December 2021
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December 31st, 2021. It’s Been A Year!
A rare Kristen post! For the past few years, I’ve been doing an end-of-year photo retrospective on Facebook of the gigs I’ve played that year. It’s a fun way to look back and remind myself that I love my job! This year I thought I’d do this on the Journal to create some off-Facebook content…
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December 26th, 2021. Christmas Christmas.
(please note, this isn’t a warm and fuzzy Christmas post… it’s sort of a weird one… ) Happy Christmas Tree. A tradition stolen from Heather – the annual watching of White Christmas. ilyAIMY pre-Christmas webcast. It’s almost the end of the year of our Calendar’s Lord, 2021. Anal Dominatrix. That’s what it stands for, right?…
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December 20th, 2021. Bored with the board. (but a great night)
12 20 21. That’s just fun. So – at a board meeting last night for a folk organization I’m involved with we spiral into the now monthly conversation about what we’re going to do about COVID, whether audiences are ready to come back, stay back… etc. And there’s a lot of board banter because it’s…
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December 21st, 2021 at the SPRING w PETRICHORD.
Rowan Corbett in the house tonight! His assistance both on and behind the stage soooo welcome! Tis the last in-person open mic of the season and I’m glad of it. Not because I haven’t enjoyed them, but because omicron is kicking up and though I’d LOVE to think “psh, between masks, vaccines, the probability that…
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December 19th, 2021. Idling.
Happy Monday. For a certain value of “happy”. Definitely a set value of “Monday” though. It’s Christmas week. It’s the last week of the Sandy Spring Open Mic till a ways into the New Year. There’s decisions being made. Meetings being met. Emails being writ. Songs being written? Not really. Today started with phone calls…
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December 15th, 2021. Open Mic at the SPRING with Luke Roberts.
Juels Bland is thinkin’ “that’s a lot of people”. Eli Lev. 800,000 people. Eight hundred fucking thousand people. It sometimes doesn’t actually sound like a LOT. We talk about lawsuits in the millions and budgets in the billions and deficits in the trillions. I think for most people all those zeroes lose their meaning, and…
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December 12th, 2021. Last night was the last night.
Waiting outside. Though we’d agreed to a 4.30 load-in, technically the locals weren’t ready to fly into action till there third star had appeared in the sky. Still, we had fun in the parking lot. Last night was exquisite. Hi there audience member, why don’t you scoot a little closer so I can whisper that…
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December 10th, 2021. Doin’ our bestest.
Oh, AND there’s a cream cheese shortage… I know CNN for what it is… certainly not the most centrist of media sites, but I turn to them when I want to get Left-Riled (as opposed to Right-Riled). When I’M having a bad day, I can always turn to them for a couple of other things…
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December 7th, 2021. At the SPRING w Jillian Matundan.
Poor Ellen Smith band kicking things off at the Sandy Spring Museum. My featured artist, Jillian Matundan being charming… As Foretold. Man, I Love this woman. She’s a wonderful player, great writer, and just someone who fills me with joy. I Love being around Jillian, I Love working with her, and rare though it’s been,…
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December 4th, 2021. Flat on my back.
Friday evening we wandered on down to Ellicott City to catch the tree lighting. We totally failed to do so. There was a lot of back and forth, they eventually got the mic working. The little chorus of carolers sounded good… (in hindsight I realize that though they were singing Christmas carols, since they were…