“NYC, here we come!!”

I have absolutely no idea yet when I’m heading back to NYC, gang, but rather than focus on this being my last day of vacation, I’ve decided to focus on the next one. Whenever it may be!!

But I’m guessing it will be to NYC. So… Yay.

I know for sure, though, that it will no longer be 1980…

Okay!!!!!

I have a phone call with Sandra this afternoon at 1PM, to go over what I accomplished yesterday with the primary character breakdowns and arcs.

I was so happy with what I pulled together yesterday, gang (streamlining it from piles of notes). We’ll see if Sandra wants any tweaks. Otherwise, we flesh out 2 summaries I wrote for episodes 1 & 2, and then it is ready to send off!

I have to say, it’s been a really productive vacation.

Today, I’m back to doing laundry, washing my hair, making another pot of soup for the upcoming workweek. Basically, back to normal. And I am almost finished — finally — with the new James Tabor course on “Christianity Before Paul”. I’m halfway through the final lesson. It’s been a really great course.

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Oh!

And guess what!!

Today the temperature goes up to 35 degrees Fahrenheit! The first time it’s been above freezing in a couple of weeks.

The rest of the week will have temps in the upper 30s and mid-40s. So, as soon as the snow is gone (I’m hoping by Wednesday), I can let Kon Tiki back into the great outdoors!

Yay!

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Before I forget–

This goes out to Martha!!

Carly Simon, “De Bat (Fly in Me Face)”, from the album Boys in the Trees, 1978.

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All righty.

And here’s this.

Perhaps not something we need to immortalize, but…

Keith and Mick, when they were released from Wormwood Scrubs prison in London, July 1, 1967:

And a happier era!

Keith in Fresno, CA, in 1965:

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When Bowie and Iggy Pop did their “Idiot” Tour in 1977, they actually came to Columbus, Ohio. To a small club, down on the Ohio State campus, called The Agora:

I was only 17 at the time, so I was not old enough to get into the Agora, however, one of my close friends in high school was 18 already, so she was going.

By then I had seen Bowie in concert a few times up in Cleveland and I absolutely loved him, but I had never seen Iggy Pop! I really, really wanted to go!!

So I bought one of those fake IDs “from Florida” that were advertised in the back pages of Rolling Stone magazine back then. So, voila! I was suddenly 18. And so we bought our tickets!

I really don’t think the bouncer checking IDs at the club believed my ID was anything but a fake Florida ID purchased from Rolling Stone, but he said, “All right. No drinking. But go on in.”

I was thrilled!! I was not interested in drinking anything anyway, I just wanted to see Bowie and Iggy Pop!! And what a fantastic show!! Such a small stage. The band was so close!!

Anyway, here’s this!

Phyllis Stein saw the same tour, but in London:

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And here’s this.

Sort of a haunting photo of Chet Baker. NYC, 1984. Near the end of his life. He died in 1988.

And here’s this. From one of those albums where Chet actually sang, as well as played his horn. “Let’s Get Lost”. 1954. I love this song. One of those albums I like to listen to in the dark.

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From a new series James Tabor is starting on YouTube — “Tabor Talks”.

The Day the Children in the Temple Got Jesus Arrested! (9 mins):

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And from Ross K. Nichols’ Sunday School, from yesterday:

The Mummified Manuscripts of the Bible (1 hr 20 mins):

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And here’s this!!

Nick Cave in Belgium in 1989:

Nick Cave, at some point, looking, you know, really good:

And Nick in Melbourne on the 3rd night:

And Nick Cave sent out a Red Hand File this morning, from the airplane — he’s heading back home to England. He was replying to fans who had loved the shows in Australia, and Nick said, in part:

“…I feel a sudden need to acknowledge how genuinely lovely and full of meaning our time in Australia and New Zealand has been. It seemed as though the band had reached a kind of apotheosis, a state of exuberance that was next-level — primal, disembodied, exalted …”

You can read it in full, here.