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Today (as I had mentioned earlier), I helped the Priestie Boyz during their first-ever concert. Since the band had little (i.e. no) funds and very little equipment, I decided to help out. Luckily, Charlie, the lead singer, had connections and was able to borrow about $30,000 worth of equipment, including a 32-channel mixer, two huge JBL speakers, two power amps, four monitor speakers, a drum kit mic set, some stands, a few other mics, and a snake (all of the highest quality)!

And guess who was in charge of setting up and harnessing all of that power? Me. It was very fun, especially having to do it with a total of five people, in about three hours. We spent a little bit of the night before, and about an hour today, setting up all the equipment and doing sound checks (I liked that part because I told Charlie when to stop talking ;-).

Today, I brought three video cameras (borrowed from the Seminary and Mike), my Canon digital picture camera, and my iBook G4 to record sights and sounds from the event. I have now posted the pictures on a special page for the Priestie Boys. The 'Boyz are still working on details for audio distribution. I videotaped everything, but it will take a little more time before I can work on that (video's a lot more time-consuming than audio!).

There were about 800 youth from Charlie's parish attending the event, and it was very well received:

Enjoy all the pictures, etc. from the event by clicking here!

Today I will be attending and helping run the first-ever Priesty Boys concert at St. Margaret Mary Alacoque parish in South St. Louis County. If you read this entry before 1:00 p.m., please pray that the Priesty Boys and I have a great show (I'll be the sound dude!); if you read this entry after 1:30 p.m., know that we have finished, for better or for worse.

The Priesty Boys is a great three-man-band from Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, and they have been together for a year or two now, but they finally 'got a gig' performing for the gradeschool of one of the band's members during the "Catholic Schools Week." I will have pictures (and, hopefully, a video) of the concert soon -- I promise!

It seems to have been a big week in terms of prayer requests. And it's not over yet. A friendly and outstanding blogger in the blogosphere has been completely and misguidingly smeared by Women's Wear Daily. You may read the story in full: "Dawn of the Desk".

The article states:

"Dawn Eden, apparently embellished a Jan. 18 editorial about stem-cell research during the editing process. Her version of the story — which slammed New York Senate Minority Leader David Paterson’s plan for a state-sponsored stem-cell institute as a “harebrained scheme” — made it into print."

And Dawn replies:

"This is a complete lie and it can easily be disproved... As a copy editor on the NEWS copy desk and not the EDITORIAL PAGE department, I had NO computer access to the editorials. I would only see them when they were on page proofs, where I would mark grammar and spelling corrections ONLY. These page proofs were then given to the editorial-page editors, who would make the changes themselves. I never once while I was at the Post accessed an editorial in a manner that I could possibly make any change without the editors' full and complete knowledge."

It would seem that someone has it out for Dawn, and I ask you to pray for not only Dawn, but also the people who are fighting against Dawn Eden. She is an amazingly talented blogger, illuminating many of the fallacies of Planned Parenthood's and others' doctrines attacking human life, exposing many PP blunders and promoting a Culture of Life.

I encourage anyone who has not already done so to look through The Dawn Patrol's Archives and read some of the past entries - there seems to be an abundance of witty, wise and interesting observations about all things related to the pro-life movement, among other things!