Date with the Venezuelan girl today. brunch. Nice. smart. Not much English. So communication was minimal, which is always a great thing. lol. I just need to say that I am so in love with this hofner acoustic guitar. It is a 1968. built in Germany. Smells so old and musty. I breathe it in and I start playing and pretty soon I feel as if I am in another world. Last night and then this morning I bought two more very old acoustic guitars. I am falling in love with this. the older the better. But they still have to be in great shape and very playable. One was a 72 Alverez, very fancy, lots of mother of pearl. Bought it from the original owner, an 85 year old man. The other is a 1965 Kay blues arch top. Cannot wait for them to arrive. I get a lot of music out of old guitars. Something comes into me when I am playing one. Something of the vibration of the guitar itself and the era it was made. And of course the sound and feel and smell of them. I have slept with this new Hofner guitar now for a week straight and almost completely forgotten about all the others. 

The American military found saddam Hussein today in Iraq. In the morning. The spokesman for the dark side of the force that that took over America in the year 2000 claimed today that “a dark and painful era is over.” He didn’t actually write this but someone wrote it for him and told him to say it. We are not really sure yet who is running America, although we know that the men doing a lot of the dirty work are just as sinister and ill-intentioned as the ones who are secretly in control. We are sure that whoever wrote this understood the irony as much as many Americans and other people from all over the world do today. It is not that a dark and painful era is over so much as today was a very painful reminder of what a dark painful era we are in the middle of. The dark side will use all of its power in the media to control the feelings of the majority of the American people [known as the Innocents], to try to convince them that today is a day of celebration. Even though saddam Hussein didn't actually do anything to us here in America, even though he didn't actually possess weapons of mass destruction and pose a threat to us here in America, even though according to evidence he didn't have anything to with the attack on 9/11, and even though it has been announced over and over again all over the world that this invasion of Iraq was something planned out back in 1997 by the very same men who are in power now in the now infamous essay describing how it would be a very good idea for America to control the oil reserves in Iraq, the list goes on and on---but the Innocents have already been led very far astray, the smiling puppet faces on their TVs are doing their best to keep straight faces and tell them that this is a good thing that the dark forces that hold America captive have now captured this man of disrepute known as saddam Hussein.