“I’m not a very [happy] guy. There’s a little bit of, you know, woe is me that goes with the patch, the melancholy, the Irish thing, it’s raining. It really is. But I certainly… you know… Joy… I think that’s the thing that I would value over and above happiness. It’s, by the way, the hardest possible thing to contrive as an act. It’s very easy to describe anger, rage, very easy to get across happiness, you know. But joy is very difficult. Great artists have joy. And it’s… i don’t know what that is, but that’s the thing I value most.”

-Bono in response to Oprah asking him “What makes you happy?”

I just added about 400 new photos of various Rock happenings from this last year to our photo gallery. Enjoy!

An interesting discussion continues to slowly progress over at my age old post on

Prince… a what???

Where are these people coming from???

Some cities stink. Literally. They have an odor about them that is just nasty. Be it from a nearby factory, feed lot, sewage plant, neighbooring country, whatever, they just smell bad.

But not the ISU campus. Walking outside today I found myself wondering what perfume a girl that just walked by was wearing, because I thought it was incredible, only to notice that it wasn’t a girl wearing perfume. It was the beautiful snow crab tree I was walking under.

Suddenly, as if waking from a stupor I found my self gazing in wonder at the many many flowering trees and bushes around campus. From various types of crab trees (white ones and purple ones and red ones) to the magnolia trees, to the lilac bushes, the air smelled sweet and fresh.

It reminded me of Nancy.

I love spring :)

Too true… too true…