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More mini marauders…

“Candy Blood” in the Halloween aisle at Walgreen’s on Polk & Broadway. Looks like somebody bought one.

• Crap, the trick-or-treaters are out already! IT’S NOT EVEN 3:30 PM #

• Chicagoist got me craving a nice Cuban sandwich with fried plantains. Do they even have those in California? http://tinyurl.com/2rw2km #
• Wil’s at work so I turned off the lights and played like I wasn’t home. Now I can eat the emergency candy! I bought it in case of marauders. #

That’s what my calendar looks like for the past two weeks, it’s crazy.  I’m lovin’ it though, I’m having so much fun.  So yeah, happy belated Halloween!  I had my holiday fun on Saturday, I met up with Eric Z. and his pal Geoff and went to a bar close to my house called Silvie’s.  We saw some bands that were dressed up like other bands: INXS, the Faces, the Traveling Wilburys, the Smiths, Creedence and maybe one or two others I’m forgetting.  It was good times and I ran into a few other people I vaguely knew as well, like Todd from U.S. Maple; Edward Burch; and Alex, a guy who drummed with Archer on one tour I did way back when with him and Sam.  So yeah, I knew some people and therefore had fun even though I didn’t make the effort to dress up like a cowgirl like I was maybe gonna do.  I chickened out, basically.  Without the toy guns it just wasn’t gonna work.

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My pals Davina and Glade are here for the weekend.  They went to a Halloween party last night and Davina totally outdid herself on the costume!

You’ve probably seen this already, but ’tis the season… retroCRUSH presents the best and worst in Halloween costumes.

Note: This is a journal entry — it was written on paper or on my computer, then transferred to my website, maybe years later.

Hey there, happy Halloween!!  I just got back to the hotel after the show in Sevilla at the Fun Club.  I KILLED tonight.  Swear to god.  The sound was really really good, at least for me, so that made it a lot easier to hear myself well and put on a good show.  Also, all the employees of Green UFOs were there (the folks who put this Spanish part of the tour together), so I guess I wanted to do really well so they could see what a kickass performer I am.  Hahaha!!  Good thing they didn’t see me last night in Puerto Real.  ;-)

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Weird… I’ve gotten a couple of spams today that had my OWN address as the "sender".  Both were ads for Viagra… no attachments, so I don’t think this has anything to do with the Klez worm.  One of them seemed to originate from Korea, and the other from AOL, but they both had the same x-mailer in the header: "The Bat! (v1.52f) Business".  Strange!!  If I get any more I’ll run ‘em through Spamcop.  Haul those headers in for questioning, as they say.

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Note: This is a journal entry — it was written on paper or on my computer, then transferred to my website, maybe years later.

Everybody was expecting something bad to happen right about now (i.e. more terror attacks) but I don’t know, I guess nothing did.  Seemed like a pretty normal Halloween to me, except for all the talk of anthrax etc.

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Sorry the site has been so dead lately.  It’s because I’m working on music, I assure you!  Check out the discography for more info.  I’ve been having tons of computer and phone-line problems lately as well, causing me to only be able to connect to the ‘net at 21000 baud.  That’s another big reason why the site hasn’t been updated very much.  I ordered DSL service for me and John, which will hopefully solve all the connectivity problems, but the wait for installation is taking forever, and meanwhile I’m forced to use this crappy phone-line.  Ugh.  I’m getting booted off the line so often that it’s very difficult to get anything done on the web.  The family tree has been all but abandoned as well… but I promise to start kicking ass with all this stuff as soon as I’m able.

Me and Connie O’Brien (who lived across the street) on Halloween in Guadalajara, Mexico circa 1974. We never got much candy because unfortunately most people there had never heard of trick-or-treating.  :-(