July 2020
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July 29th, 2020. The Nerd Set.
Many years ago we did an amazing job on a very cool album. It was the first one where Heather was truly a PARTNER on the whole thing and it was named after the fifth circle of Hell, which seemed quite appropriate at the time. A couple of weeks ago Heather had a GENIUS idea…
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July 27th, 2020. A moist day.
Well, this sucks. The bottom of our hot water heater rusted out this morning. Fortunately our land lord is ON it and we had a new water heater within 12 hours. UNfortunately I hear the new ones probably don’t last 20 years (and 6 months) generally but on the other hand… it’s not our problem…
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July 24th, 2020. A beautiful day.
Kristen and I went on a walk and it didn’t take long to realize we were in the midst of light like we’d never seen before. Then we ran across the block and bugged Amy and Nate because I was pretty sure THEY’D never seen light like this either. I was right. We got downright…
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July 22nd, 2020. Live from the Lair from the Porch from the Spare Oom.
Tonight was kind of a chill night. I mean, plus or minus everything getting cut short when lightning knocked us offline, but that meant an early night and kind of a chipper joy. It’s got me thinking about doing a webcast by candle light, just a really relaxed thing. Have to put my brain meats…
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July 20th, 2020. A letter to whom it may concern.
(written to Baltimore’s Mayor, forwarded to our council members and representatives – it probably won’t go anywhere, but it made me feel better for writing it) As my friend Femi the Drifish sings in his song “BMORE” “I represent Baltimore to inspire, We be more than the wire, Raising children into survivors, With charms inside…
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July 13th, 2020. Wear a damned mask.
Happy Delaware! Going north for our FIRST show that had been booked before Covid that has actually come to pass. That’s some fraught shit. These are now two words that I really, really like together. Fraught shit. 2020 is some fraught shit, and today it feels like nothing will ever be the same again. Look…
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July 12th, 2020. Watch what you eat.
This morning we played a “secular humanist” congregation called Oasis out of Houston, TX. I participated in some of the chat and their speaker for the morning was an “atheist Jew” who’d been doing things like applying to be a notary and then taking a state to court over laws that keep atheists from holding…
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July 11th, 2020. Movin’ right along while standing very still.
Monday night is open mic night. Dave Benham continues to discover longer and longer reverbs. I’ve been having nightmares that aren’t very scary. Night mundanes. In the dreams I’m just puttering along, and in truth I’m probably not even really having narrative dreams – I’m just inserting the “knowledge” that I’m fifty. That Life under…
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July 7th, 2020.
I think I need a vacation. I wish I had some tiny house hidden away in verdant hills, something somewhat difficult to get to, something where you’d worry about getting in our out before the weather changed. Someplace with dappled sunlight near a river – close enough to be heard but just too far to…
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July 4th, 2020.
ilyAIMY is ready for their socially distanced close-up. “The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like – and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It feeds on brain wave energy, absorbing all unconscious frequencies and then excreting telepathically a matrix formed from the conscious frequencies and nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of…