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The Conference Center on the Undeground Railroad

I’m staying tonight in a new hotel in Lancaster, PA, that was built around a couple of historic houses, one of which was apparently a station on the Underground Railroad. The houses are literally incorporated into the hotel and conference … Continue reading

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“The Hell With Everyone Else, You Sound Great!”

After a nice afternoon on Staten Island with my brother and some of his high school friends (aren’t we all much more fun and much easier to get along with now than we were in high school?), I took the … Continue reading

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From West Virginia To the West Coast

Country Jam Originally uploaded by kenf225 I’m changing gears, as I put it in a Facebook update. I spent the past week in West Virginia, and now I’m in Seattle, where I’m going to spend a couple of days meeting … Continue reading

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The King Of Pop Is Dead

I spent much of yesterday in the car (or, rather, cars — more about that later) and listened to Michael Jackson’s two great albums (Thriller and Off the Wall) several times each. I don’t have any Jackson 5 on CD … Continue reading

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Red Hook This Evening

I’ll be playing my original songs tonight at the wonderful Jalopy Theater in Red Hook. I’m starting early, around 7pm, and there will be an entire night of great music, all original songwriters who come out of the Brooklyn traditional … Continue reading

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The Long-Delayed LiveJournal Update

Yes, I’m still here. No, I haven’t fled to Dreamwidth or canceled my account or anything. But it has been an awful long time since I’ve posted, hasn’t it? A month, in fact, since my last post with any real … Continue reading

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Dreamwidth

Wow. rosefox said she wasn’t moving her journal over here because the styles were ugly, and I said, “I don’t really care about styles.” That was before I’d seen them. Wow! When she meant butt-ugly, she meant BUTT-FRACKIN-UGLY. Anyway, just … Continue reading

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Expect Delays: The Four-Boro Bike Jam

< Today was the Five Boro Bike Tour. It was not the most enjoyable ride I've ever had, and I did not finish. The rain wasn't the worst part. Neither were the three flats I got. The worst part, which … Continue reading

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Glass On Glass

“It’s all the same! Pathetically the same!” Philip Glass was not criticizing someone else’s music, but discussing his own. He was sitting at a piano in the St. Ann’s Warehouse performance space in Dumbo, wearing a rumpled suit, his glasses … Continue reading

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