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After all, the world needs yet another blog. Desperately.

Who is me? Why, me is a guitarist + singer in:

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Serial FB refugee, loves swimming, hiking, and all tha aminals. The views I express here are mine alone and not necessarily those of my bands, my cat or any other rational entity.

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Feb
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Jan
26th
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FASHION SLAVES W/ VICTORY AND ASSOCIATES – STARRY PLOUGH FEB. 1!

Yow, that Fashion Slaves Gilman show was insane. Here’s our next one - a 21+ show this time with Guinness and most excellent pub food at Berkeley’s longest running live music venue. I’m particularly excited to hear Victory and Associates - discovered their records last year and love ‘em. Plus their singer is a dude named Conan Neutron so how can they possibly go wrong?

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Jan
24th
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The Fashion Slaves @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA. January, 2013

The Fashion Slaves @ 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA. January, 2013

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Nov
20th
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Bloggying about Blogging

I made a new blog: EricDin.com. Why not? This here “skalifornia” tumblr is the first blog I ever made. Sometimes neglected, it’s always a fave of mine. I love tumblr. It’s cute n’ fluffeh, like teh best things on teh Internet. Why does it make me talk like four yr old? No matter.

After making a bunch of Wordpress self-hosted sites, the Wordpress interface has become 2nd nature to me, so of course I made my new “me” blog in that format.

One of the first Wordpress sites I made was my band site - Uptones.com. Later I made some music blogs for Matthew King Kaufman’s Fun Fun Fun Media company. One of my faves is PublicDomain4U, what a great user experience that is, if you love good old recorded music classics. And who doesn’t, really?

Happy holidays everyone. Go forth and eat pie.

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Sep
13th
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The Uptones are set to do another dance contest show, Friday, Oct. 5th in Berkeley. This is one of my favorite kinds of gigs we do - always a great time. The Agent Deadlies are opening the night - they’re hot so come early and get yr dancin’ feets on! Here’s a story in the East Bay Express about our last Dance Contest show. RSVP at the skafficial EVENT PAGE and if you want to read more about this epic cultural event and see some pics from earlier contests, go here. Cheerballs

The Uptones are set to do another dance contest show, Friday, Oct. 5th in Berkeley. This is one of my favorite kinds of gigs we do - always a great time. The Agent Deadlies are opening the night - they’re hot so come early and get yr dancin’ feets on! Here’s a story in the East Bay Express about our last Dance Contest show. RSVP at the skafficial EVENT PAGE and if you want to read more about this epic cultural event and see some pics from earlier contests, go here. Cheerballs

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Sep
2nd
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Next Fashion Slaves show!

Next Fashion Slaves show!

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Aug
25th
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If you’re in Berkeley, CA tomorrow, Sunday August 26th, come out and join us for this Fab FREE show! The Phenomenauts just got announced as the “Surprise Special Guest” and oh my they are special. Show starts at Noon, The Fashion Slaves play at 5:00. There’s food and drink and art and all the requisite Telegraph Avenue madness. Byeeee =)

If you’re in Berkeley, CA tomorrow, Sunday August 26th, come out and join us for this Fab FREE show! The Phenomenauts just got announced as the “Surprise Special Guest” and oh my they are special. Show starts at Noon, The Fashion Slaves play at 5:00. There’s food and drink and art and all the requisite Telegraph Avenue madness. Byeeee =)

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May
22nd
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Apr
20th
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I am looking forward to this show!Here’s the FB Event page.  Advance tickets here.Hope 2 C U there! 

I am looking forward to this show!
Here’s the FB Event page
Advance tickets here.
Hope 2 C U there! 

(Source: uptones.com)

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Mar
29th
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The Fashion Slaves - Psychotic Reaction (by thefashionslaves)

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Mar
25th
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Barbara Lee Still “Speaks For Me”

An excellent short read. I recall the “Barbara Lee Speaks For Me” meme when she had cast the lone vote against lobbing bombs at people, and was subsequently shrieked at by Dem’s and Repub’s alike. She was right, they were wrong, she still “speaks for me.”

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Mar
22nd
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Man, been a while since I popped in here!

Now where was I? Oh yeah, updated The Fashion Slaves site - www.thefashionslaves.com - lots of fun news there, The Uptones post awesome baby pic and upcoming gig, GOP sux eggs in hell and Limbaugh wishes he was a slut! Carry on.

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Jan
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Folitics

Of course now the fun begins and they screech about cutting taxes on the rich or there wont be any Christmas. And closing schools and opening jails or baby Jeebiz will haz sad. It’s a special season, the GOP primary, a great upwelling of generosity and joy. I just hope they can find a way to “cut” taxes on the rich, that would be a trick, seeing as the richest of the rich have recently been firehosed with bazillions of public dollars, in reward for all the crimes they did! Yay! They must be given more, so it’ll all trickle down. Librials just don’t get it. Now about that birth certificate.

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