11. bigger surprise.
This wasn’t in the dinner plans for tonight, but it’s what we’re having anyway. I’ll explain later.
This wasn’t in the dinner plans for tonight, but it’s what we’re having anyway. I’ll explain later.
I love me some Fourth of July. This is the first time in three years we’ve been able to come back to Columbus for the holiday, and it’s almost silly how excited I am about it. We start early, with the parade — a fixture of the suburb where I grew up. We have a… Read More 3. hot.
And now, a break from food-related posts for a brief message: I FOUND A COPY OF THE WAITS SHOW IN COLUMBUS! WHOOOOOOO! We now return you to your regularly scheduled program. Thank you.
There’s something exhilarating about watching a musician who is absolutely fearless. Tom Waits songs are largely about people existing on the fringes — the losers, the freaks, the people struggling to make it — largely out of sight to most of the people they pass on the sidewalk each day. That’s where Waits’ music exists… Read More the ghost bird sings.
Leaving for Columbus. Going to spend the evening with Mr. Waits. I’ll be sure to tell you how it goes.
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.