2020
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November 29th, 2020. Positives and Negatives.
This photo’s a bit of catchup. Heather and I performing Live in the streets of Bethesda, MD as part of their Streetery Shows. Even though it was a LOT of fun to play out, and dinner was delicious, and the organizers got me a LOT of coffee – AND I got to use my wireless…
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November 27th, 2020. In post I’d like to thank…
The fact that I didn’t see a lot of self-righteous “you’re a horrible person for celebrating Thanksgiving posts….* Yeah, we took Christmas back YEARS ago. Yup, I get it. The world’s a terrible place and a lot of what’s whitewashed and celebrated in the Hallmarked up, Wikipedia-defined, grade school group project version of “what we…
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November 26th, 2020. Today I’m thankful for…
Kristen Jones hath generated a magnificent feast. Happy Thanksgiving my friends. We Love you and We Miss You indeed – and just as a quick, kind of cliché post – I want to say I’m so very thankful that so far COVID hasn’t struck too close to home: that though a number of friends have…
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November 24, 2020. Let’s Get Pinned
Today was the fourth Pancake Tuesday. In spring and summer, finding at least one four-leaf clover a day – about 300 altogether – marked the time. Now it’s pancakes. I have made 30 pancakes so far, 7-10 each time. By the end of a virtual school year, I will have made at least 240 pancakes.…
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Happy 19 Years Heather Aubrey Lloyd!
Monday night Heather joined my open mic. It was really nice to have her hanging out brightening the Zoom room. A friend wrote the following… Dear rob and Heather, Belated happy 19 years to your partnership. Listening to your anniversary show filled me with memories of when I first moved to NC; strange to think…
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November 3, 2020. Election Day Nightmares.
This actually won’t be a political post. I actually had nightmares last night. Apolitical nightmares. I know, I know. Shock. Two dreams. The first one, I think I was Living with one of the women who was a regular at my Reisterstown Open Mic. Kyndal was long and tall and thin and often wore big…
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October 31st, 2020. The House of Musical Traditions.
Yesterday we played the first show at the Stage of Musical Traditions and as I back away and look at it all, this sure seems like what Dave Eisner meant all along. HMT has occupied a couple of spaces and when he moved to this space about a decade ago he really was in Love…
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November 1st, 2020. And now… the rest of the Story.
Today in the mailing list I had the following to say…. below I’m also going to think a little further on that because of COURSE I have further thoughts… but it’s not what I’m going to shove at you unsolicited (in the mailing list). So, I’m not going to tell you HOW to vote. I’m…
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October 29th, 2020. Rain rain rain.
I Love the sound of the rain. I always have. I Love the feel of it. It’s an all over reminder that you’re covered in skin. A thorough reminder of the physicality of the world around you that also drapes things in mists, hiding the streets around you while muting light yet somehow heightening colour.…
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October 22nd, 2020. Politics as usual.
I hate politics, I truly do. Because I genuinely believe that you’ve got a bunch of people who have come to the conclusion that theirs is the only way forward and that the only way to insure that THEIR way forward is used is by staying in power and so therefore absolutely anything is legit…