No post today, gang. I have to work a double shift.
The Agency needs me to cover another shift this evening with the retired Minister and his lovely wife and cat.
So I’m going to rest a little here before heading into town to see my favorite 95-year-old Japanese man and get the day underway.
Have a great Saturday, wherever you are in the world! I’ll be back tomorrow. See ya! ☃️❄️💖
Although my supervisor is stopping over at my favorite 95-year-old Japanese man’s house today, so I might change my outfit before I head to town.
Not sure.
(My supervisor is dropping in for a quick Q&A, as she tries to gather info in order to prepare the caregiver who’s going to replace me while I’m on vacation next week, about how to try to take care of him without being tossed out of the house. Good luck with that.) (I mean it.)
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Before I forget!!!!
Sandra posted this to her Instagram account last night! One of her new publicity photos:
NO! She does not wear a wig!! Oops. I meant to say, she does not wear an inexpensive wig. She does indeed wear more wigs than you can possibly imagine, but generally, just one wig at a time.
But seriously, though. Doesn’t she look fantastic? I just love this photo.
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Okay.
Time is sort of “of the essence” for this one, gang.
If you want to send me this NEW Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Valentine, you still have time to get it to me by Valentine’s Day! If you hurry! (It is only about 20 bucks for a postcard, but it comes with a few other things… You can keep the other things and give them to someone else that you really care about a lot. I only want the postcard.) (Thanking you in advance!!) (Buy it HERE!)
(I would have said “other” affordable gifts (above), because “more” affordable gifts sounds like they have a selection of gifts that you can actually afford…)
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All righty!
Here’s this!
Keith, with either big hair or a low ceiling, or perhaps both!
And, as always!!
Keith, giving us good advice!! (FYI, gang, if Keith is doing anything, don’t try it at home…)
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And here’s this.
I used to love every photo from this photo shoot, gang, back when I was 12 (the photo shoot took place in 1967, though), but I never saw a photo from that shoot that was in color. Only B&W.
I don’t know if this is colorized, or what. But here’s Brian Jones, in color, in 1967:
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Okay. Well. Yesterday was great.
The guys at the Honda dealership looked over my Honda Civic Sport and recommended two things, both of which I had them do, and wow, was my car driving like a breeze when I left there, gang.
The car is only a year and a half old, so I wasn’t expecting there to be such a noticeable difference, but there was. (They changed the air filter and did some type of fuel injection thingie.)
Then I met my Q-following girlfriend from town over at Panera and we had a very nice lunch.
However. Wow, even though the food was good it was really salty. When I got home late yesterday afternoon, I couldn’t get enough water. So I’m thinking I won’t be going back there.
(Tequilaville here we come…)
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I am so excited about next week, gang, and getting 8 days to myself to work on the many projects I have going on!
Primarily the TV project at this point. But I am also eager to have that phone call regarding getting all my eBooks reformatted and back online.
This is the company I’m speaking to:
Technica Editorial Services, in case you’re interested:
“Technica Editorial is a full-service peer-review management and author support company. Our expert services include peer review management, copyediting, full production services, and submission systems support.”
I did have a brief email exchange with Draft2Digital the other day, and I got the FULL guidelines on what is and isn’t distributable for erotica these days, worldwide, and honestly gang, I just don’t think my books are as “nonconsensual” as it lists in the guidelines.
I think I just need to be extremely specific about what’s in my stories and what’s not.
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Okay.
Phil is allegedly doing a live tonight at 8PM Eastern time. He is allegedly going to have intel and not just stuff about his new AI project. Check here later to confirm.
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And as we speak!!
The first photos from tonight’s show in Melbourne!!
And I think these photos are from Brisbane but maybe from Sydney:
Tomorrow’s show in Melbourne is sold out. Sunday’s show still has tickets. You can buy them HERE.
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And now I’m gonna scoot!
Have a great Friday, wherever you are in the world.
Thanks for visiting!
I love you guys. See ya!
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And let’s close with this today!
Oddly enough, this song came on the Oldies FM radio station on my retro boombox next to my bed, just as I turned it on this morning.
