Holy synchronicity, Batman!

Okay, talk about the convergence of several planes all at once...

I got Kat a Creative Zen Micro mp3 player for her birthday. Two days later, there's a great column in Newsweek that a woman wrote regarding how she and her iPod have become inseparable, much like my wife and her Zen.

In the article is a mention of the song 1985 by the band Bowling for Soup. (If you don't know the song, go look up the lyrics - kind of a sad song, but a nifty little nostalgia trip for members of the Breakfast Club generation). I did just that, and read Kat the words. We agreed that "when did Ozzy become an actor?" is far and away the best line.

While reading over this, I got an e-mail from none other than Carl Gaede, whom I believe only romy and Amanda will remember. He Googled himself (keep your snide comments to yourself, Sherry), and, lo and behold, found his name on this post about the Christian music night he and I attended together (with Amanda and Sherry and the rest of the Bethany youth group) at Knott's Berry Farm back in 1985.

All that to bring me around to this anonymous comment I received on my blog today: I have to, somehow, convince Katrina that it's worth traveling down to SoCal for a day in August. For what, you may ask? Check it here: Take Two Productions. The site's a little sparse, but it gets the message across. To wit: on August 19, 2005, Undercover, the Altar Boys, Crumbacher, The Choir and 441 will be playing a 20-year reunion show at Mariners Church in Newport Beach. If any of this blog family would like to make a day of it, e-mail Kat. A lot.

Really.