Iran-Houseboats-Mississippi

-If you haven't been following the situation in Iran, you may want to start now. It looks like a real revolution is taking place. Pretty much all media from Iran has been shut down and the only info that is getting out is doing so via Twitter. Andrew Sullivan has been doing a great job of covering this. Check it out.

-I'm in the middle of two mini-vacations, which is why I've been absent from my blog lately. I just got back from a bachelor party on a houseboat.

We had a speedboat tethered to the houseboat, which we used for tubing and stuff like that. If you have never been tubing, try it. You lay on your stomach on an inner tube, while a boat pulls you at 40-45 mph, whipping you around in circles, pulling you over the wake of other boats, causing you to fly a few feet off the water. It's really fun. It's also kind of brutal when you fall. When you fall on water while moving at 40 mph, water doesn't feel like water. It feels like concrete. One time, the water made me punch myself in the jaw. Another time, it felt like the water actually punched me in the balls. I have bruises on my arms and legs from the falls. But they're nothing compared to what happened to two of my friends. Spanky is even lighter than me, and I was going airborne every time I hit wake. So he hit a bigger wave once and flew at least 10 feet into the air, came down face first and plowed through the water with his face. He came up with a neck situation that wouldn't allow him to do it again. John had the best fall though. He was being whipped around, flew off and did two or three somersaults on top of the water before actually going under the water. When he came up, he yelled, "I can't feel the left side of my body. It feels like I got punched in the kidneys." He had to swim to the boat with one arm. Once he got on the boat, we were able to see just how bad he was messed up. He had a booger on his chin, and another booger on his forehead. I think that sums it up.

-I'm going to Mississippi tomorrow to visit my friend Leah, before going to Auburn University for a show on Thursday. Leah and her family moved to Mississippi a couple years ago to help families rebuild after Hurricane Katrina. What have you done? I haven't done anything.

Leah lives on the Gulf Coast, and we're supposed to go sailing, which neither of us know how to do. So there should be an interesting blog in a couple days.