This will probably be a short post today, gang — and, I’m not sure, but I might not be posting at all tomorrow.

I’m still working on the outline for the Caiaphas play — it’s nowhere near done. And tomorrow evening, when I get home from the home of the retired Minister and his lovely wife and cat, I will have just enough time to grab some dinner and then log onto a zoom call with the Dramatist’s Guild that officially starts the month-long insanity of writing the actual and entire Caiaphas play.

But yesterday was really beautiful.

I did get to take my favorite 95-year-old Japanese man out for sashimi & sake — his new leg is working great!! And here are our fortunes:

His is the top one —

HE (regarding it distastefully): “This is for a girl.”

Mine, beneath his, oddly managed to sum up my entire life.

His daughter has extended her visit for another week, so we are still not back to “normal”.

But the weather is gorgeous again today so he and I are going to go to that park we love that is filled with trees and just sit on a bench and stare at everything and smile!!

That’s the plan, anyway.

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Well, the most amazing thing happened last evening.

I suddenly got an alert from Expedia, congratulating me and letting me know that the airfare to Charlotte, NC, had jumped up to $368, each way! Wow. (See yesterday’s post, wherein the airfare had suddenly plunged down to $107, each way, for about 10 minutes. literally, and so I was able to get that plane ticket to Charlotte for James Tabor’s conference there in late September.)

So that made me really happy. Not that the airfare had gone up, but that I had bought the tickets already. This conference will probably be the most exciting weekend of my life. In all honesty.

And each night, after the day-long conference indoors, we will all be gathering outdoors to chat and discuss all the various archeological things about the historical Jesus, the Talpiot Tomb, the historical John the Baptist, Suba Cave, and the James Ossuary — all that 1st Century Christianity stuff. This is where we’ll be doing that:

I honestly am so in awe that I will be able to attend. (This is a private gathering for Tabor’s Patreon Research Group.) There will be about 50 of us attending.

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Okay.

Moving along because I’ve got an outline to write!!

Here’s this!

Keith with Eric Clapton backstage at Madison Square Garden in NYC, 1999!

I’m thinking “totally sober” — but what do you think?

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And I loved this!!

The Birthday Party, when they were like, what — seventeen??? Jesus. They are so young here! (Actually, perhaps they are still The Boys Next Door. )

And here’s this fucking gem, while we’re at it! “Mr. Clarinet”, 1979. From the Birthday Party’s album, Hee Haw:

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Okay, that is really it for now.

I got 17 trillion flowers to water around here and an outline to write…

If I don’t see you here tomorrow, I will be back on Monday.

Have a great Saturday, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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Yes!

More fantastic making-the-bed music!! It’s like we’re on some sort of streak around here.

From that Oldies FM Radio Station on the retro boombox next to my bed this morning–

From 1982!!

By this time, I was well into my life in NYC. Working for the incredible Ralph Ginzburg in that high rise office on W. 57th Street, overlooking Central Park!!

The radio was always playing in those days, gang. Music was everywhere. I loved this song from the moment I first heard it.

Michael Jackson. “Billy Jean”. Enjoy, gang!!