And we know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking why should you even bother getting dressed, why should you even bother putting on a clean shirt or changing out of yesterday’s underwear. What with all the strife and confusion in this world – the precarious situation in Iraq, North Korea joining the nuclear weapons club, Ticketmaster auctioning tickets – you’re probably thinking that one person can’t make a difference. That one person can’t change the world for the better. That one person can’t lead humanity to the next step and bring peace and brotherhood to the cosmic experiment known as the human race.

Bull!

After all, consider where this company would be today if our founder, Festus Pollstar, didn’t rise to the challenge of constructing an international computer network dedicated to the dissemination of concert routing data for artists and bands like Alice Cooper and Radiohead. Of course, back in 1931 everyone thought Festus was crazy. They laughed at his idea for transmitting concert data in individual data packets via orbital satellite networks and fiber optic cable. They pelted him with garbage as he walked the city streets preaching of a glorious future when people could access tour routings for Mana, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nickelback. They spit in his face while children stuck pins in Festus-like dolls as their parents stood by cursing his very existence.

Now it’s your turn. That’s right. You can make a difference. You can change the world. And it all starts right here. Go ahead, click on the schedules for Lyle Lovett and Joan Baez, and marvel at the bytes, megabytes and overbytes that constitute the global concert data network that sprung from the mind of a destitute and broken man covered with saliva as he laid in the cold, wet gutters of depression-era Fresno, California. Go ahead! Make a difference! Change the world!

But first you might want to change your underwear. From where we sit you’re lookin’ mighty gnarly. Even for a Monday.