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Our good friends at This is a Standoff sent us this video:

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The studio dog just turned 8 last week. He is a few weeks younger than Ms. Jayde. Every year Ed, the studio schnauzer, has a lovely little birthday party. He even gets Dairy Queen birthday cake. We usually get really drunk and sing him happy birthday… well, not Jayde of course. Check it out

Ready to attack the cake:

isn’t he sooo cute?

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The Wonder Years would like to thank everyone that has pre-ordered the new 7″ so far by giving them their 4 songs from their old Split for free! Go to www.nosleeprecs.com/twysplit to download now.

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I have a whole bunch of kick ass contests lined up for the month of May so I will get right to the point and list them:

May 2  -  The Radtastic Show  -  5 Winners will get a copy of the new “Guns on the Roof” CD and a t-shirt

May 5   -  Sineadagain Show   -   5 Winners get a copy of the new Mahones Album

May 5   -  Matty’s Request Show  -  5 Winners get a copy of the First to Last Self titled album

May 6   -  The Divided Line  -  5 Winners get a copy of the new Endgame, “Distracted” CD

May 7  -  Punk Party Remix  -  5 Winners get a copy of the new Bullet Treatment / It’s Casual Split 7″ Vinyl

May 9  -  The Radtastic Show  -  5 Winners each get a copy of the each of the follwing Sum 41 Merch:

• Half Hour of Power (CD)
• All Killer No Filler  (CD)
• Does this Look Infected  (CD)
• Chuck, Go Chuck Yourself [live]  (CD)
• Underclass Hero (CD)
• Intro to Destruction (DVD)
• Sake Bomb (DVD)
• Sum 41 Knapsack
• Sum 41 Patch and stickers

May 12  -  Sineadagain Show  -  5 winners get a copy of the “Hour of the Wolf / Lewd Acts” Split CD

May 12  -  Matty’s Request Show  -  5 winners get a copy of Kill Your Idols 7″ Box set

May 13  -  The Divided Line  -  5 winners get a copy of Forever the Sicket new CD, “Underdog Alpha Mater”

May 13  -  The Divided Line  -  2 winners get a copy of both Blacklisteds “Heavier than Heaven, Lonier than God” CDs and a Life Long Tragedy “Runways” CD

May 14  -  Punk Party Remix  -  5 Winners get a copy of the new Guns on the Roof CD and a GOTR T-shirt

 May 16  -  Radtastic Show  -  3 people each get a copy of The Ray Grady’s “Rednecks, Zombies, Terrorists” CD and a Grady Core Compilation CD

May 19  -  Sineadagain Show  -  3 people get a copy of the Queers “CBGB OMFUG Masters: Live Feb. 3, 2003. The Bowery Collection” CD

May 19  -  Matty’s Request Show  -  3 people get a copy of TSOL “Early Years” DVD

That is all she wrote for now, but I am sure we will be giving away more. Will keep you posted!

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Jason Cruz pre-TBD Benefit show interview on The Grind

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I Am Ghost on The Grind Vol XII – The Los Angeles Edition

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So the studio is held in a house waaaay out in Suburbia. Well, its not as far out there as I make it seem. We are actually just north of Toronto, which IS a big city! I am a city child and am not used to living this far away from the hustle and bustle. The pictures I am about to show you shock the shit out of me, but are what goes on at the studio. We call it Polly’s (Danny’s Mom) Farm:

This is a little dear who is our friend. If we don’t feed him, we walks up to the fence and stares at us with little puppy eyes waiting for us to feed him.

Here is some of his other family members. If you look closely you can see we ALSO have Canadian Geese who hang out with the deer. Look to the left.

Some more of the deer

Here is a big raccoon that attempted to get into our bedroom. Fuckers are so cute, but so mean

View from the bedroom window of the cute but viscious raccoon

Here are the Canadian Geese on the roof of our neighbours home. Those bastards honk so loud every morning at like 6 am.

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Today was a better day. My legs are killing from hitting up the trade floor, but I have finally had the chance to walk around Vegas and enjoy what it has to offer. Lets get straight to the pictures:

My Hotel

My favorite bar, Dick’s. This bartender was a GREAT guy

The scary sphynx at Luxor

New York, New York

The pretty lion at MGM

The Lion just over my head

The lion over my head again

The beautiful gardens at Bellagio

The Bellagio

View from my hotel room

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Why can’t I do anything without it turning into some kind of disaster. I have become so adept to handling disasters that I actually end up somewhat enjoying them. While writing my last post at the Chicago airport, I enjoyed a few Margarita’s and Enchilada Soup. My flight from Chicago to LA was a nice smooth one. The problems began when I arrived in Vegas.

