I spoke too soon

Yeah, the laptop is entirely dead. It was running on batteries. It won’t charge back up; something in the power plug area is broken as well. That tears it. It’s too old and there’s too much wrong with it to have it repaired, so…. I have to buy a new one. Or, I get to buy a [...]

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Price structure

Pizza I ate between shows today? $9 CDs I ordered over the internet yesterday? $70 Being in the pit during the show and seeing Carolyn (the reed player) whip out an Muppets ‘Animal’ puppet and lip sync Abigail Adams’ motivational speech right before the vote at the end of 1776? Priceless.

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Back in the Saddle …I mean, Pit… Again

Well, here I am in the pit. The new delegate from Georgia has just arrived above me and is being grilled about his position on ‘independency’. He’s playing it very close to the vest. I don’t know… this whole ‘independency’ thing sounds like a bad idea. We’ll see how it turns out, I guess. ———————- In [...]

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Sunday, Rainy Sunday.

I’m here again, in the pit at Olney Theater, waiting to do the fifth show of 1776 this weekend. Still sick. I get to rest tomorrow so that’s good. It’s been raining all day. During the matinee there were moments when the noise from the deluge hitting the roof was almost as loud coming through the monitors [...]

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Thomas Dolby Remixes Radiohead’s “Nude”

 

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Juuuust perfect.

Well,  yesterday I babysat both sets of kids, Fishygirl’s and my friend Chris’s. Then I went and played a show. Somewhere along the line I was exposed to the common cold. Probably by the kids. None of them were sick though, but, the little dears being the germ farms that they are, I’m sure that’s [...]

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Live theater, folks

Just spent 10 or 15 minutes waiting for them to fix a curtain or set backdrop or something that was supposed to lower but didn’t. They had to stop the show and fix it. Fun fun fun. Now we’ll surely be here til 11:30, which is all the more annoying because I got an Amazon.com [...]

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Score!

Went to Best Buy to get some DVD-R DLs, I was out of ’em, and lo and behold, what do I see, but 22″ LCD monitors on sale for $239. They’re “HANNSpree”, and they only do analog ins, but that’s quite good enough for my purposes. Neither has a single dead pixel. My music software looks great on [...]

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1776, OpenID, and those @#%&*! Smilers.

Well, It’s Monday afternoon, and I’m sitting in the cave, still in the ol’ PJs (well, the bottoms, anyway, with the Yes tee shirt I wore yesterday.) Checked some email, read a few news items from CNN online, you know the drill. The run went reasonably well last night… I think I’ve finally got a [...]

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