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We Are The World

It's sort of like having the Publisher's Clearing House people show up and you haven't taken a shower yet. The Big DumpTruck got NATIONAL press coverage and the current issue was a month old. Whoopsie!

Can you believe it? Little old us being stuffed into Sunday papers all over the country? My goodness, what will be next? Well, to be fair, we have been interviewed on the radio in DC for The List, but I figured that was a fluke. While we've had people from 40 different countries visit this page, I just figured they got here by mistake. This is a REAL publication including us in an article titled "Eclectic, electric content makes zines a worthy read." Holy smokes! We're included in an article that reviews Salon and Suck! Sure, they got more stars than we did, but they update every day. Maybe I'd better start being a little more regular, if you catch my drift. Oh, and for anyone interested, this is a link to the online version of the article. If the people from Access Magazine are reading, I just want to say thank you SO much for making me feel like someone out there actually appreciates my efforts.

It should be there for another couple of weeks as the magazine is monthly. Please drop me a note if you are one of the people wandering over from SUCK magazine, as I'm trying to figure out where else we've been mentioned, and some people seem to be coming here from there. Thanks!

JFK Jr.

I won't be writing anything biting or funny or sad here. I just wish this hadn't happened, and I offer my condolences to both families. Seems a damned shame to me, regardless of whether he should have been flying that night or not. I wasn't there, and it wasn't up to me. I still hate to hear about deadly plane crashes, as I used to want a pilot's license. So I'll continue to feel sad about this.

Adobe GoLive

This issue of the DumpTruck was chiseled out in stone using Adobe GoLive. I'm still trying to work out all the kinks, but it seems like a good product. I was going to dazzle you all with a new layout, but I don't have the time to do that right now, so keep watching this space for that to happen. In the meantime, I'm just glad that the content is new.

The Commute

The commute isn't getting any better. I think it's getting worse, which doesn't seem possible. The heavy traffic used to have the decency to wait until close to the Concord Rotary. Now I am stuck in heavy duty traffic as soon as I leave my house. When did this happen? What exactly changed? I used to look forward to the summer because the traffic was always lighter due to parents staying home with the kids, or perhaps those danged college commuter students staying home and working. But I haven't seen any difference since the summer kicked in, and I have to say I'm saddened by this.

VH1's Schedule

It's almost too easy a target. Who among us has not made some sort of joke out of the current VH1 schedule with its endless repeats of "Where Are They Now," "Behind the Music," "Before They Were Rock Stars" and "Legends."

These shows all sort of blend together after watching a marathon of them over the weekend. You know your life has hit rock bottom when you watch the Quiet Riot Behind the Music and cannot change the channel, instead being forced to wonder why lead singer Kevin Dubrow thinks he's fooling ANYONE with the wig he now sports.

I wasn't even a fan of Quiet Riot. I don't know that I could find someone who would admit to it in public, but there they are, taking up an hour of my life with video clips of head-banging, drinking heavily, and wowee, naked women with they privates blurred out (just like Tom and Nicole in the Canadian version of Eyes Wide Shut!) I think it is a testament to my laziness that we watched almost the entire show. I now know more than I ever dreamed of knowing about this band. And in the process, I'm sure I lost some math skills in the parts of my brain where the Quiet Riot trivia is now stored.

The List:

Computer Equipment I Really Want

• A Laptop. I think you'd get more frequent updates if I had a laptop. No, I'm sure of it.
• A drawing tablet. I'm a lousy artist, but I think this would be a very helpful tool.
• A video capture card. No, I don't want to become Jodycam, all Jody all the time. You really don't need to see how messy my house is.