Lots of images for you to enjoy.  It’ll almost be like you were there.  But without the Coronas and sun.

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Jessica and I were invited to go on the Mayercraft Carrier … a travelling concert / party, starring (duh) John Mayer.

Our expectations were high, as Hobby talks VERY highly about the Rock Boat family of cruises and goes nearly every year.  Our expectations were met.

Here’s a video.  I have pictures and stories.  Pics will be linked from here soon, stories will be written about and/or talked about on the radio.  Check back for answers to these questions:

• Dealer is showing a 3, you have 12 and $400 on the table.  Do you double down?
• Why did John Mayer offer me $8000?
• Is Colby Caillat a one-hit wonder?
• Why should we all be asking ourselves WWKD?

Details, soon.

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An assortment of photos off my trusty old SD200 for your eyeballs enjoyment.

First, some shots of the new Q100 broadcast center, about 35 feet from the old Q100 broadcast center.  It faces the opposite direction, it’s a bit bigger, and we have a window with a view … which is actually a pretty cool treat given our prior view of the top of our garage and a kudzu field.  Wave as you pass on by, will ya?  All of these shots are from my point of view, the last one is my ’station’ where I sit and play Internet poker during the show.

 I spent Sunday & Monday night at Philips Arena.  First, for the NHL All-Star Game.  In case you missed it on TV, you missed the Hives and the Thrasher Ice Queens presenting the line-ups and Ne-Yo (who came in for an interview today and was really, really cool) entertaining the crowd between the second and third period.

Monday night was Alanis Morissette and Matchbox Twenty.  Alanis rocked.  MB20 got off to a late start and I had to leave early, so I can’t give a fair review.  But Alanis rocked me more than they did.

Here’s Jessica and me and a rude sea-lion from our recent trip to Ocean World, in the Dominican Republic:

Here’s my recent dinner at Five Guys Burgers, now in Sandy Springs in the plaza where Goldberg’s is.  Damn, that’s a good burger.  And the fries rock.  And free peanuts.  And Coke Zero on tap.  Seriously, is this heaven?  (The first Five Guys meal I had was with Clark Howard, and he bought, so you know it ain’t gonna cost you much.)

Sasha in the Great Blizzard of ‘08, showing a snowball who’s boss.

You may have heard me pimping ProFlowers.com on Q100 recently.  I’m not gonna pitch something without trying it out, so I ordered some roses for my beautiful wife Jessica.  The first picture is just a few hours after arrival.  The second was a couple of days later.  They look as good today as they did the day they arrived … if not better!  If you need flowers, try ‘em.  And type in JeffD after clicking the little radio microphone for a cool deal (and so I get credit for sending you their way.)  This weeks deal is 2 dozen roses and a vase for $39.99.  The special-deal roses are pink, red, and white.  You can preorder now for Valentine’s Day, guys!

Jessica and I just got new countertops, here are they are right after their installation.  New double-oven and backsplash coming soon.  I think we are going to have have our cabinets painted or refaced.  Ugh.  Ca-ching!

Here’s Ne-Yo, in studio with us this morning.  Jenn and I both look paralyzed with fear, like someone is pointing a gun at us and not a camera.  I really enjoyed talking to him today, he was a cool interview.

If you have any questions about this site, leave a comment for the webmaster GooGoo or her assistant Sasha.  They’ll get right back with you.

One of these two is a natural … you decide which one.

First, watch Bert playing the drums on Monday, after practicing all weekend.

Then, watch Rob Thomas banging away his very first time.

Nick Lachey came by to congratulate us on 100,000 watts, and he couldn’t help but compliment the delicious in-studio catering this morning.

Here is the specific muffin he enjoying during the above segment.

You may find it on eBay soon, if I can find a way to avoid the embarassing Mariah Carey debacle that occured several years ago.

From Rich Eldredge’s Peach Buzz in the AJC:

Fans Bid For Half-eaten Mariah Carey Sandwich

Q100 and The Bert Show is auctioning off a half-eaten turkey sandwich belonging to Mariah Carey.

DJ Jeff Dauler from Q100 has placed the sandwich, complete with salad, pickle and garnish, in a “handy deli box”.  The winning bidder will also receive a plastic knife used by one of her handlers in order to inspect it..

Dauler has warned listeners that the sandwich should not be considered safe to eat, as it has not been refrigerated since Mariah’s visit to the studio earlier this week.

He said: “This sandwich is a collector’s item, for the true Mariah memorabilia collector.” 

And, a few days later:

Carey-out update

Singer Mariah Carey’s local lunch being auctioned on eBay this week caused the online auction house a bout of indigestion Thursday.

Around 1 p.m., the turkey sandwich and garnish nibbled on by the pop star while at radio station Q100 this week suddenly disappeared from the Web site. The bid was up to $751.

