i’m big in canada

Remember when I made this? Yesterday I opened my email account to find this bit of fan mail:

I listen to this bit of music you made at least once a week, and I
enjoy it every time. Could you please make more like it? And if
you’re willing to indulge me, I’d love to know something,
anything about what it’s “about,” if anything, or what inspired it.

Paul Ingraham

My Rolling Stone cover is surely right around the corner.

attention bloggers: places i’ll be visiting/living

[Edited for clarity of dates.] In the near to not-so-near future I will likely find myself in

  • London, England: June 3-27 that’s 13-27
  • Manchester, England: June 27-July 16
  • Charlotte, North Carolina: August to January
  • Annapolis, Maryland: 27-30 October
  • Charleston, South Carolina: undetermined visiting
  • Savannah, Georgia: undetermined visiting
  • Atlanta, Georgia: undetermined visiting
  • Columbus, Georgia: undetermined visiting
  • Macon, Georgia: undetermined visiting

Please plan accordingly for the festivities to celebrate my arrival.

Alternately, let me know if you live in or near one of these areas and would like to meet for coffee or a meal or a night of drink and debauchery.

I know of a cluster of D.C.-area bloggers and Atlanta-area ones. I am looking in your general direction. If you are anonymous, I promise not to blog meeting you so that your location can remain secret.

That is all.

you know you have a good tattoo artist…

…when he touches up at no charge a tattoo he did for you a year ago. When your tattoo is healing, leave it alone. If you don’t, it’s not likely to turn out as solidly black as you would like.

My next tattoo is going to be some kind of Felix the Cat image, but I’m not sure exactly what. Why? My grandfather, who died about three years ago, had a Felix on his forearm that he’d gotten inked back in the ’30s in New York when he was in the navy. I’d like to find a nice, vintage image to use, rather than the more slick recent adaptations.

Hmm, it turns out Felix played an important role in broadcast history.

my heart is broken

I just heard a song by Squeeze song in an ad for women’s sports apparel.

Okay, my heart is not really broken. I just hope the guys in the band got a load of dough for selling the rights.

a new sunday task list

Not as exciting as last week, but I want to make myself get some productive stuff done today:

  • Read two chapters of the Hempton book,
  • Write up notes on key ideas and quotations,
  • Write for at least one hour,
  • Organize for at least one hour.

Yesterday I

  • Paid all the bills,
  • Did all the laundry,
  • Washed all the dishes,
  • Went grocery shopping,
  • Talked to my tattoo artist about a new tattoo,
  • Bought my ticket to England.