Proposition 8 Petition

For any of you who also feel that gay people should have the same marriage rights as straight people, please take one minute from your busy schedule and sign this petition.

http://www.petitiononline.com/seg5130/petition.html
As printed in today's SF Chonicle, "The people fighting for (Prop. 8) talk about restoring traditional marriage," said attorney John Welch, who stopped at the 440 Castro bar to watch the returns come in. "But the right of two people of the same sex to get married doesn't take anything away from a straight married couple."

I completely agree.

We won!

It's with great pride that I carry myself with this morning. It's as if I'm taking a breath of fresh air for the first time in years. It's good to be an American.

Yesterday, only proved to me further that this presidential election wasn't ours alone, but the worlds. As you'll see in most of today's newspapers, this win is being celebrated by people from across the world because we all know about the hope that it brings. It's good to be a world citizen.

I'm completely in awe of knowing that we're living during a time that will hold a great place in US and world history. I'm thrilled to be alive and to see an African-American man become US president. Barack Obama will be our next president. It sounds so nice.

Here's to new beginnings...

The JamBase iPhone App

For you iPhone users, you should check out the My JamBase iPhone app. The iTunes App Store just released it a few days ago. And, it's already up to 1800 downloads.

You can download the app here (or search for it on your iPhone). There's already some great press on the app too.

Here's to seeing more more live music...

Republican Powell endorses Obama

Dear Ticketmaster: Who are you?

I just sent the following letter to TicketMaster...

Dear Ticketmaster,

It's been brought to my attention that you took advantage of thousands of Phish fans today. As you know, tickets for the Phish reunion shows just went on sale and sold out in no time. 7 minutes to be exact!

Because of the tremendous demands for these shows, it appeared that you did all that you could to ensure that every phan landed tickets by providing ticket options to each show and the run of shows. I give you kudos for creating the string of shows option because this option was the most appealing to most phans in the end.

Unfortunately, I've heard that not all of the tickets were available to the public when they went on sale at 7 am PST because ticket brokers had the opportunity to buy tickets five or so minutes before the public. As we all know, the difference of five minutes is an incredible advantage for an event like this one. Furthermore, you allowed ticket brokers to purchase an unlimited number of tickets to each show. Rather than making concerts more accessible to the average phan, you made it even harder for us to see the return of our favorite band through these efforts.

Are these rumors true? If so, what financial gains are you making from these unfair partnerships? I hope these rumors are not true because it'll just add to my contempt for your business by further proving to me that you're not in it for the music fan.

Sincerely,
John McMahon

Golden Tickets: Who's got 'em? I do!!!

I can't believe it. I'M GOING TO HAMPTON!

I just won two tickets to each Hampton show. Given my rich history of catching shows with my boy, Richards, I've offered him my extra ticket to each show. Woo hoo!

Take a Deep Breath

Take a deep breath and stay calm, everyone. It looks like the market is adjusting itself by going down to a level where it would've been with steady growth from 1970.

Obviously, I'm not trying to make light of the current economic situation. But, I do feel that a downturn in the market should be expected by all investors, especially young ones who are in it for the long haul.

With that said, I hope today's Economic leaders can figure out how to improve the credit markets and unfreeze the resultant lending between banks and businesses.