2010
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11-14-2010 – Putnam, Providence, Cambridge …
1 a.m. Tonight I’ve remembered to bring the second blanket in, and I am very comfy. This afternoon was sunny and warm, and I’m glad I packed so diversely. I’ve been in a heavy winter coat, driven through snow, been in short sleeves, and rain boots. Gina’s voice is voluptuous, answering the new wave of…
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11-13-2010 – Putnam, CT
The loneliness and the quiet on this solo tour is more than I expected, actually. Tonight, it’s too late to get the internet password from my sleeping hosts, and so there’s not even that company. So I’ll write this for a while, scream into the void, and then watch the movie I rented from the…
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November 2nd, 2010.
Halloween is, of course, Heather’s birthday. We had her over to the house and made her shrimp and grits and creme brulee. We watched zombie movies and handed out candy to children dressed as faeries and Optimus Prime. I’m having trouble keeping up. A LOT of that trouble is on the social front. I can see…
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October 31st, 2010.
Hee! Guess what movie they were doing a special showing of! Sigh – we couldn’t stick around, but we did go to see the Guardians of Ga’Houl – or whatever it’s called – you know, the Owl Movie? In Pittsburgh the ticket prices are ALMOST so cheap that if… (does math) I took 5 people…
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October 22nd, 2010.
I’m jealous to get the text from home: “Rowan’s here! He’s baking apple pie!” My housemate Amy has apparently returned home with many a self-picked apple and Rowan has traded his exquisite baking labours for part of the haul. Among his many self-taught skills, his affinity for all things oven is probably the second-most popular.…
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October 15th, 2010.
The sun is setting behind us on a perfect day topped with a perfect sky. The backs of 18-wheelers ignite with reflected incandescence and the beautiful autumn colours of trees on these Illinois plains are a beautiful contrast to the sharp shadows. Cast long and strong, the fingers of tonight are reaching and meeting and…
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October 14th, 2020.
This is a working tour. I mean, they’re all working tours, REALLY, but there’s been a little less tourism on this one, a little more bam bam bam! And I ain’t talkin’ groupies! It’s very short (just under three weeks) and very compact and pretty lucrative. Ideally this is the way the traveling ought to…
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October 12th, 2010.
Arriving in wonderous Louisville, KY, our first action is to race to Lynn’s Paradise Cafe for a delicious dinner. Damn but we treat ourselves well. Beautiful sunset, delicious meatloaf, then off to the Troubadours of Divine Bliss and Church on the Rocks. We’re on I-70 in Indiana stuck behind a cow truck. We could get…
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October 10th, 2010.
After arriving in Findlay, OH we went for a wandering to kill some time before our show at Coffee Amici. We encountered ground fish…. My eyes and brain just don’t want to wake up. Too much sunshine I guess. We’re passing through Dayton, OH – a town that I think we’ve not played in since the…
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October 9th, 2010.
Heh – it’s good to be reminded that our friends are out and about and getting work. We ran across just such a reminder about Dave Pahanish (not that we need it, his tunes are on the radio all the time!) in a truck stop in Pennsylvania. It took the Love of a good woman…