March 2011
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March 23rd, 2011.
More wandering in Louisville, KY… Chalk Art is great. Especially when it depicts Godzilla eating Lil Tokyo and then shitting it out in the shadow of the ex-Ear-X-Tacy in Louisville, KY. Hee! Any cafe that has pictures of people hugging octopuses… or perhaps being devoured by them, is a winner in MY book! Well, not QUITE…
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March 20th, 2011.
Heather playing at Columbus Bar in Columbus, IN. T’was a marvelous night out in Columbus, IN though our crowds there seem to be dwindling. What is it? My beauty is wearing thin? Still, got some great recordings and I’m eager to mix more of them down and see what I’ve caught! It’s been a poor…
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March 19th, 2011.
Ohio stretches out before us forever. It often does. Unlike the stretches of the interstates that barrel through unpunctuated farmland, here we’re on a “small” road that still demands speeds of 55mph passing hundreds and hundreds of small homes and small towns and barns, both upright and in various states of decomposition. Trailer parks and…
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March 18th, 2011.
Greetings from Columbus, OH. Yes. I’m sitting at a table at a friend’s house and beneath that table he is brewing beer. It goes burrrrrup. And sometimes it goes glooooop. And overall it sounds like a large mammal is under the table slowly digesting a slightly smaller mammal, the latter having given the former some…
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March 16th, 2011.
It’s strangely ironic that we’ve not only come all this way to meet the booking agents for the college five minutes down the road from Heather’s apartment – but also that these bathroom doors have traveled almost the same distance when everyone knows that Pennsylvania has the wonderful bathroom stall building company Heiny Hiders right…
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May 13th, 2011.
Photographer Kitty Charlton came out with journalist Lauren Fulbright and did a great job documenting our Six Mile Coffee open mic in Catonsville, MD last week. Here’s a link to the full article – http://www.explorebaltimorecounty.com/business/113276/feelin-right-home-six-mile-coffee-open-mic/ Today was a sleep-in day. Much appreciated. Much needed. Last weekend was very full, and the week didn’t provide much respite…
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March 12th, 2011.
The Delaware Water Gap, PAThe water is high and there’s snow dusting down from the black sky. We just passed a sign that said “ramp flooded” and I’m hoping that there are no such barriers betwixt us and our beds tonight. OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Heather and I have collected lots of bits and pieces to…
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March 12th, 2011.
Scranton, PAWe’re driving home from what we both THINK has been a really, really successful weekend. We won’t know for certain till we start getting the contracts squared away, but if everything we talked about at the festival pans out, we might well see about a dozen + bookings out of it, paying ten-fold on…
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March 11th, 2011.
We’ve just passed a bright yellow 18-wheeler that advertises “Alexis’ Lemonade Stand”. I wonder if that was TRULY a semi filled to the brim with lemons and sugar. I sure hope it was. We’re on our way to the National Association of College Activities Mid-Atlantic Festival and I’m just about as nervous as I can…
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March 4th, 2011.
Owings Mills, MDNightmares. My brain is swimming in them and I woke up sweating like I haven’t done in… I don’t remember. Somehow my oh-so-common nightmares had faded away without my noticing, but this morning I swim back to consciousness thrashing all the way. At the very last Java Mammas open mic, on Thursday, March…