Archive for the 'friends' Category
Some Pictures of Sam
I didn’t bring a camera to OATS, so I don’t have as many shots from the festival as I’d like, but here are some shots from the rest of Sam’s visit to Philadelphia and the Jersey shore.
Our friends Ryan and Amy have one of those large inflatable pools in their backyard. I caught a [...]
Gone Swimmin’
Sam and I are bound for Long Beach Island for the day. See you this evening!
Read More..>>Gauntlet
Tomorrow I leave to go pick up Sam, again an extended trip across the border, and then back about to Benton, PA for the Out Among the Stars Bluegrass Festival. The trip across the border adds an extra three hours round trip to the already-brutal eight hours I travel to Syracuse and back, but [...]
Read More..>>Thank You Note
For this guy.
Read More..>>Friday Videos: Bogstompers
My friend Nikolai Fox is responsible for getting me into old time music.
Here’s one of the bands he plays with, the Bogstompers, doing a really fine version of Hoyt Ming’s “The Women Wear No Clothes At All”.
That’s some damn fine old time music, which I frankly prefer to bluegrass.
I’m not sure which song this is.
Read More..>>Eat More Possum: a Tribute to Mike O’Ferrall
Mike O’Ferrall was a bass player I met back in 1999 or 2000, when I played a gig in a fire hall in Marydel, Maryland. Mike was one of the organizers, a big-bellied self-described hillbilly in ovreralls and a baseball cap, whose passion for bluegrass, friendliness, and outright hilarity was contagious. We spent [...]
Read More..>>Sad Today
One of my friends gave birth to an extremely premature baby last October: he was only 24.5 weeks or so. As you may imagine the little guy has struggled ever since. I don’t believe he’s ever been out of the hospital, and his short life has been nothing but heart problems, pulmonary problems, [...]
Read More..>>Hooray for Chris and Sheila!
They just had their first child, Jack McNabb. He has his Dad’s nose and his Mom’s eyes. Give Chris a little sugar! Congratulations!
Read More..>>Blogging: On Comments
When I graduated from UMass with a degree in English in 1996, I was so burned out on writing, I thought I’d never put pen to paper, or more accurately, open up a Word document for pleasure, ever again. In fact, as a creative writer I was dead in the water for about 5 years [...]
Read More..>>Susie Madrak
My friend Susie Madrak’s father is dying.
She’s going through a rough time, expressed with the eloquence and emotion that make me visit her page every day.
Susie is a remarkable writer, and I wish her nothing be my best wishes as she goes through what all of us are going to have to go through eventually. [...]