My first true hero from my wee bonny girlhood! (Yes! He fought for just about everything. And — Yes! They murdered him… Lesson learned.)
“Imagine,” John Lennon, 1971. Enjoy, gang.
So. It’s my day off, but I have to take my beloved (leased) Honda Civic Sport into town today for that yearly “let’s look it over and see how we can possibly make this fantastic car even better at almost no cost to you!!”
BUT!!!
After that’s done, my favorite Q-following friend in town and I are meeting for lunch! Yay!!
Nope.
We’re not going to Tequilaville.
This time, we’re going to Panera!!
And to this specific one! Because it’s very close to not only her house, but also the Honda dealership.
Recently, a client sent me out to pick her up some soups and sandwiches from this specific Panera. I hadn’t been to Panera in many years. Just walking in the door filled me with great memories of the one that used to be just down the street from my old house.
So I texted my favorite Q-following friend and asked her if she wanted to meet at Panera’s and she was all for it!!
So, even though it will be, literally, 17 degrees Fahrenheit out there, she still wants to meet for lunch, so it should be great fun!
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Okay.
The bad news first, gang.
Sadly, Phyllis Stein posted yesterday, that she was likely done posting to Instagram:
She’s only posted close to 6,000 posts, and usually each post contains several photos. All of them from her 70s & 80s glam/punk days. Mostly in NYC.
I’m not exactly sure why she thinks that’s enough.
She’s probably going to do something lame, like spend more time with her new grandbaby. Be here now, and let go of the past. Something weird like that.
I was, of course, heartbroken. But on we go.
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Meanwhile–
She posted this early yesterday.
David Johansen and his then-wife Cyrinda Foxe (they married for almost a year in 1977, when she left David to marry Steven Tyler, lead singer for Aerosmith):
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And here’s this!!
Honestly. I could look at this photo all day. I just love it.
Keith, smoking and looking pensive:
And this!
Keith, a handful of decades later, on a boat, wearing a Velvet Underground t-shirt!!
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A friend of mine in London — a writer, poet, archivist, biographer — Rehan Qayoom, tagged me on Instagram yesterday with this lovely image!!
He had recently read the book and had very kind words to say:
(By the way, Freak Parade is only available in print right now. Until I fix everything and all the eBooks come back.)
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Okay. So.
Some really good news!!
From NewstreasonChannel17 — all about the Trump Accounts!! Launching this July 4th!!
“Listen very closely. Listen to just how much money is being donated by private individuals and companies to the Trump Account initiative.
“IMHO this is not just “benevolent” charity, this is the direction of massive amounts of assets to be given to this program.
‘When Trump Accounts officially launch on July 4th of this year, every parent will be able to activate their accounts and access the funds at TrumpAccounts.gov … On that glorious day, we also expect to have commitments from generous private individuals in ALL 50 states who will be making additional contributions for children in their own states.‘”
What a fantastic thing, gang. NESARA (publicly) begins.
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And here’s this!
A couple of photos from the Brisbane show:
The Melbourne shows start tomorrow, but only Sunday’s show still has tickets. You can buy one HERE!
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Okay.
This is excerpted from the James Tabor Zoom meeting that I missed on Sunday, but we can all listen now together!
James Tabor – Is There Archaeological Evidence for Earliest Christianity? (2 hrs):
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And now I gotta try to pay some bills before I have to leave for town.
Honestly, it is such a pretty day out there, even though it’s really cold. I’m looking forward to getting out there and having some fun with my gf!!
Enjoy your Thursday, wherever you are in the world!
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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I leave you with this!
From my playlist yeterday!
Yes! I honestly listen to this stuff. I just love the old Rudy Vallee songs. (Just listen to the opening of this number and tell me it doesn’t make you feel like dancing all over the room, even while driving your car!)
“Page Miss Glory”, Rudy Vallee, 1935!! Enjoy, gang.
Honestly, gang. I can’t tell you how effective that stuff is for me.
