Archive for January, 2004

Gambling

Friday, January 16th, 2004

It’s the coldest night of the year, and I just got back from the bi-weekly poker game I play in, with friends. As we were suiting up to leave, I had a quick phone call with a friend who’s a professional musician, out in LA doing auditions. It struck me, in the […]

lyrics in the cold

Thursday, January 15th, 2004

Just came back from seeing Peter Mulvey with the other guys from my band… or more precisely, Jeff and Glen. corwin was struck down by a sinus infection
cum
cold, thus preserving the longstanding tradition of us being utterly unable to all attend a musical event we’re not playing at.
Peter was great, as usual, though […]

Lord of the Pots and Pans

Wednesday, January 14th, 2004

woke up from a dream with a Lord of the Rings tone to it. I was an older hobbit, perhaps Bilbo, peripheral to the climax of the story, and I was being safeguarded by … an eagle, I think? a hot air balloon?
As the people at the center of the story moved […]

aftermath

Wednesday, January 7th, 2004

One should not need to deal with constipated mailservers after drinking smoking bishop. Having to do so may actually disprove the existence of a just and kind God.
In other news, a gentleman from Fedex, shivering a little in the arctic blasts which descended on Philadelphia today, just delivered my car’s title to me. […]

post-party zen

Wednesday, January 7th, 2004

Just finished cleaning up from the mellowest 12-night party I’ve thrown. Didn’t get invitations out until the last minute, as we were in Arizona and also a state of Lame, but we still had 9 people show up: our two upstairs neighbors and a number of friends of Kate’s from nursing school and beyond. […]