On January 27th, I put the offer out for folks to order up a personalized Valentine song written and recorded by this guy [points at face], and it’s been a super-duper project. My brain and my writing hand need a hibernation nap, but it’s all worked out splendidly and a lot of smooches have ensued as a result. I asked each person to tell me a bit about themselves, their significant...
Read MoreDoe Bay is paradise, so when Bobby Bare, Jr. asked me to tag along and open up for him there in December, it was a quick yes. And when Doe Bay asked me to come back in January to play another show it was an even quicker yes. Bringing the whole band wasn’t gonna work out, so I had planned to do it solo-style, but at the last minute I talked my drummer Tox into packing up his suitcase drum...
Read MoreI got my first computer in 2005 while I was living in a tent in New Orleans. I’d been spending my graveyard nights washing laundry for sewage & water workers, Red Cross volunteers, flood victims, and soldiers. I needed something to do between shifts on the days that I’d lost the race against the sun to sleep before the tent would become a sauna and drifting off was impossible. So...
Read MoreI believe in karma. Granted, bad things happen to good people and even innocent children, so karma isn’t a strict literal system. But I believe it’s in play nonetheless. There’s something powerful about a selfless act that somehow returns to you in a different term. Buddhists call it Karma. Jesus called it reaping what you sow. Tough guys call it “what goes around comes...
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If someone had asked me to sing the national anthem to kick off a sporting event, my quick response would have been “I’m probably not the guy for that”. But when my friend Chelle (AKA Chelle F.U. Up) asked me to sing The Star-Spangled Banner at the opening of their “Sk8full Dead” Roller Derby bout in Albany Oregon in October, I was like… “How do you say...
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