After taking the L-Theanine before leaving the house, I had a perfectly great day yesterday, even while driving around town in the 12-degree-Fahrenheit temperatures, the high winds, the ice, the mountains of snow everywhere…
And yes, my client needed me to get groceries yesterday — at THREE different grocery stores. But everything went absolutely great because my stress was totally gone.
He needed stuff like cherry pie and baloney.
HE: “You’re absolutely sure you don’t mind going to the grocery store in this terrible weather?”
ME: “I am absolutely sure that I don’t mind.”
And I honestly didn’t, gang. Because some day, I might be housebound and in my mid-80s, and if for some reason, I’m craving cherry pie and baloney and other stuff in a snow emergency, it would really mean a lot to me if someone were willing to go out and get it.
And that is the truth.
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Okay.
So far, I am not feeling stressed at all today. Even though I know the snow is worse over where my favorite 95-year-old Japanese man lives, I think everything will be manageable.
There have been a lot more traffic accidents out there this morning, but once again, they are almost all over near Columbus. So we are just going to see how it goes.
I did have to re-schedule the carpenter who was supposed to come on Monday and put in the new basement stairs. There is no way his truck and all his supplies are going to be able to get anywhere near my house until the snow melts.
But on we go!
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Okay!
On Tuesday morning, I have a phone chat with a company that specializes in all things to do with eBook formatting, so I hope that goes well.
I only have to reformat FIVE eBooks!
Yes! While developing the TV show.
And getting ready for all the PR work I’ll have to do when the new novel comes out.
And getting stuff ready for the Off-Broadway play stuff.
And getting the stuff ready for “Tell My Bones: The Helen LaFrance Story” to be back as a TV movie and not as a play.
But it needs to be done. And then hopefully these five books can get back into distribution the world over.
The situation with almost all of my online books are a real mess right now because of it, gang: over at Kindle, over at Draft2Digital, over at LULU, and on MarilynsRoomBooks. But it’s all fixable. So on we go.
And don’t forget!!
While you’re waiting for one of my newer books to be available to purchase again, you can always buy the companion coffee mug and look at it until you have the book — for something totally outrageous like $18.60 plus shipping and tax!! (Not joking.)
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Oh and guess what else happened yesterday??
Just as I was getting ready to leave the house, the US Mail lady came up onto my snowy porch with that registered package for me from the lawyers of my dad’s estate!!
There were a lot more of those personal ID -type things in there. But ALSO!!!
Well.
Let’s just say that today, as of right now, and it keeps going higher, gang:
GOLD: $5,274.08 per troy ounce.
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I can’t tell you how great it made me feel, though, gang. I am still trying to process all this stuff between me and my dad, almost daily.
I talk to his spirit, you know?
ME (heavy sigh): “Honestly, was it really that difficult to be my dad?”
ALSO ME: “Don’t answer that.”
(Let’s trot these out again, just for reference!!)
Me, in the summer of 1972!! (I had just turned 12. Which means that a couple weeks prior to this photo, I was only 11. I was already 5-ft 8-inches tall. That’s insane, right?)
Me, a year later, at 13… (I never get tired of this photo. I remember that girl so well.)
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All righty!!
Here’s this!
I tell you, Phyllis Stein does not disappoint, gang!!
Richard Hell, in NYC, 1976:
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And here’s this.
I love Keith in those sunglasses!
The Stones in Milan, Italy, in October, 1967:
Oh!!!!
And I finally found that photo of Keith playing a guitar!!
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And here’s this.
Jack Kerouac was in the Merchant Marines and the Navy during WWII.
And FYI. I’ve been listening to this free audiobook on YouTube the last few nights. It’s also really well done. (There are a lot of parts to this. I’m up to part 5.) The Dharma Bums.
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And here’s this!!
Nick Cave in Sydney on Friday:
And this, from quite a few years before Friday:
Tickets to see Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds in Melbourne on Sunday February 1st are still available. You can buy them HERE. (The first 2 nights are sold out.)
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And I suppose I better get ready now to take that 30-mile drive into town.
