Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

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Boston’s great, although the navigation is driving me up the wall. Today was the first day of JP Open Studios. Basically, everyone in the neighborhood had their doors open to us and invited us in for wine and cheese! We had so much fun! I’ll definitely be posting pictures very soon, but we’re going to milk a little more out of the day first. We’re grabbing a few beers and heading to the roof to look at the night sky. At the end of the block, there is a large gathering at the Latin church. Some upbeat guy with a guitar is singing, and the place is packed with people dancing and waving their hands in the air. I think we’ll be able to hear it from up there. Fun!

On Sunday, we had to decide between a JP benefit for this apparently excellent Cuban restaurant (El Oriental de Cuba) that was firebombed this past summer and seeing Buffalo Tom close out the Brookline 300 celebration. Since Buffalo Tom is a band I used to go see all the time when I lived in Boston back in the day, and Brookline (my old neighborhood) was having its 300th year anniversary, we decided to do the latter. Turns out, Jack and Meg ended up at the Milky Way Lounge (in JP, my neighborhood) to bowl a few games. So they are always in my neighborhoods (Midtown Memphis, Jamaica Plain in Boston), although not where I am… although Aaron swears saw the back of Jack White’s head at the P&H one night. The White Stripes are playing a few shows at the Opera House here, but honestly, the tickets were EXPENSIVE!!! I’m going to Black Keys instead. Only one rockin’ blues duo per season. I have a job, after all!

Excellent blog post. Very enjoyable read. An excerpt:

While you have good taste and a good feel for consistency of tempos, you really do need to work on smoother crossfades. That last one sounded really amateur, especially when you followed it with a shout-out of "Hey Boston, how you feeling tonight?" Honestly, I wouldn’t expect to have a crowd warranting that particular form of address in your living room any time soon. Though, on second thought, a fair portion of the city of Boston can hear your performance right now, so I suppose it is kind of you to ask us how we’re feeling. Since you asked, I’m feeling a little irritated that I’m involuntarily listening to your music inside my house.

Got that one from Universal Hub. Thanks!

Jacob Appelbaum says the ASPCA are doing good work in NOLA. I have been reading his blog and have continued to find it the most human description of what is going on there on a daily basis. Here’s where you donate. I’m there!

Oh noooooooo, Mr. Bill! What the hell was I thinking?!