September 2023


  • September 29th, 2023. Getting Screwed.

    I took no photos today. But there’s always pictures of Prince… Wise woman. An object at rest tends to stay at rest. Especially if there’s a cat. It’s a misty, cold / warm / hot mess of a Friday. Helping my mother get to a out-patient surgery appointment to have screws removed from her wrist.…

  • September 26th, 2023. The Spark with Slava and Alexey and Nik.

    We do this every Tuesday. Signup before 7. I start at 7. 7112 Willow Ave. in Takoma Park, MD. robsopenmics.ilyaimy.com for more information. Tonight w featured artists Slava Zonova & Alexey Brazhnikov! Alexey and Slava will bring their ancient traditional music to the stage and the tunes they wrote. They will play guitar, balalaika, gusli,…

  • September 22nd, 2023. American Legions.

    Thank you Kristen for writing us a setlist so we don’t devolve into chaos. Also, this is the first time we’re playing here sans drums, so we wanted to have some fore thought put into energy levels… I’m not sure what her thinking was with making a rob ghost here… but send me Demi Moore…

  • September 21st, 2023. Morsbergers and More.

    Live from the Lair with Jimmy Stewart and Christian Alfonso : Quiet the Mountain. We do this every Thursday night at Morsbergers at 713 Frederick Rd, Catonsville, MD, 21228. Well, not ALL of this. This is kinda a combo-post. But for Thursdays : Signup at 6.30, music at 7pm. Enter through the back at the…

  • September 19th, 2023. The SPARK w Influxus.

    Influxus at the Takoma Spark. We do this every Tuesday. Signup before 7. I start at 7. 7112 Willow Ave. in Takoma Park, MD. robsopenmics.ilyaimy.com for more information. Tonight w featured artist Influxus! “Influxus is a duo of veteran musicians who bring together the charm and subtle tones of Scottish smallpipes and the foot-tapping thump…

  • September 18th, 2023. Crunch.

    Juno don’t care WHO feeds her as long as it happens! Prince would like to know more… … and I’m trying to find out more…I’d LIKE to say I’ve been very productive, what with Kristen down in Georgia visiting her dad and me having nothing to do around the house except clean the Hell out…

  • September 12th, 2023. The SPARK w Greg Klyma.

    Things HAD been going okay – and then Prince decided that my chair was his and now EVERY morning we do battle… We do this every Tuesday. Signup before 7. I start at 7. 7112 Willow Ave. in Takoma Park, MD. robsopenmics.ilyaimy.com for more information. Tonight w featured artist Greg Klyma! Greg Klyma’s probably one…

  • September 10th, 2023. Close the Door.

    Happy birthday Zoom to my nephew in Brussels! Okay, sometimes it’s WORTH it when the website’s links don’t work… It’s a grey day, much greyer than you might think, and I’m eyeballing the calendar and grateful for the upcoming downtime (“downtime” meaning that through the end of the month I’m “just” running 6 open mics,…

  • September 7th, 2023. Morsbergers.

    We do this every Thursday night at Morsbergers at 713 Frederick Rd, Catonsville, MD, 21228. Signup at 6.30, music at 7pm. Enter through the back at the LARGER of the two doors! (the other entrances are straight to the bar side and they may or may not immediately point you unto the music side!) Woe…

  • September 6th, 2023. Oh noes.

    I was thinking about lessons taught and lessons learned. One of which is that if one’s going to put something out there on Facebook as divisive as “what happened to me that one time in high school” there’d be a vast amount of responses that had little to do with what *I* thought I was…