At least it’s very sunny today, so that helps. But it’s still way too cold to let Kon Tiki of the Great Outdoors back outside.
She is not happy, gang.
SHE (almost constantly): “What part of ‘the great outdoors’ do you not understand??!!”
Have a wonder-filled Wednesday, wherever you are in the world!!
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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Let’s close with a little insanity!!
Wayne sent me this video late last night.
From Tom Waits’ album, Bad As Me, 2011. “Satisfied”. Hold tight, gang, and enjoy!!
Honestly, gang, if my neighbor hadn’t shoveled out my car yesterday, I don’t know how I would manage to get my car out today.
And with the below zero weather for the rest of the week, I probably would have been stuck here that whole time.
Well, there are tons of car accidents already, out over there in the next county (where I have to drive to), but most of the accidents are at the far end of it, heading into Columbus.
Still, I’m sort of a nervous wreck this morning.
I’m planning on taking L-Theanine before I leave the house, because that usually calms me down without making me sleepy. So here’s hoping that will help.
There’s a very high chance my client today will need me to go out and buy groceries, so I might have to be out & about all day. We shall see.
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Well, okay.
Sly Dunbar died yesterday. (He was a very popular reggae drummer; part of the reggae rhythm section known as Sly & Robbie.) He was 73.
From Keith yesterday:
From Ronnie yesterday:
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And here’s a shot from one of the Bad Seeds’ Sydney shows, but I’m not sure which one:
The Brisbane show is probably going on right now.
The upcoming two nights in Melbourne are sold out. But you can still get tickets to the 3rd night HERE.
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And I think that’s it for today, gang.
I just need to try to calm down and get the heck outta here.
Have a terrific Tuesday, wherever you are in the world!
Stay safe and thanks for visiting!
I love you guys. See ya!
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I’ve been singing this hymn all morning. I tend to sing it automatically when I’m stressed.
Oddly enough, my birth dad told me once that his mom always used to sing this same hymn around the house (whether or not she was stressed), and it made him nuts.
Anyway.
From the Trio — Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris. “Farther Along,” 1987. Enjoy, gang.
I got all bundled up and went out to begin unburying my car.
I took a long-handled broom and basically pushed all the snow from off the top of the car and the hood, but from the wheels down, all the way around, the car was still buried.
But I figured I did the best I could and I’d see if the car would be able to move from its spot tomorrow morning.
I came inside, was taking off my coat and there was a knock on my kitchen door.
And there stood a neighbor guy with a shovel!!! And he asked if I wanted him to shovel out my car!!
ME: “Absolutely!! How much??”
HE: “Nothing. You don’t have to pay me.”
Holy moly, gang. He not only unburied my car, but shoveled my sidewalk from the car up to my kitchen porch. And I asked him again if I could pay him something — he did so much work.
But he smiled and absolutely refused. And now my car is ready for my shift tomorrow. Wow, gang.
In fact, there is so much snow, that it was over Kon Tiki’s head yesterday and she was stranded on the porch of the house across the road from me.
I had to make my way over there (the snow was higher than my snow boots, so that was fun!), and pick her up and carefully carry her home.
And since there will be temperatures around -25 degrees Fahrenheit the next couple of nights, I can’t let her leave the house for a few days.
She’s not entirely happy about this…. (sarcasm)
But here she is, in a quiet moment, in my room a few minutes ago:
Anyway.
The fact that we have gotten so much snow, and so much of this part of the country got it, with unbelievably cold windchill factors…
We (me and my Q-friendly friends) are pretty sure it’s engineered to hide something else.
And then I saw this last evening, re-posted by il donaldo trumpo:
So there we go. Make sure everyone has to stay home in order to see all that on the TV…
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Well, anyway.
Whoever sent the snow did a really great job of it.
Meanwhile.
Here’s this!
You know for sure that you love someone when your heart sort of swells just at the sight of their profiles from 51 years ago…
Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards, backstage, Cleveland, US Tour 1975:
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And here’s this– yay!
Which led to THIS — Lo! these many years later!
