IMMORTAL

It's important to remember: rock and roll saves lives.

DWM

Let the nonsense begin. Call in 'careless' to work, rip up the clothes, tie the pets up in the garage, gulp down a couple ladles of something labeled 'Blind Punch' in hastily-scrawled crayon. My divorce went through.

Who wants to come to a party? It just started 15 minutes ago in my head and will follow me around like a well-trained hound until it gets lost in a rubble somewhere late at night, wrapped in a newspaper. So come on over! I've got clean glasses, enough ice for snow cones, plenty of trash bags, a couple guitars, bail money and a fire escape in case things go awry.

Let me kiss your babies! Put another hole in the kazoo! Let's float the Hudson! Cue the Benny Hill theme song! I'm a free man!

STINKER

There's a new addition to the Stinkrock family. Devon James Roberts was born May 2nd in the middle of the night. Here's a pic of my niece holding the new kid. Notice the red hot lightning bolt shirt she sports, that's a stinkrock gift. I try my hardest to make them all rock kids.

I held my nephew for three hours straight and watched him sleep, watched him wake, watched him tense and relax. I couldn't shake the feeling that he'd already figured out more than I have about how to live life.

The highlight of the visit, as always, was spending time with my 4-year old niece. I've discovered that we share the same fondness for poop jokes, and with a newborn in the house, there was plenty of raw material to riff on. And when she was done jumping on me and hanging off me, we settled down to her animal sticker book. She pointed to a worm and informed me, "All they see is dirt!" Indeed.

Hopefully, that's what separates us from the worms. See less dirt!