Myspace

We'd like to thank Modesto Famous, and friends of modesto famous, for adding us to your friends list on myspace. We've had a good response. We can always use more friends, especially from our area, who may attend the event.

Modesto doesn't just have one blues festival, but two coming up in the next few months. Ours is the Free admission one this year, June 23, at Graceada Park. Our myspace profile, where you all are welcome to add us as a myspace and blues friend is http://www.myspace.com/modesto_blues_fest where we bulletin items like our friends playing on stage, local blues events, other venues and music friends in the local area. Main website for the Modesto Blues Festival online is still at festival organizer, http://www.jbpresents.com

have a gallery of 120 of my original art up at myspace. If interested, see http://www.myspace.com/jim_christiansen thanks, jim jdc104

for my blog on what i do, http://www.geocities.com/mercenary

So, as I was MySpacing it today, and I looked at some bulletins from a local band out of the Turlock area. I read them from it's members and the band's account and was kinda perturbed. I saw that one of the band members was leaving/quitting or whatever was happening. All I got out of the bulletins was a bitter "break-up" and bashing a couple members of the band.

Ok, in the interest of blog honesty, I was a former employee of the modesto bee, back in 1997. However, I crashed the truck, and so delivery by me ceased. I do write letters to the editor, often on homeless issues, or Jim's usual issues in mental health, real estate, dumpster divers, advertising policy, as we know i DO posters, art, even cartoons, the job I didn't get at the Bee that I applied for.

This is a repost of my blog of the week and National day of prayer for mental health recovery last October 4. I was team captain of the Prop 63 initiative that past, and a mental health client. But I'm also a believer its not impossible to get over it, deal with it, and I was also in my past life over 25 years employed, and for 8 years President of Altamont Builders, Inc, have a number of projects, including that of our company, Bain Steel, that are part of downtown, ag, office, residential subdivisions landmarks in Modesto, and had made the cut for the Downtown Redevelopmnet Committee for the City, but was living a block out of area, as my consulting work for partners in our old project near the new overpass on 9th street, not active enough a business to serve on that.

From Dave Hanley Band bulletin posted on myspace. I'm not a member of the band, one of his friends, and we support local poets, and bands in Modesto.

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I thought I'd put up a blog of what Jim's doing online, networking elsewhere than the blog here at Modesto Famous. I had originally worked up a slow load geocities.com website, a free one, to put up a lot of my art work, starting in 1998. Its now 44 pages, with some banter and drivel blogation to go with much of my online scanned in original art, much of it story and done in Modesto. http://www.geocities.com/jdc104/index.html.