From the Sydney shows over the weekend:
You can still get tickets to the Brisbane show tomorrow (January 27th) HERE. (Next 2 nights in Melbourne are sold out.)
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Okay, so yesterday was a little weird.
If you saw my post yesterday morning about my discovery that most of my current novels are currently delisted on LULU and so you can’t actually buy them anywhere… not until they are reformatted, anyway.
Well, I just had a difficult time focusing yesterday, but curiously enough, the moment Sandra called and we began discussing the synopsis for the TV project, my brain was suddenly back and we had a really productive call.
So that felt great.
And then I did my yoga, and even though I missed the Zoom call with James Tabor at noon yesterday, I did manage to complete another lesson in the “Christianity before Paul” course before dinner. (I can re-watch the Zoom call but it was 3 hours (!!), so I’ll get to that later.)
So all was not lost. Plus, I was just so relieved that I saw Kon Tiki from the upstairs window and was able to rescue her before she disappeared under the snow.
Oh, and last evening (Sunday, no less, and a Sunday during a snow emergency) I got an unexpected email from one of the lawyers handling my dad’s Estate and they said they had sent me something of his by Registered Mail.
I won’t say exactly what it is, but, wow, I hit the moon! I was just thrilled and it was totally unexpected.
So I ended the evening on a very good note: All the furry critters were safe inside, and my brain was working again, and not absolutely everything of value went to my dad’s stepkids… Yay.
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I guess on that note, I’m gonna get started around here.
The laundry is almost done, and then I have to go outside and start the process of unburying my car so that I can actually use it tomorrow.
And then this coming week, I have 5 regular shifts, and then I have 8 (!!!) days off!!! My stay-at-home-and-write vacation begins!!
Enjoy your Monday, wherever you are in the world. If you’re under snow and ice, stay safe!!
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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I leave you with this!
This morning (after yesterday’s post inspired me), this fabulous CD from 1988 went into the kitchen CD player!! I hadn’t heard it in a few years and it was so fun.
So, with Kon Tiki constantly asking to be let out, it was a lively breakfast!
Here’s “Dirty World” by the Traveling Wilburys. I love this song! Enjoy, gang.
“Dirty World”
He loves your sexy body, he loves your dirty mind
He loves when you hold him, grab him from behind
Oh baby, you’re such a pretty thing
I can’t wait to introduce you to the other members of my gang
You don’t need no wax job, you’re smooth enough for me
If you need your oil changed I’ll do it for you free
Oh baby, the pleasure would be all mine
If you let me drive your pickup truck and park it where the sun don’t shine
Every time he touches you his hair stands up on end
His legs begin to quiver and his mind begins to bend
Oh baby, you’re such a tasty treat
But I’m under doctor’s orders, I’m afraid to overeat
He loves your sense of humor, your disposition too
There’s absolutely nothing that he don’t love about you
Oh baby, I’m on my hands and knees
Life would be so simple if I only had you to please
Oh baby, turn around and say goodbye
You go to the airport now and I’m going home to cry
He loves your…
Electric dumplings
Red bell peppers
Fuel injection
Service charge
Five-speed gearbox
Long endurance
Quest for junk food
Big refrigerator
Trembling Wilbury
Marble earrings
Porky curtains
Power steering
Bottled water
Parts and service
Dirty world, a dirty world, it’s a …ing dirty world
c – 1988 Tom Petty, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison
Boy, have we got snow.
And, wow, is it cold out there.
But you know what this means, gang — my shift for today is canceled! And I’m off tomorrow. So TWO SNOWY DAYS OFF in a row!!
How I’m going to un-bury my car and get to town on Tuesday, when the temperatures promise to be around -9 degrees Fahrenheit until then — well, I guess we’ll just wait and see.
I made Kon Tiki stay inside all night last night. And in her thwarted determination to try to get back outside, she only destroyed the Venetian blinds in one of the dining room windows…
And this morning, after breakfast, when I finally let her out, she took off trotting into the dark and freezing, snowing snow, and now I have no clue where she’s at. So I’m a little worried but I’m guessing she’ll materialize again on the kitchen porch when she gets hungry.
