And winners of yesterday's contest to open for Bon Jovi at Gillette Stadium... Clarias! Second place went to Cialis with Claritin coming in a close third.

I keed, I keed. Congratulations to the guys in Clarias - very nice young lads. I'm sure they'll do us proud in front of 70,000 people and not get all nervous and CHOKE! CHOKE! CHOKE! Just kidding - we're happy for you guys. Congrats on getting to live out the rock and roll dream.

As for your buddies in Scamper, it was just an odd-ass day all around the bend. When we got the specs for the order of events and our instructions for arriving at the venue, we let out a collective "Whaaaaaaa?" Nate tried to clarify on the phone with the organizer of the event.

Nate: So we have to be there at 10:30am.
Organizer: Yes.
Nate: But there's no sound check and we don't go on until 5pm.
Organizer: That is correct.
Nate: And we're not allowed to leave the premises of the event at all during the event?
Organizer: That's right.
Nate: Are we allowed to...
Organizer: No.
Nate: You didn't even let me...
Organizer: You're not allowed to finish sentences. That's in the rules.
Nate: (flipping through the rules) Well, I'll be.

Rigid rules were the rule of the day. Apparently, Waltham got disqualified for exceeding some sort of phantom "too many decibels" rule during their set. To be fair to the organizers, I did see Huey Lewis at the foot of the stage with a megaphone saying "I'm sorry - you're just too darn loud." Rumor even has it that we were disqualified for including four bars of Fleetwood Mac's "Go Your Own Way" at the end of "Stunner," violating some sort of "no covers" rule about which we were never informed. It was just an odd day all around is what I'm saying.

As we were at dinner after the show, Keith raised his glass to the "last contest Scamper is ever entering." Nate and I raised our glasses only to turn to Mike and see him suddenly clutching his temples, trying to pluck out his eyeballs in agony. Was he that upset that we lost? Nope - he had a brain freeze from his fresh fruit smoothie. We all laughed at his pain for a good ten minutes. We all felt a lot better. Except Mike.

Big shout-out to Maura and Sara along with my sis-in-law Katie and Kristen for making the trek down all the way down to Newport RI to support your local rock heroes. Losing - it just gets easier the more you do it. Now I know how the Kansas City Royals feel.

Let's put all this loser talk behind us, friends. Next week, more fun stuff including the big Kay Hanley show on Thursday at TT the Bears and also a fun little project with which I'm going to need everyone's help. Fa. Have a good weekend and don't buy a Saturn. They suck.