It’s not for the reason(s) you might think. There isn’t any hardcore drama involved, at least not on my end. But frankly I feel besieged, beleaguerd… we’re way beyond the limits of mastication here. Every lesson I have with Dr Filip feels like I’m wasting his time. I don’t have the chops, I’m not as […]
I don’t remember anything about the ride to the airport or the flights themselves except I had the middle seat and slept soundly from takeoff to landing both times. I’m sure the folks next to me were each a captive audience to my pharmaceutically enhanced snores, but I truly needed the sleep and was happy […]
Hah. He actually gave them to me, he just doesn’t remember. I’m sitting at the computer in the old Malvern house, surrounded by half-packt boxes and crates, unable to sleep due to some counterintuitive effect of the benzodiazepine. I simply don’t care that I’m tired. My flight leaves Nashville in a few hours; Mom is […]
Okay—somehow—between our show on Friday night and today, Jordan—without his car—has found his way to Chicago’s Near West Side and an encampment of hackers there. Anarchist hackers, no less. (Doesn’t this sound like the beginning of The Matrix?) He says it’s led by the founders of hackthissite.org, which doesn’t mean a thing to me, but […]
Woke up this morning to my cell phone ringing, it’s my mom telling me her former mother-in-law died yesterday evening. Weird that my dad wasn’t the one to tell me; then again he’s never been good at communicating heavy stuff like this long-distance. I sort of knew it: I felt it as we drove to […]
So I’ve been taskt with filling you in on some of the background details for August Fools like how Jude and Ceejay and I wound up playing together. But first let me clarify—I do not have hypergraphia and I don’t spend all day compulsively writing things down, that’s just what Jude says because of my […]