She’s 9 years old. So that’s 9 winters she’s survived just fine. But still. I worry.
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Anyway.
I’m getting a slow start here. And James Tabor is having another Zoom lecture today at noon for his “Christianity Before Paul” course, and I’m hoping to participate in that. But it doesn’t look promising.
The morning is just weird here. My energy is wonky. And I only just discovered this morning, that 5 of the 6 of my newest titles that are published over at LULU.com have been delisted.
They cannot be re-listed until the files are updated.
The instructions for doing this are mindboggling, so I’m going to need to hire an independent eBook editor to take care of it for me, to make sure it gets done correctly.
I am super, super not thrilled about this, gang. But it has to be done.
WTF, though, right? What happened to those days when you attached your PDF file and hit send, and then, 2 seconds later, your book was published??
Anyway… (What a drag it is getting old…)
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Okay!
Now that the publisher and the art director at Parisian Phoenix Publishing have signed off on the cover art for my new novel, The Curse of Our Profound Disorder, I will go ahead and share it here!! They sent it to me a couple days ago and wanted my opinion, and I was just thrilled with it, gang.
Still not positive when it will be released, but probably sort of soon.
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Okay now I’m just going to post all the things I found on Instagram over the last few days! No particular order!
The NY Dolls in Paris in 1973!!
Keith and Mick Taylor, in London , 1969:
Lou Reed in NYC in 1986!
The set list from the Bad Seeds’ Sydney show!! (“Shivers” is back in the encore!! Yay!)
A great shot of Tom Waits and Jim Jarmusch! (My guess is that it has something to do with promoting Stranger Than Paradise, 1984):
The after show party of the Traveling Wilburys launch in 1987:
Richard Hell at CBGB’s 1976:
And some photos of Nick Cave in Sydney, but I think one of those shots might be from Adelaide.
The next show is in Brisbane on January 27th. You can buy tickets HERE!
And a couple of days ago, Nick Cave sent out a Red Hand File from Sydney, wherein he remarked that —
“…the jet lag, constant shows, travel, and lack of sleep – the usual on–tour zombification – has taken its toll. I felt I was definitely failing in my duties – failing and flailing – as your faithful scribe. So, I hurried back to the hotel, grabbed the first few questions, and, well, here we go.”
You can read the RHF in full here!
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And on that note, I’m gonna scoot and try to get my head together for the Zoom lecture which starts in about 27 minutes…
Enjoy your Sunday, wherever you are in the world.
Thanks for visiting!
I love you guys. See ya!
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Let’s close with this!!
I remember the first time I heard this song. Playwright Pamela Enz, my upstairs neighbor and close confidant back on E. 12th Street, said, “You gotta come upstairs and listen to this! It’s incredible!”
I listened . And it was.
Tom Petty. Bob Dylan. Roy Orbison. George Harrison. Jeff Lynne.
The Traveling Wilburys, from back in 1988! “End of the Line”. Enjoy, gang.
If we still have electricity and the Internet, I will post tomorrow!
Meanwhile….
😂🤣😂
Stay safe everyone!!
Or snow…
Me and my favorite 95-year-old Japanese man are going out for sashimi & sake today.
Right now it is very cold but it is sunny. It’s supposed to stay sunny most of the day. The snow isn’t supposed to start until tomorrow, but you perhaps recall that this past Wednesday, it was also supposed to stay sunny, however, the minute I went outside to get into my car and drive to town to see my favorite 95-year-old Japanese man and take him out for Japanese food, a sudden snow storm blew up and fell right down on me from the sky.
But since a huge snow & ice storm is supposed to come this weekend, we are going out for sashimi & sake today no matter what! Yay!
And I also want to give out a great big THANK YOU to M. over in Austria!!
The other day, she encouraged me to go out and stock up on food and on cat supplies, so I did. I believe that this weird, practically nation-wide awful storm is somehow related to what she told me. I really do. (They are predicting not just snow and ice, but power outages, the internet going down, etc.)
