Monthly Archives: November 2016

i got to jam w/my nebraska nieces yesterday. georgia, molly, and i are playing a cat stevens song–> HERE in honor of thaddeus and maryam’s good news… they’re expecting a baby in june!!! a big thanks goes out to diane for suggesting we record something, and then capturing the moment. up until this point we were just playing songs by leonard cohen, warren zevon, and old crow medicine show.

jenny and i drove to mclouth, ks today to see a rock in the road. her brother steve told us about it last week. he said the residents couldn’t remove it, so they just paved the road around it a long time ago. i’m guessing that now it’s a vestigial rock, and at one time it had to resemble a dinosaur egg. on our way back home, i asked jenny to snap a photo of me in front of a giant tepee outside of lawrence.

last night at salon kitch, beep goes the weasel was seriously stripped down to bare essentals. it was the least amount of gear i’ve ever had to lug to a gig. we made this kind of music with 13 baby carrots and two synthesizers that can fit in your shirt pocket. thanks to reggie and maddie for being hand models in the pic above. the temp got down to the 40′s, but we still managed to pull a few folks off the street to beep inside the salon.

on a recent episode of mortified (episode #78) i found out that zack ward who played a bully in a christmas story, drew from personal experience to act out that role so well. here’s a clip from the podcast where he talks about his bullies, and how their insults started to sound the same after awhile.

dan gonzales and jessica tibbetts were married last night! jessica is one of jenny’s cousins that we’ve gotten to know better after she moved to the KC area. we’ve watched her grow up since she was a little girl, and we’re so happy for her and dan (he’s a great guy!) more pics will be coming to prove that we were actually there.

who is that green clay figure sculpting things out of clay? IT’S GUMBY! oh the irony. i mean after all… HE once was a little green slab of clay, and now his reruns are back on my TV thanks to a roku channel called night flight. jenny watched a few of these 5 minute episodes, and laughed at the animation sequences that inspired my imagination as a toddler. like the song says, “if you’ve got a heart then gumby’s a part of you.”

eight years ago i recorded an abracadiner episode with ian mull. he was 10 years old at the time, and he could already play things on the guitar that made my jaw drop. a couple of weeks ago ian joined me for a neighborhood oktoberfest, and blew me away again. matt hawkins (the guy on the other side of me in the 2016 pic) is an amazing mandolin playing, paper toy making genius. i’m very fortunate to have such talented friends that say “yes” when i ask them if they want to play in a band called the enduros.