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ok, ok… we’re not playing cat and mouse with the CIA like robert redford in three days of the condor– but we ARE playing small veggies in a single bound in three days! beep goes the weasel will start at 6pm this friday (12/16), at salon kitch located at 7333 W 80th. we’ll be inside next to the art of sandeep shinde!

there was only a 20% chance of snow today, but we still got a dusting this afternoon. when i saw what was left on the pumpkin, it reminded me of an old country song. you know the one. hey if the smothers brothers could convince their audience that orange rhymed with door hinge, then cal smith probably figured he could do the same thing with bumpkin and pumpkin, right?

during our last visit to jenny’s hometown, my sister-in-law, diane showed me this star trek photo with wax figures that she found in her parent’s home. when i asked her where they acquired it, she didn’t know. i did a quick search online and found out that this is a picture from the movieland wax museum in buena park, CA. according to wikipedia it operated from 1962-2005. the museum was just torn down in october 2016. however, the wax figures of uhura, kirk, bones, scotty, chekov, sulu, and spock were sold to 3 people (see below) who paid $40,000.so THAT mystery was solved, but it opens up another one: diane’s parents never went to california, and they never claimed to be trekkies. so now she’s left to wonder how did bob and thelma actually get that first photo?

earlier today i realized it was the first friday of the month. that means that a lot of people are walking around the crossroads art district despite the cold. i used to be one of them– but staying home tonight just seems more appealing. i can tell people i’m saving up my energy for dec. 16. that’s when i’m scheduled to join an underground artist from india, and beep @ salon kitch.

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.”