And if I hadn’t already stocked up on everything the other day, because of what she told me, then I would be panicking now, since the local grocery stores are already running out of food. I’m hearing from friends that a lot of the shelves in the stores in town are empty.
So thank you again, M. in Austria!!
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Okay.
Yesterday, the AC guys did indeed show up. But they could only do the inside part of the installation. They have to wait until it gets a little bit warmer before they can install the outside stuff. But, wow, were they nice.
First off, they really liked my house. They were surprised by how large the rooms were for such an old house — and one of the guys actually owns a house built in 1833! So they really like old houses.
Oh and one of the guys used to live on my street a few years ago. (He’s in his 20s now.) He said, “I even came over and cut your grass one day.”
And I remembered that day! It was during that summer when I had a really unreliable lawncare guy and my grass was out of control. And I also remember that, when it was time to pay him for cutting my lawn and he was knocking at my kitchen door, I had just gotten out of the downstairs shower. Yes! I was dripping wet and wearing a towel when I hurried to the screen door to pay him.
ME: “I’m so sorry! Here’s your money! Thank you so much!!”
HE (staring at me for a moment with his mouth hanging open): “Okay. Well. Thank you.”
Neither one of us mentioned that part yesterday.
HOWEVER!!
They both also said yesterday that they couldn’t believe I had as many cats as I said I had. (All the cats except for Lulabelle were closed up in the upstairs bedrooms the entire time the AC guys were here.)
They said that the house was so clean and so organized, that it didn’t seem possible that I had 15 cats in here.
You know what a lunatic I am about trying to keep this house clean and to take care of all these cats. So that just made me feel incredible. No one had actually ever said that to me before. I really appreciated it.
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And while the AC guys were here, I was working at my kitchen table and I got really good work done on the synopsis for the TV project I’m working on with Sandra.
I still have a few more paragraphs to pull together, but I was really happy with how it started to come together yesterday.
And, OH!
Before I forget.
I still have to say thank you again to all of you who are buying the eBook edition of my novel from 2020, The Guitar Hero Goes Home.
I honestly cannot tell you enough how happy that makes me. That book means so much to me. So thanks again, everybody.
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All right.
Here’s this.
Another great one of David Johansen from Phyllis Stein. This one taken at the infamous NYC nightclub, Max’s Kansas City, back in the 1970s:
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And just FYI — here’s a photo of Max’s taken in 1976, by legendary rock photographer, Bob Gruen:
He has lots of photos of Max’s from back then, inside and outside, HERE.
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And here’s this!
A great photo of the late Link Wray!
And here’s this, while we’re at it. A great song by Link Wray, “Deuces Wild,” 1964 (I play this in the car a lot) (which is probably why I often look at my speedometer and discover I’m going 95 mph):
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And as I type, I’m guessing the Wild God show in Sydney is well under way! If not almost over??
You can buy tickets for tomorrow night’s show HERE.
And here’s another photo from the show in Adelaide the other night:
And here’s this, because I fucking LOVE IT!!
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And on that note, I need to sort of relax a little bit before I head to town.
I have a rough weekend ahead. I’m doing a double-shift tomorrow — they need me to cover a shift with the retired Minister and his lovely wife and cat. And then of course, I see them again on Sunday afternoon/evening.
But I have already been told by the Agency that if the snow is as bad as they’re saying it’s going to be by Sunday, I can cancel that shift.
We’ll see, gang. I am already stressing about doing 200 miles of driving in the snow and ice this weekend, and it hasn’t even started yet.
Enjoy your Friday, wherever you are in the world, regardless of the weather!!
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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I leave you with this!
This CD continues to be my breakfast-listening music! And the lineup of musicians and singers on this classic track are spectacular.
Including but not limited to!!
“Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs, Levon Helm, John Prine, Bruce Hornsby, John Hiatt, and Rosanne Cash. It also features legends like Earl Scruggs, Roy Acuff, Jimmy Martin, and Vassar Clements. “
“Will the Circle Be Unbroken”, 1989, from the tribute album of the same name, by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Enjoy, gang!!
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