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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
Ok, let's do this
"Joe, I remember those posts you used to make about cities' nicknames. What was that called? Where you wrote them?"
"Thunderblog."
The collective lowered their heads in mourning. It was as if remembering a giant who had the power to touch the very souls of all humanity; remembering the way he made us laugh or cry, filled us with anguish or glee. So powerful he was, so influential, so timeless, so... gone.
"I miss Thunderblog."
Spurned from a Sausage Hot Tube late Saturday night at Dave's house, this is to be a revivalist Thunderblog. Here we set about the task of recording, for all future generations, that which has made us smile - The Sexual Misadventures of Pete McGrath. But first, we must look into the life of Peter James Alfonse McGrath.
Pete is the type of guy who could wear a "Man, Myth, Legend" sleeveless t-shirt and get away with it, no questions asked. Pete is the reason some people get up in the morning and the reason some don't. Pete came to us when we were still in high school, coming to the saxophone lineup like Moses out of the desert. We were never the same. It started innocently enough - during season one, episode one of Sealab 2021, staring the voice talents of Erik Estrada and Harry Goz, Captain Hazel "Hank" Murphy starts his own pirated radio station. In response to a viewer calling in, "Howling Mad" Murphy (the good captain's radio moniker) dubbed him a "mailbox head," an insult that instantly found itself applied to Pete by Joseph Capriotti. Pete, as it turns out, was teased as a child about having a large head and his frustration at the name, coupled with the centrality of degrading put downs to teenage humor, tied us together, for better or worse.
The rest is history. Pete went on to accept the name and even to take pride in his postal-receptacle shaped head; he wore plaid and rode a Peugeot moped; we took him in like a lost puppy. Today, that puppy has grown into the mandog Peter McGrath. He traded his moped for a bicycle, though he still wears plaid. And Pete has many, many stories to share.
"Thunderblog."
The collective lowered their heads in mourning. It was as if remembering a giant who had the power to touch the very souls of all humanity; remembering the way he made us laugh or cry, filled us with anguish or glee. So powerful he was, so influential, so timeless, so... gone.
"I miss Thunderblog."
Spurned from a Sausage Hot Tube late Saturday night at Dave's house, this is to be a revivalist Thunderblog. Here we set about the task of recording, for all future generations, that which has made us smile - The Sexual Misadventures of Pete McGrath. But first, we must look into the life of Peter James Alfonse McGrath.
Pete is the type of guy who could wear a "Man, Myth, Legend" sleeveless t-shirt and get away with it, no questions asked. Pete is the reason some people get up in the morning and the reason some don't. Pete came to us when we were still in high school, coming to the saxophone lineup like Moses out of the desert. We were never the same. It started innocently enough - during season one, episode one of Sealab 2021, staring the voice talents of Erik Estrada and Harry Goz, Captain Hazel "Hank" Murphy starts his own pirated radio station. In response to a viewer calling in, "Howling Mad" Murphy (the good captain's radio moniker) dubbed him a "mailbox head," an insult that instantly found itself applied to Pete by Joseph Capriotti. Pete, as it turns out, was teased as a child about having a large head and his frustration at the name, coupled with the centrality of degrading put downs to teenage humor, tied us together, for better or worse.
The rest is history. Pete went on to accept the name and even to take pride in his postal-receptacle shaped head; he wore plaid and rode a Peugeot moped; we took him in like a lost puppy. Today, that puppy has grown into the mandog Peter McGrath. He traded his moped for a bicycle, though he still wears plaid. And Pete has many, many stories to share.
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