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November 2009

  • November 28th, 2009.

    Maui takes the Enterprise! He puts the GALAXY in danger! I’d been craving the DVD release of the new Star Trek movie and was more than willing to spend the extra money for the limited edition in-the-starship packaging! Kristen sneaking up on Maui to save said galaxy. If you’re curious as to who triumphed, look…

  • November 21st, 2009.

    Without coal, most cities would be in the dark.   Coal is Pennsylvania’s source for electricity.  Coal is Pennsylvania’s source for jobs… etc.  We’re in coal country.  We ate lunch in Coal Center, PA.  We hung out with a coal miner much of the other day.  We’ve passed power plants that are burning “clean” coal…

  • November 20th, 2009.

    Almost home.  Sort of.  Almost home, but headed West at 75mph through Western Pennsylvania with every sense wailing “but you’re going the wrong way!!!”.  As we round Pittsburgh yet again, knowing that I’ve spent for too little time back home even as we speed further and further away from it, I console myself knowing that…

  • November 15th, 2009.

    Findlay, OH.  The open mic that we’d so Loved a couple of months ago delivered what it had promised and we played to a very full room, a very attentive room in a space with great sound and friendly owners.  And always the question: why are you here in Findlay? Heather on da chopper. OLYMPUS…

  • November 14th, 2009.

    I’m sitting in a coffeeshop, waiting.  I spend a lot of time sitting and waiting in coffeeshops.  It’s an okay thing because I can get a LOT of work done while sitting and waiting in coffeeshops and often the distractions are welcome and sometimes arousing.  Not so today. Wow.  Very very British people are talking…

  • November 12th, 2009.

    I feel like I haven’t had any downtime in a long time. That’s not strictly true – I sat and watched some movies with Amy and Kristen last night, but it’s still social time – interaction time, and I frankly should’ve gone to bed hours before I did. Kelly Zullo playing with us at the…

  • November 8th, 2009.

    Last night’s show at Victoria Station Café was as wonderful as they always are.  Putnam, CT is home to a lot of beautiful people, and the fact that they are as accepting to us as they are is always great.  We are welcomed quite literally with opened arms and I feel famous and celebrated in…

  • November 7th, 2009.

    Another venue gets bitten by ASCAP.  There are three ways to go when ASCAP comes knocking, insisting that you pay them $400 (for a small venue – VSC is being asked for $2000) a year to have music once or twice a week in your venue.  You can knuckle under and pay them – which…

  • November 6th, 2009.

    We got past New York City.  I can’t believe it.  We can complain about having to leave the house by 10am – and because we’re musicians and stay up till 3am, we DO complain– but we have slipped past New York City like ninjas.  Brian The Science Guy demonstrating the contractive properties of materials under…

  • November 2nd, 2009.

    I haven’t been to a rock show in a long time.  Not intentionally.  Not to one where I wasn’t thinking “really?  Are we the ONLY people playing ACOUSTIC instruments at this ACOUSTIC showcase?!”  Not to one where I was thinking “oh shit, how do they always sandwich us between groups with big-ass drumkits?” Amanda Wilkins…