A letter to My Readers

Dear Readers,

As you can see, I haven’t been keeping up to date on my blogs and I just want to take this time to apologize for being so neglectful.  I find that during the month of December, I tend to get very nasty and mean about everything, mainly because i have a real problem with the holidays and it causes me to be a bitch about everything.   I hate writing letter after letter after letter geared towards my disgust for whatever celebrity and/ or pop culture item has pissed me off that day.

So I’ve let the posts wain a bit and I am sorry for that.

I have been working on moving ErnieBot over to a blogger blog so I can keep all my blogs under wraps.  (You can also check out my personal blog at www.erinsteen.com)  I’m still a bit torn about moving it since wordpress is a fantastic host for my blog, however I do love the features I can get with a blogspot blog, so I’m going to pretty much just copy ErnieBot over and try it out for a little bit before I decide if I want to move over there permanently.

In the meantime however, you can still catch my tyrannical rants here…I’m not ditching you yet!

I love each and every one of my silly readers!  Thank you for all your support!

ErnieBot

A letter to Ike Reilly

Dear Mr. Reilly,

I owe you a huge apology.

I briefly forgot about you.  Now now….I know thats a horrible thing to say and I never meant for that to happen, in fact, I’m not even sure HOW this happened. Remember how good it was way back in the day?  I listened to your album “Salesmen and Racists” until my ears nearly fell off.  I continued to buy each new album you put out, and I can’t even count how many times I’ve seen you play at First Ave and the one rather painful show I attended at the Entry.  Not your fault, I blame the really awful band of 50 year old has been punk rockers that proceeded your set.  That was punishment.

Anyways, over the past two years, I seem to have let you slip away.  I feel awful about this, especially since I just listened to your new album and, well….it kicked my ass.  You’re so damn good at what you do and I’m ashamed that I let you just disappear like that.

Have no fear though, my long lost friend.  I am back and this time I mean business.  I’m really hoping I get the chance to attend your annual First Ave Thanksgiving show this year and now that we are friends on MySpace, so there will be no excuse for my neglect from now on.

I send you my love and I look forward to hearing you soon!

Love always,

ErnieBot

A letter to Robert Rodriguez

Dear Mr. Rodriguez,

I would first and foremost like to apologize to you for my initial hatred of your movie “From Dusk Till Dawn.” I was 16 when I saw it and I therefore can not hold myself responsible for any lack of taste. I was hormonal and confused and I took it out on you, for which I am really sorry.

You see, Mr Rodriguez, I’ve been unemployed for a month now and I’ve let myself go during that time. I stay up all night, watching whatever movies one of my 25 movie channels will play at 3 in the morning, and tonights choice (courtesy of Encore) was your 1996 masterpiece “From Dusk Till Dawn.” For the past 11 years, I’ve been rolling my eyes in disgust and abruptly switching channels whenever this movie come on, based solely on my ill-conceived opinion that I had formulated as a messed up angst driven teen, but tonight I had decided to watch it in its entirety. I guess I can safely say now that my teen-aged self had shit for brains. I’m not sure why it took me 11 years to finally realize that everything I hated as a 16 year old, was actually really damn good and that I needed to re-evaluate my opinions now that I am nearing 30 and have acquired decent pop culture tastes.

But don’t feel bad about my former hatred of your movie. I can confirm my awful tastes with the fact that 10 years ago, I would’ve gladly sold my fathers Led Zepplin records in exchange of the new Limp Biskit. Part of growing up is learning from your mistakes though, am I right?

So, I would like to apologize to you, Robert Rodriguez, for unfairly judging your gruesomely fantastic movie. I would also like to thank you for making George Clooney so smokin’ hot in his role as Seth Gecko.

I’m sorry and I love you,

Sincerely,
Ernie-bot

PS. i also must thank you for Grindhouse. Please do another. Thank you.