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About Me

I am a firm believer in the art of pointing out the shortcomings of others for the sake of making other mean-spirited people laugh.
My mother has a hockey player haircut. I call it the Jagr.
I get up really early every day. Five days a week, I get to see the sun rise over the interstate, beyond the smoke coming from the turbine plant and HH Gregg. Talk about the wonder and beauty of nature.
I don't work all that hard, but people think I do since I put in ten hours a day. It'd be five if the office didn't have cable, a fridge, a DVD player, and production rooms to play in.

My Interests

Some of the things I like most are Coke, Beam, the Braves, riding the escalators at Dillards, and pointing out that Greenville's mayor is a spineless fictional character who is only written into fake newspaper articles when someone from the Tour de France is in town. Also, midgets. I am a fan.

I'd like to meet:

Mr. T

Music:

Well, I deal in rocking out, but I'll be honest and say I really don't care for Metallica or Nirvana even though I may not be doing what I'm doing without one or both of them.
What I do like is a little of this and a little of that. Queen, Green Day, Johnny Cash, Chili Peppers, Oasis, Allman Brothers, the good Doctor, Jay-Z, Hank Williams, and his grandson.
I like something that...When I'm in a certain frame of mind, usually brought about by something foreign getting into my bloodstream, I can feel. You ever get that feeling where you sit back and you can't stop smiling and you feel like you're surfing a certain song, if it has the required greatness to it? I like that a lot.

Heroes:

My heroes never did much to help other people. There are plenty of people around changing the world in various ways, but winning the Nobel prize isn't on my to-do list at the moment.
My heroes all make me laugh a lot. Mitch Hedburg, Ron White, Richard Pryor. Those guys are heroes.

My Blog

Whoa whoa whoa...whoa

"The FBI said this week that two Egyptian college students arrested last year close to the Navy weapons station in Charleston, S.C., were not carrying explosives as they were charged with doing.The Un...
Posted by Nine - RIP Shawn Blanton on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:24:00 PST

Racist golfers (no Fuzzy, though)

It isn't that Al Sharpton is all over this Kelly Tilghman lady, but that a lot of people seem to agree with him because they are also really dumb.Tilghman's comment may have been a mistake, Sharpton s...
Posted by Nine - RIP Shawn Blanton on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:28:00 PST

Afternoon bitterness

So, the smoking ban for the city of Greenville begins at noon on January 1st. With my luck, I'll be leaned up against a building hung over about 12:30 and I'll go home with a fifty dollar fine to pay....
Posted by Nine - RIP Shawn Blanton on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:02:00 PST

It is 2:30 in the morning but it is really 3:30 in the morning and I am eating Papa Ougot's

Man it was a fun day. I was at Papa Ougot's with Paige from 4:30 till 6:30 and that was nice. They have awesome pizza. The place is gangster, themed too. And the guy who runs the joint is both an Ital...
Posted by Nine - RIP Shawn Blanton on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:38:00 PST

Broken glass seems to follow me everywhere I go

So this morning, I woke up, like I do every day, and as I will continue to do every day until I am dead. Thing is, today was a little different because I only had one cigarette inside. After that, I w...
Posted by Nine - RIP Shawn Blanton on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 06:36:00 PST

I had to share

I was talking to Maffew just now, about 40 minutes before The Rise Guys Morning Show returns to network television on ABC's Wife Swap, and I had to share a bit of our conversation. TheRiseGuys: Im ex...
Posted by Nine - RIP Shawn Blanton on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 04:22:00 PST

Dammit

Imagine being me. A fat guy who wakes up on s Sunday morning around 11AM. You turn on the TV looking for something worth watching. Something inoffensive. Something that won't make you want to dig your...
Posted by Nine - RIP Shawn Blanton on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 08:49:00 PST

Baseball and burlesque shows

I guess I'll go to that Purgatory show in Charlotte next month. I'm really curious to see what the hell goes on there now that I've met some of the folks. They're all cool enough. Definitely not the k...
Posted by Nine - RIP Shawn Blanton on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:47:00 PST

Baseball bats, married women, and Trent Reznor

I'll start with Trent Reznor. NIN were in town on Thursday. You probably knew about that unless you live in a single-wide on the rough side of Ninety-Six. The show they put on was pretty good. They we...
Posted by Nine - RIP Shawn Blanton on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:15:00 PST

I just listened to...

more positive rockin' christian worship music than anyone should ever have to hear without going to one of those youth rallies where they turn the lights off and everyone sways with their hands up and...
Posted by Nine - RIP Shawn Blanton on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 02:52:00 PST