EchoBooming in Birmingham

For Immediate Release

BDSM (the Birmingham Drunken Subaru Modders) has elected to send one of their founding members to the SCIC. Crash will be visiting the San Diego area from Tuesday October 4th thru Sunday October 9th.

When asked for his thoughts on the trip, crash responded with: “When I first heard about my wife’s APA (American Psychiatric Association) conference in San Diego, I was pretty excited. When I found out that Lilly Pharmaceuticals was paying for her room at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina and for her flight out there, I was ecstatic!”

This will be crash’s first trip to California, and his wife’s third (although she hasn’t been to San Diego since the late 80’s). “The furthest west I’ve ever been is Denver. I’m looking forward to the wild fires, tree-huggers, and smog most of all!” said crash.

Crash’s plans for his trip to San Diego are still up in the air. “With our 10 week old infant, and my deadlines at work, I haven’t had time to do much research on what to do while we’re in SoCal.”

He’s hoping that some kind soul from the SCIC will give him some good suggestions on how to spend his time while his wife is at the conference. “Otherwise, I’ll just end up surfing NASIOC from my hotel room. Well, that and pr0n.” crash said admittingly.

Please send all suggestions to this thread.

About crash:
crash is a long time member of NASIOC (member # 1440) who currently owns his 3rd Subaru. His first was a Turbo’d 2.5RS that he recently sold due to the birth of his first child. He’s been attending Subaru meets all across the south-east since long before he even owned a Subaru. You can find out more about crash at his website: http://3choboomer.net

About BDSM:
The Birmingham Drunken Subaru Modders was founded approximately one year ago by several Birmingham Subaru enthusiast. Large fish-bowls full of mystery liquors, and repeated Micah Tosses® fueled the decision to put a name on our Subaru obsession and weekly drunken debachary. More information about BDSM can be found at http://drunkensubaru.org (DrunkenSubaru.org is in it’s infancy, so it’s content is limited).

A triumphant return to HNT!

This HNT is at the instance of my mother (WTF is my MOM doing directing my HNT posts? ewwwww) I’m going to be posting one of the pictures we had made of Fairlyn a few weeks ago… She’s half naked, and 100% cute, so I guess it’ll work…

Ever wonder what our Magic City was like during the post-war Baby-Boomer era?

Birmingham Rewound showcases what made our city Magic, and what took the luster away (urban sprawl, and the shopping mall).

From the beautiful Terminal Station (what was arguably the south’s most beautiful train station) that was demolished to make way for the Red Mountain Expressway (see the tunnel there? That’s the tunnel under nothing over by the Park Place apartment community).

To the south’s first indoor shopping mall (or air conditioned side walks as they were called back then) Eastwood Mall. There is an entire sub-site dedicated to this dead/dying mall. (Soon to be replaced by a Wal-Mart SuperCenter :rolleyes: )

The first time I ever saw a photo of Terminal Station I fell in love with what Birmingham used to be. I have spent hours in the archives of the Birmingham Public Library looking at old photos of Birmingham, and I even decorated my office at home with them (mostly pre-war era pictures of downtown).
Take a look at Birmingham Rewound and see if you find something that will make you smile.

Egg Radio is what you wish your local FM station was. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll listen to music you’d forgotten about….

Here’s a look at the last few songs they played:

Reel Big Fish-Shes Famous Now (7.0)
Farm-Groovy Train (6.4)
Smashing Pumpkins-Quiet (7.1)
Space Ghost-Never Trust A Monkey (5.5)
Tegan And Sara-Monday Monday Monday (5.9)
Who, The-My Generation (8.2)
Arcade Fire, The-Wake Up (5.9) I <3 this band
They Might Be Giants-Istanbul (8.8) w00t
Peter Murphy-A Strange Kind Of Love (7.5)

Notice the number beside the track name? The Egg is listener programmed! Don’t like a song? Give it crap rating and you won’t hear it as much!

Love the egg…

And here’s why:

Stuck on Stupid
(pops)