the digital life

(from Mar 08)
your alarm clock wakes u
u take a shower listening to digital radio
u might shave with an electric razor containing a computer chip

u dress
u grab your cellphone
your ipod
your bluetooth
your keys with digital alarm

if u drive a car made since 1999
your car is full of computer tech
u might listen to mp3s on your standard-issue cd player
have your heat or a/c change automatically
u have camera to park with

u put change in a digital parking meter
u might swipe your employee badge into a digital reader
perhaps u sit at a workstation
or work a digital counter
or chirp people on the job

u check your digital schedule
maybe surf your phone on break
or keep Rude (or spamspace-if work is prudish) in the background

u get cash from the digital ATM for lunch
or u swipe your debit card for lunch
maybe u use the wi-fi while you lunch

u get home
u check your digital email
u check your digitally recorded tv shows
u check your rude page (probably several times by now, but it's a story...)

u microwave some popcorn
u watch a digital dvd
or play a digital videogame

and u spank it to digital porn

don't u see?

the digital life isn't coming
it's here already

(from Jan 08)
On sale today, Rifftrax's comedy commentary on Batman and Robin featuring contributions from detroit's mister X.

For those who don't know Rifftrax, it's the new project from the guys who used to do Mystery Science Theater 3000-they make fun of sh*t and do a really good job of it, but instead of a TV show, you download their commentary as an Mp3 and play it along with the movie. These guys are an inspiration to X and Rob Boombostic (even though we started doing own own riffs in college before we knew the show existed, so don't call us a rip-off you uppity bastard) and X is honored to write for his heroes.

welcome to my smartass soapbox

Just a note to announce that X Marks The Spot will be the repository of all my various writings, musings and semi-sane rants that litter the internet into one happy shiny place. I'll be reposting a lot of my previous work to give u a taste of what to expect and will start new original work for this blog in mid-Oct. 08