2022
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July 9th, 2022. Trickle.
Last night i wanted to get out and DO something so I went over to the Sky Stage open mic run by FAME (Frederick Acoustic Music Enterprise) in Frederick, MD. T’was a wonderful night. Well, I’m gonna miss Snally Fest, but I think I’m pretty glad that it exists! I’m not accomplishing very much right…
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July 7th, 2022. Boom.
I’d thought to myself the other day that I hadn’t been taking many pictures of Prince. Voila. Rectified. Hello Thursday. You’re in danger of being relatively calm. What a beautiful feeling. I’ve been stressed, waking up with a panic deep in my chest, for days every waking’s felt like I was leaping out of a…
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July 3rd, 2022. Hawt open mic night.
This eventually filled up, and the one person on the list now didn’t show. Sunday was a beautiful night, and though it was hot, it wasn’t brutal. Unlike last week, which where we spent our time watching the skies and worrying about the incoming rains, tonight it was clear and blue and… yeah… pretty damned…
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June 26th, 2022. Beat the rain.
Dave Benham joins Kristen and I as we kick off the night. Kevin Schoch kicking off the list at the open mic. Oh man. It was way too hot. Right up until it wasn’t. Had to ask Steve Hung to come back next week so we could break down and get out from under the…
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A Fine Summer Day.
A fine summer dayFor picking fruit and consequenceA fine summer daySun shining down on swollen lipsA fine secret wayA muddy trip down to the riverbankA quiet angry dayDirt on my thighs and down my back Driving down to TexasIt’s where I learned to Live againThe road gave me religionOr at least some faith in my…
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June 21st, 2022. WHY DOES IT HAVE HANDS?!?!?!
Yesterday we rolled up to Delaware to play the above series. I wish we actually WERE playing at the tower. That’d be pretty freakin’ cool. That’s our friends the Honey Badgers on the billboard. Just a beautiful day in the park. Weird dreams last night. I’m not really reassembling them very well. After such an…
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June 20th, 2022. Slow movin’.
That Other Rob kicking things off at the Ellicott City Open Air Open Mic. A number of my Sandy Spring peeps are beginning to find me out here. I was expecting a slow day because of Father’s Day, and maybe a contentious day, because of Juneteenth – but it was actually a perfect day. Roisin…
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June 18th, 2022. The Best Day.
Don’t mind me. Just having a good sock day. Squid and Yoda day. Friday I got up and drove down to Sandy Spring Museum to help them with a video project for their Digital Folklife Lab. My socks, alas, were not part of the project. The weather was a bit rough this week. Too hot.…
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June 15th, 2022. I wish you were smarter.
This is a totally unrelated image solely included to lighten this post. I get the idea that the Democrats want to demonize the gas companies for “gouging” but I think that if you want to have progressive environmental policies driven through Capitalist mechanisms, the way you reduce demand is to increase price. The way you…
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June 13th, 2022. Haven’t we been here before?
Setting up for Live from the Lair (from the Living room) on Wednesday June 8th. It was just getting waaaay too hot in the basement for guests! SONiA disappear fear playing Live from the Lair. This week’s been a back and forth, kind of frenetic, followed by hurry-up-and-wait kind of week. I’ve had them before.…