okay its confirmed the man that makes fog city wrestling happen Steve Armani has invited me to be the guest of honor at the next fog city wrestling event Sat. 4/12 7pm at cellspace in the city! for those unfamiliar with fog city - think underground local wrestling insanity - check out www.fogcitywrestling.com When you go there be sure to click on the links to some of my favorite local lunatics…. Dylan Drake, Brandon Bonham, Brian Cage, and THE MAN - Alofa the Somoan Tank! Also WildStorm, Kid Omega, and Nikki the NY Knockout! Bring yer whole dam crew and GET READY TO….. well you know! See you on the 12th - NO NAME

So i was reading all the awesome blogs on here (which means scrolling through looking for my name) and I came across no names blog about the bar trail mix. I had to figure out how to create one on my own but there was no 7-11 near my favorite bar (tres gringos in SJ) to attempt this masterful feast. Then, yesterday, during the Warriors unfortunate loss to the lakers, me and my friends invented the Party Tray 2008. On this party tray was lunch meat, crackers, buffalo wings, fried chicken, french fries, red vines, twizzlers, and one burrito. My point being more varieties of foods should be brought together to form a delightful harmony of flavors for ones pallet. Feel free to invent your own trail mix or party tray and spread the joy of bring your favorite foods together….Mission: a sushi roll with steak, and sausage in it…

I promise i’ll get better at this

I know I’m a week late, but here are my top 10 favorite moments from the craziness that was St. Patty’s Day (top moments I can remember, anyways)

In no particular order…

 1- Seeing No Name’s wife Christi Name at the broadcast…Christi is one of my favorite people that I never get to see enough of. Last time, she was feeding me muffins and Pedialyte after my 30th Birthday Bar Night in Rhonert Park. It was nice for both us to actually catch up a little a knock a few back together.

2 - Seeing the listeners that show up to these things, and the love the show gets… You  all never seem to amaze me. Every year, at every event, the Morning Show Faithful show up in full force and we’re almost speechless at how much support the show gets. Personally, it always makes me realize how lucky I am to have this gig.

3 - Hyphy Mike at his first Broadcast… The boy just keeps making me proud. He’s  such a talent and so witty, and I get joy watching him take this all in and have fun with it. (Like a younger Hooman, but without the annoying ego) The Interns have always been “my kids”, like my brothers and sisters. There’s always a special kinship there because I know what it’s like to experience playing in this candy store for the first time. So whenever I see them do well and make a name for themself, I just smile.

4- Introducing the Wonderbread 5 with Matty. How we both made it to 5pm at Front Street still standing, is beyond me. Don’t know what Pat (WB5 Guitar Superman) was thinking when he asked Matt and I to go on stage for them… St. Patty’s with the WB5 & The Royal Exchange has become a fun tradition the last few years, always a blast.

5 - Dat Phan’s amazement of our drinking… It’s funny, this is his second live broadcast with the show. He was at the Discovery Kingdom Broadcast last year, then the Irish Bank this year…Talk about two extremes.

6 - Stephanie the Irish Bank Hero/Trooper… Much love always to Stephanie, one of the owners of the Irish Bank. She stays sober all day long to make sure the Bank is the best place to be on St. Patty’s Day, and all year round for that matter. Talk about someone who’s witnessed a few good stories…If you’re ever at The Bank having a drink or two, don’t forget to tell Stephanie, Ronin, and the whole crew how much they rule.

7 - Trying to make our way to the Budha Bar (longest walk down Grant street ever). Walking down Grant Street with about 15 people, which included No Name, Sticker Dan, & a skateboard. Nuff said.

8- The march around the block of The Bank before going back inside to eat… If you saw a group of folks exit The Irish Bank Alley on Grant Street, then stand around for 10 minutes trying to think of a place to grab a bite to eat. Then they walked around the corner and right back into the Bank at the other end of the Bank’s alley on Bush Street, then sat down and ordered Corn Beef and Cabbage. That was us.

9- Aftermath of Waking up the next morning and seeing the drunk text convos I had on my phone. It’s just funny to see how drunk people interpret simple messages.

10 - Corn Beef & Cabbage dinner with friends at the end of the day. Best way to top off a great St. Patty’s Day. I met up with two of my favorite folks, Amy & Azzi, at the Wonderbread 5 Show. Afterwards, we went to Amy’s place and another one of my most favorite peeps, Ashley had made us all a great Corn Beef & Cabbage Dinner. Not to mention they took great care of me and gave me a place to land that night. Woudn’t have wanted to end it with another group of friends.

