September 2020
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September 24th, 2020.
My guitar’s been in the shop. Or rather the shoppe. I just picked it up and was pleasantly surprised by the experience. Catonsville has about half a dozen places to BUY musical instruments and almost as many spots that’ll work on them (and I’ve worked with most of them) – but I know that I…
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September 19th, 2020. Oops.
Radicalization and anti-science cult-think has always been around. Whether it’s parents teaching their kids homophobia and racism and religion or it’s the weird kid in the basement publishing zines and spiraling inwards on Nazi propaganda – humans always Love a good conspiracy theory to make sense of the world. But Facebook and YouTube built algorithms…
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September 12th, 2020. I Heard the Hurtling herds.
I’m disappointed in you. All of you. Letting Facebook ruin your Lives. I’m disappointed in me. Whether it’s chasing body image and FOMO or the spectacular devolution of critical thinking skills, the glorious mob mentality of group-think as people cluster together in siloed nonsense forwarding and reforwarding recirculated and stagnant conspiracy theories. I’m just disappointed.…
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September 21st, 2020. Oh What a Dream I Had.
Last night was difficult. First was the cricket. Then the owl. Actually, I’m unclear as to which came first. The cricket or the owl. But then there was the Cockney Rhyming Slang AI. I dreamt that Heather and I had discovered that many of the events of 2020 were hinted at by strange nonsensical phrases.…
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September 13th & 20th, 2020. The Takoma Park Folk Festival.
Many thanks to Gordon Nimmo-Smith who edited the videos of the newly recorded footage, and to Robin Stearn, the festival Chair who pushed us to make it all happen. Below is what I’ve been working on for a LOT of the last several months. Part 1 aired on September 13th, part 2 aired on the…
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Sept. 20, 2020 – All My Friends Are Pen Pals
It used to be when someone moved to a new state, I could promise a visit sooner than any other friend could make it out, touring as I do. One time, I made good only three days after they put the cross-country drive in park. I had comp tickets waiting for them at will call…
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September 18th, 2020. I’m catching up.
Today I bought donuts and tequila. And met with Focus Music and wrapped up loose ends for four upcoming shows. And wrapped the render for the last part (of my parts) of Takoma Park Folk Festival. And finished the script. And worked on IMT stuff and a lot ilyAIMY stuff. I caught up on emails…
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Sept. 16-17, 2020 – A Seed Is Its Own Energy Source
Self Portrait with quarantine pepper plants 50° mornings. The back porch shaded until well after noon. I keep migrating the peppers, still bearing so many hopefuls, looking for any spot that escaped the sun’s sudden cold shoulder. Before I grew things, I loved the fall. The season of my birth. Now I’m begging everything to…
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Sept. 15, 2020 – Heather Speaks
The first chilly morning comes today, like a bell that cannot be unrung. 8 a.m., I wrap myself in a blanket and take my homemade espresso onto the back porch, still green with my box gardening. Both these hobbies are less than half a year old. Something to busy my hands. I also know the…
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September 13th, 2020. Mostly a Good Day.
Yeah, there it is! The Takoma Park Folk Festival! Yesterday, by all accounts, was a really good day. I feel bad waking up feeling bad. Exhausting day, it’s true, but good gig, good festival. But there were some negatives that maybe wormed their way into my psyche a bit more than I thought they had.…