http://www.davepye.com Leveraging low-hanging synergies outside the vertical fruit box since 1999. Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:35:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I know you've heard this song and dance before. I swear my technical issues are almost over with and there is a new design, level of functionality and increased activity all on the horizon for Pye in the Face. In the meantime... The first time Shep and I were apart for ... http://www.davepye.com/2008/10/shepherd-goes-bananas.htm Calling all Gryphons, inebriates, b-boys and speaker-dancers… We need the old Bullring faithful. We need your magic. It has been literal eons since the heydays of the almighty Bullring. None of us who were there, however, will ever forget them. The sticky floors, lukewarm draft beer, neon signs, human blood and ... http://www.davepye.com/2008/09/resuscitate-guelph-universitys-bullring.htm I'm currently sitting in my favorite North End coffee shop working away, and this afternoon I'll head to my company's office out in Wellesley. Megan's wedding Friday night was a lot of fun, as was the One Shot at Pye party at Silvertone. I'll save all the sordid details until ... http://www.davepye.com/2008/09/another-day-in-paradiso.htm It's been over 7 months since I last graced the streets of Boston. That's very, very hard to believe. With the exception of my 1.75 years spent living in England that's the longest I've been away from the cradle of the revolution in 21 years. I've been so bogged down ... http://www.davepye.com/2008/09/back-to-the-bean-once-again.htm As Ike's raging waters receded, the mystery surrounding the disappearence of Nemo's cousins was solved. http://www.davepye.com/2008/09/mondays-quotelet-fish-fence-folly.htm Appetizer: When you drink soda, do you prefer to drink it from the bottle, a can, or after pouring it into a cup?Cutting to the heart of the big issues again are we, quizzlet? That would depend on whether the cup was styrofoam, plastic or paper. And whether or not ... http://www.davepye.com/2008/09/fridays-quizzlet-breakin-atoms.htm Perhaps it's my family health issues - who am I kidding... that's exactly what it is - but I've felt a very strong desire recently to research and document a family tree of sorts. I'd like to use an online tool that allows multiple members of a family to have ... http://www.davepye.com/2008/09/calling-all-family-tree-huggers.htm The first thing I thought when I first saw this last night was "Oh, the balls on this guy!" The introduction is a sample of Johnny himself referring to someone (in this instance meant to be Everlast) as "...one of the greatest entertainers I've ever seen". As the song continues ... http://www.davepye.com/2008/09/wednesday-wadio-everlasts-folsom-prison-blues.htm Sammy named his new machete "The Peacemaker", and his friends thought that was a little too optimistic. http://www.davepye.com/2008/09/mondays-quotelet-slingshot-heard-round-the-world.htm 45 years ago tonight, Dr, King gave his famous "I have a dream" speech in Washington D.C. - and tonight Barack Obama makes his long anticipated acceptance speech at the DNC in Denver. What a stomach-churning uncanny coincidence. The late Lloyd Bentsen would have definitely stifled his notorious retort if facing ... http://www.davepye.com/2008/08/senator-youre-no-martin-luthur-king.htm First things first - How the hell did I not know until last night that the Verve's first album in 11 years was released on Tuesday? I have failed myself, and I have failed all of you. Or something. Sufferin' Ashcrofts this album is actually really, really good. I want ... http://www.davepye.com/2008/08/wednesday-wadio-the-verves-love-is-noise.htm I am desperately trying to get my crippled blog back into fighting form - I appreciate you all bearing with me and I have someone working on the technical issues. In the meantime I'll fire out a few blurbs that have been on my mind. The Denver DNC: I haven't seen ... http://www.davepye.com/2008/08/bullets-over-brockville.htm Scaley quicky realized that the stranger who sold him the river map could never again be trusted. http://www.davepye.com/2008/08/mondays-quotelet-bearly-trying.htm You know me - All the giant squid news that's fit to print. A few months back I mentioned my excitement surrounding the monstrous giant squid corpse that was being studied in New Zealand. They've recently released a few findings and apparently this particular squidizen (see what I did there?) ... http://www.davepye.com/2008/08/nemo-bested-by-fat-lazy-whooore.htm I'm starting to warm up a little to my once, and now again, Ottawa-area home. I was initially of the opinion that no reasonably decent bands or comedians ever stopped here, and I've been proven wrong several times this past summer. Last month I went and saw Chris Rock play ... http://www.davepye.com/2008/08/wednesday-wadio-an-oasis-in-ottawa.htm The week I started this blog, way way back in the foggy memory that is 2004, two very important things happened to be in Boston. Me and the Democratic National Convention. As I lived in the North End - which is a hop, skip and a flip-flop away from the ... http://www.davepye.com/2008/08/obama-is-a-boy-band.htm When a countryman suffered a sprained groin, Lebron was happy to fill in as a guest member of the Men's Olympic Wrestling Squad. http://www.davepye.com/2008/08/mondays-quotelet-youve-done-it-nowitzki.htm Appetizer: When was the last time you had your hair cut/trimmed?There is a woman who lives about 5 minutes down the road named Maureen who has a salon in a room of her home and has been cutting my parent's hair for several years. Whenever they go, I tend to ... http://www.davepye.com/2008/08/fridays-quizzlet-je-mappelle-michael-keaton.htm Life's been a bit of a clusterfrig up here lately, but I'm bound and determined to get the blog's technical issues fixed and find the time to write more frequently again. I love PITF, love amusing the people who read it regularly and it also saves me hundreds of thousands ... http://www.davepye.com/2008/08/boisterous-b-boy-boat-boogie.htm When I play my guitar for the dogs, they go a little bit silly. I have my own basement office fanclub, it would seem. If they had thumbs there'd be lighters blazing. I thought I might take it a step further and learn a specific song for each of them, ... http://www.davepye.com/2008/08/wednesday-wadio-sing-a-song-of-shep.htm