This just showed up in my inbox: Phish To Play Three Concerts Phish returns to the stage for three concerts at the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia on March 6, 7 and 8, 2009. A limited number of tickets are available directly through Phish Tickets’ online ticketing system at http://phish.portals.musictoday.com/. The ticketing request period is… Read More see you in virginia.
That’s all you really have to do. Click. Prompted by a visit to the site in August, my friend and softball compatriot BBM has pledged to donate her blog’s ad revenues from September to the fund that will help pay for a permanent memorial in Shanksville, where Flight 93 came down on 9/11. Her ad… Read More click.
I found bad haiku to be a good way to sum up a weekend last May. Since I’ve been absent for a couple of weeks, I hope this new round of bad haiku will make it up to you: October starts soon Leaves change, Halloween, birthdays Best month of the year — Chad Hermann quits… Read More summary II.
I’m not suicidal over the Southern Cal game. I’ve just been very busy. How busy? I’m in a motel in Harrisburg, getting a little work done the night before I cover a meeting of the state board of education. It’s not all bad — when I pulled into the HoJo parking lot tonight, I was… Read More hello.
For the past couple days, I’ve been enjoying my copy of the newest Grateful Dead Road Trips series, this one taken from shows played in the Summer of 1971. Deadheads haven’t had much of an opportunity to enjoy soundboard recordings of that stretch until fairly recently, because they had been “lost.” But not really. They’re… Read More history. and a houseboat.
Other than the actual date of the solstice, I don’t really have a regular point that marks the start of the summer. But: 90 degrees outside. The air conditioner installed and running. The fridge is stocked with Oberon. moe. opens the Arts Festival tonight. Yeah. Summer’s here.
Uncle Crappy 