Waiting for my luggage, I start feeling some very odd pains in my stomach. More concerned with whether or not my luggage arrived, I ignore them. I get on the monorail to get over to the cab area and than I feel a pain I have never felt before. The pain continues as I get to the hotel check in and get into my room. With out a doubt, that stomach pain was not going away. With it being fairly late at night and a long day ahead of me, I go straight to bed.

When I woke up this morning I realized that I was not only vomiting all night, that I called the medical department to bring me some gravol. It turns out that I was food poisoned from the restaurant in Chicago’s airport! From what I remember, the hotel had a nurse come up and talk to me before giving me gravol. It wasn’t a big issue and I was thankfully in ok shape when I woke up this morning. I got up and headed straight over to the NAB conference

NAB Show Floor

My first time at this event and I must say, the show floor is HUGE! For those who don’t know, the conference is for broadcast companies. I will keep this short because in all honesty its very boring. I basically checked out a variety of radio related booths and actually enjoyed looking at the logistics and designs of the booths, especially those that were not related to why I was there.

After I did what I was supposed to do, I attempted to get back to my hotel but there were no shuttle buses running. I found a very nice man who offered to share a cab. It turned out he worked with the Shopping Channel, every womans dream. This was probably my first casual/ non-business conversation in over 24 hours!

Ready to relax and catch up on some work I head to the bar with my laptop to enjoy a Strawberry Daiquiri. Within 15 minutes of finishing my drink I start to feel itchy and warm. This is an ever to familiar feeling. I quickly head up to my room only to find I am covered in hives. I have thee absolutely weirdest allergies in the world. I am allergic to grenadine / pomegranates. I typically try to stay away from red colored drinks, but the bartender assured me there was no trace of grenadine in it. Stupid dumb asshole. If someone is allergic to something, check the ingredients before you are too sure of yourself.

With gravol still in my system from the night before, I hit up the store (not asking front desk again) for some anti-histamines. My second night in Vegas and I have taken so many medications that it is almost dangerous to do anything. I am praying for a better day tomorrow.

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Over a year ago people approached us at PRC with the idea to conduct a reality TV show, based on the station. We knew how crazy our lives are and how nutty the station is, so we said fuck ya! We can most definitely entertain the world with our crazy Antics. A lot of you are not aware of a lot that goes on here at the studio. People don’t know that PRC is not just a studio, but a home to six people other than Danny Keyes. As for the household and who we are… I am going to save that for another day. Today I have another story for you….

So I wake up this morning and I was in a very neutral mood. I am a very erratic person. I love to do things on a whim. For the last two weeks I have been trying to decide whether or not to go to a Radio Broadcast conference in Las Vegas that happens this week and decided not to go. Today for some odd reason I changed my mind. Not only did I change my mind at 3:00 pm, I had to be on a plane by 5:30 pm. Wow what a mission.

My ticket was booked and confirmed at exactly 3:22 pm and I had to be at the airport by 4:30 pm. Panic hits and so does my best. Whenever I am under the worse pressure I pull off my best stuff. Having only 38 minutes to get my shit together, with the help of Danny and the resident child, ms. Jayde, I was able to get out the door only 5 minutes late.

I am a horrible flyer. I am the type of person you don’t want to sit beside. In the car Mr. Danny Keyes himself asks me what airline I fly. Oh why do I have to look. I mean do you expect me to know what airline I fly considering I booked this and packed in less than an hour! It of course has to be the infamous American Airlines. They have been in the news a LOT this last week for having unsafe planes. In Toronto they are also famous for long line ups!

I arrive to check in with my reservation number written across my hand. The American Airline attendants got a kick out of that. I jokingly asked them if I was flying the defaulty planes and they re-assured me I was and it wasn’t defaultly. Not only am I flying the shitty ass plane, I had to use one of their super small taxi planes to get to Chicago. Here is a picture of my little plane:

I am gratefully safe in Chicago awaiting my departure to Vegas. Its going to be an adventurous 2 days!

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