And that pretty much summed up my St. Patty’s for 2008.

If you missed any of it, you can find pictures, video, and a podcast of the whole live broadcast in the Sarah & No Name section of Radioalice.com.

This seems like only the beginning. A ton is coming up in the next couple months… First up, the 3 Minute Film Fest on April 11th.

Hope to see you there… -Boot

Our first blog, post St. Patty’s Day mayhem: Intern Vaughn’s version of the broadcast from yesterday.

Once I sober up, I’m sure I’ll have a few thoughts on the day myself… Enjoy! -Boot

St Patrick’s Day by Intern Vaughn

So, although I am morally opposed to the significant innuendos of nerd associated with blogging, I suppose there is no better day to start than today, St Patrick’s Day, to tell a bit about my life as an intern with Radio Alice’s morning show!  Simply put, today’s show at the Irish Blank was crazy!

Who knew the Bay Area had so many people who would be willing to show up at 6 AM to drink and watch people talk about other people drinking?  The build up for today’s event was big. 
Hooman said there would be at least 500 people (not true!), Charlene continually repeated that our work as interns today would be nothing short of chaos (partially true).  Therefore, I was a bit surprised to find that I along with the other interns did pretty much nothing but stand around for the first hour and a half of the show.  Call it the calm before the storm, but I was adequately duped into thinking that our job as interns on St Patrick’s Day was easy.  All it took was a few drinks in the crowd and the on air people (none for the interns until 10 AM, the end of our work day) for things to become intense.  Within a couple of hours I worked as security, on air talent, janitor, cab watcher/payer, human microphone stand, bartender, photographer, contestant finder, and sword watcher.  Soon I found myself surprisingly exhausted somewhere between trying to convince drunk Irish men that I was not trying to pick up on their women by asking them to participate in on air games and watching Dat Phan beg No Name to not wield a broad sword while standing on his chair and providing a toast after drinking roughly three gallons of Stella Artois (try being a sober intern for this morning show, not easy!).  Still, as 10 AM rolled around and I began to mingle with the good people who showed up on a Monday to celebrate, I couldn’t help but think that the luck of the Irish had turned for this 1/5^th son of Ireland (ok maybe more like 1/8^th). 

Keep on commenting on the blogs to keep everyone going, encouragement is key!  And while you are at it, support your local music and check out the Santa Cruz based Devil Makes Three and their song, Black Irish, in honor of
Ireland’s most famous immigrant!  Cheers.

One last thing… 

Webster and Brad our Website Guy just told me that there a bunch of people asking where they can find the video of the creepy gnome we talked about in the Half Assed News this morning. If you go to youtube and do a search for Creepy Gnome, there are a bunch of clips. Or you can just link from here. Enjoy…-Boot

Why am I still here this late on Friday afternoon? Story of my life… My normal goal for Friday is to wrap up and get the heck out before noon and beat the weekend traffic out of the city. But as always, especially these busy days, I get so wrapped up in trying to knock stuff out of the way, I completely lose track of time.

So since I’m still here, I figured this would be a good time to throw something up since I haven’t posted all week long. It was a bad week not to be posting too, lots of good stuff this week, on air and off…

This would make for a nice visual and audio - All week long, every time I get into the work zone and just keep punching away at different tasks in our office, Hooman will come out of nowhere and start bugging me. He’ll sit at Matty’s computer and just start yapping. (I think he’s afraid of silence…or just loves to hear himself talk) ”What are you doing over there?”… “Who’s that email to?”… “Are you in a bad mood or what?”… “Have you seen this video on my youtube page?” …all f-ing day long. Normally, I’m game and we goof off here and there, but these days I think he’s bummed because I don’t have the time to play.  Well, today was no different- he’s sitting at Matt’s computer playing some random friends band, asking me what I think of them, who they sound like, blah blah blah… Next thing I know, the music just stops out of nowhere, and I hear snoring. I turn around and Hoo is sitting there, totally passed out with head back and mouth wide open, snoring like nobody’s business. I wish I could have taken a picture of it for you all. I saw the video camera sitting next to my monitor, I wanted so bad to grab it and start recording, but I was afraid if did he would have woken up and the moment would be gone. So he ends up sleeping in the chair for almost ten minutes, just sawing away (real snoring too, like in the cartoons where they gargle and whistle and stuff). Finally, he wakes up, looks around and wipes his mouth and goes, “Wooo, am I tirrreed!…it’s because I work so hard..alright…I gotta go”. Then gets up and walks out of the office. Too classic.

