Humble Among (minus the Kings) + Recording "More"

I made the decision to drop Kings from the name. Now just Humble Among. Knew I was going to do it for a while now. Now I can be Humble Among ANYTHING.

I'm recording vocals for "More Songs For You", the sequel to "Songs For You". Which you can still download for free. "More" will be about 15 tracks. After "More", I dive into the Joker project.

Dr. Manhattan's Penis

"The superman exists and his penis is blue."

Watchmen is a 12 issue comic book series collected in trade paperback and hardcover editions. Now also a major motion picture. Watchmen has been hailed by critics of both fiction and film. Not for it's message or it's complex story-telling. No. It's all been about Jon Osterman's cock.

A man is disintegrated in a science experiment gone wrong. He somehow pieces himself back together again. His atoms. His blood. His skeleton. His nervous system. His penis. And it's a blue penis.

My biggest complaint with Watchmen is that the penis didn't play a more important role in the story. There's been talk of a prequel or spin-off movie (or movies) coming out of Watchmen. I think the one they should consider is a Dr. Manhattan dick movie. We can follow his shlong on all kinds of wacky multidimensional adventures, and people can get a whole movie of what they really want to see.

Just please. Pay respect to the source material.

911 is Bad for ya Health

Another story of someone calling 911 over fast-food. People who are unsatisfied with their orders are calling 911 and letting the operator at the other end know of the food crime being commited against them. In this case: a woman didn't get her chicken nuggets becuase Mc Donald's ran out.

Food crime is becoming a problem. This has got to be the 3rd story in a year I've seen about this. The first, last year in Jacksonville, was a man calling 911 over the lack of sauce Subway put on his sandwich.

Last month came the 2nd, when a man was upset that he couldn't wash down his chicken fries with a lemonade. And Coca-Cola would not pacify this crusader for justice! He did what any decent citizen would have done: called 911.

Now maybe some people would take the easy way out and call these people idiots, but I would say that they represent a certain type of human being. The kind that will not sit while fast food places are fucking up orders and "running out" of food that could be gurgling in their bellies. They are the ones who stand up! And do something to change it. That something being calling someone else to do it for them.

Or maybe it's just people who live in Florida?

Descendant sues Skull and Bones over Geronimo's bones

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/26/geronimo.remains/index.html

(CNN) -- The great-grandson of Apache warrior Geronimo argues in a lawsuit that a secretive society at Yale University holds the remains of his great-grandfather.

Harlyn Geronimo has sued Yale and the society -- the Order of Skull and Bones -- to try to recover the remains.

"I think what would be important is that the remains of Geronimo be with his ancestors," he said.

Skull and Bones, a collegiate society that's been around since 1832, includes alumni such as former President George W. Bush and his grandfather, Prescott Bush. Watch Harlyn Geronimo discuss 'the spirits' »

Author Alexandra Robbins said evidence backs up the younger Geronimo's claim that Skull and Bones has the Apache warrior's remains.

"There's a Skull and Bones document that describes how Prescott Bush and other Bonesmen robbed the grave of Geronimo, and I spoke with several Bonesmen who told me that inside the tomb there's a glass display case containing [human remains] and the Bonesmen have always called it Geronimo," said Robbins, author of "Secrets of the Tomb," a book that delves into secretive societies at Yale, with special attention to Skull and Bones and its paths to power.

CNN attempted to contact Skull and Bones, but no one returned calls. Yale said it does not have Geronimo's remains and that it does not speak for Skull and Bones.

The controversy began in 2006, when a letter was found tucked into a book in the Yale library, according to an article published that year in Yale Alumni Magazine.

According to the article, the letter -- written on June 7, 1918, by one member of the society, Winter Mead, to another, F. Trubee Davison -- said the secret society had Geronimo's bones, which had been dug up by other members of the group at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

Marc Wortman, a writer and former senior editor of the magazine, said he was the one who discovered the letter in Yale's Sterling Memorial Library.

"I found it and said, 'This is amazing. This is quite stunning to see this.' It was laid out so clearly in straightforward language saying we've got Geronimo's skull, femurs and horse tack, and we've brought it back to the tomb, as they call [the Skull and Bones house] in New Haven [Connecticut]," Wortman told CNN.

