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2019

  • December 30th, 2019. Teavolve’s Last Open Mic of the Year.

    That’s right – YOU’RE NEXT. I frankly still feel a little dazed from an absolutely exhausting but wonderful couple of days celebrating New Year’s Eve and the coming of 2020. Me and Chuck kicking off the night. The “celebration” all started of course about a week ago with Christmas Eve, and since then it’s been…

  • December 29th, 2019. Sunday morning.

    Thursday my cousins threw a surprise birthday party for my Uncle Martin. We successfully surprised him. There was much huddled whispering in the garage. It’s a grey grey Sunday. Rain is drizzling down, light is filtering through, both are reaching the ground in a steady trickle leaving Catonsville blanket in… well a blanket. A vaguely…

  • December 25th, 2019. Christmas Christmas!

    The treee! Christmas is nigh, or just about. All of Christmas Eve I’ve spent alone, puttering, painting, computering. I’ve done laundry and dishes and amused the cat, because goodness knows the seem seems incapable of keeping himself occupied. Kristen has multiple Christmas Eve gigs and won’t be home till 1.30 in the morning and, she…

  • December 23rd, 2019. Teavolve w Anna PS.

    Before the open mic I took some time to walk around the “new” Harbor East. Chuck caught a little behind-the-rob action. Charlie and Christian. Joe Isaacs. Ray Forton. MaryAnn McAllister. Dave Benham… w Chuck the Madd Ox. Featured artist Anna PS. Chuck’s pic of Anna. Chuck the Madd Ox. Jimmy Stewart. Jon Patton. Chuck’s pic…

  • December 22nd, 2019. House Concerts and Christmas. Oh my.

    Heather and Kristen sound checking at the Great Falls Theatrics. Saturday was a very fun house concert in Great Falls, VA. They hosted us the same night as their annual cookie trade and… holy crap…. they’re serious about their cookies. I feel like I should’ve asked a bit more about where their cookie cult hath…

  • December 19th, 2019. Happy Acoustic Thursday!

    The Big Little Band hosting Acoustic Thursday. Ready to smash this. I haven’t been playing as much as I should and part of that is that I just over-extended myself a little while ago. I had a vicious viscous cold that still has my lungs feeling kind of under-powered and during band practice last weekend…

  • December 16th, 2019. Christmas Starts at Teavolve.

    Christmas doesn’t ALWAYS start at Teavolve – but this morning it snowed, and this evening I came in to find that they’d put the tree up! I don’t think they did the tree thing last year, much to my chagrin – so I was pretty joyous at finding a pseudo-conifer on my stage! Snew! Don’t…

  • December 15th, 2019. This week in pictures.

    Wednesday I went down to Silver Spring before picking up Rowan to negotiate with the owner of El Golfo about a new open mic. She’s on board! Let’s do this! Then I went and nabbed Rowan – we’re playing one last time at Gypsy Sally’s tonight before the building’s sold to make way for Georgetown…

  • December 9th, 2019. Teeeavolve.

    Oh dear, by morning Beaker had demonstrated himself undisputed king of the tree, ripping off the Predator’s whip tentacle AND stealing his hat. Well… well, shit. Teavolve. Honestly, it was kind of a mediocre night. Things have been slow recently, and that’s been kind of okay, because it meant that we got more time to…

  • December 7th, 2019. Krampaaaassss.

    I’d been tagged on a Krampus event in Pennsylvania. Kristen, being sharper-eyed, realized there was one happening here in Baltimore and so we wisely went to that one instead. All-in-all, Baltimore could use a bit more Krampus. But First, Some Decorations Around the House. The 2019 Baltimore Krampuslauf! Alas, only one Krampus so far. Creeeeping.…