Somasoul's Blog (6)

The church basement's cinder block walls radiate the cold. Coffee permeates the air. Two dozen people or so sit at 8' X 3' wooden folding tables, set up in a circle, eating cake and drinking the aforementioned coffee. Another dozen or more sit at chairs placed around the room. My friend, we'll call him Brian, sits at the front, the Serenity Prayer scrawled on a plaque on his right. God, Grant me the serenity, to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the… Continue

Brandon and I pull up to the Ottobar, a punk rawk club in Baltimore City, at about 9:30. GBH, a legendary English punk outfit, is playing tonight and we don't want to miss the action. Swarms of punkers stand outside the club smoking cigarettes. Baltimore's new ban on indoor smoking is displeasing to the group of rabble-rousers, anarchists, and indie types despite their big government politics. Brandon meets and greets. He knows more people than I since I left the scene; a pair of older guys in… Continue

Throughout April I've been totally swamped. My mind is like a jumble of frogs in a dryer. I don't know what that means but it sounds fitting. The first of week of April I was in Newark NJ for training on Wednesday and Thursday. I came back Friday. When you miss one or two days and you're in sales everything piles up on you. You have 100 emails to check, 20 voicemails, orders to fill, and customers that need to be seen. So, anyway, I come back Friday and handle all that crap. Then I'm off again… Continue

Now it's all sex. FoxNews.com most read 3/18/08: 7 stories sexual related. 9 Stories a mixture of violence and crime. One related to gambling. 4 about celebrities. The happiest story has to do with a man going through a bitter divorce. This isn't all FoxNews' fault. These are the stories we, the people, have read most from their site. New N.Y. Governor Paterson Admits to Affairs With Several Women 4.2 Million Credit Card Numbers Stolen From Supermarket Chain Texas Woman Sues American Airline… Continue

Advocacy groups are dumb. There. I said it. You don't have to agree with me, especially if you are part of an advocacy group. But someone had to say it and seeing as I'm the only one around here to take notice I had to speak up. It occured to me recently at work that our mission statement, our objectives, everything that we say we are and what we do is a bunch of crap. We say we want to do something like "Provide the best resources in our field" or some junk like that. Look, all we want to do i… Continue

I came to Baltmore half wanting to start a church, half wanting to be lazy and not do anything. It's a bad combination of things to have going on at the same time. On the one hand I could start a church and have it doomed to failure; on the other hand I could drink myself in a semi-conscious state and eat Utz Party Mix. Both plans of action have their ups and downs. Have you ever been to Baltmore? Sure, it's a dirty city. But it's also lots of fun. If you like to drink beer in dark bars and pee… Continue