Alright, I'll be the first to admit it: I am not a big fan of MySpace.  I've dealt with too many people who have had too much drama on the site.  (Most of them were teens I worked with.)  I've gotten too many "add me's" from weird women whom I wouldn't add to anything having to do with me. 

But one day last week I got a message from one of my buds Doug.  It was a message inviting me to join his "family" in a thing called Mafia Wars.  It's an "app" that runs on MySpace.

In Mafia Wars you are a gangster doing gangster shit.  You collect protection money, rob pimps, rough up you rivals, rob banks, you get the idea.  Then, when you have enough money, you buy more weapons to do more gangster shit.  Then, when you have more money, you buy property so you can make even more money.

It's kinda cool.  There is one catch though:  you yourself must get people to join your "family."  The bigger your "family"  the more gangster shit you can do.  Twice as cool is if you get really lucky (like I did) you can take down a mob boss and make millions of dollars (like I did.)  Then you can go to town buying crap and really do some gangster shit.

Anybody interested in joining my "family" just click on my bald LEGO head and ask to be my friend.  MySpace...who'd of thunk it?