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Well while JDiddy is out exploring the Serengeti ; and setting up contacts for our future arms deals with the locals I thought I had better post something this week.

Looks like the home team won the NIT tourney last night, and under a hail of gunfire to celebrate. No really I have a friend that lives in Morgantown; they were shooting guns in the air all around his house. They do this for the 4th and New Years in the Dub-V as well. No word as of yet on any couch fires.

I have witnessed a couple couch fires in the past. During big games, that town goes on full police lockdown. Some friends and I were just hanging out on his front porch on one of the big party streets and the patrolling cops made us go inside. It was his own house! There was no arguing though, we tried and they reached for their night sticks and started walking up to us. Things have been calming down since those days, but that is still a fun party town.

I always remember a story that R-Dub likes to tell about when he and his sister set, what I like to think of as, one of the first couch fires. They grabbed the livingroom couch took it out in the street and set fire to it at a big party. The next day they couldn't figure out what they were going to sit and watch TV on. Seemed like a good idea at the time. A capitolhillbilly and family motto.

WELL GOLLY G BEAN,
WELCOME TO THE CLUB!!
Happy 30th

So it's my birthday. I have been sort of trying to avoid this one; the whole being 20+10. But I have had a few friends hit the big three O already this year and they seem to be doing ok with it so maybe it won't be so bad. I still treat myself like I am 18 and hope I can continue to do so for as long as possible. As long as I continue to heal quickly. :)

Anyone ever checked back to see what happened in the past on their birthday. Check this site out: http://www.todayinhistory.com

Here are some of my picks for important events that happened today (well that and the fact that I was born, which for some reason was not listed on the site; I need to contact the webmaster about this), there are many more listed. My favorite is the discovery of Florida. With out my birthday many of the elderly from my own home state would have no where to run to play golf all winter.

March 27th 1513 Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida
March 27th 1790 The shoelace invented
March 27th 1866 Andrew Rankin patents the urinal
March 27th 1914 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
March 27th 1955 Steve McQueen makes his network TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse)
March 27th 1976 Washington DC underground Metro opens
March 27th 1977 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash on Tenerife
March 27th 1980 Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years
March 27th 1988 Wrestle mania IV at Trump Plaza, "Macho Man" Savage pins Ted Dibiase
March 27th 2134 32nd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

I consider myself a hillbilly more by how I was brought up then how I act now. Growing up I had all kinds of influences all around me. One of my favorites was the dirt bikes and ATV's many of my neighborhood friends had as kids. My younger brother and I were lucky enough to have one most of the time. There are permanently eroded trails worn in, in my old neighborhood, were many kids tore around after school on various vehicles. "I'll meet you on the flats after school" was code for the big flat area centrally located around a big gas well in the woods around my neighborhood. The trails were originally carved out for access to the many gas wells throughout the countryside. These made for some excellent times exploring and just having fun being a kid. I can remember the excitement I felt challenging myself; even scaring myself; with what I now relies was a rather dangerous machine to be riding.

I wasn't as good a rider as my brother; I just didn't have the nerve to really risk injury. One example was a very steep hill that everyone knew of as Killer Hill. The story was that some kid back before I knew what a bike was was drinking while riding and wrecked his four-wheeler on that very hill and died. I don't know if it is true or not, but that's the story. I never tried to climb this hill on our bike, but my brother took it as a challenge and eventually after falling down it backwards a few times was able to conquer the hill. Something that he was proud of I am sure. He was always crazier than I was. This same area

I have not been back to the trails in many years but I am sure that the current generation of speed and dirt loving kids are using them to this day. Doesn't quite qualify me as a hillbilly, but its one of the pieces of the puzzle.

I have an idea for the next few posts on this here blog fellow readers. I'm going to try and convince each of the capitolhillbilly crew to write up a short Bio on themselves as to why we consider our selves a Hillbilly. Good story, childhood summary, whatever. I plan on writing up a few things about my early years in Buck-Vegas. What do you all think. Lets qualify this here blog!

In the mountains of West Virginia the CHBs take to the white water for J Diddy's 30th!!!
May 2006

Half the crew is at SXSW (South by Southwest Music Festival to the uninitiated) so I'm asking what's up with the updates from Austin Fellas?

Where are the tales of drunken nights, kick ass new bands and dust bowls for us schmoes in D.C.?

Until then I snagged this photo and thought these guys are worthy of the first "Hillbillies of the Week" award.

Been having so much fun this past week that I have been neglecting my duties to the collaborative here at CapitolHillbilly.



So I'm here sipping on my cup of freeze dried coffee mixed with a cheap creamer trying to plan out my day and weekend. I am a bit of a coffee snob I guess. A can be a beer snob too, but that comes and goes depending on the situation; for Example Red Hook is a great beer, but not a great beer for Beirut. I know this from experience as the last time this happened there was an all out wrestling match in the kitchen and back yard of my house. But I digress, and digressing on this site can become poor taste; anyway, we have this coffee machine at work that uses these little sealed plastic cups of different types of coffee like substance. I thought this was really cool up until I had my first cup of it on my first day of work and since then only drink it for the caffeine. I think I am at the point in my life where I can drink a double shot espresso and then go to bed without it keeping me up. There are worse things to be addicted to. Josh you can back me up on the quality needed with bean based delicacies.

So I think I am actually going to get to go back to the mountains this weekend and see if I can still ski. I go every year which keeps me skilled enough to ski what I want to, but I never get any better at it. I'm not headed to the Dub-V but to Garrett County Maryland, which offers a good mix of very high class society with a bunch of Hill-Jacks, and the occational Mud Bog Truck Rally. I hear Madonna and Sly Stallone both have a getaway house on the mountain somewhere.

It's just like riding a bike right?

Yee Haw hillbillies!! Looky what I found. Where was this damn site when I was in college?

Kegulator
'edit DCBrit: link added not just address - we expect better j diddy'

It'll burn.

Moved to Side Bar: Thanks Jdiddy.

Here's another candidate for our song but I wanted to publish it on the main page so that I can show the developers that it really DOESN'T work.

I just want to say to all the hillbillies out there that DCBean is officially dead, the boy went home to bed when the rest of the crew stayed up to drink like real men, so I would like to send my last respects.

DCBean R.I.P 1977-2007