In an e-mail to Q100 jokester Jeff Dauler, Web site officials explained that the foodstuff “does not appear to be consistent with eBay guidelines.  All food and related products sold on eBay should be packaged or sealed to ensure that the buyer can identify evidence of possible tampering.”

Dauler tells Buzz he intends to relist the item, because it was clearly explained in his description that the sandwich was being sold solely as a celeb souvenir and could not be consumed. Meanwhile, Mariah’s carry-out is becoming a celeb itself. MSNBC gossip Jeanette Walls (clearly a Buzz reader) has now begun writing about the auction as well.

I hope you will visit either the Flying Biscuit on Northside Parkway at West Paces Ferry (so convenient to 75!) or at Terminus, at the corner of Peachtree and Piedmont in the heart of Buckhead, for delicious food and outstanding service.  You can be like Nick!

In December I attended an event at Eddie’s Attic, and a guy named Ben Deignan stole the show with his 3-song set.  Check out his MySpace for a cover of Kanye’s ‘Stronger.’  He’s also got a website at http://bendeignan.com/, but the MySpace seems to have more current info.

I am, by no means, an expert … but I think this guy could go places.  I’d like to be able to say ‘I told you about him years ago.’  Now I can. 

His music is addictive … his 4-song sampler that he handed out at Eddie’s has been in the car since I got it.  His lyrics are smart and sometimes funny.  And he covered ‘Stronger,’ which is cool for a white guy with a guitar to do. 

I hope you like him as much as I did …

Here’s some audio from the show about the soon-to-be-famous Dolphin Dance video, starring a very special Jeff Dauler.

And, here’s the video.  Enjoy,  You owe me.
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Bon Jovi sold out Philips Arena on April 30 … so they are doing a second show.  Thursday, May 1.

Tickets go on sale this Saturday.

See you there.

I haven’t been a good blogger, which could be my first broken resolution.  Damn.  17 days and out.  Please forgive.

So we are on a stronger signal.  That’s cool, because bigger is usually better.  Sucks for my friends – past and present – who has affiliations with 99X.  I really, truly, honestly have a broken heart for them.  99X was a LEGENDARY radio station for Atlanta and the music industry as a whole.  Brian Philips, Leslie Fram, and crew created a brilliant, innovative, trend-bucking, trend-setting, and amazing brand.  It set the tone for a generation of Atlantan’s and drove a significant part of rock / alternative music in the 90’s.  When I was just a baby radio dude in Tucson, I called Jimmy Baron because I wanted to be like him and I wanted my show to be like his.  (He never called me back.  But now we are dear friends and I don’t call him back.  Karma.)

Musically, a whole generation of Georgia artists owes an incredible debt of gratitude to WNNX and Leslie in particular.  Collective Soul, REM, John Mayer, Shawn Mullins, and Butch Walker are just a few I can think of know.  Tens of millions of albums sold, hundreds of millions of dollars generated, and countless fans moved because Leslie gave her thumbs up.  It truly is incredible.

But radio is cyclical and that format is reaching the bottom of a cycle.  This is a business and businesses need to make money and perform for their customers.  99X is still a great brand, and will now exist and grow at 99X.com … which has great potential and could be the next, well, 99X.  But it will never be the 99X of 93-99, and that makes me sad.

But now we are moving into their house.  Our new house.  And I don’t know that it has sunk in yet.  The responsibility given to us by the owners of our company is a little intense, but filling the shoes of the previous tenants is equally as foreboding to me.  Not to mention the fact that now we are on an even playing field as most of the other ‘players’ in the market … there is no excuse for poor performance.  Ugh.  Work.  I got into radio to play.  Damn it.

Speaking of ‘play,’ I have spent the past 5 days playing in the Caribbean with some great friends.  We drank, sunned, drank, at shi**y food, drank, raced golf carts, drank, swam with dolphins, drank, hugged a sea lion, drank, rode on a Catamaran with an angry sea captain and his mistress, drank, and drank.    Not kidding … I don’t know if I have ever consumed so much beer in one spurt.  I feel swollen, like one of those old-timey school hippity-hops.  We were at an all-inclusive and would sit in the shade while the women tanned.  And if we set our mug or cup down and it was more than half empty, it would fill.  It was miraculous and dangerous. 

During my dolphin swim I had a brief spell of simple, and it was recorded on DVD for perpetual humiliation.  See, the trainer of the dolphins said ‘now we are going to dance with your dolphin.’  And I’m like cool, I can do that – even with no phat beats to bounce too.  But then he said to hold their fins and let them dance, but I didn’t hear that.  So the dolphin danced.  And I danced.  But I didn’t ever hold his fins.  And I look like an enormous tool.  Jessica’s in the background doing just fine, but you can hardly see her.  And over the dolphin squeals you can here my buddy Ed laughing at the funniest thing he’s seen in decades.

But I’m a dumb tool that danced with a dolphin and I am OK with that, ‘cause it was cool as hell.

I’ll post the video shortly.