2008
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August 28th, 2008.
Heather and Rowan and I are hitting the road again today, I-70 is flashing past and grey skies are glowering down, Rowan’s in the backseat putting on his distinctive orange-smelling hand lotion. We’re listening to pop songs and Heather’s pleased with lyrics and I’m a little bit grumpy, but if the new Metallica tune flashes…
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August 23rd, 2008.
It’s on deep, cool nights like this that I’m in danger of falling in Love at a touch. Maybe summer’s dead. I can only hope. The death rattle of summer that equals the dry rustle of autumn leaves. Tonight was a night for driving with the windows down (I did), chasing a friend down winding…
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August 20th, 2008.
It’s a beautiful morning. And quite frankly, we’ve had a couple of beautiful nights… we played outside yesterday at the Bethesda Farmer’s Market, ignored by most, Loved by a few – but other than those couple of hours of brutal heat and battering sunshine, most of the last two weeks have been accompanied by breeze…
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August 11th, 2008.
Yesterday was a day of children in the store. I have a Love / Hate relationship with children – I tend to hate them in a gruff, rough and tumble kind of way and despite this (or because of this), they tend to Love me. The first child of the morning though, was charming. Crazy…
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August 9th, 2008.
Yup, says it all really. A friend of mine forwarded me some concerns about tracking devices being placed in drivers licenses… I hadn’t heard anything about it so I got to reading. I’ve been reading about tracking devices and national ID cards and drivers licenses and such… I read a lot, I travel a lot…
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August 9th, 2008.
I’m sitting at Java Mammas, working my way through the completion of John Thayer’s CD artwork. It’s going to be awesome if I do say so myself – I just hope it manages to get done in time for his theoretical deadline – his father’s birthday. Sigh – it reminds me that my father never…
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August 3rd, 2008.
At the moment I’m sitting in a Starbucks, knowing I shouldn’t be, but my favourite independent coffeeshops are either way out of range or closed due to hideous fire damage. I’m watching a little brown bird on the table just outside, cocking its head here and there and back and forth and possibly listening to…
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August 2nd, 2008.
Slowly driving away from the storm. We’re playing out in Frederick tonight. Out being the operative word – out on the street for their First Saturday of August – we’ll have cover if it’s needed and power where it’s needed, but I’m hoping that the former WON’T be needed. Though the weather reports have been…
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July 31st, 2008.
I’m in one of my favourite places on one of my favourite days. I Love my open mic, I Love Thursdays. I’m wearing my favourite shirt. Happy Bejeesus Day from the Jackelope!!! A little guitar porn for you. Eileen Korn was the feature last week at Java Mammas. She was cool and even hip and…
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July 22nd, 2008.
Well, it’s not Perk, but I knew it wouldn’t be. That’s got plusses and minuses to it, but so far it’s just evident that it’s going to be a lot of work to make the Artmosphere open mic a real home. I’m hopeful, but we’ve all got a lot to prove to one another. Hee!…