So this past weekend was Extreme Thing in Vegas (http://www.extremething.com/). It’s 12 hours of bands playing on 5 stages for $20 so you can’t really go wrong, but this year’s “big name” acts didn’t make me feel like I *had to be there, so I wasn’t planning to go. The only bands I really cared a lot about seeing were The Aquabats! and MSI. Then suddenly last Tuesday we found out...

I get to work this morning a little late, I overslept but no big I've still got plenty of time before classes start, and the principal comes on the PA announcing an emergency faculty meeting for 7:30 am. WtF? That has, seriously, never happened before. At least not in the 4 and 1/2 years I've worked here. I don't generally go to faculty meetings because they're boring and I'm not technically...

This is my story of how I met (and was hugged by) Mikey Way. I’m going to tell it the way I tell all of my stories – which is to say, in a long and rambling manner. I find details to be both interesting and important. If you don’t, feel free to skip it. I’ll try to keep logical paragraph breaks so that you can skim easily. :cute: This won’t be a review of the shows: I’ll write those up...