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Saluting him – yet again – when his birthday comes

24 May

Round up the usual suspects: Here’s pix from the 10th Annual Dylan Celebration, which went down at Union College’s Old Chapel Thursday night: FLICKR: Slideshow | Set Admittedly pix were an afterthought for me that night: I spent most of the evening listening and hanging with friends. Fancy that. Wish I’d swapped out the zoom […]

Master Teacher

21 May
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Erykah’s New Amerykah is killing me. In a good way. In particular the zen of Master Teacher, a brilliant collaboration with Georgia Anne Muldrow: A beautiful world I’m trying to find… What if there was no niggas, only Master Teachers? I stay woke. Damn. Stay woke, y’all. No glitter. No beeper. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92GM851j20k&hl=en&rel=0&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1]

The Bootleg Blog

27 Apr
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I’m so old I remember when I had to host and post all of my MP3 files on a separate site called the Bootleg Blog. It was the spot for posting some of the in-between-records music. Back when I used to make records. So anyway: Here it is, all on one page. Backdated to the […]

'This musician rarely misses a beat'

13 Apr
Matthew Loiacono

Good stuff in today’s Times Union, via Mr. Eck: This musician rarely misses a beatBy MICHAEL ECK, Special to the Times UnionFirst published: Sunday, April 13, 2008 He’s certainly best known as the hairy guy holding the mandolin (and occasionally the banjo) in the popular upstate porch-rock group the Kamikaze Hearts. But local music insiders […]

Introducing… Maya

03 Apr

LATEST FLICKR PIX: Photo Set | Slideshow Zoe has a sister! Our little April fool Maya Elizabeth Thomas came in Tuesday morning April 1, 2008, at 7 lbs 9 oz after 30 hours of labor and about 55 minutes of pushing… 18 days overdue. Cindy and the baby are doing fine. We’ll post the latest […]

36 Hour Party People

01 Apr

To say that the path to pushin’ is slow-going is the understatement of the century. But we’re steadily getting to the big push party. By “steadily” I mean probably several more hours. And by “we” I mean Cindy. The legislators down the road may have a state budget before we have this child.

24 Hour Party People

01 Apr

The St. Pete’s Pitocin Party officially kicked off 8 p.m. Sunday. It is now 8 p.m. Monday. I’m no math major but I’m pretty sure that makes 24-hours of induced labor fun. Fun.