Spitball Army

I missed most of opening act Ron Sexsmith’s set because I foolishly went to eat a Japanese dinner with several music business folks. After getting no service, I excused myself and headed downtown; otherwise, I would have missed Ron’s set completely.

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I accompanied a writer from one of our local papers to this concert. It was, by every performance measure, a really good show, and was one of the tours when it seemed that Elton had realized that there were more people who wanted to hear his moldy oldies and album cuts than wanted to hear dreck like “The One” and “Something About the Way You Look Tonight.”

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Now ex-Governor Sarah Palin gave her farewell speech to her beloved media yesterday before skipping out on her commitment to the state of Alaska. Conan O’Brien’s special guest William Shatner finds a unique poetic merit to her words.

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…and then there were these stubs, found in various piles about the house, from an odd assortment of musical events that I attended before the turn of the century.

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I’ve mentioned casually several times on this blog that there are piles of things throughout my house. If you’ve been there, you know the condition; if you haven’t, there may be room for you to visit in the near future. I have been going through all the “stuff” inch by inch. There is so much of it! Here, for instance, are some ticket stubs that I have been hanging onto for some reason…maybe just to provide material for a series of blog posts!

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