The robbing of Geronimo's remains fits into what Robbins calls "crooking" -- a competition among Bonesmen to steal valuable things, which were then hidden in the tomb, which has extremely limited access.

Geronimo is one of the many Chiricahua Apache leaders who fought to preserve the culture and the lifestyle of their people in the late 1800s. He fought both the Mexican and U.S. governments in the area of southern Arizona and New Mexico.

His descendant said it's important to honor Geronimo's legacy.

"Geronimo's legacy today is that he is looked to as one of the strong leaders of the Chiricahua people who fought to preserve homelands, cultural identity, to preserve their way of life," said his great-grandson.

Harlyn Geronimo is offended by the alleged actions of the Bonesmen.

"After a while it hurts you inside because you know this is your (great) grandfather," he said. "It's just something that is uncivilized for people of this nature to do."

Geronimo died in 1909 of pneumonia while he was a prisoner at Fort Sill. The burial in the cemetery wasn't true to Apache tradition though, and his great-grandson wants to rebury his ancestor in accordance with Chiricahua ways.

"They long for returning to their own homeland. They do not have their own reservation today. They are sharing a reservation with the Mescalero Apache," he said of the Chiricahua people.

Not everyone believes the Bonesmen found Geronimo's bones.

Some researchers have concluded that the Bonesmen could not have even found Geronimo's grave in 1918.

In the Yale Alumni Magazine's article, David H. Miller, a history professor at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma, cites historical accounts that the grave was unmarked and overgrown until a Fort Sill librarian persuaded local Apaches to identify the site for him in the 1920s.

"My assumption is that they did dig up somebody at Fort Sill," said Miller. "It could have been an Indian, but it probably wasn't Geronimo."

That isn't stopping Geronimo's great-grandson from pursuing what he believes are his ancestor's bones.

President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of the Army Pete Geren are listed as defendants in the 32-page lawsuit Harlyn Geronimo filed in the District of Columbia.

In 1990, a federal law was passed to protect Native Americans' rights to their family member's remains. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act addresses the rights of lineal descendants, Indian tribes and native Hawaiian organizations to Native American human remains as well as cultural objects.

The lawsuit references the statute, asking the court "to free Geronimo, his remains, funerary objects and spirit from 100 years of imprisonment at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, the Yale University campus at New Haven, Connecticut, and wherever else they may be found."

Happy New Year/Party's @ My House

2008 is almost over. What a shit-year. Let's pick it up in 2009, huh?

+ tonight the Place To Be is my house.

Happy New Year and Best Wishes.

RIP Chris Kobel

I'm not sure of the first time I met Chris.

About a year or so ago, all of us sat down and watched the movies we made in high school. The one about the woods, and the skate video. There's a quick shot that Chris pointed himself out in; He's sitting next to Dustin and me, on the ramp, just kinda looking over at us. I think about that now and it might've been when we were taping that skate video. It might have been before that.

He was one of Paul's kids. That's what we used to call all the little skater kids that followed Paul and Mike around. Whenever I'd hang out with either of them, a whole bunch of them would just appear. That's how I met him. But I'm still not sure of when.

Chris made me laugh and I made Chris laugh. He was my partner in mischief. He always tried to cheer me up when I was down, and I tried to to do the same for him. He was a best friend. He was my biggest fan. He always listened to what I had to say, even when I was babbling. And goddamn, was he funny.

I want to tell him all these things. I hope he knew that's how I feelt. If not, I'll just have to tell him myself. I'm not religous by any conventional means, but that doesn't mean I'm not spiritual. I know his energy is out there somewhere. And it's probably up to something hilarious.

I love you and I miss you.
Eric

Whoever Wins (or Who Are These People and Why Do They Keep Shifting in Their Seats?)

Well, the election is over and Obama has won. This is a historic and awesome moment blah blah blah. You've heard all that so there's no need for me to rehash. Let me just say I feel like my batteries are recharged.

One thing I'm still trying to figure out is, the apathetic and proud, who kept poping up with their I-Don't-Even-Care opinions, all ellection. This is on top of a record turnout. Are these people the bottom of the barrel as far as not giving a fuck goes? Why are they showing pride in their indifference?

And how can they have such a bleak attitude? Maybe I'm too positive, but rather that than there is no Hope.