A snowy Saturday in the Hinterlands!

I’m thinking this is gonna be a short post because I have a lot of snow and ice to remove from my beloved Honda Civic Sport before I head into town this morning.

At least it’s not continuing to snow, though, and the snow plows have already been by so the roads are clear.

But it still means that my favorite 95-year-old Japanese man and I will not be going out for sashimi & sake today. Alas. It’s just way too slippery out there.

(Although I’m so tempted to stop off at the gas station and buy him another one of those pre-mixed vodka cocktail thingies, so that he can have a really fun stay-at-home snowday today!!) (But I’m thinking that if the nurse finds out I’m doing that when it’s not even a holiday (well I could say it’s for Martin Luther King Day!! Which is Monday!!), even though I dilute the vodka like crazy with water, I still think the nurse might not appreciate it.) (Although, MLK Day is a bona fide holiday…)

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Anyway!

Okay.

I actually slept great last night. About 7 straight hours, with really great dreams. So I am doing so much better today than I was doing yesterday.

And I think taking the day off yesterday was a great idea. I guess I got stuff out of my system that needed to get out. (Death, time flying, what is life, etc.)

When I get home from my shift later, I have to get started on some synopsis notes that Sandra sent over on Thursday.

Before we’d actually spoken on the phone, Sandra had left a voicemail Thursday, which inadvertently sounded like she had sent “78 pages of notes”.

I took a deep breath. Found the file she’d sent. And to my delight, I discovered that what she’d really said was “7 to 8” pages. Yay. And they were great notes, btw. So I gotta get started on that later.

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In other news!!

Probably happening RIGHT NOW!!! In Perth, Australia!!

And you can buy tickets for the Adelaide concert, January 20th, HERE.

And indeed!!! This just in–

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And here’s this–

Coming to Europe and the UK this summer!

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And yesterday was Kate Moss’s birthday.

Lucie de LaFalaise, Marlon Richards’ wife, posted this great shot of herself, Marlon, and Kate (with guitar) —

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And here’s this–

Keith and Ronnie smoking in NYC in 1979, perhaps celebrating Kate’s birthday many, many years before she was even famous, but I honestly don’t know:

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Keith, beatin’ out the timeless rhythm of great literature, in the privacy of his own home:

You know, that KINDA looks like it could be a rifle there behind him, so I’d think twice about breaking into his home library if I were you… just go get your books at a regular library. It would be safer.

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Here’s this!

A podcast of an interview Warren Ellis did live, on stage, a couple nights ago:

“Paul Richards talks to Warren Ellis. They discuss Ellis Park, the documentary film about the wildlife sanctuary co-founded by Warren plus the creative journey of Nina Simone’s Gum, working with Nick Cave and navigating personal breakdowns, live on stage at Picturehouse Central. ” (51 mins):