Brian Conway on fiddle with others, honoring Jack McGann: The Coolan, Lord Gordon’s, ~Lad Aleash, First Month of Summer He referred to these as “New York” tunes, very popular here: The Luck Penny, ~The Quiet My Love The fiddlers did an encore: Lord McDonalds’, Ballinsloe Fair Deirdre Connolly with Mary Rafferty, Mary Reilly, Donna Long…
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was murdered in Moscow on July 9.
Read moretraffic confiture
a montage of people yelling bloody murderous threats at eachother in a traffic jam, but substituting the words they say only (not the hateful tones) with the most gushy endearments. “I want to make you happy.” “I want to snuggle with you.” “I want to have your child.” “I want to grow old with you.”…
Read morethe preponderance of trinkety ideas clustering your brain, a good sell, a clever turn, like Judy Filere’s book of weaselly little observations made before she knew love or felt another soul. I caught her in some surreptitious cribbing or other and just felt here was a craven ghoul who knew no better.
Read moreAt the sound of a shot they all flew together and huddled as one. Thus the self is plural, illusory, born of flight, cast solid in fear.
Read moreDempsey’s Session
My first participation in a session. Very relaxed and enjoyable, wasn’t particularly keyed up over it actually, as I might have expected to be. And here of all places the pressure isn’t particularly on–they frown on no one. 3 fiddles, 1 mandolin/bouzouki?, 3 bodhrans (one also played bones–I think Ginny Brooks’ husband), 1 guitar, a…
Read moreemail to GH on alcoholism
Quitting drinking is a fine idea. It’s destroyed many good people. My sister never knew what hit her, from party drinking in college til the end at age 43, her entire adult life. To encounter people who knew her only as a drunk—by and large a convivial and goodhearted drunk (drinking amplified on her gregarious…
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“You push out half your brains giving birth and then they suck out the other half”
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AIM IM with hudjumama 9:59 PM hi howdy i think i talk to you more when we’re not togther i’m living a nightmare she’s insane what’s up after her nap everything seemed to be fine we made a smoothie then packed for an adventure to take toby for a walk in a place we had…
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