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• The Horrisonance Experiment Part Three

  Day 13: Columbia, MO (City motto: Smack dab in the middle o Misery!): We were supposed to play at Mojos today, but the promoter cancelled due to inclement weather.…

  Mar 08, 2007

   

• THE HORRISONANCE EXPERIMENT PART TWO

  Day 7: Chicago, IL (official city status: haunted): In the late 1800s, a Chicago sausage magnate was arrested for the murder of his wife, allegedly grinding her up i…

  Feb 21, 2007

   

• ZERO TO SIXTY BELOW IN 6 SECONDS: A THREE PART TOUR JOURNAL FROM THE FEBRUARY HORRISONANCE EXPERIMENT

  All in all, we seem to being doing it backwards touring the blistering South in the middle of August, followed by the Artic cold-front prone Midwest in the dead of win…

  Feb 14, 2007

   

• Pixilated Dreams and 8 Bit Escapism

  I was a poor kid. My first Nintendo was played on a used hospital TV long before gamers became an official pedigreed social group. Most of my friends got off on Tecmo…

  Feb 07, 2007

   

• Eatin Good in Your Neighborhood

  In six years of touring, we occasionally get the rare opportunity to stumble across a great gastronomic find apart from the usual Taco Bell/Burger King/Subway Smorgasbo…

  Jan 17, 2007

   

• Metal Monday: A Hessian Confession

  I went back to work at the metal shop on Monday. This was not due to any sort of failure on the part of the band, it was simply a way to kill a two-month break and mak…

  Dec 21, 2006

   

• Newby: An Brief, Unauthorized, and Self-Indulgent History

  They say if you go back far enough, were all related. Maybe thats true in a Biblical sense, maybe its not. On a micro-level, in regards to family names, it seems more…

  Dec 14, 2006

   

• 2006 Tour Recap

  To be read like an exuberant newscaster in the tradition of Citizen Kane (opening scene) Touring in 2006 ended for us in a deluge of snow, power outages, nausea, and r…

  Dec 07, 2006

   

• Rest In Peace, Stevie Ray

  Id like to pre-empt my usual weekly blog of brainpan gristle with a reflection on some sad news of which Ive recently been made aware. Anyone with a connection to the…

  Nov 29, 2006

   

• Recipes By Jonathon

  I recently wrote a recipe for vegetarian quiche that will appear in an upcoming issue of Alternative Press magazine. I had so much fun writing it, I thought Id do it a…

  Nov 20, 2006