I am a sleepy button. I should take a nap. Curse hotels and their noon-time check-outs. Curse our full truck that has not enough space for robs to nap in. Curse airlines that don’t conform to the red-eye ideal.
It’s been another good night. I think my Grandfather is sending us good gigs as a farewell – it’s very appreciated, but I’ll miss him. Not that he’s known me for years, which was increasingly hard. It was strange to have him come to shows with my mother and applaud and tell me what a good job I’d done – and yet afterwards I relaized that he didn’t know I was his grandson… perhaps I should say more about my grandfather, but perhaps I’m not quite sure what to say about him yet. He was a good man who Loved to take pictures and to build model trains and maybe that’s enough to know for right now. He was eager to meet up with Grandma.
Remember kids – zombies and puppies don’t mix! Well, not easily. There’s a lot of noise and slime and then they’re NOT safe to pet. Sorry Chris. Next door to the Stagger Inn in Edwardsville, IL is this brand new comic book and game store. It’s awesome. 
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Tonight we played a beautiful coffeehouse in Saint Peter, Missouri – the Saint Charles Coffeehouse is one of the finest venues we’ve played in and I don’t think they even know it.
If more musicians knew about this place they’d be breaking down the door – Jack is as friendly an owner as owners get and the venue itself is sort of like a teeny castle complete with turret. Fine wood floors, stone walls, beautiful barristas, excellent coffee, great soup, even a separate listening room with resident attentive, enthusiastic audience – this place is close to perfect.
Though exhausted, we have an exquisite day playing music and roaming the river and catching very, very fuzzy caterpillars. OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Alisa, the Lovely Firedancer, looking serene upon the wasted washed up woods in the middle of the Missouri River outside Columbia, Missouri. After our show at Cooper’s Landing in Columbia, MO, Sparky snatched a bunch of us off the docks and off onto the Missouri River to find his boat the Plan B out on the Isle of Naked Hippies.(no, I don’t think this is what it’s actually called, but it seemed a pretty appropriate name) DCF 1.0 Me! Thanks to Kevin for such beautiful photographs. After our Cooper’s Landing shows he always hunts us down and hands us a CD full of beautiful images. He and Rowan sat as the sun passed over the Missouri River and talked lenses and cameras. As paradoxical as it sounds, it IS cool to watch Rowan be a geek. Lee Ruth, a legendary local singer/songwriter who manages to always be playing the same day as us.
We played well, ate well, used the internet all day and made music all night. I spent a lot of the day trying to tie down funeral transport arrangements to get back to Maryland for about 72 hours. It’s throwing a lot of things into uproar and I’m just hoping everything works out – things generally do – but I want it settled NOW so I can plan around my changed circumstances.
My grandfather sent me a great venue, an excellent crowd, a beautiful woman in the front row (I can picture him winking and making that clicking sound that used to embarass me so much). It was a good night to be us and though we failed to take picrures, we DID glean important knowlesge:
Q: What’s a quid?
A: A small feathered animal.
They sure know their beasties in Missouri.
