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Pickabar Blog Lives!

My blog has been dead since March 17th, through no fault of my own. The company who I’ve been hosting pickabar.com with for a few years, Web Strike Solutions, was purchased by easyCGI. The email notifications I received from Web Strike assured me that the transition would be seamless and that they would be manually testing every site to make sure that it was up and running. I’ve been in IT long enough to worry, but I figured I’d cross my fingers and see how things went.…

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Performance Enhancing Hypocrisy

I live in Brooklyn and I play in a band. That’s not really unique. It’s not even unique in my building. In Brooklyn, 43% of the population has a band or makes beats or sings piano jazz or plays mariachi music on the train. Ok, I made that number up, but the point stands. There are a whole lot of bands in Brooklyn. Let’s imagine that we are able to get every musician in Brooklyn to meet in a single large room.…

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Victims of Drug Wars

<h1> Victims of Drug Wars </h1> <p> </a><a href="http://www.pickabar.com/music/pickabar%20-%20victims%20of%20drug%20wars.mp3"> </a> </p> <p> Children bear the scars<br /> deep in their hearts,<br /> it&#8217;s the way of war<br /> families ripped apart. </p> <p> Another young boy<br /> raised by (a) single mom,<br /> families destroyed<br /> worse than those by bombs. </p> <p> � � � Victims of Drug Wars </p> <p> The saddest part of all<br /> is that it makes no sense,<br /> There&#8217;s no magic in walls<br /> there&#8217;s leaks in every fence.…

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Conquer Fear

<h1> � </h1> <p> <a href="http://www.pickabar.com/music/pickabar%20-%20conquer%20fear.mp3"></p> <h1 align="center"> Conquer Fear </h1> <p> </a> </p> <p align="center"> � </p> <p> Gather up your courage pull it on like an overcoat <br />The only thing worth more than knowledge is loyalty to an oath <br />An oath to true friendship tight as any family bond <br />When you call out for aid there&#8217;s no question how they&#8217;ll respond <br />You never have to worry, you know just where they stand <br />So there&#8217;s no need for deep thinking when it&#8217;s their turn to need a hand<br /> <blockquote> So get up on your feet <br />Get your ass in gear <br />There&#8217;s never been a man that lived <br />Who hasn&#8217;t had to conquer fear </p> </blockquote> <p> Said he&#8217;d always be there, now he&#8217;s like a ghost <br />His courage failed him he ran away just when you needed him most <br />You&#8217;re parents always dreamed of college now you&#8217;re scared that they&#8217;ll kick you out <br />You can&#8217;t sleep you don&#8217;t know where you&#8217;ll live or how you&#8217;ll feed another mouth <br />The truth is that you made your choices and that boy took the cowards way <br />You&#8217;ll have to find the strength within you&#8217;ll have to grow up in a couple of days<br /> <blockquote> So get up on your feet <br />Get your ass in gear <br />There&#8217;s never been a woman that lived <br />Who hasn&#8217;t had to conquer fear </p> </blockquote> <p> Divest yourself of dependency, throw it off like a dirty robe <br />Let your eyes adjust to the light the way morning rushes over the globe <br />Don&#8217;t let fear become a prison more than bars ever could <br />Don&#8217;t turn your home into a jail cell, you know a real prisoner never would <br />We now have the technology to hide away in our caves <br />But we&#8217;d be fools to accept loneliness so we can live our lives like we&#8217;re the internet&#8217;s slaves </p> <p> [<a href="http://www.…

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