i guess it's only appropriate that i'm finally getting the chance to write my first real entry for the new site just an hour or so after getting my plane ticket to hawai'i for the holidays ... auspicious begets auspicious. i'm working for my friend mark - my longtime readers will remember that working for mark this time of year usually involves 'blog entries - and tickets to hawai'i...

o where have i been??? i've said it before - if it wasn't for the mo'blog i wouldn't have no 'blog at all.

after the blessed arrival of my new macbook - which i christened 'baby' - in june, without consciously deciding to do so i just ended up taking the summer off from long-format entry duties, using the time instead to immerse myself in superior technology and design, to reacquaint myself with mac speak, to relearn mac ways, and begin to know mac magic.

since then baby has taken me on many journeys and taught me many things, baby also traveled with me to the bay area a few weeks ago - baby's first trip! - where baby got to feed on berkeley's 'village main' wireless and almost 500 new songs from kdogg's new place. k + i went to see m. ward at the fillmore and lo who is opening but my favorite punk rock uncle mike watt, catchin him live in cali for the first time, hyped on his third gig with his new 'missingmen' lineup - m. ward was good, but the three of them were the show - felt like i was at a minutemen show ... the image i carry with me and treasure from that trip is the sight of watt's new drummer raul morales, looking like he might as well be george hurley's teenage son - workin, beatin, sweatin away back there but never once taking his eyes off watt - the whole set, he just kept watching daddy...

other scraps from the last 4 months that keep blowing around in my brain
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show at circa gallery in june w/ kung, having the assistant pull selections from the shelves in the back room based on our preferences
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100 degrees fahrenheit for the bastille day block party at cafe barbette in july ... them were some sweaty boys
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steve + me crashing through the woods full blair witch style under the full moon after midnight to pull seger the dog out of the mud where he got stuck and started bleating like a goat after running away down the steep hill into the swamp below our campsite on madeline island in august
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makin out w/ stevie in a skyride gondola at the minnesota state fair on labor day, actually more the gondola attendant telling us to behave ourselves as we climbed in
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