Adisa McKenzie

As we come to the end of a great festival season, I have been blessed to have a long term goal fulfilled.  Below is a music Video for the song “Planet Crush” by the Black Rock City AllStars.  About half way through you will see yours truly along with my TripKnight family.
Please send this to people if you will. Lots of talent, love and energy went into the process.

I’m finally getting into Facebook. Funny how much my phone rings off the hook with questions about the internet and computers. I really enjoy tech questions because I think I shine. I seem to have never taken to these social networks very well. Last month, I tried to send a comment about some shows I was doing with TripKnight, as well as the Black Rock City All Stars, when I inadvertently hit reply on a comment from this girl I used to know, that was all about her bad day. Seeing her picture reminded me of a resource I needed, so I emailed her (at least I think I did). Now, in one day I went from occasionally signing on, to amateur facebook cyberstalker tech doofus. She never wrote me back, but that’s ok. I know I’m sharp.

I don’t know why this just came to mind but since it did, I thought I’d share. When I was in high school, junior year, I found a voice activated tape recorder. I realized very quickly that I could capture any loud noise at the very beginning of the tape thus making playback easy as I would not have to search for it. In fact, with that noise at the beginning of the tape I could operate the playback without even looking at the device. So I went to one of my classes early and hid the recorder above a cabinet located near the school P.A. speakers. When the bell to get to class went off, it was recorded right at the beginning of the tape. At some point during class, I retrieved the device and played it back 5 minutes early. The thing was so loud that the teacher really did think it was the end of class and let us go. Students around me could tell it came from me but everyone left anyway. I did that trick for each remaining class that day. I actually used the time to get over to the class of this girl I liked and walk with her to her classes. I thought I was being smooth but she no doubt thought I was creepy. I guess I kind of was. I used to do strange things in high school–like during my senior year, instead of the socially acceptable Jordan’s or other cool shoes, I opted for $9 Velcro kicks from Walmart. I also used to sit in a small foldable beach chair in some of my classes. Later on, that kind of behavior got me in pretty good with the ladies. I would tell them stories and they would say how much they would have liked me in school. Those ladies were not at my school that’s for sure. Small suburbs often have a smaller range of acceptable behavior. The other day I walked to yoga with a light blue yoga mat wearing a t-shirt, sweat shorts, black business socks and dress shoes and no one turned their nose up. The big city. In fact, if I were single, I could probably “pull” a girl in that outfit, but then again game is a lot tighter as an adult.

This is kind of funny. This company called Copalife sells stink free anti fungal socks that they say can be worn for two weeks without odor. Now, right away I realize that too much initial excitement might amount to an admission of foot odor, or at least some resistance to changing one’s socks. That aside, I think of Burning Man. Three pair of $15 (approximate cost of three pair) stink free socks would further reduce my travel footprint and leave more room for water and liquor. Funny thing, if you go to the site Here you will see an image of a black sock. The image has a zoom feature that allows you to get a better look at the product. Doing so yields very little. Even more humorous are the other pictures essentially dissing smelly old socks.