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Whee Festivus

Forgive me My Gentle Readers for I have sinned. It’s been three days since my last confession, that’s two days too long. Staying at home is not a good enough excuse, my body might be sessile, but my mind always wanders. My body wandered today, I had to pick up a prescription. That was sufficient […]

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Happy Birthday Jesus

Merry Christmas. I’m not planning much for Christmas, much meaning anything. I will probably see Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker by myself. If I find I can be productive recording for Folk Music Notebook, I’ll do that; it needs to be done. I did record one segment yesterday. I found it far easier being […]

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The Carol of the Village

Last night I went Christmas caroling with Terre Roche and friends, both Terre’s and mine. This is a highlight of every year and this year is no exception. Terre has been doing this every year since 1978 or so. I started in 1990, took a break when I lost touch with Terre and didn’t know […]

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The Song of the Sirens

Instead of making excuses I’m writing before 10 AM; to what do we owe this miracle? I have no idea. I’d much rather be intellectually honest and admit my ignorance than make up a theory out of whole cloth. I had a choice of five concerts to attend last night. None were on my calendar […]

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A Heather Pierson Christmas

No excuses for writing late today. I even have something easy to write about. I’m just a champ at procrastination. I’ll have to write about that. Some day. Not now. Not tomorrow. But one day I’ll get around to it. Yeah. Last night I headed up to Common Ground Coffeehouse to see The Heather Pierson […]

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Christmas Eve with a Side of Soy

I gotta late start today, I got out of bed at 1PM. I didn’t wake up on Christmas morning hours before the winter’s sun’s ignited; but I do believe in dreams and all they mean including heaven’s generosity. I know what day it is. Last you heard I was heading out to spend an exciting […]

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Twas the Day Before Christmas

It’s now clear that I made a mistake last night; I didn’t go to see Sophie Buskin at Rockwood Music Hall. Usually I know enough to override the depression feedback loop. It wasn’t like on Friday when I was out all day and wanted to rest. I didn’t leave the house yesterday and I have […]

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My Arch Tradition

Last night I went to one of my favorite annual traditions, caroling with the Terre Roche and the Caroling Carolers. There were two first yesterdays, the first time in 45 years of the CCs caroling that it rained, and the first time since I friended Terre Roche on Facebook and once again started going every […]

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Maria Christmas and Pesky New Year

I was too busy to write yesterday, that means I have a lot of catching up to do. Will I succeed? Will I have the energy to get up and find the program that would help me write about yesterday? These pages will tell. On Saturday night I trekked down to the Brooklyn Music Shop […]

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“Gordon is Perfect”

Festivus is officially here, I went to my first holiday show, Robinson & Rohe’s Longest Winter. This is a tradition, I see it at least once every year. This time it was at the Common Ground Coffeehouse. How much is this a home game? When sound check was over Jean said, “Are you doing merch. […]