tell you what they would do but when that gun comes out all bets are off. I'm proud of myself and though I was afraid I showed no fear and didn't do anything stupid. That's got to count for something in the longrun.