I am excited to announce that Vardagen will be designing and printing the new T-shirts for “Mission to Find Me”. Never heard of them? You will. They are new company totally committed to quality and design in a ll of their fashion. A lot of bands pump out the cheapest shirts they can find with that sticky paint on it that makes your chest sweat. You buy the shirt cause you need a memento but you always end up sticking it on the shelf until you mow the lawn and have to cover up so you aren’t like that nasty guy next door. I thought it would be a good idea to design a shirt that I would actually wear myself. Of course, I probably won’t cause that would be really vain for me to walk around with my own shirt on…Maybe just around the crib. Anyway, Vardagen T’s use the most premium quality fabric and you will probably wear your shirt the rest of the summer. I hope so !

Rick Stump- Putting an end to cheap tour T’s

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When I was a young boy, I had this pretend-dream that Macaulay Culkin and the girl from that movie “My Girl” came to my house to visit and hang out with me. They thought I was really cool and we had a great time all day. We rehearsed scenes from a new movie that we were working on. I was an awesome young actor. The girl told me that I was really cute. I thought she was really cute too. We really had a crush on each other. I told Macaulay that he did a really good job in that scene where he died from those bee stings. It was such a cool day. I rehearsed the whole thing on the stairs of my house by the front door…the doorbell never rang…they never came. It’s funny the things you dream when you’re a little kid. Grown-up dreams are not that different.

-sleepless in Indy

It’s just starting to sink in that I am opening for Buddy Guy at the 2007 Rib Fest in Indianapolis. I keep hearing this voice in my head whispering ever so softly      “DON’T SCREW THIS UP!”

NOTE TO SELF: “DON’T SCREW THIS UP!”

Ray, your chanting…says here, “unconscious chanting”

your chanting Ray…

Once they, get in here, it’s over Pal

-who can guess this movie trivia?

Dad told a funny story today with a thread of truth.  He had originally heard the story from Charlie ”Tremendous” Jones.   (A motivational speaker that had his hay day back in the 70s and 80s)  I will try to do it justice.

There was a young man that worked in the meat department at a local super market.  One evening as he was closing up, an older lady came in to get some last minute poultry.  She came up to the meat counter and asked to see the chickens.  Having only one chicken left, he reached down into the ice and pulled it out. She looked at it closely and then asked, “Got anything smaller?”

Eager to please, he took the chicken, plunged it back down into the ice, and rustled it around.  He pulled it back out and placed it on the scale, pushing up on the scale with his thumb to make the chicken appear lighter. 

The older lady then exclaimed, “Perfect! I’ll take both of them”.

I thought this story was so sweet.  It feels natural to me to embellish the truth to get what I want, but it seems like I always get stuck in a lie.  My great grandpa always said:

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember what you said.”  

-still working on it…