Speaking of getting good video… I discoverd a golden moment when we were trying to take a good picture of Sarah in her Bird Sweater. (Which by the way, amazed me at how  interested you all are with our random crap- couldn’t believe the kind of response we got on us talking about animal prints on sweaters for two hours) I took the new video cam and just started filming us during the traffic break with the mics off, and Hoo directing Sarah how to pose. It was another classic moment, and one that nobody gets to see but the five of us (or six if Hyphy is in the building). We didn’t have enough time to put it the video up on the web, and by now I think the moment has passed. I thought it was good stuff though, maybe we’ll save it and use it again later -Comment back if you think I should do something with it or not. I’ll try to capture more behind the scenes moments like that in the future to put up.

I’m starting to really look forward to Monday at the Irish Bank…Good times will be had for sure. Last years St. Patty’s Day Broadcast was such so much fun, definitely in my top 5 live broadcasts of all time. You should join us if you can…Yes, we may only be on the air until 10am, but you know that there are a few of us that don’t leave until they tell us to. Not to mention-No Name, Matty, and myself are way overdue for some daytime drinking together. (They don’t happen as often after No Name started reproducing…go figure.)

Alright, I’m rambled long enough…I’m going to catch a yoga class, go home and crash out. I’ll need to take it easy this weekend if I want to bring my A-Game on Monday… Hope to see you there!

-Boot 

1. Kathy Says:
   March 11th, 2008 at 2:40 pmSarah: heard you guys talking today about iceburg lettuce, salads, etc. and I wanted to call in and give you my tried and true Best Salad Ever recipe, but Hooman told me the discussion about food was over, so he basically hung up on me……now really, was that nice? Food is NEVER over, and I think it would have gotten a big shout out from you, No Name and Matty when they heard it. So anyway, people inhale this salad—-here goes:
   Take one head of romaine lettuce and chop it up. Put in large metal salad bowl.
   Thinly slice one small green cabbage, put on top of romaine.
   Thinly slice one small red cabbage, put on top of green cabbage.
   Thinly slice 1/2 large red onion, put on top of red cabbage.
   Cover all with a bottle of Real Bacon Bits (have to be real, not that weird dried stuff).
   Cover with crumbled bleu cheese.
   Pour a bunch of Hidden Valley Ranch dressing over and toss.
   That’s it. You can add shredded carrots, avocado, whatever else you like, but the further you go away from the basics, you start to lose that loving feeling. Try it. Your kids will love it. Love, Mill Valley Mom

hi, went to harmony in mill valley today with jan landis.  she was the executive producer of “sarah & no name after dark,” our now defunct tv show.  (sob)  she’s such a great person, always so positive and generous.  we got five “little plates” to share.  calamari was tasty, but the chunks were too big in my opinion.  potstickers were good.  fancy onion rings also were too large to eat politely and had too much batter.  porabello mushroom dish was a bit soggy, but good flavor.  asparagus dish was excellent, simple, not at all over cooked, light, tasty sauce.  service was good.  i’ll have to try some of the dim sum they offer next time, overall it was decent for lunch and i think i just made the wrong menu choices.  hmm.  i think i  just reviewed a restaurant.

let it be known that maxs 540 club on clement in SF is offically noname approved.  i hadn’t been to maxs in about 4 or 5 years…and strollin back in was like a welcome home - the familiar smell of foot - loud crappy music on the now digital jukebox -  and most importantly a great bartender named curtis! go see this dude - he works friday 11am till about 7. sundays 11am (claims a great bloody) and i believe he said he works mondays as well! also let it be known that “drunk trail mix” was invented at maxs on 3/8/08 you can probably find some remenants on the floor when you go there!!!!! enjoy! noname

hey, i just wanted to add, if your grill gets really hot, turn it down to medium when you put the fish on.  mine just never gets that hot.  you should hear it crackling in there, but you don’t want it to burn through the tin foil….see below for incredibly boring recipe.