Welcome to The World Lilo Elaine Emerson

LE1
Originally uploaded by clownfire.

Sure I've been to the weddings of a lot of my friends, that's no big deal, marriages can be undone, walked away from. Ok not easily, but certainly the implications of JUST a marriage can be contained to a couple people and are by and large not life changing. This is all relatively speaking, so don't go getting the idea that I'm anti marriage or that I take it lightly; that's not what I'm talking about here.

Today my friends have officially gone and grown up on me. Yesterday at 4:20pm EST, Lilo Elaine Emerson was born to Rob and Vone Emerson. She wasn't alive two days ago, in fact she didn't, technically speaking, even exist. However due to a little activity, that I have come to know as a generally consequence free, good time, called sex there is now a living breathing human being on this earth that counts on two people, who I have both seen get puke drunk many times, for it's future.

I'm just so impressed with God right now.

The good news is that in today's day and age of coin toss odds in marriage, chronic tele-parenting and kids having a generally trickier time all over, I think little Eli (Lilo Elaine...L.E...Eli...get it?) has really come up $1.00 on this Showcase Showdown Big Wheel of Parents.

Rob and Vone are a unique couple to me. I know them both from University, I was there when the first sparks were set a flame. I've watched what was just a simple couple dates turn into the single biggest commitment two people can make to each other and now there is now a person in this world who literally is a part of both of them.

I'm starting to the understand the expression the 'miracle of life'. Until just a little while ago I assumed it began and ended with the making of baby but now I'm seeing the big picture. The millions of variables, the infinite probabilities that work themselves out to bring two people together who just happen to love each enough to make a baby. It's pretty amazing stuff.

Welcome to the world Eli, so far it's my favourite.

Me and My Tube Head

Alex and His Tube Head
Originally uploaded by clownfire.

Mick took this train wreck of a photo of me because... well because... I look remarkably and legendarily horrible. As the title indicates it makes my head look like a tube. I look like an alien from some gay western inspired planet.

Anyway I swore to Mick that I would put this online and I've done it... but The Mink doesn't get off that easy; see the previous entry.

Bad, Bad Pictures Part II

Mick and His Infamous Fashion Sense, Bad Picture
Originally uploaded by clownfire.

Little does he know that while downloading the above photo I also grabbed this picture of The Mink. It's like Mike Hammer and Mc Hammer's love child.

Minkle, you didn't think I'd go down solo did you?

Dave Coulier, Urinating on Houses and The Origins of The Band

Dave Coulier Flying The Double Bird
Originally uploaded by clownfire.

This is a little gem of a photo I forgot I had. First of all, yes that is Dave Coulier, Uncle Jesse from TV's Full House. Secondly let me answer the next and most obvious question, "Why do you have a picture of TV's Dave Coulier giving the double bird?" Well that's an easy one. My old musical comedy group, The Gentlemen Callers, once did a gig in Winnipeg where we opened for him for a week. It was just a surreal as one might imagine. Somehow along the way and perhaps after some discount ales we managed to convince him that he needed to take this picture.

This has nothing to do with the band except that it was on this same trip that the band came to be.

JD found himself in Winnipeg at the same time as me so we thought, hey let's get really drunk with booze we bought illegally, after hours from some drive up joint, bribe a hotel room from the overnight desk clerk and sneak in a few waitresses from the comedy club. I say sneak because the owner lived in the Hotel as well and didn't want to see the staff cavorting with the dregs of society a.k.a. musicians. Anyway somewhere between urinating on a house and leaving a couple cases of unused alcohol in the bathtub we decided that this lifestyle was fun and that we should form a band so that we could do more of this as soon and as frequently as possible.

Speaking of which, we're due to tour soon. That should be fun.